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Handbook of critical policy studies / edited by Frank Fischer, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Douglas Torgerson, Trent University, Canada, Anna Durnová, University of Vienna, Austria, Michael Orsini, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Contributor(s): Series: Handbooks of research on public policyPublisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiv, 519 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1783472340
  • 9781788112109
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.6 FIS 23
LOC classification:
  • H97 .H35445 2015
Contents:
Table of contents Contents: 1. Introduction to Critical Policy Studies Frank Fischer, Douglas Torgerson, Anna Durnova and Michael Orsini PART I ORIGINS AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT: FROM LASSWELL TO HABERMAS AND FOUCAULT 2. Harold D. Lasswell and Critical Policy Studies: The Threats and Temptations of Power Douglas Torgerson 3. In Pursuit of Usable Knowledge: Critical Policy Analysis and the Argumentative Turn Frank Fischer 4. Habermas, Critical Theory and Public Policy Thomas Saretzki 5. Foucault and Critical Policy Studies Eva Loevbrand and Johannes Stripple PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY, HEGEMONY AND POWER 6. Poststructuralist Discourse Theory and Critical Policy Studies: Interests, Identities and Policy Change David Howarth and Steven Griggs 7. Cultural Political Economy and Critical Policy Studies: Developing a Critique of Domination Ngai-Ling Sum and Bob Jessop 8. The Interpretation of Power Timothy W. Luke PART III DISCURSIVE POLITICS: DELIBERATION, JUSTICE, PROTEST AND EMOTION 9. Discursive Institutionalism: Understanding Policy in Context Vivien A. Schmidt 10. Social Justice and Urban Policy Deliberation: Balancing the Discourses of Democracy, Diversity and Equity Susan S. Fainstein 11. Deliberation and Protest: Revealing the Deliberative Potential of Protest Movements in Turkey and Brazil Ricardo Fabrino Mendonca and Selen A. Ercan 12. Lost in Translation: Expressing Emotion in Policy Deliberation Anna Durnova PART IV. POLICY PROCESSES: PROBLEM DEFINITIONS, EVIDENCE AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION 13. Problem Definition and Agenda-Setting in Critical Perspective Marlon Barbehoen, Sybille Munch and Wolfram Lamping 14. Making Distinctions: The Social Construction of Target Populations Helen Ingram and Ann L. Schneider 15. The Autopoietic Text Raul P. Lejano and Sung Jin Park 16. Co-Production and Public Policy: Evidence, Uncertainty and Socio-materiality Heidrun Am PART V. THE POLITICS OF POLICY EXPERTISE: KNOWLEDGE, THINK TANKS, AND ACTION RESEARCH 17. Politics and Policy Expertise: Towards a Political Epistemology Holger Strassheim 18. Global Governance and Sustainability Indicators: The Politics of Expert Knowledge Laureen Elgert 19. The Politics of Policy Think Tanks: Organizing Expertise, Legitimacy, and Counter-Expertise in Policy Networks Dieter Plehwe 20. Critical Action Research and Social Movements: Revitalizing Participation and Deliberation for Democratic Empowerment Hemant R. Ojha, Mani R. Banjade and Krishna K. Shrestha PART VI. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: INTERPRETATION, FRAMING, AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS 21. Making Sense of Policy Practices: Interpretation and Meaning Dvora Yanow 22. Transforming Perspectives: The Critical Functions of Interpretive Policy Analysis Hendrik Wagenaar 23. Between Representation and Narration: Analyzing Policy Frames Kathrin Braun 24. Critical Policy Ethnography Vincent Dubois 25. Making Gender Visible: Feminist Perspectives Through the Case of Anti-Smoking Policy Stephanie Paterson and Francesca Scala Index
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents

Contents:

1. Introduction to Critical Policy Studies
Frank Fischer, Douglas Torgerson, Anna Durnova and Michael Orsini

PART I ORIGINS AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT: FROM LASSWELL TO HABERMAS AND FOUCAULT
2. Harold D. Lasswell and Critical Policy Studies: The Threats and Temptations of Power
Douglas Torgerson

3. In Pursuit of Usable Knowledge: Critical Policy Analysis and the Argumentative Turn
Frank Fischer

4. Habermas, Critical Theory and Public Policy
Thomas Saretzki

5. Foucault and Critical Policy Studies
Eva Loevbrand and Johannes Stripple

PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY, HEGEMONY AND POWER
6. Poststructuralist Discourse Theory and Critical Policy Studies: Interests, Identities and Policy Change
David Howarth and Steven Griggs

7. Cultural Political Economy and Critical Policy Studies: Developing a Critique of Domination
Ngai-Ling Sum and Bob Jessop

8. The Interpretation of Power
Timothy W. Luke

PART III DISCURSIVE POLITICS: DELIBERATION, JUSTICE, PROTEST AND EMOTION
9. Discursive Institutionalism: Understanding Policy in Context
Vivien A. Schmidt

10. Social Justice and Urban Policy Deliberation: Balancing the Discourses of Democracy, Diversity and Equity
Susan S. Fainstein

11. Deliberation and Protest: Revealing the Deliberative Potential of Protest Movements in Turkey and Brazil
Ricardo Fabrino Mendonca and Selen A. Ercan

12. Lost in Translation: Expressing Emotion in Policy Deliberation
Anna Durnova

PART IV. POLICY PROCESSES: PROBLEM DEFINITIONS, EVIDENCE AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
13. Problem Definition and Agenda-Setting in Critical Perspective
Marlon Barbehoen, Sybille Munch and Wolfram Lamping

14. Making Distinctions: The Social Construction of Target Populations
Helen Ingram and Ann L. Schneider

15. The Autopoietic Text
Raul P. Lejano and Sung Jin Park

16. Co-Production and Public Policy: Evidence, Uncertainty and Socio-materiality
Heidrun Am

PART V. THE POLITICS OF POLICY EXPERTISE: KNOWLEDGE, THINK TANKS, AND ACTION RESEARCH
17. Politics and Policy Expertise: Towards a Political Epistemology
Holger Strassheim

18. Global Governance and Sustainability Indicators: The Politics of Expert Knowledge
Laureen Elgert

19. The Politics of Policy Think Tanks: Organizing Expertise, Legitimacy, and Counter-Expertise in Policy Networks
Dieter Plehwe

20. Critical Action Research and Social Movements: Revitalizing Participation and Deliberation for Democratic Empowerment
Hemant R. Ojha, Mani R. Banjade and Krishna K. Shrestha

PART VI. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: INTERPRETATION, FRAMING, AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS
21. Making Sense of Policy Practices: Interpretation and Meaning
Dvora Yanow

22. Transforming Perspectives: The Critical Functions of Interpretive Policy Analysis
Hendrik Wagenaar

23. Between Representation and Narration: Analyzing Policy Frames
Kathrin Braun

24. Critical Policy Ethnography
Vincent Dubois

25. Making Gender Visible: Feminist Perspectives Through the Case of Anti-Smoking Policy
Stephanie Paterson and Francesca Scala

Index

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