Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society (Theories of Institutional Design)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Figures......Page 13
Tables......Page 14
Preface......Page 15
URLs......Page 17
Governance or the rise of a new vocabulary......Page 19
The need for an interpretative account of governance......Page 22
The new spaces of politics......Page 26
Politics and policymaking under the condition of radical uncertainty......Page 27
The increased importance of ‘difference’ for our understanding of politics......Page 28
Policymaking and the dynamics of trust and identity......Page 29
Towards a deliberative policy analysis......Page 31
Policy analysis for the network society......Page 33
Policy analysis is interpretative......Page 34
Policy analysis is practice-oriented......Page 36
Policy analysis is deliberative......Page 39
Conclusion: the transformative work of policy analysis......Page 41
Outline of the book......Page 43
Part I Policy conflict and deliberation in the network society......Page 49
1 Collaborative policymaking: governance through dialogue......Page 51
Authentic dialogue......Page 55
Diversity and interdependence......Page 57
Reciprocity......Page 60
Relationships......Page 61
Learning......Page 62
The Sacramento Water Forum as a model......Page 64
How collaborative planning can result in system adaptations......Page 65
Obstacles to collaborative dialogues......Page 68
Alternative models of planning and policymaking......Page 69
Can collaborative dialogue really make a difference?......Page 73
Emerging, flexible, adaptive institutions......Page 74
Conclusions and reflections......Page 76
The challenge of governance transformation......Page 78
Evaluating institutional capacity building......Page 80
A city-centre urban regeneration partnership......Page 85
Relational resources......Page 92
Knowledge resources......Page 97
Mobilization capacity......Page 99
The micro-politics of urban governance transformation......Page 101
Conclusions......Page 103
3 A frame in the fields: policymaking and the reinvention of politics......Page 106
The politics of nature: from conservation to development......Page 108
The limits to classical-modernist practices of policymaking......Page 109
The case of nature development: the government’s response......Page 112
Policymaking and the creation of political community......Page 113
New forms of governance as challenge for policy analysis......Page 117
Methods of a new policy analysis......Page 119
Terms of policy discourse......Page 121
Discourse coalitions......Page 125
Practices......Page 126
Conclusion and outlook......Page 127
Part II Rethinking policy discourse......Page 129
4 Democracy through policy discourse......Page 131
Democracy and policy discourse......Page 133
The ambivalent potential of reflexive policy discourse: Berger revisited......Page 135
Policy discourse in the looking glass......Page 138
Democracy and the policy orientation: the loyal opposition......Page 140
Dissident policy professionalism: the recognition of bias......Page 142
Public discourse and policy discourse: the case of the Clayoquot Sound scientific panel......Page 146
Reversing the order of policy discourse......Page 150
Democratic policy discourse: a question of power......Page 153
Introduction: the modernist legacy in policy analysis......Page 157
The emergence of practice in contemporary policy theory......Page 159
What is practice?......Page 161
Case study: the expansion of Schiphol airport......Page 175
Practices as units of reflexivity......Page 182
Governance, the practice perspective and democratic deliberation......Page 185
6 Reframing practice......Page 190
An interpretation of policy frames......Page 191
Frames and reframing in practice......Page 194
From NIMBY to community health partnerships......Page 198
Reframing in practice......Page 219
Part III Foundations of deliberative policy analysis......Page 225
7 Beyond empiricism: policy analysis as deliberative practice......Page 227
Mainstream policy analysis: empiricism and its technocratic practices......Page 229
Postempiricism: theoretical foundations......Page 231
Postempiricism: from proof to discourse......Page 235
Practical reason as reasoning-in-context......Page 237
Policy-analytic implications: the empirical in normative context......Page 239
Towards a policy science of democracy: institutions and practices......Page 241
Concluding remarks......Page 244
Policy analysis and communities of meaning......Page 246
‘Culture’ and ‘interpretation’: argumentation by metaphor......Page 247
Accessing local knowledge: conducting meaning audits and mapping architectures of meaning?......Page 252
Analysing local knowledge......Page 257
Towards interpretative analyses: implications for professional practice......Page 259
Points of departure I: policy analysis after Saussure......Page 265
Points of departure II: policy analysis and the ‘real’......Page 267
Poststructuralist policy analysis: an approach without actors and structures?......Page 270
Policymaking and the analytics of government......Page 273
Policymaking as ‘ordering activity’......Page 276
Policymaking and reflexive government......Page 280
References......Page 284
Subject index......Page 315
Author index......Page 321