Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices

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OUP Oxford, 2003 M06 20 - 278 páginas
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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Policy Inquiry
1
Public Policy and the Discursive Construction of Reality
19
Social Meaning
48
Public Policy and Discourse Analysis
73
Interpreting Policy
94
Resituating
115
Normative Frames
139
Stories Frames and Metanarratives
161
The Argumentative Turn
181
Democratizing Policy Deliberation
205
Theoretical Issues
221
References
238
Index
257
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Página 3 - ... is twofold. In part it is directed toward the policy process, and in part toward the intelligence needs of policy. The first task, which is the development of a science of policy forming and execution, uses the methods of social and psychological inquiry. The second task, which is the improving of the concrete content of the information and the interpretations available to policy-makers, typically goes outside the boundaries of social science and psychology.

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Frank Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

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