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.
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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 this title, Frank Fischer brings together these various new approaches and critically examines them.
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Preface ; 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 AND DISCURSIVE POLITICS ; 4. Public Policy and Discourse Analysis ; 5. Discourse versus Advocacy Coalitions: Interpreting Policy Change and Learning ; PART III. DISCURSIVE POLICY INQUIRY: RESTITUTING 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 Deliberations ; 11. The Deliberative Policy Analyst: Theoretical Issues and Practical Challenges
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"... a major statement that deserves widespread attention." John S. Dryzek, Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
Major new book from a leading scholar First book length treatment of a radical new approach to public policy Accessible to scholars and students alike
Frank Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Major new book from a leading scholar First book length treatment of a radical new approach to public policy Accessible to scholars and students alike

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ISBN
9780199242634
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
542 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
278

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Biographical note

Frank Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University