How does a policy mean? : interpreting policy and organizational actions / Dvora Yanow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yanow, Dvora.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences.

Corporate culture.

Social values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 261 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1996.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book offers a new, interpretive way of understanding organizations and policy by analyzing how they convey meaning through symbolic language, objects, and acts. Dvora Yanow argues that contested facts in policy often reflect different policy meanings, which are often expressed tacitly through the symbols use by an implementing organization. Yanow's interpretation of the policy process extends beyond the field of public policy to examine the way organizations establish identity and an image for themselves, the public, and the world. Her analysis will be of value to those involved in political science, public administration, and organizational studies.

Contents:

1. Policy Implementation and Organizational Actions: Interpretations and Texts

2. How Do You Know When You've Found an Organizational Metaphor? Reflecting on Methods

3. The Israel Corporation of Community Centers, Ltd

4. Symbolic Relationships: Re-Reading Chapter 3

5. Symbolic Language: Agency Names, Organizational Metaphors, and Administrative Practice

6. Symbolic Objects: Organization-scapes, Agency Programs, and Policy Meanings

7. Symbolic Acts: Rituals and Myths, Verboten Goals, and Silences in Policy Discourse

8. Reading Public Policy "Texts" as Identity Stories: The ICCC and Israeli Ethnicity

9. Interpretive Policy Analysis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585161556

0585161550

Publisher Number:

99985748999

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.