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Article: Policy analysis postmodernized: some political and pedagogical ramifications.
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- Policy Studies Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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As each field of academic inquiry is duly transformed by the postmodern impulse, the professional applications of intellectual disciplines have been re-evaluated and revamped. The most obvious example is the Critical Legal Studies movement that has been generating so much energy and controversy in law schools across the country, while the practices of architecture, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious and cultural studies, and even natural science and medicine have all been deconstructed by unsettling postmodern perspectives. My purpose here is to examine the implications of postmodern insights for the practice and teaching of policy analysis, which so far ...