Abstract
This article discusses the concept of critique, which is treated rightly as basic to the entire enterprise of policy analysis. Critical policy analysis is also discussed in this article, along with two of its opposites, namely accommodation and technocracy. The article determines that critical policy analysis is a demanding vocation, due to the number of obstacles that stand in its way. However, it is slowly being incorporated into an emerging network society of decentralized problem solving. In the democratic world, critical policy analysis has the capacity to help realize the idea of a policy science of democracy.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy |
| Editors | Robert E. Goodin, Michael Moran, Michael Rein |
| Place of Publication | United States |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 190-203 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191577413 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199548453 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Sept 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |