Policy dicourse as dialogue :
By: TORGERSON,Doug
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ArticlePublisher: Birmingham : Institute of Local Government Studies, 2007Subject(s): Discurso | Política | Desenvolvimento Organizacional | Tecnocracia | Evento | Modernização Administrativa | Autoritarismo | Racionalização | Conflito | Ciência Política | Relações de Trabalho | CorrupçãoCritical Policy Analysis : Theory, Methods and Practice 1, 1, p. 1-17Abstract: The apolitical image of policy discourse has typically been reinforced by a peculiar feature of the discourse itself:its failure to clearly recognize itself as a form of discourse. Countering this technocratic image, reflexive interpretations of policy discourse-influenced by figures such as Habermas and Foucault-focus attention on its discursive aspects and thus help to expose its political character in the context of emergent publics. This political connection is examined here in terms of a contrast, following Bakhtin, between monologue and dialogue. A dialogical model of policy discourse is proposed. The contrast between monologue and dialogue is pursued through a three-dimensional conception of politics that, both drawing upon and departing from Arendt, is able to clarify three corresponding dimensions of policy discourse:functional, constitutive, and performance. A dialogical, three-dimensional conceptualization offers a way to understand how relationships betuween emergent publics and policy discourse creat the potential for a reorientation of practice
The apolitical image of policy discourse has typically been reinforced by a peculiar feature of the discourse itself:its failure to clearly recognize itself as a form of discourse. Countering this technocratic image, reflexive interpretations of policy discourse-influenced by figures such as Habermas and Foucault-focus attention on its discursive aspects and thus help to expose its political character in the context of emergent publics. This political connection is examined here in terms of a contrast, following Bakhtin, between monologue and dialogue. A dialogical model of policy discourse is proposed. The contrast between monologue and dialogue is pursued through a three-dimensional conception of politics that, both drawing upon and departing from Arendt, is able to clarify three corresponding dimensions of policy discourse:functional, constitutive, and performance. A dialogical, three-dimensional conceptualization offers a way to understand how relationships betuween emergent publics and policy discourse creat the potential for a reorientation of practice
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