Narrative policy analysis : theory and practice / Emery Roe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roe, Emery.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences--Case studies.

Policy sciences.

Decision making--Methodology--Case studies.

Decision making.

Discourse analysis, Narrative--Case studies.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Narrative Policy Analysis presents a powerful and original application of contemporary literary theory and policy analysis to many of today's most urgent public policy issues. Emery Roe demonstrates across a wide array of case studies that structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative are exceptionally useful in evaluating difficult policy problems, understanding their implications, and in making effective policy recommendations. Assuming no prior knowledge of literary theory, Roe introduces the theoretical concepts and terminology from literary analysis through an examination of t

Contents:

Introduction to Narrative Policy Analysis: Why It Is, What It Is, and How It Is

Deconstructing Budgets, Reconstructing Budgeting: Contemporary Literary Theory and Public Policy in Action

What Are Policy Narratives? Four Examples and Their Policymaking Implications

Stories, Nonstories, and Their Metanarrative in the 1980-1982 California Medfly Controversy

Constructing the Metanarrative in the Animal Rights and Experimentation Controversy

A Salt on the Land: Finding the Stories, Nonstories, and Metanarrative in the Controversy over Irrigation-Related Salinity and Toxicity in California's San Joaquin Valley with Ianne Hukkinen and Gene Rochlin

Warming as Analytic Tip: Other Models of Narrative Analysis I

Intertextual Evaluation, Conflicting Evaluative Criteria, and the Controversy over Native American Burial Remains: Other Models of Narrative Analysis II

Conclusion: In Shackle's Tide-Race: The Ethics of Narrative Policy Analysis

Appendix A. Methods for Narrative Policy Analysis

Appendix B. Short Chronology of Medfly Controversy

Appendix C. Prevalence of Stories in the Medfly Controversy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-196) and index.

ISBN:

9786612904318

9781282904316

1282904310

9780822381891

0822381893

OCLC:

850214418