How Does A Policy Mean?: Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions

by Dvora Yanow

This book offers a new, interpretive way of understanding organizations and policy by analyzing how they convey meaning through symbolic language, objects, and act. Yanow argues that contested facts in policy often reflect different policy meanings, which are often known tacitly and communicated through the symbols used by an implementing organization.

Yanow argues that policy and organizational actions are often as expressive of group or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878406123
• ISBN13: 9780878406128
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher