Critical Theory, Public Policy, and Planning Practice

by John Forester

Book Overview

Too often attacked as hopelessly abstract, contemporary critical social theory can help us to understand both public policy and its analysis. In this book, John Forester shows how policy analysis, planning, and public administration are thoroughly political communicative practices that subtly and selectively organize public attention. Drawing from J rgen Habermas's critical communications theory of society, Forester shows how policy developments alter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791414469
• ISBN13: 9780791414460
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"