Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning

"This book has the potential to be important in the field, the leading statement for a movement. It does not call merely for words to balance the statistics, as in the tired debate between the humanities and the sciences. On the contrary, it argues that the words and the statistics are all part of the argument. The contributors apply theories of judgment ranging from classical rhetoric to modern theories of narrative to see the judging whole. The book proposes a new way to see old debates. . . . In short, the book is excellent."-Donald N. McCloskey, University of IowaFischer, Frank is the author of 'Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning' with ISBN 9780822313724 and ISBN 0822313723.