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 The Deliberative Policy Analyst: Theoretical Issues and PracticalChallenges

Frank Fischer

in Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices

Published in print: 2003 Published Online:November 2003ISBN: 9780199242641 eISBN: 9780191599255

Item type: chapter

Publisher: Oxford University PressDOI: 10.1093/019924264X.003.0011

 The preceding chapters have covered the theoretical and epistemologicalsupport for citizen participation in policy-making. In this final chapter,the implications of this for the conduct of policy analysis are addressed,in particular the role of policy analysts as facilitators of deliberativepractices. The different sections of the chapter are: CommunicativePolicy Analysis in Critical Planning Theory – the conduct of policyanalysis, in particular the role of the policy analyst as facilitator of deliberative practices; Communicative Theory: Replying to the Critics –

of the communications model; Policy Epistemics – for discursive policyanalysis; and The Curriculum: Participatory Training and QualitativeInquiry – the implications of a discursive, participatory approach for thepolicy analysis curriculum.

Reframing Public Policy : Discursive Politics and DeliberativePractices

Frank Fischer

Published in print: 2003 Published Online:

November 2003ISBN: 9780199242641 eISBN: 9780191599255Item type: book

Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOI: 10.1093/019924264X.001.0001

In recent years a set of new ‘postempiricist’ approaches to public policy,drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices,have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist modelsin policy analysis. In this book, Frank Fischer brings together this workfor the first time and critically examines its implications for the field of public policy studies. He describes the theoretical, methodological andpolitical dimensions of this emerging approach to policy research. The

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book includes a discussion of the social construction of policy problems,the role of interpretation and narrative analysis in policy inquiry,the dialectics of policy argumentation, and the uses of participatorypolicy analysis. After an introductory chapter, ten further chaptersare arranged in four parts: Part I, Public Policy and the DiscursiveConstruction of Reality (two chapters), introduces the re-emergence

of interest in ideas and discourse. It then turns to the postempiricistor constructionist view of social reality, presenting public policy as adiscursive construct that turns on multiple interpretations. Part II, PublicPolicy as Discursive Politics (two chapters), examines more specificallythe nature of discursive politics and discourse theory and illustratesthrough a particular disciplinary debate the theoretical, methodological,and political implications of such a conceptual reframing of policy inquiry.Part III, Discursive Policy Inquiry: Resituating Empirical Analysis (fourchapters), offers a postempiricist methodology for policy inquiry basedon the logic of practical discourse, and explores specific methodologicalperspectives pertinent to such an orientation, in particular the roleof interpretation in policy analysis, narrative policy analysis, and thedialectics of policy argumentation. Part IV, Deliberative Governance (twochapters), discusses the participatory implications of such a method andthe role of the policy analyst as facilitator of citizen deliberation .

Shaping public participation: public bodies and their publics

Marian Barnes, Janet Newman, and Helen Sullivan

in Power, participation and political renewal: Case studies in public participation

Published in print: 2007 Published Online:March 2012ISBN: 9781861346681 eISBN: 9781447303053Item type: chapter

Publisher: Policy PressDOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781861346681.003.0004

 This chapter presents several questions that inform the analysis of specific case studies of public participation that are discussed in laterchapters. Questions drawn from new institutional theory focus on theimportance of studying how the rules and norms of deliberative practice

are developed, negotiated, and contested within forums, and with whatconsequences. In opening up questions about how the ‘public’ of publicparticipation is socially constructed and discursively constituted, thechapter emphasises the importance of post-structuralist understandingsof power. It discusses the 17 case studies of public participation, drawingon the issues introduced in previous chapters to analyse and explain theresults.