Hendrik Wagenaar

Meaning in Action

Interpretation and Dialogue in Policy Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

This accessible book gives academics, graduate students, and researchers a comprehensive overview of the vast, varied, and often confusing landscape of interpretive policy analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 179mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780765617897
• ISBN-10: 0765617897
• Artikelnr.: 33262484

Autorenporträt

Hendrik Wagenaar is an associate professor of public policy at the Department of Public Administration at Leiden University. He is also Research Director of the Centre for Governance Studies-Urban at the Hague Campus of Leiden University. He publishes in the area of urban governance, citizen participation, prostitution policy, administrative practice, complexity theory, and interpretive policy analysis. His recent publications include Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society (Cambridge University Press, 2003) (with Maarten Hajer). His article "Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation: How Citizens and Public Officials Harness the Complexities of Neighbourhood Decline" won the best article award in the 2007 volume of the American Review of Public Administration.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Policy Interpretations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Traditional Approach to Interpretation
Chapter 3 Interlude
Chapter 4 The Three Faces of Meaning
Part 2 Varieties of Interpretation in Policy Analysis
Chapter 5 Hermeneutic Meaning
Chapter 6 Discursive Meaning
Chapter 7 What Does It Mean to Say That Reality Is Socially Constructed?
Chapter 8 Dialogical Meaning
Part 3 Toward a Policy Analysisof Democracy
Chapter 9 Strategies of Interpretive Policy Research
Chapter 10 Toward an Interpretive Policy Analysis