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Conducting interpretive policy analysis / Dvora Yanow.

Title
Conducting interpretive policy analysis / Dvora Yanow.
Author
Yanow, Dvora
Publication
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2000.

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Description
xi, 103 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
This is a guide to interpretative techniques and methods for policy research. The author describes what interpretative approaches are and what they can mean to policy analysis, and then shifts the frame of reference from thinking about values as costs and benefits to thinking about them more as a set of meanings.
Series Statement
Qualitative research methods ; v. 47
Uniform Title
Qualitative research methods v. 47.
Subject
  • Policy sciences
  • Policy Making
  • Qualitative Research
  • Research Design
  • Social Sciences > methods
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-102).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Underlying Assumptions of an Interpretive Approach: The Importance of Local Knowledge -- Interpretive Presuppositions -- Communities of Meaning and Policy Frames: The Architecture of Policy Arguments -- Symbolic Relationships and Tacit Knowledge -- Texts, "Text Analogues," and Interpretive Communities -- Steps to an Interpretive Policy Analysis: Mapping Issue Architecture -- Accessing Local Knowledge: Identifying Interpretive Communities and Policy Artifacts -- Proceeding -- Identifying Interpretive Communities in the Field: An Example -- Summary: Identifying Communities; Sources of Data -- Symbolic Language -- Metaphor Analysis -- Category Analysis -- Narrative Analysis -- Symbolic Objects -- Built Spaces and Their "Props" -- Programs -- Symbolic Acts -- Ritual Analysis -- Myth Analysis -- Moving From Fieldwork and Deskwork to Textwork and Beyond -- Textwork as World-Making -- Issues in the Practice and Teaching of Interpretive Analysis.
ISBN
  • 0761908269
  • 0761908277
LCCN
^^^99006588^
OCLC
41528353
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library