1. Introduction to critical policy studies - Frank Fischer, Douglas Torgerson, Anna Durnová and Michael Orsini PART 1 - ORIGINS AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT: FROM LASSWELL TO HABERMAS AND FOUCAULT 2. Harold D. Lasswell and critical policy studies: the threats and temptations of power - Douglas Torgerson 3. In pursuit of usable knowledge: critical policy analysis and the argumentative turn - Frank Fischer 4. Habermas, critical theory and public policy - Thomas Saretzki 5. Foucault and critical policy studies - Eva Lovbrand and Johannes Stripple PART II - THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY, HEGEMONY AND POWER 6. Poststructuralist discourse theory and critical policy studies: interests, identities and policy change - David Howarth and Steven Griggs 7. Cultural political economy and critical policy studies: developing a critique of domination - Ngai-Ling Sum and Bob Jessop 8. The interpretation of power - Timothy W. Luke PART III - DISCURSIVE POLITICS: DELIBERATION, JUSTICE, PROTEST AND EMOTION 9. Discursive institutionalism: understanding policy in context - Vivien A. Schmidt 10. Social justice and urban policy deliberation: balancing the discourses of democracy, diversity and equity - Susan S. Fainstein 11. Deliberation and protest: revealing the deliberative potential of protest movements in Turkey and Brazil - Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça and Selen A. Ercan 12. Lost in translation: expressing emotions in policy deliberation - Anna Durnová PART IV - POLICY PROCESSES: PROBLEM DEFINITIONS, EVIDENCE AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION 13. Problem definition and agenda-setting in critical perspective - Marlon Barbehon, Sybille Munch and Wolfram Lamping 14. Making distinctions: the social construction of target populations - Helen Ingram and Anne L. Schneider 15. The autopoietic text - Raul P. Lejano and Sung Jin Park 16. Co-production and public policy: evidence, uncertainty and socio-materiality - Heidrun Am PART V - THE POLITICS OF POLICY EXPERTISE: KNOWLEDGE, THINK-TANKS AND ACTION RESEARCH 17. Politics and policy expertise: towards a political epistemology - Holger Strassheim 18. Global governance and sustainability indicators: the politics of expert knowledge - Laureen Elgart 19. The politics of policy think-tanks: organizing expertise, legitimacy and counter-expertise in policy networks - Dieter Plehwe 20. Critical action research and social movements: revitalizing participation and deliberation for democratic empowerment - Hemant R. Ojha, Mani R. Banjade and Krishna K. Shrestha PART VI - METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: INTERPRETATION, FRAMING AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS 21. Making sense of policy practices: interpretation and meaning - Dvora Yanow 22. Transforming perspectives: the critical functions of interpretive policy analysis - Hendrink Wagenaar 23. Between representation and narration: analysing policy frames - Kathrin Braun 24. Critical policy ethnography - Vincent Dubois 25. Making gender visible: exploring feminist perspectives through the case of anti-smoking policy - Stephanie Paterson and Francesca Scala Index