ABSTRACT
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 |67 pages
Policy Interpretations
part |169 pages
Varieties of Interpretation in Policy Analysis
chapter |36 pages
Hermeneutic Meaning
chapter |70 pages
Discursive Meaning
chapter |18 pages
What Does It Mean to Say That Reality Is Socially Constructed?
chapter |43 pages
Dialogical Meaning
part |74 pages
Toward a Policy Analysis of Democracy