Meaning in action : interpretation and dialogue in policy analysis
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Meaning in action : interpretation and dialogue in policy analysis
M.E. Sharpe, c2011
- : hardcover
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Table of Contents
- 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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