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INTRODUCTION: The Argumentative Revisited. -- Frank Fischer e Herbert Gottweis PART I. Deliberative policy argumentation and public participation 1. Fostering deliberation in the forum and beyond. -- John S. Dryzek e Carolyn M. Hendriks 2. Performing place governance collaboratively: planning as a communicative process. -- Pasty Healey PART II. Discursive Politics and Argumentative Practices: Istitutions and Frames 3. Discursive institucionalism: scope, dynamics, and philosophical underpinnings. -- Vivien A. Schmidt 4. From policy frames to discursive politics: feminist approaches to development policy and planning in an Era of Globalization. -- Mary Hawkesworth PART III. Policy Argumentation on the Internet and in Film 5. The internet as a space for policy deliberation. -- Stephen Coleman 6. Multimedia and Urban narratives in the planning process: film as policy inquiry and dialogue catalyst. -- Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili PART IV. Policy Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Semiotics 7. Political rethoric and stem cell policy in the United States: embodimens, scenographies, and emotions. -- Herbet Gottweis 8. The deep semiotic structure of deservigness: discourse and indentity in welfare policy. -- Sandford F. Schram PART V. Policy Argumentative in Critical Theory and Practice: Communicative Logics and Policy Learning 9. The argumentative turn toward deliberative democracy: haberman's contributiojn and the foucauldian critique. -- Hubertus Buchstein and Dirk Jorke 10. Poststructuralist policy analysis: discourse, hegemony, and critical explanation. -- David Howarth and Steven Griggs 11. Transformative learning in planning and policy deliberation: probing social meaning and tacit assumptions. -- Frank Fischer and Alan Mandell