Arguing Development Policy : Frames and Discourses

ISBN-13: 9780714642949 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 176 str.

Raymond Apthorpe; Des Gasper

Opis

This collection shows how policy discourses in the fields of national can be analyzed. Dominant discourses screen out certain aspects: they frame issues to include some matters and typically exclude important others. More generally, different policy discourses construct the world in distinctive ways, through language that requires deconstruction and careful review.

Spis treści

Introduction - discourse analysis and policy discourse, Des gasper and Raymond Apthorpe; reading development policy and policy analysis - on framing, numbing, numbering and coding, Raymond Apthorpe; analyzing policy arguments, Des Gasper; re-reading mountainous, isolated, inaccessible and small - the case of Bhutan, Adam Pain; methodological nationalism and the misunderstinding of East Asian industrialization, Charles Gore; reading Americans on democracy in Africa - from the CIA to good governance, David Moore; essentialism in and about development discourse, Des Gasper.

O autorze

Raymond Apthorpe, Des Gasper