Reframing public policy [[electronic resource] ] : discursive politics and deliberative practices / / Frank Fischer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451890903321
• Autore: Fischer Frank <1942->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0-19-159925-5; 1-281-19056-X; 9786611190569; 0-19-152936-2; 1-4294-2218-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.6
• Soggetti: Policy sciences; Political planning; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.