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Book SynopsisTaking stock of developments in argumentative policy analysis during the past two decades,
The Argumentative Turn Revisited demonstrates the value of the approach and advocates its adoption by contemporary policy makers and analysts.
Trade Review“This is a worthwhile resource for an emerging and important area of policy studies.” - R. Heineman,
Choice“The ‘argumentative turn’ has grown into a conceptually rich and still fertile and promising approach to policy research and theory in numerous policy domains and issues.” - Robert Hoppe,
Social Policy & Administration"
The Argumentative Turn Revisited is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding and improving democracy in policy and planning. Through theoretical refinement and new empirical examples, the contributors do an excellent job of further developing an already-strong approach to policy analysis and planning research."—
Bent Flyvbjerg, author of
Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again"Given the strength of the argumentative turn in scholarly circles and its still-growing promise in policy studies, these essays by important figures in argumentative analysis will be welcomed by policy scholars and practitioners alike. Many rank-and-file social scientists still associate this school of thought with Habermasian communicative action/deliberative action frameworks. This collection recalls those origins even as it shows how far the argumentative turn has progressed beyond them. It should be used far and wide."—
Timothy Luke, Director, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech
"The argumentative turn in policy analysis has taken another major turn for the better. Whether one accepts the arguments presented here or not, they cannot be ignored, and this book contains an impressive collection of essays advancing this approach to policy."—
B. Guy Peters, coauthor of
Interactive Governance: Advancing the Paradigm“This is a worthwhile resource for an emerging and important area of policy studies.” -- R. Heineman * Choice *
“The ‘argumentative turn’ has grown into a conceptually rich and still fertile and promising approach to policy research and theory in numerous policy domains and issues.”
-- Robert Hoppe * Social Policy & Administration *
“Overall, this book presents a good, updated picture of the field of argumentative policy analysis.” -- Nick Turnbull * Critical Policy Studies *
“Fischer and Gottweis have assembled a remarkable book which makes a very real contribution not only to the critical policy studies literature but also to wider political analysis in general. A weighty edited collection . . . The chapters are theoretically vigorous—the authors score well on the intellectual duty of the analyst to ‘show one’s workings’—and consequently this is an extremely valuable book, providing a greater insight into certain perspectives than has previously existed…this has ‘classic text’ written all over it.” -- David S. Moon * Political Studies Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Argumentative Turn Revisited / Frank Fischer and Herbert Gottweis 1
Part I. Deliberative Policy Argumentation and Public Participation
1. Fostering Deliberation in the Forum and Beyond / John S. Dryzek and Carolyn M. Hendriks 31
2. Performing Place Governance Collaboratively: Planning as a Communicative Process / Patsy Healey 58
Part II. Discursive Politics and Argumentative Practices: Institutions and Frames
3. Discursive Institutionalism: Scope, Dynamics, and Philosophical Underpinnings / Vivien A. Schmidt 85
4. From Policy Frames to Discursive Politics: Feminist Approaches to Development Policy and Planning in an Era of Globalization / Mary Hawkesworth 114
Part III. Policy Argumentation on the Internet and in Film
5. The Internet as a Space for Policy Deliberation / Stephen Coleman 149
6. Multimedia and Urban Narratives in the Planning Process: Film as Social Inquiry and Dialogue Catalyst / Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili 180
Part IV. Policy Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Semiotics
7. Political Rhetoric and Stem Cell Policy in the United States: Embodiments, Scenographics, and Emotions / Herbert Gottweis 211
8. The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Discourse and Identity in Welfare Policy / Sanford F. Schram 236
Part V. Policy Argumentation in Critical Theory and Practice: Communicative Logics and Policy Learning
9. The Argumentative Turn toward Deliberative Democracy: Habermas's Contribution and the Foucauldian Critique / Hubertus Buchstein and Dirk Jörke 271
10. Poststructuralist Policy Analysis: Discourse, Hegemony, and Critical Explanation / David Howarth and Steven Griggs 305
11. Transformative Learning in Planning and Policy Deliberation: Probing Social Meaning and Tacit Assumptions / Frank Fischer and Alan Mandell 343
Contributors 371
Index 375
