Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis
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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.
Contents
Underlying Assumptions of an Interpretive Approach
- The Importance of Local Knowledge
Accessing Local Knowledge
- Identifying Interpretive Communities and Policy Artifacts
Symbolic Language
Symbolic Language
Symbolic Objects
Symbolic Objects
Symbolic Acts
Symbolic Acts
Moving from Fieldwork and Deskwork to Textwork and Beyond
Moving from Fieldwork and Deskwork to Textwork and Beyond
Description
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.
Contents
Underlying Assumptions of an Interpretive Approach
- The Importance of Local Knowledge
Accessing Local Knowledge
- Identifying Interpretive Communities and Policy Artifacts
Symbolic Language
Symbolic Language
Symbolic Objects
Symbolic Objects
Symbolic Acts
Symbolic Acts
Moving from Fieldwork and Deskwork to Textwork and Beyond
Moving from Fieldwork and Deskwork to Textwork and Beyond
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August 1999 | 120 pages | Sage US
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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.
Table Of Contents:
- 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