Democracy and Expertise
Reorienting Policy Inquiry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 March 2009
- ISBN 9780199282838
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 241x163x25 mm
- Weight 686 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book explores the role of policy expertise in a democratic society. From the perspectives of political science and policy theory, the chapters work out the implications of deliberative democratic governance for professional expertise and extends them to specific policy practices.
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This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society. From the perspectives of both political theory and policy studies, the chapters explore the implications of deliberative democratic governance for professional expertise and extends them to specific policy practices. Following the lead of John Dewey, the discussion focuses in particular on the ways professional practices might be reoriented to assist citizens in understanding and discussing the complex policy issues of an advanced technological society. In doing so, it also explores how public deliberation can be improved through more cooperative forms of policy inquiry.
Adopting a deliberative-analytic approach , policy inquiry is grounded in a postempiricist, constructivist understanding of inquiry and knowledge and the participatory practices that support it. Toward this end, the chapters draw on thriving theoretical and practical work dedicated to revitalizing the citizen's role in both civil society and newer practices of democratic governance, in particular deliberative democracy in political theory, practical work with deliberative experiments, the theory and practices of democratic governance, and participatory research. Deliberative practices are promoted here as a new component part of policy-related disciplines required for participatory governance. Calling for a specialization of "policy epistemics" to advance such practices, the second half of the book takes up issues related to deliberative empowerment, including the relation of technical and social knowledge, the interpretive dimensions of social meaning and multiple realities, the role of narrative knowledge and storylines policy inquiry, social learning, tacit knowledge, the design of discursive spaces, and the place of emotional expression in public deliberation.
Today, the literature of deliberative and democratic theory is significant. Frank Fischer's recent book is innovative, exploring social epistemology as its key issue... This impressive work accurately illuminates the insights of a policy analyst moving into discursive, interpretive, narrative, or argumentative-based approaches... This book provides a good basis for engaging a critical debate about the interpretive research agenda, organized through seminars and networks that has spanned over two decades... Readers will certainly appreciate the author's effort in scrutinizing examples of literature throughout the book, and hence the discovering and rediscovering of authors, perspectives, and articles... I recommend that one read Democracy & Expertise precisely for this reason, namely, its vibrant ability to reinvigorate ways of thinking and stimulate new avenues as well.
Table of Contents:
Part I Policy Expertise and Citizen Participation in the Public Realm
Between Technical Knowledge and Public Responsibility: Professional Expertise in Critical Perspective
Citizen Deliberation and Participatory Governance: Problems of Knowledge and Policy Complexity
Citizens and Experts in Deliberative Democracy: From Theory to Experimentation
Part II Situating the Technical in the Social: Implications for Policy Deliberation
The Deliberative-Analytic Policy Inquiry: Postempiricist Practice
Technical Knowledge in Public Deliberation: Toward a Constructivist Theory of Contributory Expertise
Public Policy as Social Construct: Multiple Meanings in Sustainable Development
Part III Policy Epistemics for Deliberative Empowerment: Storylines, Learning, and Passionate Reason
Policy Advise as Storyline: Narrative Knowledge and Expert Practices
Transformative Learning Through Deliberation: Social Assumptions and the Tacit Dimension
Deliberative Empowerment: The Cultural Politics of Discursive Space
Passionate Participants: Rethinking Emotion in Public Deliberation
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