The FCC and the Politics of Cable TV Regulation, 1952-1980: Organizational Learning and Policy Development
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21. William H. Riker, “The Heresthetics of Constitution-Making: The Presidency of 1787, with Comments on Determinism and Rational Choice,” American Political Science Review 78 (1984): 1–16.
22. Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones, Agendas and Instability in American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
23. Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram, Policy Design for Democracy (Lawrence: University of Press of Kansas, 1997).
24. Frank Fischer, Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 41–44, 81–88.
25. Maarten A. Hajer, The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 59.
26. Ibid., 62; Donald Schon, “Generative Metaphor: A Perspective on Problem-Setting in Social Policy,” in Metaphor and Thought, 2nd ed., ed. Andrew Ortony, 137–163 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
27. Thomas Streeter, Selling the Air: Commercial Broadcasting in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 115; Herbert Gottweis, Governing Molecules: The Discursive Politics of Genetic Engineering in Europe and the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), 33–36.
28. See particularly Hajer, Politics of Environmental Discourse; Streeter, Selling the Air; Gottweis, Governing Molecules. See also Karen T. Litfin, Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994); Bruce A. Williams and Albert R. Matheny, Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995).
29. Streeter, “The Cable Fable.”
30. Parsons, “Defining Cable Television.”
31. More recent post-positivist writings have discussed how broad “meta-narratives” may shape policy deliberations at any given moment. Indeed, in later work, Streeter demonstrated how a broad meta-narrative known as “corporate liberalism” shaped the development of US communications policy during the early 20th century.