Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis,9780761908272

Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

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ISBN13: 9780761908272
ISBN10: 0761908277
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-08-05
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary

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".

Author Biography

Dvora Yanow is Professor in the Department of Public Administration at California State University, Hayward.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction v
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Underlying Assumptions of an Interpretive Approach: The Importance of Local Knowledge
1(25)
Interpretive Presuppositions
5(5)
Communities of Meaning and Policy Frames: The Architecture of Policy Arguments
10(4)
Symbolic Relationships and Tacit Knowledge
14(3)
Texts, ``Text Analogues,'' and Interpretive Communities
17(3)
Steps to an Interpretive Policy Analysis: Mapping Issue Architecture
20(2)
Summary
22(4)
Accessing Local Knowledge: Identifying Interpretive Communities and Policy Artifacts
26(15)
Proceeding
31(2)
Identifying Interpretive Communities in the Field: An Example
33(4)
Summary: Identifying Communities; Sources of Data
37(4)
Symbolic Language
41(21)
Metaphor Analysis
41(7)
Category Analysis
48(9)
Narrative Analysis
57(5)
Symbolic Objects
62(12)
Built Spaces and Their ``Props''
63(6)
Programs
69(3)
Summary
72(2)
Symbolic Acts
74(10)
Ritual Analysis
77(3)
Myth Analysis
80(4)
Moving From Fieldwork and Deskwork to Textwork and Beyond
84(10)
Textwork as World-Making
86(2)
Issues in the Practice and Teaching of Interpretive Analysis
88(6)
References 94(9)
About the Author 103

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