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Democracy and Expertise - Reorienting Policy Inquiry (Hardcover, New)
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Democracy and Expertise - Reorienting Policy Inquiry (Hardcover, New)
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This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic
society. From the perspectives of both political theory and policy
studies, the chapters explore the implications of deliberative
democratic governance for professional expertise and extends them
to specific policy practices. Following the lead of John Dewey, the
discussion focuses in particular on the ways professional practices
might be reoriented to assist citizens in understanding and
discussing the complex policy issues of an advanced technological
society. In doing so, it also explores how public deliberation can
be improved through more cooperative forms of policy inquiry.
Adopting a deliberative-analytic approach , policy inquiry is
grounded in a postempiricist, constructivist understanding of
inquiry and knowledge and the participatory practices that support
it. Toward this end, the chapters draw on thriving theoretical and
practical work dedicated to revitalizing the citizen's role in both
civil society and newer practices of democratic governance, in
particular deliberative democracy in political theory, practical
work with deliberative experiments, the theory and practices of
democratic governance, and participatory research. Deliberative
practices are promoted here as a new component part of
policy-related disciplines required for participatory governance.
Calling for a specialization of "policy epistemics" to advance such
practices, the second half of the book takes up issues related to
deliberative empowerment, including the relation of technical and
social knowledge, the interpretive dimensions of social meaning and
multiple realities, the role of narrative knowledge and storylines
policy inquiry, social learning, tacit knowledge, the design of
discursive spaces, and the place of emotional expression in public
deliberation.
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