Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

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SAGE Publications, Aug 5, 1999 - Social Science - 120 pages

This book in the QRM series is designed for a wide variety of research methods courses taught in various departments. It will be of most interest to those in Public Policy, Political Science, and Public Administration departments, but will also be of interest to researchers in Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Education departments, among others. The book fills a gap in the traditional policy analysis coverage, which is usually heavily quantitative. It will also fill a gap in the QRM series in covering the discipline of political science, which is warming to qualitative methodology...slowly.

There has been much in the journal literature in the past 15 years calling for more interpretive approaches to the study of public policy; Yanow has been in the middle of it.

 

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Contents

Preface vii
1
Identifying Interpretive
26
Symbolic Language
41
Symbolic Objects
62
Symbolic Acts
74
Moving From Fieldwork
84
References
94
About the Author
103
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About the author (1999)

I am interested in general in the communication of meaning in organizational and policy settings. Present research includes comparative immigrant and integration policies, Dutch race-ethnic category-making, reflective practice and practice studies, science museums and the idea of 'science,' and US Institutional Review Board and other research regulatory policies and practices.

Bibliographic information

TitleConducting Interpretive Policy Analysis
Qualitative Research Methods
AuthorDvora Yanow
PublisherSAGE Publications, 1999
ISBN1506319734, 9781506319735
Length120 pages
Subjects › 

Political Science / General
Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration
Reference / Research
Social Science / Research
  
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