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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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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Hendrik Wagenaar is an associate professor of public policy at the Department of Public Administration at Leiden University. He is also Research Director of the Centre for Governance Studies-Urban at the Hague Campus of Leiden University. He publishes in the area of urban governance, citizen participation, prostitution policy, administrative practice, complexity theory, and interpretive policy analysis. His recent publications include Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society (Cambridge University Press, 2003) (with Maarten Hajer). His article “Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation: How Citizens and Public Officials Harness the Complexities of Neighbourhood Decline” won the best article award in the 2007 volume of the American Review of Public Administration.