Critical Policy Inquiry: Interpreting Knowledge and Arguments

by Frank Fischer

Presenting a critical approach to the study of public policy and policy analysis, this book offers a postpositivist foundation that challenges empiricist and technocratic approaches to policy studies. Critical Policy Inquiry draws on Jürgen Habermas's work on communicative action and deliberation, Michel Foucault's writings on discourse, and the epistemics of social constructivism. Frank Fischer advances deliberative policy argumentation and the logic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789900808
• ISBN13: 9781789900804
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"