Reframing Public Policy
Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:19th Jun '03
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- Paperback£46.49(9780199242641)
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 dialectics of policy argumentation, and the uses of participatory policy analysis. The book will be required reading for anyone studying, researching, or formulating public policy.
"... a major statement that deserves widespread attention." John S. Dryzek, Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
This is an excellent, well-argued presentation of one view of public policy analysis. * Political Science Quarterly *
ISBN: 9780199242634
Dimensions: 242mm x 162mm x 20mm
Weight: 542g
278 pages