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Record W2006904020 · doi:10.1080/19460171003714914

Policy discourse and public spheres: the Habermas paradox

2010· article· en· W2006904020 on OpenAlexaff
Douglas Torgerson

Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Policy Studies · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCritical Theory and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsTrent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic discoursePublic sphereSociologyEpistemologyPolitical sciencePublic administrationPoliticsLawPhilosophy

Abstract

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Emerging attention to policy discourse and network models of governance render dubious Jürgen Habermas' claim that discourses do not govern. His position follows from a sharp delineation between civil society and the state and from a conceptual strategy, centering on a bifurcation of lifeworld and system, that tends to deflect attention from multiple, complex ways in which discourses connect public spheres with the policy process. Given his substantial influence on the emergence of critical policy studies, Habermas thus presents a paradox. Although his work has served to advance the critique of technocracy, his conceptual strategy tends to reinforce technocratic self-images in a way that would inhibit a move from monologue to dialogue in policy discourse. The potential for such a move suggests that the question to ask is not whether discourses govern, but which discourses are to be involved in governing.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.021
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.041
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.121

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0210.041
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.005
Science and technology studies0.0130.052
Scholarly communication0.0160.037
Open science0.0020.012
Research integrity0.0110.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.100
GPT teacher head0.486
Teacher spread0.386 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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