Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested languages of Social Regulation. (book reviews)

Daniel Press, University of California at Santa Cruz

Political scientists in the field of policy studies have not been very receptive to the fashionable perspectives of postmodernism, sometimes with good reason. Postmodern philosophers and their adherents often write impenetrable and ponderous prose. Worse yet, as Bruce Williams and Albert Matheny point out in this excellent book," postmodernism's focus on concepts like discourse, texts, vocabularies, and so forth is sometimes taken to deny the existence of political, economic, and social structure" (p. 9). It takes a book ...

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