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Record W2273822766 · doi:10.1080/19460171.2007.9518506

Policy discourse as dialogue: Emergent publics and the reflexive turn

2007· article· en· W2273822766 on OpenAlexaff
Doug Torgerson

Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Policy Analysis · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMarxism and Critical Theory
Canadian institutionsTrent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDialogical selfConceptualizationPerformative utteranceSociologyReflexivityContext (archaeology)PoliticsPublicsEpistemologyDiscourse analysisLinguisticsPolitical scienceSocial scienceLawPhilosophy

Abstract

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The apolitical image of policy discourse has typically been reinforced by a peculiar feature of the discourse itself: its failure to clearly recognize itself as a form of discourse. Countering this technocratic image, reflexive interpretations of policy discourse— influenced by figures such as Habermas and Toucault—focus attention on its discursive aspects and thus help to expose its political character in the context of emergent publics. This political connection is examined here in terms of a contrast, following Bakhtin, between monologue and dialogue. A dialogical model of policy discourse is proposed. The contrast between monologue and dialogue is pursued through a three‐dimensional conception of politics that, both drawing upon and departing from Arendt, is able to clarify three corresponding dimensions of policy discourse: functional, constitutive, and performative. A dialogical, three‐dimensional conceptualization offers a way to understand how relationships between emergent publics and policy discourse create the potential for a reorientation of practice.

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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)0.027
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.027
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 score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.143

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0270.027
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0100.082
Scholarly communication0.0240.020
Open science0.0020.011
Research integrity0.0060.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.031
GPT teacher head0.365
Teacher spread0.335 · 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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Published2007
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