Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

by Dvora Yanow

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761908277
• ISBN13: 9780761908272
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"