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 this text, Frank Fischer brings together this new work 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.
- ISBN10 6611190562
- ISBN13 9786611190569
- Publish Date 1 January 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 278
- Language English