Overview
- Draws on examples from cannabis policy discourse and elsewhere to illustrate how individuals come to subscribe to a particular policy narrative
- Illustrates how narratives are employed in public policy discourse to compete with other narratives
- Shows how different coalitions and ideologies use narratives to compete for policy dominance
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This book draws on examples from cannabis policy discourse and elsewhere to illustrate how individuals come to subscribe to a particular policy narrative; how policy narratives evolve; how narratives are employed in public policy discourse to compete with other narratives; and how, on implementation, the winning narrative is performed and subsequently institutionalized. Further, it explores how uncertainty and ambiguity are constants in public policy discourse, and how different factions and groups pursue different goals and aspirations. In the current climate of political reality, disputable facts and contestable goals, this book shows how different coalitions and ideologies use narratives to compete for policy dominance.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hugh T. Miller is a Professor at the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University, USA. He is the author of Governing Narratives: Symbolic Politics and Policy Change (2012). His other books include Postmodern Public Policy and, with the late Charles Fox, Postmodern Public Administration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrative Politics in Public Policy
Book Subtitle: Legalizing Cannabis
Authors: Hugh T. Miller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45320-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45319-0Published: 30 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45322-0Published: 30 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45320-6Published: 29 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 169
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy