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The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice
Frank Fischer
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Paperback. Sheds new light on the ways that policy is communicatively created, conveyed, understood, and implemented Editor(s): Fischer, Frank; Gottweis, Herbert. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JPQB; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570. Public Policy as Communicative Practice. 400 pages, 2 tables. Editor(s): Fischer, Frank; Gottweis, Herbert. Sheds new light on the ways that policy is communicatively created, conveyed, understood, and implemented. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFF; JPQB; JPR. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 24. Weight: 574.
Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this new collection consider how far argumentative policy analysis has come during the past two decades and how its theories continue to be refined through engagement with current thinking in social theory and with the real-life challenges facing contemporary policy makers.The approach speaks in particular to the limits of rationalistic, technoscientific policy making in the complex, unpredictable world of the early twenty-first century. These limits ... Read more
Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors, including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this new collection consider how far argumentative policy analysis has come during the past two decades and how its theories continue to be refined through engagement with current thinking in social theory and with the real-life challenges facing contemporary policy makers.The approach speaks in particular to the limits of rationalistic, technoscientific policy making in the complex, unpredictable world of the early twenty-first century. These limits ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822352631
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V9780822352631
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About Frank Fischer
Frank Fischer is Professor of Politics and Global Affairs at Rutgers University. He also teaches at the university's E. J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and is a Senior Faculty Fellow at the University of Kassel in Germany. His books include Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry and The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning (coedited with ... Read more
Reviews for The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice
Fischer and Gottweis have assembled a remarkable book which makes a very real contribution not only to the critical policy studies literature but also to wider political analysis in general. A weighty edited collection . . . The chapters are theoretically vigorous-the authors score well on the intellectual duty of the analyst to `show one's workings'-and consequently this is an ... Read more