This accessible book gives academics, graduate students, and researchers a comprehensive overview of the vast, varied, and often confusing landscape of interpretive policy analysis. It is both theoretically informed and clear and jargon-free as it discusses the specific strengths and weaknesses of different interpretive approaches--all with a practical orientation towards doing policy analysis
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This accessible book gives academics, graduate students, and researchers a comprehensive overview of the vast, varied, and often confusing landscape of interpretive policy analysis.
Part 1 Policy Interpretations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Traditional Approach to Interpretation; Chapter 3 Interlude; Chapter 4 The Three Faces of Meaning; Part 2 Varieties of Interpretation in Policy Analysis; Chapter 5 Hermeneutic Meaning; Chapter 6 Discursive Meaning; Chapter 7 What Does It Mean to Say That Reality Is Socially Constructed?; Chapter 8 Dialogical Meaning; Part 3 Toward a Policy Analysisof Democracy; Chapter 9 Strategies of Interpretive Policy Research; Chapter 10 Toward an Interpretive Policy Analysis;
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780765617880
Publisert
2011-05-15
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd; Routledge
Vekt
793 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
336
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