Contesting Airport Expansion
Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures
By Steven Griggs and David Howarth
Published
Mar 1, 2023Page count
136 pagesISBN
978-1447344285Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Mar 1, 2023Page count
136 pagesISBN
978-1447344308Dimensions
Imprint
Policy Press
Contesting Airport Expansion
This book focuses on airport expansion and aviation as a wicked policy problem to illuminate wider theoretical debates and conceptualisations about policy analysis and social and political theory. It examines the authoritative role of expert commissions in seeking to settle ongoing controversies and discusses the concept of depoliticisation in debates about current and future policy analysis. The authors construct and employ an innovative form of poststructuralist policy analysis, which is used to delineate the rival rhetorical and discursive strategies articulated by the coalitions seeking to shape public policy.
Stephen Griggs is Professor of Public Policy, School of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University.
David Howarth is Professor of Politics, Department of Government at the University of Essex.
Introduction: Problematising the Dilemmas of UK Airport Expansion: Puzzles and Research Strategies
Depoliticisation, Discourse and Policy Hegemony
Governing by Numbers: Fantasies of Forecasting, Predict and Provide, and the Technologies of Government
The Anatomy of an Expert Commission: Howard Davies, Rhetorical Reframing and the Performance of Leadership
Repoliticising Aviation Policy: Law, Planning and Persistent Activism
Extreme Turbulence: Problematisations, Multiple Crises and New Demands
‘What if…?’ A Manifesto for the Green Transformation of Aviation
Conclusion: Staying Grounded
