Interpretive political science : Volume II / selected essays. R.A.W. Rhodes.

Selected Essays, Volume II explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for political science, focusing on different ways of studying politics.

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Main Author: Rhodes, R. A. W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Corby ; Oxford : Oxford University Press 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Interpretive Political Science: Selected Essays, Volume II; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1: Further on Down the Road, Blurring Genres; The Interpretive Turn; The Management Years; The Ethnographic Years; Conclusions; Part I: Theory; 2: On Interpretation; Meaning in Action; Situated Agency; Interpretation and Common Sense; Practices; Structures; Explanation; Method; Rhetoric; Power; Objectivity; Policy Advice; Conclusions; Part II: Methods; 3: On Ethnography; Naturalist Ethnography; Interpretive Ethnography; The Toolkit; Fieldwork or `Being Theré
  • Participant ObservationEthnographic Interviewing; Debates; Representation; Generalization; Objectivity; Explanation; Reflexivity; Chugging Ahead by Developing the Craft; Quantitative and Qualitative; The Deep Hanging Out and Hit-and-Run Ethnography; New Tools (for Political Science); Focus Groups; Visual Ethnography; Para-ethnography; Storytelling; Conclusions; 4: On Being There?; Introduction; So What? The Benefits of Ethnography; Problems in the Field; Speaking Truth to Power; Secrecy and Spies; We Are Not Journalists-Building and Keeping Trust
  • Maintaining Standards-Reliability and ValidityDont́ Talk, Listen; Working Together; What Do We Know-Generalization; I Want To Tell You a Story; Lessons On Being There; Conclusions; 5: On Focus Groups; Prime Ministers ́Chiefs of Staff; Focus Groups As a Tool of Ethnographic Research; Research Design; Preparing for the Focus Group Sessions; Managing Group Dynamics; Analysis and Interpretation; The Case for Focus Groups; The Case Against Focus Groups; Conclusions; 6: On Life History; Introduction; The British Tradition; Tombstone Biography; Separating Public and Private; Life without Theory
  • Objective EvidenceCharacter; Storytelling; The Interpretive Turn; From Tombstones to Illusions; Lives and Theories; From Facts to Webs of Interpretation; From Character to Life Myths and Situated Agency; Varieties of Storytelling; Implications; Conclusions; 7: On Court Politics; Interpretive History; The New Political History; Court Politics; The Precursors; Statecraft; Court Politics; Conclusions; Part III: Applications; 8: On Greedy Institutions; Introduction; The Departmental Court; Gendered Bureaucracy; Greedy Institutions; The Gendered Bureaucracy and The Greedy Court; The Fieldwork
  • Gender and The `Departmental CourtH́ierarchy and the Monarchical Tradition; Bureaucratic Politics; Civility, Rationality, and Managing Emotion; Gendered Division of Work; Commitment and the Long Hours ́Culture; The Gender Consequences of A Greedy Court; Conclusions: Gender and The Greedy Court; 9: On Reform; The Reforms; Evidence-based Policy-making; Managerialism; Delivery and Choice; Plausible Conjectures; Coping and the Appearance of Rule, Not Strategic Planning; Institutional Memory, Not Internal Structures; Storytelling, Not Evidence-based Policy