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028 _aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.
_b;7/22,Ansari Road ,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002
_c;1108684
_d;03/02/2020
082 _a321.8 DRY
100 _aJohn S Dryzek
245 _aDiscursive democracy
_b: politics, policy, and political science
_c/John S Dryzek
260 _aCambridge ; New York
_b: Cambridge University Press
_c, 1990.
300 _ax, 254 pages
_c; 24 cm
365 _b3213
505 _aPreface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Democratizing rationality; Part II. Political Institutions: 2. Discursive designs; 3. Complexity; 4. Discursive dynamics; 5. International discursive designs (with Susan Hunter); Part III. Public Policy: 6. Policy sciences of democracy; 7. The ambitions of policy (with Brian Ripley); Part IV. Political Science: 8. The mismeasure of political man; 9. The measure of political man - and woman; 10. Progress and rationality; Part V. Conclusion: 11. On extending democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
520 _a In this book the author criticizes the dominance of instrumental rationality and objectivism in political institutions, public policy and in the practice of political science. He argues that the reliance on instrumental rationality has led to the excessive bureaucratization of government.
650 _aSocial sciences
655 _a;Policy sciences
_b;Deliberative democracy
700 _aJohn S Dryzek
942 _cBOOK