In this new and timely book in the Qualitative Research Methods series, author Dvora
Yanow outlines a more interpretive approach to policy analysis. She begins by describing …

How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question
that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration …

State governments in the United States have enthusiastically embraced the idea of
managing for results. This appears to represent a victory for New Public Management policy …

Accounting is a social practice: it should be evaluated in terms of its contribution to a notion
of social well-being. In order to do this, this book elaborates a critique of contemporary …

Since the appearance of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1970, Thomas Kuhn's
notion of a paradigm has been widely used in the social sciences even though its author …

California State University, Hayward uilt spaces are at once storytellers and part of the story
being told. As storytellers, they communicate values, beliefs, and feelings using …

This study explores the implications of different approaches to performance management for
inspection work and regulatory outcomes. It assesses to what extent variations in methods …

Policy analysis, both of a positivist and of an interpretivist bent, often focuses on the explicit,
formal language of legislation. But policy meanings are also communicated through agency …

Public administration writers, with some notable exceptions, generally have not paid a great
deal of attention to the history of ideas. However, public administration inquiry is profoundly …

Accountability is often presented as a means by which to achieve the collective and
individual goods of democracy, justice, administrative performance, and ethical conduct in …