Democracy and Expertise Reorienting Policy Inquiry

Name: Democracy and Expertise Reorienting Policy Inquiry
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ISBN: 9780199565245

ISBN-10: 0199565244

ISBN-13: 9780199565245

Edition: 2009

Authors: Frank Fischer

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This book explores the role of policy expertise in a democratic society. From the perspectives of political science and policy theory, the chapters examine the implications of deliberative democratic governance for professional expertise and extends them to specific policy practices. Following the earlier lead of John Dewey, the discussion focuses in particular on the ways professional practices might be reoriented to assist citizens in understanding and discussing the complexpolicy issues of an advanced technological society. In doing so, it also explores how public deliberation can be improved through more cooperative forms of policy inquiry. Adopting a deliberative-analytic approach to…

Book details

List price: $33.49
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 3/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




Policy Expertise and Citizen Participation in the Public Realm



Between Technical Knowledge and Public Responsibility: Professional Expertise in Critical Perspective



Citizen Deliberation and Participatory Governance: Problems of Knowledge and Policy Complexity



Citizens and Experts in Deliberative Democracy: From Theory to Experimentation



Situating the Technical in the Social: Implications for Policy Deliberation



The Deliberative-Analytic Policy Inquiry: Postempiricist Practice



Technical Knowledge in Public Deliberation: Toward a Constructivist Theory of Contributory Expertise



Public Policy as Social Construct: Multiple Meanings in Sustainable Development



Policy Epistemics for Deliberative Empowerment: Storylines, Learning, and Passionate Reason



Policy Advise as Storyline: Narrative Knowledge and Expert Practices



Transformative Learning Through Deliberation: Social Assumptions and the Tacit Dimension



Deliberative Empowerment: The Cultural Politics of Discursive Space



Passionate Participants: Rethinking Emotion in Public Deliberation


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