caa a22 4500 46910175X CHVBK 20180323133046.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00138019 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00138019 Dobuzinskis Laurent Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, B.C., Canada aut Modernist and postmodernist metaphors of the policy process: Control and stability vs. chaos and reflexive understanding [Elektronische Daten] [Laurent Dobuzinskis] The complexity of the policy process is such that analysts often resort to metaphorical representations of its most salient aspects. Sometimes these metaphors are used deliberately but, in most cases, they are implicitly built into their theoretical frameworks. This article argues that commonly used metaphors based on the paradigmatic notion of ‘control' have ceased to be relevant to the analysis of contemporary policy dilemmas. Two new conceptions of the policy process have emerged from the new sciences of complexity. Both chaos theory and models based on the concept of ‘organizational closure' clearly reveal the self-organizing logic inherent in the problems confronting managers and policy-makers today. The main focus here is on examining the rationales for, and the potentials of, metaphors derived from these paradigmatic innovations - innovations which can be situated within an emerging postmodern culture insofar as they emphasize indeterminacy and the role played by social actors in constructing the social situations in which they find themselves. It is also argued, however, that within very specific contexts the notion of control may still be valid. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Policy Sciences Springer US 25/4(1992-11-01), 355-380 0032-2687 25:4<355 1992 25 11077 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138019 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138019 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dobuzinskis Laurent Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, B.C., Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Policy Sciences Springer US 25/4(1992-11-01), 355-380 0032-2687 25:4<355 1992 25 11077 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer