Narrative Politics in Public Policy
Legalizing Cannabis
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2020
XI, 169 pages
978-3-030-45320-6 (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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XI, 169 p. 1 illus.
File size
2,26 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-45320-6 (9783030453206)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-45320-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Book
06/2020
Palgrave Macmillan
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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.
