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The Deliberative Policy Analyst: Theoretical Issues and Practical

Challenges
Frank Fischer

in Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices

Published in print: 2003 Published Online:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
November 2003
DOI: 10.1093/019924264X.003.0011
ISBN: 9780199242641 eISBN: 9780191599255
Item type: chapter

The preceding chapters have covered the theoretical and epistemological

support for citizen participation in policy-making. In this final chapter,
the implications of this for the conduct of policy analysis are addressed,
in particular the role of policy analysts as facilitators of deliberative
practices. The different sections of the chapter are: Communicative
Policy Analysis in Critical Planning Theory the conduct of policy
analysis, in particular the role of the policy analyst as facilitator of
deliberative practices; Communicative Theory: Replying to the Critics
of the communications model; Policy Epistemics for discursive policy
analysis; and The Curriculum: Participatory Training and Qualitative
Inquiry the implications of a discursive, participatory approach for the
policy analysis curriculum.

Reframing Public Policy : Discursive Politics and Deliberative

Practices
Frank Fischer

Published in print: 2003 Published Online:

Publisher: Oxford University Press
November 2003
DOI: 10.1093/019924264X.001.0001
ISBN: 9780199242641 eISBN: 9780191599255
Item type: book

In recent years a set of new postempiricist approaches to public policy,

drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices,
have come to challenge the dominant technocratic, empiricist models
in policy analysis. In this book, Frank Fischer brings together this work
for the first time and critically examines its implications for the field of
public policy studies. He describes the theoretical, methodological and
political dimensions of this emerging approach to policy research. The
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book includes a discussion of the social construction of policy problems,

the role of interpretation and narrative analysis in policy inquiry,
the dialectics of policy argumentation, and the uses of participatory
policy analysis. After an introductory chapter, ten further chapters
are arranged in four parts: Part I, Public Policy and the Discursive
Construction of Reality (two chapters), introduces the re-emergence
of interest in ideas and discourse. It then turns to the postempiricist
or constructionist view of social reality, presenting public policy as a
discursive construct that turns on multiple interpretations. Part II, Public
Policy as Discursive Politics (two chapters), examines more specifically
the nature of discursive politics and discourse theory and illustrates
through a particular disciplinary debate the theoretical, methodological,
and political implications of such a conceptual reframing of policy inquiry.
Part III, Discursive Policy Inquiry: Resituating Empirical Analysis (four
chapters), offers a postempiricist methodology for policy inquiry based
on the logic of practical discourse, and explores specific methodological
perspectives pertinent to such an orientation, in particular the role
of interpretation in policy analysis, narrative policy analysis, and the
dialectics of policy argumentation. Part IV, Deliberative Governance (two
chapters), discusses the participatory implications of such a method and
the role of the policy analyst as facilitator of citizen deliberation .

Shaping public participation: public bodies and their publics

Marian Barnes, Janet Newman, and Helen Sullivan

in Power, participation and political renewal: Case studies in public participation

Published in print: 2007 Published Online:
Publisher: Policy Press
March 2012
DOI: 10.1332/
ISBN: 9781861346681 eISBN: 9781447303053 policypress/9781861346681.003.0004
Item type: chapter

This chapter presents several questions that inform the analysis of

specific case studies of public participation that are discussed in later
chapters. Questions drawn from new institutional theory focus on the
importance of studying how the rules and norms of deliberative practice
are developed, negotiated, and contested within forums, and with what
consequences. In opening up questions about how the public of public
participation is socially constructed and discursively constituted, the
chapter emphasises the importance of post-structuralist understandings
of power. It discusses the 17 case studies of public participation, drawing
on the issues introduced in previous chapters to analyse and explain the
results.

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