Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to Narrative Policy Analysis: Why It Is, What It Is, and How It Is 1
1. Deconstructing Budgets, Reconstructing Budgeting: Contemporary Literary Theory and Public Policy in Action 21
2. What Are Policy Narratives? Four Examples and Their Policymaking Implications 34
3. Stories, Nonstories, and Their Metanarrative in the 1980-1982 California Medfly Controversy 52
4. Constructing the Metanarrative in the Animal Rights and Experimentation Controversy 76
5. A Salt on the Land: Finding the Stories, Nonstories, and Metanarrative in the Controversy over Irrigation-Related Salinity and Toxicity in California's San Joaquin Valley with Janne Hukkinen and Gene Rochlin 86
6. Global Warming as Analytic Tip: Other Models of Narrative Analysis I 108
7. Intertextual Evaluation, Conflicting Evaluative Criteria, and the Controversy over Native American Burial Remains: Other Models of Narrative Analysis II 126
Conclusion: In Shackle's Tide-Race: The Ethics of Narrative Policy Analysis 147
Appendix A: Methods for Narrative Policy Analysis 155
Appendix B: Short Chronology of Medfly Controversy 163
Appendix C: Prevalence of Stories in the Medfly Controversy 165
Notes 167
Index 197