Arguing Development Policy: Frames and Discourses

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ISBN: 9780714642949 | 0714642940
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Copyright: 9/30/1996

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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.

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Introduction - discourse analysis and policy discourse
Reading development policy and policy analysis - on framing, numbing, numbering and coding
Analyzing policy arguments
Re-reading "mountainous", "isolated", "inaccessible" and "small" - the case of Bhutan
Methodological nationalism and the misunderstinding of East Asian industrialization
Reading Americans on democracy in Africa - from the CIA to "good governance"
Essentialism in and about development discourse
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