
Narrative Politics in Public Policy
Legalizing Cannabis
Hugh T. Miller(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 30. June 2020
Book
Hardback
XI, 169 pages
978-3-030-45319-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book draws on examples from cannabis policy discourse and elsewhere to illustrate how individuals come to subscribe to a particular policy narrative; how policy narratives evolve; how narratives are employed in public policy discourse to compete with other narratives; and how, on implementation, the winning narrative is performed and subsequently institutionalized. Further, it explores how uncertainty and ambiguity are constants in public policy discourse, and how different factions and groups pursue different goals and aspirations. In the current climate of political reality, disputable facts and contestable goals, this book shows how different coalitions and ideologies use narratives to compete for policy dominance.
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Edition
2020 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
XI, 169 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-45319-0 (9783030453190)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-45320-6
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Person
Hugh T. Miller is a Professor at the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University, USA. He is the author of
Governing Narratives: Symbolic Politics and Policy Change (2012)
. His other books include Postmodern Public Policy and, with the late Charles Fox, Postmodern Public Administration.
Content
Chapter 1: Dubiety.- Chapter 2: Narrative Inquiry.- Chapter 3: Narrative Subscription in Public Policy Discourse.- Chapter 4: Narrative Evolution in Cannabis Policy Discourse.- Chapter 5: Enactment and Implementation.- Chapter 6: Spectre of the Lost Genesis Narrative.- Chapter 7: Pluralism, Discourse and Democracy.