TORGERSON,Doug <br/><br/>
Policy dicourse as dialogue :   

 - Birmingham :  Institute of Local Government Studies,  2007 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discurso<br/>Política<br/>Desenvolvimento Organizacional<br/>Tecnocracia<br/>Evento<br/> Modernização Administrativa<br/>Autoritarismo<br/>Racionalização<br/>Conflito<br/> Ciência Política<br/>Relações de Trabalho<br/>Corrupção