In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy has been developing. These approaches, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models in policy analysis. In this text, Frank Fischer brings together this new work and critically examines it. In an accessible way he describes the theoretical, methodological and political requirements and implications of the new "post-empiricist" approach to public policy. The volume 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 participatory policy analysis.

Winner of the the 2017 Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award

About the Author
Frank Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

Reviews
It's a well-constructed arguement, both theoretically sophisticated and of practical relevance. Australian journal of Public Administration, September 2004



Book Information
ISBN 9780199242641
Author Frank Fischer
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 16mm