Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

In this new and timely book in the Qualitative Research Methods series, author Dvora Yanow outlines a more interpretive approach to policy analysis. She begins by describing what interpretive approaches are, and what they can mean to policy analysis. Chapters on symbolic language, symbolic objects, and symbolic acts help shift the frame of reference from thinking about values as costs and benefits to thinking about them more as a set of meanings. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on how to move from fieldwork to deskwork and textwork.

Author: Dvora Yanow
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 08/05/1999
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.42w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9780761908272

About the Author
Yanow, Dvora: - I am interested in general in the communication of meaning in organizational and policy settings. Present research includes comparative immigrant and integration policies, Dutch race-ethnic category-making, reflective practice and practice studies, science museums and the idea of ′science,′ and US Institutional Review Board and other research regulatory policies and practices.