Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry ebook

by Frank Fischer

Frank Fischer's recent book is innovative, exploring social epistemology as its key issue.

Frank Fischer's recent book is innovative, exploring social epistemology as its key issue. Democracy and Expertise continues a much needed discussion about the limits of rationality in public policy, but goes one step further in sketching the contours of an approach to the study of policy that draws in creative ways from other disciplinary orientations that might seem far removed from the study of public policy.

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This book explores the role of policy expertise in a democratic society

This book explores the role of policy expertise in a democratic society.

This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society

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 policyissues of an advanced technological society.

Democracy and Expertise : Reorienting Policy Inquiry. This book explores the role of policy expertise in a democratic society.

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Democracy And Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry. 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 extend them to specific policy practices. 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.

This book explores the role of policy expertise in a democratic society. From the perspectives of political science and policy theory, the chapters examine the implications of deliberative democratic governance for professional expertise and extends them to specific policy practices. Following the earlier 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 to policy inquiry, grounded in a postempiricist, constructivist understanding of inquiry and knowledge and the participatory practices that support such an approach, 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, 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.