Impeaching” Research: Planning as Persuasive and Constitutive Discourse

James A. Throgmorton

doi:10.4324/9780203792506-17

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Impeaching” Research: Planning as Persuasive and Constitutive Discourse

James A. Throgmorton

Explorations in Planning Theory, pp.345-364

Routledge, 1

1996

DOI: 10.4324/9780203792506-17

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Abstract

Planners, as I have heard them speak, tend to describe rhetoric as “mere words” that simply add gloss to the important stuff, to the objective methods that we use to discover the “facts.” On other occasions, they describe rhetoric with suspicion as the use of seductive language to manipulate others into embracing a speaker's preferred values, beliefs, and behaviors. We are not sure, in effect, whether rhetoric is trivial or insidious.

Electric Power Planning

Task Force

Seductive Language

Wide Reflective Equilibrium

Survey Research

Persuasive Discourse

Consumer Groups

Constitutive Discourse

Bernstein's Question

Political Hack

Franchise Agreement

Postmodernist Planning Theory

Mayor's Task Force

Task Force Members

Mayor Harold Washington

Sole Provider

Chicago Businesses

Rhetorical Approach

Energy Task Force

Polished Researcher

Uninformed Questions

Beck Report

Beck Study

Ideal Speech Community

Electric Power System

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Title: Subtitle: Impeaching” Research: Planning as Persuasive and Constitutive Discourse
Creators: James A. Throgmorton
Contributors: Seymour J. Mandelbaum (Editor)
Luigi Mazza (Editor)
Robert W. Burchell (Editor)
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Explorations in Planning Theory, pp.345-364
Edition: 1
DOI: 10.4324/9780203792506-17
Publisher: Routledge
Alternative title: Impeaching” Research: Planning as Persuasive and Constitutive Discourse
Language: English
Date published: 1996
Academic Unit: School of Planning and Public Affairs
Record Identifier: 9984271966502771

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