ISBN:
9781783472352
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 519 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Handbooks of research on public policy
DDC:
320.6
Keywords:
Policy sciences
;
Political planning
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Politische Wissenschaft
;
Diskurs
Abstract:
Critical policy studies, as illustrated in this Handbook, challenges the conventional approaches public policy inquiry. But it offers important innovations as well, in particular its focus on discursive politics, policy argumentation and deliberation, and interpretive modes of analysis
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction to critical policy studies -- PART I ORIGINS AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT: FROM LASSWELLTO HABERMAS AND FOUCAULT -- 2 Harold D. Lasswell and critical policy studies: the threats and temptations of power -- 3 In pursuit of usable knowledge: critical policy analysis and the argumentative turn -- 4 Habermas, critical theory and public policy -- 5 Foucault and critical policy studies -- PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY, HEGEMONY AND POWER
Abstract:
6 Poststructuralist discourse theory and critical policy studies: interests, identities and policy change -- 7 Cultural political economy and critical policy studies: developing a critique of domination -- 8 The interpretation of power -- PART III DISCURSIVE POLITICS: DELIBERATION ,JUSTICE, PROTEST AND EMOTION -- 9 Discursive institutionalism: understanding policy in context -- 10 Social justice and urban policy deliberation: balancing the discourses of democracy, diversity and equity -- 11 Deliberation and protest: revealing the deliberative potential of protest movements in Turkey and Brazil
Abstract:
12 Lost in translation: expressing emotions in policy deliberation -- PART IV POLICY PROCESSES: PROBLEM DEFINITIONS, EVIDENCE AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION -- 13 Problem definition and agenda-setting incritical perspective -- 14 Making distinctions: the social construction of target populations -- 15 The autopoietic text -- 16 Co-production and public policy: evidence, uncertainty and socio-materiality -- PART V THE POLITICS OF POLICY EXPERTISE: KNOWLEDGE, THINK-TANKS AND ACTION RESEARCH -- 17 Politics and policy expertise: towards a political epistemology
Abstract:
18 Global governance and sustainability indicators: the politics of expert knowledge -- 19 The politics of policy think-tanks: organizing expertise, legitimacy and counter-expertise in policy networks -- 20 Critical action research and social movements: revitalizing participation and deliberation for democratic empowerment -- PART VI METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: INTERPRETATION, FRAMING AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS -- 21 Making sense of policy practices: interpretation and meaning -- 22 Transforming perspectives: the critical functions of interpretive policy analysis
Abstract:
23 Between representation and narration: analysing policy frames -- 24 Critical policy ethnography -- 25 Making gender visible: exploring feminist perspectives through the case of anti-smoking policy -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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