Reframing Public Policy Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices

Name: Reframing Public Policy Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices
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ISBN: 9780199242634

ISBN-10: 0199242631

ISBN-13: 9780199242634

Edition: 2003

Authors: Frank Fischer

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In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy has been developing. These approaches, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analysis. In his major new book Frank Fischer brings together this new work for the first time and critically examines it. In an accessible way he describes the theoretical, methodological, and political requirements and implications of the new "post-empiricist" approach to public policy. The volume includes a discussion of the social construction of policy problems, the role of interpretation and narrative analysis in policy inquiry, the…

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List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/28/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 278
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Introduction



Making Social Science Relevant: Policy Inquiry in Critical Perspective


Public Policy and the Discursive Construction of Reality



Constructing Policy Theory: Ideas and Discourse



Public Policy and Discourse Construct: Multiple Realities and Interpretative Understanding


Public Policy and Discursive Politics



Public Policy and Discursive Analysis



Policy Discourse versus Advocacy Coalitions: Interpreting Policy Change and Learning


Discursive Policy Inquiry: Restituting Empirical Analysis



Postempiricist Foundations: Social Constructionism and Practical Discourse



Interpreting Public Policy: Analytical and Methodological Perspectives



Public Policy as Narrative: Stories, Frames, and Metanarratives



The Argumentative Turn: Policy Analysis as Discursive Practice


Deliberative Governance



Citizens and Experts: Democratizing Policy Deliberations



The Deliberative Policy Analyst: Theoretical Issues and Practical Challenges