Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry

PART I POLICY EXPERTISE AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN THE PUBLIC REALM 1. Between Technical Knowledge and Public Responsibility: Professional Expertise in Critical Perspective 2. Citizen Deliberation and Participatory Governance: Problems of Knowledge and Policy Complexity 3. Citizens and Experts in Deliberative Democracy: From Theory to Experimentation PART II SITUATING THE TECHNICAL IN THE SOCIAL: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY DELIBERATION 4. The Deliberative-Analytic Policy Inquiry: Postempiricist Practice 5. Technical Knowledge in Public Deliberation: Toward a Constructivist Theory of Contributory Expertise 6. Public Policy as Social Construct: Multiple Meanings in Sustainable Development PART III POLICY EPISTEMICS FOR DELIBERATIVE EMPOWERMENT: STORYLINES, LEARNING, AND PASSIONATE REASON 7. Policy Advise as Storyline: Narrative Knowledge and Expert Practices 8. Transformative Learning Through Deliberation: Social Assumptions and the Tacit Dimension 9. Deliberative Empowerment: The Cultural Politics of Discursive Space 10. Passionate Participants: Rethinking Emotion in Public Deliberation Afterword