Summary
Contents
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
Underlying Assumptions of an Interpretive Approach: The Importance of Local Knowledge
What is policy analysis? What does a policy analyst do? Where is she employed?
Common answers to these questions would be that a policy analyst researches a policy issue to advise a policymaker on some decision ...