This book in the QRM series is designed for a wide variety of research methods courses
taught in various departments. It will be of most interest to those in Political Science
and Public Administration departments, but will also be of interest to researchers in
Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Education departments, among others. The book
will fill a gap in the traditional policy analysis coverage, which is usually heavily
quantitative. It will also fill a gap in the QRM series in covering the discipline of
political science, which is warming to qualitative methodology... slowly.
There has been much in the journal literature in the past 15 years calling for more
interpretive approaches to the study of public policy; Yanow has been in the middle of it.
She is well published and has worked with Van Maanen in the past.
Paperback
103 pages