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Qualitative Research Methods #47: Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

by Dvora Yanow

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ISBN13: 9780761908272
ISBN10: 0761908277
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In this new and timely book in the Qualitative Research Methods series, author Dvora Yanow outlines a more interpretive approach to policy analysis. She begins by describing what interpretive approaches are, and what they can mean to policy analysis. Chapters on symbolic language, symbolic objects, and symbolic acts help shift the frame of reference from thinking about values as costs and benefits to thinking about them more as a set of meanings. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on how to move from fieldwork to deskwork and textwork.

Synopsis:

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.

Synopsis:

Presents a much needed guide to interpretative techniques and methods for policy research.

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ISBN:
9780761908272
Author:
Yanow, Dvora
Publisher:
Sage Publications (CA)
Location:
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Subject:
General
Subject:
Research
Subject:
Policy sciences
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-102).
Series:
Qualitative research methods ;
Series Volume:
v. 47
Publication Date:
January 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
103
Dimensions:
8.40x5.42x.27 in. .32 lbs.

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