Democracy and expertise : reorienting policy inquiry / Frank Fischer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents Pt. I Policy expertise and Citizen Participation in the Public Realm 1 Between Technical Knowledge and Public Responsibility: Professional Expertise in Critical Perspective 2 Citizen Participation and Deliberative Governance: The Problems of Knowledge and Complexity 3 Citizens and Experts in Deliberative Democracy: From Theory to Experimentation Pt. II Situating the Technical in the Social: Implications for Policy Deliberation 4 Deliberative-Analytic Policy Inquiry: Postempiricist Practices 5 Technical Knowledge in Public Deliberation: Toward a Constructivist Theory of Contributory Expertise 6 Public Policy as Social Construct: Multiple Meanings in Sustainable Development Pt. III Policy Epistemics for Deliberative Empowerment: Storylines, Learning, and Passionate Reason 7 Policy Advice as Storyline: Narrative Knowledge and Expert Practices 8 Transformative Learning Through Deliberation: Social Assumptions and the Tacit Dimension (Co-authored by Alan Mandell) 9 Deliberative Empowerment: The Cultural Politics of Discursive Space 10 Passionate Participants: Rethinking Emotion in Public Deliberation References Index