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Critical Policy Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Social Policy and Reform Studies, Public Policy and Administration Research, Policy Transfer and Learning.
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago, T&F) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Critical Policy Studies 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Social Policy and Reform Studies Public Policy and Administration Research Policy Transfer and Learning Political and Economic history of UK and US Social Media and Politics |
| ISSN | 1946-0171 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.82 |
| h-index | 61 |
| i10-index | 331 |
| Total citations | 15,575 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Vienna |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com |
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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 ‘discursive turn’ in policy studies and that have been discussed in the journal: cultural political economy (CPE), and poststructuralist discourse analysis (PDA). I suggest that there are significant differences…
This article introduces cultural political economy as a distinctive approach in the social sciences, including policy studies. The version presented here combines critical semiotic analysis and critical political economy. It grounds its approach to both in the practical necessities of complexity reduction and the role of meaning-making and structuration in turning unstructured into structured complexity…
While democratic reforms of electoral institutions continue, their capacities for deepening democracy are limited by the large, pluralized, complex, and territorial political units through which they work. Much of the institutional innovation in democracy has shifted elsewhere – into ‘governance’, the development and administration of public policy. The democratic potentials of governance reside in the…
In this article, I argue that power and hegemony are vital for critically explaining a range of policymaking practices. Developing the basic assumptions of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's poststructuralist discourse theory, in which discourse is understood as an articulatory practice, I first elaborate the concept of power in relation to the work of Michel…
This article maps out the field of study known as discursive institutionalism while exploring the range of ways in which scholars in this field explain the dynamics of change (and continuity). In so doing, it examines theoretical issues related to the timing of change, including crisis-driven or incremental approaches to change in policy, programmatic, and…
