UID:
edocfu_9959677590202883
Format:
1 online resource (337 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06240-2
,
9786613062406
,
0-8223-8181-8
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. Drawing from recent work on language and argumentation and referring to such theorists as Wittgenstein, Habermas, Toulmin, and Foucault, these essays explore the interplay of language, action, and power in both the practice and the theory of policy-making. The contributors, scholars of international renown who range across the theoretical spectrum, emphasize the
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
Policy discourse and the politics of Washington think tanks / Frank Fischer -- Discourse coalitions and the institutionalization of practice : the case of acid rain in Great Britain / Maarten A. Hajer -- Political judgment and the policy cycle : the case of ethnicity policy aruments in the Netherlands / Robert Hoppe -- Counsel and consensus : norms of argument in health policy / Bruce Jennings -- Survey research as rhetorical trope : electric power planning argument in Chicago / J. S. Throgmorton -- Reframing policy discourse / Martin Rein and Donald Schon -- Reading policy narratives : beginnings, middles, and ends / Thomas J. Kaplan -- Learning from practice stories : the priority of practical judgment / John Forester -- Policy analysis and planning : from science to argument / John S. Dryzek -- Planning through debate : the communicative turn in planning theory / Patsy Healey -- Policy reforms as arguments / William N. Dunn -- Guidelines for policy discourse : consensual versus adversarial / Duncan MacRae, Jr.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1372-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1354-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9780822381815
