Background Community engagement has been advanced as a promising way of improving
health and reducing health inequalities; however, the approach is not yet supported by a …

The claim that evidence-based policy (EBP) produces better outcomes has gained
increasing support over the last three decades. Knowledge brokering (KB) is seen as a way …

Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic
politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic …

In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative
approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of …

This article presents the contribution that critical discourse analysis (CDA) can make to
critical policy studies through comparison with two other approaches which also advocate a …

This book articulates the key theoretical assumptions of poststructuralism, but also probes its
limits, evaluates rival approaches and elaborates new concepts. Building on the work of …

This chapter considers “political discourse” as the linguistically grounded analysis of political
language. While there are many other areas that focus on political discourse, for …

Rhetoric is the art of speech and persuasion, the study of argument and, in Classical times,
an essential component in the education of the citizen. For rhetoricians, politics is a skill to …

This article seeks to gauge the nature, distinctiveness and significance of the 'interpretivist
turn'in public administration and political science more broadly. It considers the various …

Academics, policy makers and practitioners often stress the need for definition to inform
analysis and policy. This paper explores recent debate on the identification of a third sector …