Key Publications and Readings

Domain-Defining Monographs and Edited Volumes

• Fischer, F., Forester, J. (1993). The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning. Duke University Press.
• Yanow, D. (1996). How Does a Policy Mean? Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions. Georgetown University Press.
• Fischer, F. (2003). Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices. Oxford University Press.
• Hajer, M., Wagenaar, H. (2003). Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society. Cambridge University Press.
• Glynos, J., Howarth, D. (2007). Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory. Routledge.
• Bacchi, C. (2009). Analysing Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to Be? Pearson Education.
• Sum, N.-L., Jessop, B. (2013). Towards a Cultural Political Economy: Putting Culture in Its Place in Political Economy. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Bartels, K.P.R., Wittmayer, J.M. (Eds.) (2018). Action Research in Policy Analysis: Critical and Relational Approaches to Sustainability Transitions. Routledge.

Handbooks

• Fischer, F., Torgerson, D., Durnová, A., Orsini, M. (Eds.) (2015). Handbook of Critical Policy Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Bevir, M., Rhodes, R.A. (2016). Rethinking Governance: Ruling, Rationalities and Resistance. Routledge.
• Colebatch, H.K. (2018). Handbook on Policy, Process and Governing. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Scherrer, C., Garcia, A., Wullweber, J. (Eds.) (2023). Handbook on Critical Political Economy and Public Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Methods Books

• Yanow, D. (2000). Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis. Sage.
• Wagenaar, H. (2014). Meaning in Action: Interpretation and Dialogue in Policy Analysis. Routledge.
• Schwartz-Shea, P., Yanow, D. (2013). Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes. Routledge.
• Yanow, D., Schwartz-Shea, P. (2015). Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. Routledge.
• Bacchi, C., Goodwin, S. (2016). Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Curato, N., Dryzek, J.S., Ercan, S.A., Hendriks, C.M., Niemeyer, S. (2022). Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy. Routledge.

Special issues and Articles

• Bartels, K.P.R., Wittmayer, J.M. (Eds.) (2014). “Introduction to Symposium: Usable Knowledge in Practice. What Action Research Has to Offer to Critical Policy Studies,” Critical Policy Studies, 8(4), 397-406.
• Koen P.R. Bartels, Hendrik Wagenaar, Ya Li (2020). “Introduction: Towards Deliberative Policy Analysis 2.0,” Policy Studies, 41(4), 295-306.
• Li, Y., Wagenaar, H. (2019). “Revisiting Deliberative Policy Analysis.” Policy Studies, 40(5), 427-436.
• Boossabong, P. (2024). “Mapping Networks of Critical Policy Studies,” Critical Policy Studies.

Series

• Advances in Critical Policy Studies Series
  Edited by Jennifer Dodge, Frank Fischer, and Holger Straßheim, this series features books advancing critical policy analysis.
• Handbooks of Research on Public Policy Series
  Edited by Frank Fischer, this series offers comprehensive overviews of key topics in public policy research.
• Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods
  Edited by Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, this series provides a comprehensive exploration of interpretive methodologies, highlighting their distinctiveness from positivist approaches and showcasing their application across various research contexts and social science disciplines.