Naslov
Place of Analysis in the “Dynamic of Governance”: What can an Analyst do When a Sovereign Power Shapes Policy?

Autori
Petković, Krešimir

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Skup
Developing Policy in Different Cultural Contexts: Learning from Study, Learning from Experience

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 10.06.2011. - 12.06.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Discourse; Power; Analyst

Sažetak
The problem of policy analysis as discourse analysis is explored in the context of different types of political power introduced by Michel Foucault in the 1970s. If political power shapes policy development, policy practices and discourses relevant for policy, then this clearly has implications for policy analysis. Using the example of Foucault’s sovereign power – not a legal category of international law, but an empirical type of power functioning that shapes policy and discourse – and penal policy development in early 1990s Croatia, during the war for independence, I sketch out how this type of power works in shaping policy and molding policy discourse. Finally, I try to answer the hard question about the role of analysis in such circumstances (which brings some more general implications): What can an analyst do...

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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