Understanding policy fiascoes.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1996Description: v, 173 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 156000214X
- 320.6 20
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Includes bibliography: p. [161]-170 and index
Understanding policy fiascoes -- Assessing policy outcomes: social and political biases -- Identifying agents: the ontology of policymaking -- Identifying agents: misfortune or mismanagement? -- Explaining agents' behavior: implicit frames -- Evaluating agents' behavior: analysis as accusing and excusing -- Epilogue: making sense of policy fiascoes
This study tries to make sense of the rise of policy fiascoes. Adapting an interpretive mode of policy analysis, it shows in great detail how not only "partisan" but also "scientific" discourse on policy events contains many biases that promote (or prevent) them being labelled as "fiascoes." These biases are not random occurrences: they reflect deep-seated views about the nature and standards of good governance, as well as certain epistemological commitments about the nature and role of science and knowledge in policymaking.
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