Reframing public policy : discursive politics and deliberative practices / Frank Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, Frank, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

xi, 266 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy, 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 these various new approaches for the first time and critically examines them. The book will be required reading for anyone studying, researching, or formulating public policy.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. Making Social Science Relevant: Policy Inquiry in Critical Perspective

Part I. Public Policy and the Discursive Construction of Reality

2. Constructing Policy Theory: Ideas, Language, and Discourse

3. Public Policy as Discursive Construct: Social Meaning and Multiple Realities

Part II. Public Policy as Discursive Politics

4. Public Policy and Discourse Analysis

5. Discourse versus Advocacy Coalitions: Interpreting Policy Change and Learning

Part III: Discursive Policy Inquiry: Resituating Empirical Analysis

6. Postempiricist Foundations: Social Constructionism and Practical Discourse

7. Interpreting Public Policy: Normative Frames and Methodological Issues

8. Public Policy as Narrative: Stories, Frames, and Metanarratives

9. Policy Analysis as Discursive Practice: The Argumentative Turn

Part IV: Deliberative Governance

10. Citizens and Experts: Democratizing Policy Deliberation

11. The Deliberative Policy Analyst: Theoretical Issues and Practical Challenges

References

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-256) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191529368

0191529362

0-19-152936-2

0-19-159925-5

0-19-924263-1

1-4294-2218-1

9786611190569

1-281-19056-X

OCLC:

560569036