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Reframing public policy : discursive politics and deliberative practices

Fischer critically examines the range of perspectives on policy discourse and discursive policy analysis that have emerged in recent years to challenge the dominant technocratic approaches that have shaped the theory and practices of the field of public policy and policy analyses
eBook, English, 2003
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003
1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) : illustrations
9780199242634, 9780199242641, 9780191529368, 9780191599255, 9786611190569, 9781429422185, 0199242631, 019924264X, 0191529362, 0191599255, 6611190562, 1429422181
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Introduction
1. Making Social Science Relevant: Policy Inquiry in Critical Perspective
Public Policy and the Discursive Construction of Reality
2. Constructing Policy Theory: Ideas and Discourse
3. Public Policy and Discourse Construct: Multiple Realities and Interpretative Understanding
Public Policy and Discursive Politics
4. Public Policy and Discursive Analysis
5. Policy Discourse versus Advocacy Coalitions: Interpreting Policy Change and Learning
Discursive Policy Inquiry: Restituting Empirical Analysis
6. Postempiricist Foundations: Social Constructionism and Practical Discourse
7. Interpreting Public Policy: Analytical and Methodological Perspectives
8. Public Policy as Narrative: Stories, Frames, and Metanarratives
9. The Argumentative Turn: Policy Analysis as Discursive Practice
Deliberative Governance
10. Citizens and Experts: Democratizing Policy Deliberations
11. The Deliberative Policy Analyst: Theoretical Issues and Practical Challenges
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