Rejecting the notion that policy analysis and planning are
value-free technical endeavors, an argumentative approach takes
into account the ways that policy is affected by other factors,
including culture, discourse, and emotion. The contributors to this
new collection consider how far argumentative policy analysis has
come during the past two decades and how its theories continue to
be refined through engagement with current thinking in social
theory and with the real-life challenges facing contemporary policy
makers.
The approach speaks in particular to the limits of
rationalistic, technoscientific policy making in the complex,
unpredictable world of the early twenty-first century. These limits
have been starkly illustrated by responses to events such as the
environmental crisis, the near collapse of the world economy, and
the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan.
Addressing topics including deliberative democracy, collaborative
planning, new media, rhetoric, policy frames, and transformative
learning, the essays shed new light on the ways that policy is
communicatively created, conveyed, understood, and implemented.
Taken together, they show argumentative policy inquiry to be an
urgently needed approach to policy analysis and planning.
Contributors. Giovanni Attili, Hubertus Buchstein, Stephen
Coleman, John S. Dryzek, Frank Fischer, Herbert Gottweis, Steven
Griggs, Mary Hawkesworth, Patsy Healey, Carolyn M. Hendriks, David
Howarth, Dirk Jorke, Alan Mandell, Leonie Sandercock, Vivien A.
Schmidt, Sanford F. Schram
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