CiNii Books - Meaning in action : interpretation and dialogue in policy analysis

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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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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