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Discourse, subjectivity and the policy realm : reconceptualising policy workers as located subjects. / Reconceptualising policy workers as located subjects.

Title page, table of contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library. / This thesis identifies two hegemonic discourses circulating within and around the policy realm - the logic of agency and the logic of rationality. Combined, these logics constitute policy workers as ’rational agents’: people who believe they can (logic of agency) objectively identify and solve policy problems (logic of rationality). These discourses affect the ways in which policy workers perform their work, impacting upon substantive policy outcomes. --p. v. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1282200 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, 2007

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/280393
Date January 2007
CreatorsGill, Zoë Margaret Alice
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
Detected LanguageEnglish

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