A critical assessment of environmental policy studies - Towards a discursive analysis and critique of the ideology of policy

This paper seeks, from a critical evaluation of a range of environmental public policy studies, to question their most important theoretical assumptions, in order to propose and put the focus of discourse analysis and ideology critique of policies. Faced with perspectives that emphasize the manageme...

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Main Author: Jorge Gabriel Foa Torres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Pelotas 2011-12-01
Series:Pensamento Plural
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Online Access:http://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/pensamentoplural/article/viewFile/3629/2965
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Summary:This paper seeks, from a critical evaluation of a range of environmental public policy studies, to question their most important theoretical assumptions, in order to propose and put the focus of discourse analysis and ideology critique of policies. Faced with perspectives that emphasize the management function of the state, intends to focus on discursive and ideological conditions that make possible the stabilization and political transformation of those social practices related to the formulation and implementation of environmental policies.
ISSN:1982-2707
2238-4642