The purpose of this paper is to propose that mixed methods research is complementary to
traditional qualitative or quantitative research and that pragmatism is an attractive …

Policy analysis provides a way for understanding how and why governments enact certain
policies, and their effects. Public health policy research is limited and lacks theoretical …

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) holds much promise for educational research.
Researchers using CDA can describe, interpret, and explain the relationships among …

In his 1993 book Voices of decline, Robert Beauregard argued that urban theory had failed
to confront the issue of representation in any meaningful way. He proclaimed (p. xi),'if urban …

What are the practices of policy making? In this paper, we seek to identify and understand
them by attending to one of the principal artefacts–the document–through which they are …

This paper fills a gap in the literature surrounding the social and economic consequences of
the rapid and widespread growth of home ownership in Great Britain. Hitherto, the debate …

Public encounters, face‐to‐face contact between public professionals and citizens, was first
identified as a key issue in public administration 80 years ago, but never developed into a …

In recent years, discourse analysis has been deployed by academics as a methodology to
understand the urban policy implementation process, in particular, the ways in which key …

Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively
and accessible second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social …

The article sets out to demonstrate the value of discourse theory for studying nationalism as
an ideology. It looks at the debate surrounding the concept of discourse and its manifold …