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This ebook deals a brand new, interpretive approach of knowing corporations and coverage by way of examining how they impart that means via symbolic language, gadgets, and acts. Dvora Yanow argues that contested proof in coverage frequently mirror assorted coverage meanings, that are frequently expressed tacitly throughout the symbols use by means of an imposing association. Yanow's interpretation of the coverage procedure extends past the sector of public coverage to check the way in which agencies identify identification and a picture for themselves, the general public, and the area. Her research might be of worth to these fascinated about political technology, public management, and organizational experiences.
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M. as they leave. The embeddedness of organizations in societal contexts is clearly evident for public sector agencies implementing public policies, as it is for departments in private companies charged with implementing federal policy (such as human resource management departments charged with affirmative action/EEO or Americans with Disabilities Act policies). Certainly, general societal values concerning work, sexuality, emotionality, and individual and social responsibility influence how these are enacted in all workplaces.
In this manner, this knower would discover facts about the subject of study, facts that could be generalized to other similar subjects and that could be distinguished from values. This would move the explanation of human behavior beyond the metaphysical realm into the arena of scientific progress. 7 Interpretive theories have challenged the notion that vengeance and apples could be known in the same way. An interpretive approach to the human, or social, world shifts the focus from discovering a set of universal laws about objective, sense-based facts to the human capacity for making and communicating meaning.
95-42087 Page v We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. S. Eliot and renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv 1 Policy Implementation and Organizational Actions: Interpretations and Texts 1 What is Interpretive Analysis? 4 Symbolic Relationships: Language, Objects, and Acts as Artifacts 9 Interpreting Policies: Artifacts and Policy Meanings 13 Identity Stories: Public Policies as Texts, Clients and Others as Readers 22 Links with Postmodern and Other Theories of Multivocality 27 How did One Policy Mean?