Narrative policy analysis: theory and practice

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Narrative Policy Analysis: Why It Is, What It Is, and How It Is -- 1 Deconstructing Budgets, Reconstructing Budgeting: Contemporary Literary Theory and Public Policy in Action -- 2 What Are Policy Narratives? Four Examples and Their Policymaking Implications -- 3 Stories, Nonstories, and Their Metanarrative in the 1980-1982 California Medfly Controversy -- 4 Constructing the Metanarrative in the Animal Rights and Experimentation Controversy -- 5 A Salt on the Land: Finding the Stories, Nonstories, and Metanarrative in the Controversy over Irrigation-Related Salinity and Toxicity in California's San Joaquin Valley with Ianne Hukkinen and Gene Rochlin -- 6 Global Warming as Analytic Tip: Other Models of Narrative Analysis I -- 7 Intertextual Evaluation, Conflicting Evaluative Criteria, and the Controversy over Native American Burial Remains: Other Models of Narrative Analysis II -- Conclusion In Shackle's Tide-Race: The Ethics of Narrative Policy Analysis -- Appendix A Methods for Narrative Policy Analysis -- AppendixB Short Chronology of Medfly Controversy -- AppendixC Prevalence of Stories in the Medfly Controversy -- Notes -- Index

Narrative Policy Analysis presents a powerful and original application of contemporary literary theory and policy analysis to many of today's most urgent public policy issues. Emery Roe demonstrates across a wide array of case studies that structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative are exceptionally useful in evaluating difficult policy problems, understanding their implications, and in making effective policy recommendations. Assuming no prior knowledge of literary theory, Roe introduces the theoretical concepts and terminology from literary analysis through an examination of t