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Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis
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Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

  • Dvora Yanow - Wageningen University, Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Volume: 47
September 1999 | 120 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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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".

 
Underlying Assumptions of an Interpretive Approach
The Importance of Local Knowledge

 
 
Accessing Local Knowledge
Identifying Interpretive Communities and Policy Artifacts

 
 
Symbolic Language
 
Symbolic Objects
 
Symbolic Acts
 
Moving from Fieldwork and Deskwork to Textwork and Beyond

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