Frank FISCHER, Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy: Interpreting the Arguments

Government efforts to confront complex crises, such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, have elicited populist antipathy toward scientific and technical input in policymaking. These affronts to expertise and knowledge institutions have congealed into a ‘post-truth’ rhetoric that reflects d...

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Autor principal: Hartley, Kris
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: International Review of Public Policy 2023
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:Government efforts to confront complex crises, such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, have elicited populist antipathy toward scientific and technical input in policymaking. These affronts to expertise and knowledge institutions have congealed into a ‘post-truth’ rhetoric that reflects deep political rifts concerning state-society relations. In his book Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy: Interpreting the Arguments, Frank Fischer (2021) brings interpretive policy analysis to be...