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Title: Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 09/12/2021
EAN: 9781108796071
ISBN: 9781108796071
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: The phenomenon of post-truth poses a problem for the public policy-oriented sciences, including policy analysis. Along with “fake news,” the post-truth denial of facts constitutes a major concern for numerous policy fields. Whereas a standard response is to call for more and better factual information, this Element shows that the effort to understand this phenomenon has to go beyond the emphasis on facts to include an understanding of the social meanings that get attached to facts in the political world of public policy. The challenge is thus seen to be as much about a politics of meaning as it is about epistemology. The analysis here supplements the examination of facts with an interpretive policy-analytic approach to gain a fuller understanding of post-truth. The importance of the interpretive perspective is illustrated by examining the policy arguments that have shaped policy controversies related to climate change and coronavirus denial.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 151mm
Item Width: 7mm
Item Weight: 160g
Author: Frank Fischer
Genre: Business & Finance
Book Series: Elements in Public Policy
ISBN-10: 1108796079
Type: Communication Studies
Release Year: 2021

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