Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book presents a much needed guide to interpretative techniques and methods for policy research. The author begins by describing what interpretative approaches are and what they can mean to policy analysis. The author shifts the frame of reference from thinking about values as costs and benefits to thinking about them more as a set of meanings. The book concludes with a chapter on how to move from "fieldwork to deskwork to textwork". Zusammenfassung Presents a guide to interpretative techniques and methods for policy research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Underlying Assumptions of an Interpretive Approach The Importance of Local Knowledge Accessing Local Knowledge Identifying Interpretive Communities and Policy Artifacts Symbolic Language Symbolic Objects Symbolic Acts Moving from Fieldwork and Deskwork to Textwork and Beyond

Product details

• Authors: Dvora Yanow
• Assisted by: Dvora Yanow (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.1999
• EAN: 9780761908272
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0827-2
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Qualitative Research Methods; Qualitative Research Methods
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries