Recalling IBIS: Can Argumentation be Disciplined?

摘要

Issue-based information systems (IBIS) were conceived in the early 1970s as a tool that lent discipline to a planning process in a public context marked by argumentation. Now, years later, I revisit IBIS and its philosophy and history and seek insight into its lessons. I find that whether argumentation can be disciplined as with IBIS is at its heart a never-ending story of the conflict between rationality and politics.