Description

In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analysis. In his major new book Frank Fischer brings together these various new approaches for the first time and critically examines them. The book will be required reading for anyone studying, researching, or formulating public policy.

Features

• Major new book from a leading scholar
• First book length treatment of a radical new approach to public policy
• Accessible to scholars and students alike

Reviews

"This book is an excellent presentation and defense of the constructivist perspective on policy analysis, and makes a strong, positive case for the utility of postempiricist reasoning for understanding policy choices. an excellent, well-argues presentation. if a reader wants to understand the discursive peropective on policy, this volume would be a very appropriate place to begin."-- Political Science Quarterly

Product Details

280 pages; 2 line illus.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-924263-4ISBN10: 0-19-924263-1

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