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Conducting interpretive policy analysis / Dvora Yanow. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2000.
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DeGeorge, Barry. Interpreting crisis: A retrospective analysis. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1987.
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Nicola, Anderson, ed. Estimating and interpreting the yield curve. Chichester, Eng: Wiley, 1996.
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Interpreting NAFTA: The science and art of political analysis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
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Yanow, Dvora. Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis. SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 1999.
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Yanow, Dvora. Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis (Qualitative Research Methods). Sage Publications, Inc, 1999.
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Yanow, Dvora. Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis (Qualitative Research Methods). Sage Publications, Inc, 1999.
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Smith, Richard, and R. A. Smith. The Inequalities Debate: An Interpretive Essay (Policy Development and Analysis). Hyperion Books, 1985.
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Making services work for whom?: Interpretive analysis of public policy towards families with children with developmental disabilities in Ontario. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 2003.
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Walker, Stephen G., and Mark Schafer. Operational Code Theory: Beliefs and Foreign Policy Decisions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.411.
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The process of foreign policy decision making is influenced in large part by beliefs, along with the strategic interaction between actors engendered by their decisions and the resulting political outcomes. In this context, beliefs encompass three kinds of effects: the mirroring effects associated with the decision making situation, the steering effects that arise from this situation, and the learning effects of feedback. These effects are modeled using operational code analysis, although “operational code theory” more accurately describes an alliance of attribution and schema theories from psychology and game theory from economics applied to the domain of politics. This “theory complex” specifies belief-based solutions to the puzzles posed by diagnostic, decision making, and learning processes in world politics. The major social and intellectual dimensions of operational code theory can be traced to Nathan Leites’s seminal research on the Bolshevik operational code, The Operational Code of the Politburo. In the last half of the twentieth century, applications of operational code analysis have emphasized different cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms as intellectual dimensions in explaining foreign policy decisions. The literature on operational code theory may be divided into four general waves of research: idiographic-interpretive studies, nomothetic-typological studies, quantitative-statistical studies, and formal modeling studies. The present trajectory of studies on operational code points to a number of important trends that straddle political psychology and game theory. For example, the psychological processes of mirroring, steering, and learning associated with operational code analysis have the potential to enrich our understanding of game-theoretic models of strategic interaction.
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Echeverri-Gent, John, and Kamal Sadiq, eds. Interpreting Politics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125011.001.0001.
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In careers that spanned six decades, Padma Bhushan award winners Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph elaborated seminal insights about Indian politics. The Rudolphs’ rigorous and remarkably empathetic study of India coupled with their extensive reading of social science theory served as the basis for their development of a broader interpretive mode of political analysis centered on the complex processes by which people construct meaning and motivation for political action. The eminent contributors to this volume pay tribute to the Rudolphs’ scholarship by examining its contributions to their own cutting-edge research as they advance the frontiers of the study of Indian politics and social science writ large. Their engaging essays analyze vital topics including how ‘situated knowledge’ shapes discourse, moral imagination, political strategies, and institutional change. They apply this interpretive approach to Indian politics to illuminate how the interaction of caste, class, gender, and religion has structured political mobilization, how changing social and political relations have affected education policy and civil–military relations, and how political leadership is forging the future of Indian politics.
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Barnhurst, Kevin G. Broadcast News Became Less Episodic. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040184.003.0017.
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This chapter considers the provision of context and analysis in television news. Americans have tended to be realist, viewing problems as “concrete rather than abstract” and are relying more on television for news, which simplifies “complex issues to the level of anecdotal evidence.” However, episodic newscasts may lead audiences to ignore the modern big picture of social conditions and public policy behind problems. For a century the U.S. population has scored poorly on standard memory tests of political knowledge. An uninformed audience may need more explanations, but did the interpretive turn fail to spread to television as critics suggest? It is shown that television news adopted the wider modern perspectives that critics demanded. Since the 1960s, newscasters have expanded interpretation on national evening news. After beating newspapers to the newest stories, network newscasts themselves began shifting into modern interpretive styles instead of sticking with realist, episodic coverage.
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Clift, Ben. The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813088.001.0001.
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The book provides a path-breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, the Fund’s role within the politics of austerity, and how it worked to shape advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone crisis. The book aligns with and advances cutting-edge ideational scholarship in international political economy (IPE) and comparative political economy (CPE) to build an innovative theorizing of how ideational change operates in international organizations (IOs). The construction of economic policy knowledge is understood here as a social process, wherein the IMF works to impress its interpretation of sound policy upon member countries through surveillance and other interactions. It updates and refines our understanding of how the IMF seeks to wield ideational power by analysing the Fund’s post-crash ability to influence what constitutes legitimate knowledge, and their ability to fix meanings attached to economic policies. This book is interested in the politics of economic ideas, focused on the assumptive foundations of different approaches to economic policy, and how the interpretive framework through which authoritative voices evaluate economic policy is an important site of power in world politics. After establishing the internal conditions of possibility for new fiscal policy thinking to emerge and prevail, detailed case studies of IMF interactions with the UK and French governments during the Great Recession drill down into how the Fund seeks to shape the policy possibilities of advanced economy policymakers and account for the scope and limits of Fund influence.
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Murphy, Patrick D. Earth Discourses. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041037.003.0002.
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This chapter draws from the interpretive school of environmental policy analysis, especially John S. Dryzek’s The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses (Oxford, 2005), to provide an overview of the environmental discourses that have historically held cultural currency around the world. It summarizes the ontological foundations of key and competing environmental discourses: the Limits discourse (Survivalism), the Promethean discourse, Democratic Pragmatism, Ecological Modernization, Green Radicalism (Eco-feminism, Environmental Justice) and Sustainable Development. Of primary interest in this overview is how the emergence of what Dryzek calls the “Promethean discourse,” an environmental discourse tied to abundance, limited government, and innovation, has been conversely related to the “Limits discourse,” which is grounded in the construct of scarcity and the “commons” and “tipping point” metaphors, and how the debate between the two has spawned a range of other, alternative environmental discourses.
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Popper, Nicholas. European Historiography in English Political Culture. Edited by Malcolm Smuts. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660841.013.14.
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Historical study flourished in early modern Europe, as scholars and counselors adapted venerable genres and modes of analysis and devised new methods and techniques. Their works intended to advance political ends by augmenting their readers’ strategic acumen, familiarizing them with recent events, or deciphering broad providential patterns at work. Early modern England witnessed the importation of every significant form of historical work produced in this period, and these methods came to occupy a central, if variegated, place in its political culture. Above all, the interpretive model of ‘politic history’ and the techniques of continental antiquarianism became powerful ways to intervene in English politics, and editions, translations, and adaptations were disseminated by those both endorsing and challenging royal policy. At the same time, other readers plumbed their histories for empirical information, hoping that their mastery of foreign lands would earn them advancement within the regime.
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Metzger, Melanie, and Cynthia Roy. Sociolinguistic Studies of Signed Language Interpreting. Edited by Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199744084.013.0036.
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Sociolinguistic processes are inherent in the practice of interpretation. Interpreters, within seconds, receive, interpret, and reconstruct utterances between two languages, using their linguistic, social and cultural, or sociolinguistic, knowledge to create a successful, communicative exchange. This chapter describes some major and minor sociolinguistic studies of interpretation with the underlying assumption that interpretation itself constitutes a sociolinguistic activity from the moment an assignment is accepted, including the products and processes inherent to the task, reflecting variously issues of bilingualism or multilingualism, language contact, variation, language policy and planning, language attitudes, and, of course, discourse analysis.
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Yancy, Nina M. How the Color Line Bends. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197599426.001.0001.
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How the Color Line Bends explores the connection between prejudice and place in modern America. Existing scholarship suggests that living near Black Americans presents a "threat" to White Americans, which in turn influences White opinions on policies related to race. This book rejects the tendency to position White people as tacit victims and Black people as threatening, instead recasting White Americans as active viewers of their surroundings. This reframing brings a critical focus on power and positionality to scholarship on racial threat, and challenges the neutrality typically assigned to the White perspective. The book first presents ethnographic analysis of Louisiana residents caught in a racialized debate over incorporating a new city in the Baton Rouge area, using interpretive methods to show how race colors White residents' perspective on local geography and politics. Then, the book applies its conceptualization of a White perspective to the quantitative study of prejudice and place, revisiting the classic racialized policy issues of welfare and affirmative action. These analyses emphasize White Americans' diverse beliefs and surroundings but also their common structural position, and how an interest in defending that position shapes the White perspective. This emphasis supports new empirical insights on the behavior of racially tolerant White people, perceptions of the Black middle class, and the consequences of segregation for racial politics. The book also includes discussion of the author's own positionality as a Black woman researcher in conversation with White interview subjects, and the risks of Whiteness studies that leave Black people invisible.
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DeGeorge, Barry. Interpreting Crisis: A Retrospective Analysis of the American News Media & the Energy Crisis of 1973-74. Coronet Books, 1987.
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Bhattacharya, Sanjoy. Global and Local Histories of Medicine: Interpretative Challenges and Future Possibilities. Edited by Mark Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0008.
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This article attempts to develop a more inclusive set of conceptual frameworks for global histories of health and medicine. It is based on the assessment of a very well known global story: the programme to eradicate smallpox. It is a case study worthy of analysis because its histories have been particularly prone to narrow notions of globality. An effort is made in this article to study a variety of voices and to examine how a diversity of people carried out intricate negotiations with different political and social constituencies and helped to expunge variola. The approach here, which is also recommended as a mode of research, is to go behind the scenes to study views expressed in private, and then assess how the resulting convictions, discussions, and debates impacted on the unfolding of policy.
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Dwyer, Peter, ed. Dealing with Welfare Conditionality. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447341826.001.0001.
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This edited collection considers how conditional welfare policies and services are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users across a range of UK policy domains including social security, homelessness, migration and criminal justice. The book showcases the insights and findings of a series of distinct, independent studies undertaken by early career researchers associated with the ESRC funded Welfare Conditionality project. Each chapter presents a new empirical analysis of data generated in fieldwork conducted with practitioners charged with interpreting and delivering policy, and welfare service users who are at the sharp end of welfare services shaped by behavioural conditionality.
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Clancier, Philippe. The Polis of Babylon. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805663.003.0004.
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This chapter analyses the polticial and administrative changes in the city of Babylon during the third and second centuries BCE. Traditionally the city had been governed by the members of the Esagila assembly, the kiništu, and the sanctuary’s high administrator, the šatammu. At some point in the first half of the second century, however, the puliṭê, that is members of a polis community, emerged as a new political interest group in the city. Examining the role of the puliṭê through a careful analysis of the documentary evidence as well as recent historiography, this chapter offers a new approach to interpreting the political and administrative transformation of second-century Babylon.
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Yi-chong, Xu, and Patrick Weller. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198719496.003.0008.
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In the conclusion, we contend that interpreting IOs through a public policy prism provides a more nuanced picture, with the additional benefit that it is one that practitioners might recognize and whose lessons they might appreciate. Focusing our analysis on the interaction between member states, leaders, and staff helps understand the working world of IOs. It also shows how the insights can add to and amend the literature currently available on IOs and suggest that some of the current conclusions oversimplify the dilemmas IOs face. It finally suggests that influence in IOs requires a combination of authority, capacity, and legitimacy, which, in most cases, rely on the input of different participants.
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Deken, Johan De. Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Investment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790488.003.0016.
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The chapter develops a typology of social investment that seeks to go beyond a conceptualization based on a mere dichotomy between ‘compensation’ and ‘investment’, by analysing these policies in terms of the kind of capital that is invested in the targeted population. Next, it discusses some of the conceptual limitations of the approach. A second part is dedicated to operationalizing the concept, focusing on the input side of the policy process. It discusses what one can and cannot do with social expenditure, by allocating the different policy branches that the OECD distinguishes in its Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) within the proposed typology. It concludes by discussing a series of methodological problems with regard to interpreting cross-national and longitudinal variation in spending patterns to qualify the observed changes.
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González, José M. Hesiod’s Rhetoric of Exhortation. Edited by Alexander C. Loney and Stephen Scully. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190209032.013.36.
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This chapter examines Hesiod’s rhetoric of exhortation under the ancient discourse modality of the ainos. As a mode of discourse focused on audience construction and reception, attention to the Panhellenic shape of Hesiod’s ainetic speech reaffirms the conventionality of the biographical frame narrative. The rhetorical aim of this exhortation is to encourage the audience to join the performer in his praise and censure. After establishing the interpretative centrality of reception and introducing the pragmatic function of the ainos, I consider in turn the role of the two Erides, the basilēes (“magistrates”), Perses, and Hesiod. From this analysis the Works and Days comes clearly into view as inspired and authoritative Panhellenic exhortation, a performance of justice that aims squarely at the external polis audience.
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Meier, Benjamin Mason, and Virgínia Brás Gomes. Human Rights Treaty Bodies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190672676.003.0024.
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This chapter assesses the role of human rights treaty bodies in monitoring, interpreting, and adjudicating health-related human rights obligations, facilitating accountability for the realization of human rights in health policy. With each core human rights treaty having its own corresponding human rights treaty body, these international institutions influence states and galvanize advocates to take action to realize human rights across a range of global health issues. Describing treaty body efforts to monitor state implementation, interpret human rights, and adjudicate individual complaints, this chapter examines the evolving composition and functions of these treaty bodies and analyzes their effectiveness in facilitating the implementation of human rights as a basis for global health. Given recent United Nations efforts to strengthen treaty body functions and streamline monitoring processes, treaty bodies provide complementary approaches for public health practitioners to support accountability for the implementation of health-related human rights.
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Mayo, Deborah G., and Rachelle D. Hollander, eds. Acceptable Evidence. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195089295.001.0001.
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Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk. By focusing on acceptable evidence, this volume avoids two barriers to progress. One barrier assumes that evidence of risk is largely a matter of objective scientific data and therefore uncontroversial. The other assumes that evidence of risk, being "just" a matter of values, is not amenable to reasoned critique. Denying both extremes, this volume argues for a more constructive conclusion: understanding the interrelations of scientific and value issues enables a critical scrutiny of risk assessments and better public deliberation about social choices. The contributors, distinguished philosophers, policy analysts, and natural and social scientists, analyze environmental and medical controversies, and assumptions underlying views about risk assessment and the scientific and statistical models used in risk management.
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Brill, Sara. Greek Philosophy in the Twenty-first Century. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.013.70.
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This article addresses contemporary efforts to understand how the earliest practitioners of philosophy conceived of the philosophic life. It argues that, for Plato, the concept of bios was a central, animating, and structuring object of philosophic inquiry. Concentration on the imagery Plato employed to draw bios into the purview of philosophic contemplation and choice points to interpretative avenues that further the aim of treating the dialogues as complex, integrated wholes, and offers a new approach to the question of the status of image-making in them. The article concludes with thoughts on how an exploration of bios might extend beyond Plato to Aristotle, via an examination of his treatment of the range of human and animal bioi, suggesting that such an examination clarifies the relationship between his analysis of the polis-dwelling animal and his broader investigation of living beings as such.
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Dahlan, Malik. The Hijaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909727.001.0001.
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This book offers an alternative vision of Islamic governance through the history and promise of The Hijaz, the first state of Islam. The Hijaz, in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia, was the first Islamic state in Mecca and Medina. This new interpretative international legal history examines two formative historical passages, a millennium apart, of Islamic statehood during the 7th century and, the other, goes back to the origins of Arab Self-Determination in the aftermath of the 1916 Arab Revolt where The Hijaz enjoyed autonomy as well as founding membership of the League of Nations. Book argues for Islamic institutionalization in The Hijaz and integrative internationalization as a positive force for political reform and integration in the Middle East and beyond. Applying key Islamic principles of public good to contemporary life, in addition to deliberative democracy, the book challenges two dominant narratives. It reclaims the development of Islamic statecraft as the wellspring of collective identity and statesmanship in the Arab world, simultaneously influenced and disrupted by Westphalian statehood models and Enlightenment notions of self-determination. It equally rejects the appropriation of Islamic governance and the Caliphate concept by both the post-modern, non-territorial Al-Qaeda and the neo-medievalist ISIS into a “negative space”. Celebrating the history and untapped potential of a region where institutions and laws built the ideological foundations of an emerging polity, The Hijaz is a compelling alternative analysis, “a positive space”, of governance in the Arabian Peninsula and the global Islamic community, and of its interaction with the wider world.