Handbook of Critical Policy Studies

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Critical policy studies, as illustrated in this Handbook, challenges the conventional approaches public policy inquiry. But it offers important innovations as well, in particular its focus on discursive politics, policy argumentation and deliberation, and interpretive modes of analysis. Front Matter......Page 1 Copyright......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Contributors......Page 9 1 Introduction to critical policy studies......Page 17 PART I ORIGINS AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT: FROM LASSWELLTO HABERMAS AND FOUCAULT......Page 41 2 Harold D. Lasswell and critical policy studies: the threats and temptations of power......Page 43 3 In pursuit of usable knowledge: critical policy analysis and the argumentative turn......Page 63 4 Habermas, critical theory and public policy......Page 83 5 Foucault and critical policy studies......Page 108 PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY, HEGEMONY AND POWER......Page 125 6 Poststructuralist discourse theory and critical policy studies: interests, identities and policy change......Page 127 7 Cultural political economy and critical policy studies: developing a critique of domination......Page 144 8 The interpretation of power......Page 167 PART III DISCURSIVE POLITICS: DELIBERATION ,JUSTICE, PROTEST AND EMOTION......Page 185 9 Discursive institutionalism: understanding policy in context......Page 187 10 Social justice and urban policy deliberation: balancing the discourses of democracy, diversity and equity......Page 206 11 Deliberation and protest: revealing the deliberative potential of protest movements in Turkey and Brazil......Page 221 12 Lost in translation: expressing emotions in policy deliberation......Page 238 PART IV POLICY PROCESSES: PROBLEM DEFINITIONS, EVIDENCE AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION......Page 255 13 Problem definition and agenda-setting incritical perspective......Page 257 14 Making distinctions: the social construction of target populations......Page 275 15 The autopoietic text......Page 290 16 Co-production and public policy: evidence, uncertainty and socio-materiality......Page 313 PART V THE POLITICS OF POLICY EXPERTISE: KNOWLEDGE, THINK-TANKS AND ACTION RESEARCH......Page 333 17 Politics and policy expertise: towards a political epistemology......Page 335 18 Global governance and sustainability indicators: the politics of expert knowledge......Page 357 19 The politics of policy think-tanks: organizing expertise, legitimacy and counter-expertise in policy networks......Page 374 20 Critical action research and social movements: revitalizing participation and deliberation for democratic empowerment......Page 396 PART VI METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: INTERPRETATION, FRAMING AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS......Page 415 21 Making sense of policy practices: interpretation and meaning......Page 417 22 Transforming perspectives: the critical functions of interpretive policy analysis......Page 438 23 Between representation and narration: analysing policy frames......Page 457 24 Critical policy ethnography......Page 478 25 Making gender visible: exploring feminist perspectives through the case of anti-smoking policy......Page 497 Index......Page 523