Interpretive Political Science Interpreting Politics

Author : Mark Bevir,R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317533627

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Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science by Mark Bevir,R. A. W. Rhodes Pdf

Interpretive political science focuses on the meanings that shape actions and institutions, and the ways in which they do so. This Handbook explores the implications of interpretive theory for the study of politics. It provides the first definitive survey of the field edited by two of its pioneers. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, the Handbook’s 32 chapters are split into five parts which explore: the contrast between interpretive theory and mainstream political science; the main forms of interpretive theory and the theoretical concepts associated with interpretive political science; the methods used by interpretive political scientists; the insights provided by interpretive political science on empirical topics; the implications of interpretive political science for professional practices such as policy analysis, planning, accountancy, and public health. With an emphasis on the applications of interpretive political science to a range of topics and disciplines, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in the areas of international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, political psychology, and public administration.

Author : Cecelia Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136622243

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Interpreting International Politics by Cecelia Lynch Pdf

Interpreting International Politics addresses each of the major, "traditional" subfields in International Relations: International Law and Organization, International Security, and International Political Economy. But how are interpretivist methods and concerns brought to bear on these topics? In this slim volume Cecelia Lynch focuses on the philosophy of science and conceptual issues that make work in international relations distinctly interpretive. This work both legitimizes and demonstrates the necessity of post- and non-positivist scholarship. Interpretive approaches to the study of international relations span not only the traditional areas of security, international political economy, and international law and organizations, but also emerging and newer areas such as gender, race, religion, secularism, and continuing issues of globalization. By situating, describing, and analyzing major interpretive works in each of these fields, the book draws out the critical research challenges that are posed by and the progress that is made by interpretive work. Furthermore, the book also pushes forward interpretive insights to areas that have entered the IR radar screen more recently, including race and religion, demonstrating how work in these areas can inform all subfields of the discipline and suggesting paths for future research.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political science
ISBN : LCCN:2009930048

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Interpretive Political Science: Interpreting politics by Mark Bevir Pdf

Author : Clement Fatovic,Sean Noah Walsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315506043

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Interpretation in Political Theory by Clement Fatovic,Sean Noah Walsh Pdf

Theorists interested in learning more about any given interpretive approach are often required to navigate a dizzying array of sources, with no clear sense of where to begin. The prose of many primary sources is often steeped in dense and technical argot that novices find intimidating or even impenetrable. Interpretation in Political Theory provide students of political theory a single introductory reference guide to major approaches to interpretation available in the field today. Comprehensive and clearly written, the book includes: A historical and theoretical overview that situates the practice of interpretation within the development of political theory in the twentieth century. Chapters on Straussian esotericism, historical approaches within the Cambridge School of interpretation, materialist approaches associated with Marxism, the critical approaches associated with varieties of feminism, Greimassian semiotics, Foucaultian genealogy, the negative dialectics of Theodor Adorno, deconstruction as exemplified by Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. An exposition of the theoretical and disciplinary background of each approach, the tools and techniques of interpretation it uses, its assumptions about what counts as a relevant text in political theory, and what it considers to be the purpose or objective of reading in political theory. A reading of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan to illustrate how each approach can be applied in practice. A list of suggestions for further reading that will guide those interested in pursuing more advanced study. An invaluable textbook for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and even seasoned scholars of political theory interested in learning more about different interpretive approaches.

Author : John Echeverri-Gent,Kamal Sadiq
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190991289

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Interpreting Politics by John Echeverri-Gent,Kamal Sadiq Pdf

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.

Author : Hendrik Wagenaar
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780765629210

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Meaning in Action by Hendrik Wagenaar Pdf

This accessible book gives academics, graduate students, and researchers a comprehensive survey of the vast, varied, and often confusing landscape of interpretive policy analysis. The book is both theoretically informed and clear and jargon-free in its wide-ranging coverage of the different interpretive approaches in policy analysis. For each approach, the author provides a strong practical example from the policy literature. He distinguishes between three distinct types of meaning--hermeneutic, discursive, and dialogical--each of which is rooted in different philosophical assumptions, underlies different approaches to interpretive analysis, and focuses on different topics in public policy. The book dispassionately discusses the specific strengths and limitations of different interpretive approaches, and combines thorough theoretical discussions with a practical orientation towards doing policy analysis. It includes an extremely comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Michael T. Gibbons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political science.
ISBN : 0814730183

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Interpreting Politics by Michael T. Gibbons Pdf

Author : Ronald Schmidt, Sr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315469638

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Interpreting Racial Politics in the United States by Ronald Schmidt, Sr. Pdf

Few subjects of social scientific inquiry need interpretive analysis more than the topic of racial politics, yet most US political science employs a narrowly behavioralist orientation. This book argues that it is time for political scientists studying race to more fully engage the issues that generate its political significance. Drawing on the work of interpretive political scholars and methods, Ron Schmidt, Sr. addresses core questions regarding racial politics in the US to demonstrate the value of using interpretive methods to better understand the meaning and significance of political actions, structures and conflicts involving racial identities—not instead of behavioral research but as a necessary addition. Interpreting Racial Politics in the United States will greatly enhance the evolving conversations concerning race and inequality within the US. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of politics and sociology, but also to those interested in deepening their understanding of racial politics.

Author : Terrell Carver,Matti Hyvarinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134788446

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Interpreting the Political by Terrell Carver,Matti Hyvarinen Pdf

Uses linguistic and semiotic analytical techniques to interrogate the use of language in the construction of political discourses. An impressively broad range of methodologies is used, each to explore a substantive political issue.

Author : Nick Turnbull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317679363

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Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy by Nick Turnbull Pdf

Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy offers the latest perspectives on the interpretive approach to governance and public policy research. This book commemorates more than a decade of governance research by Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes, the leading exponents of interpretive political science in the United Kingdom. It explains how insights from the interpretive perspective may be used to advance the study of governance, high politics, and public policy. Featuring contributions from major scholars in the field, both inside and outside the interpretivist fold, the authors critically reflect upon interpretivism and consider how aspects of the interpretive approach apply to their own research. The authors debate the significance of Bevir and Rhodes’s work and develop future directions for interpretive governance research. The chapters link one of the most innovative contemporary perspectives in political science with the latest empirical studies. Contributing towards setting the governance research agenda, Interpreting Governance, High Politics and Public Policy is an excellent resource for the study of interpretive policy analysis.

Author : Martin Beckstein,Ralph Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351368261

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Modeling Interpretation and the Practice of Political Theory by Martin Beckstein,Ralph Weber Pdf

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models. Today, pluralism is the paradigm. But are all approaches equally useful? What are their limits and possibilities? Can we practice them in isolation, or can we combine them? Modeling Interpretation and the Practice of Political Theory addresses these questions in a refreshing and hands- on manner. It not only models in the abstract, but also tests in practice eight basic schemes of interpretation with which any ambitious reader of political texts should already be familiar. Comprehensive and engaging, the book includes: A straightforward typology of interpretation in political theory. Chapters on the analytical Oxford model, biographical and oeuvre- based interpretation, Skinner’s Cambridge School, the esoteric model, reflexive hermeneutics, reception analysis and conceptual history. Original readings of Federalist Paper No. 10 , Plato’s Statesman, de Gouges’s The Three Urns, Rivera’s wall painting The History of Mexico and Strauss’s Persecution and the Art of Writing; with further chapters on Machiavelli, Huang Zongxi and a Hittite loyalty oath. An Epilogue proposing pragmatist eclecticism as the way forward in interpretation. An inspiring, hands- on textbook suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as experienced scholars of political theory, intellectual history and philosophy interested in learning more about types and models of interpretation, and the challenge of combining them in interpretive practice.

Author : R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191089329

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Interpretive Political Science by R. A. W. Rhodes Pdf

Interpretive Political Science is the second of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R.A.W. Rhodes. Volume II looks forward and explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration, and draws together articles from 2005 onwards on the theme of 'the interpretive turn' in political science. Part I provides a summary statement of the interpretive approach, and Part II develops the theme of blurring genres and discusses a variety of research methods common in the humanities, including: ethnographic fieldwork, life history, and focus groups. Part III demonstrates how the genres of thought and presentation found in the humanities can be used in political science. It presents four examples of such blurring 'at work' with studies of: applied anthropology and civil service reform; women's studies and government departments; and storytelling and local knowledge. The book concludes with a summary of what is edifying about an interpretive approach, and why this approach matters, and revisits some of the more common criticisms before indulging in plausible conjectures about the future of interpretivism. The author seeks new and interesting ways to explore governance, high politics, public policies, and the study of public administration in general. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the main articles written by Rhodes on policy networks and governance between 1990 and 2005, and explores a new way of describing British government, focusing on policy making and the ways in which policy is put into practice.

Author : Dvora Yanow,Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317467366

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Interpretation and Method by Dvora Yanow,Peregrine Schwartz-Shea Pdf

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting on their own research experiences, the contributors offer an inside, applied perspective on how research topics, evidence, and methods intertwine to produce knowledge in the social sciences.

Author : R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0191827797

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Interpretive Political Science by R. A. W. Rhodes Pdf

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

Author : R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191089336

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Interpretive Political Science by R. A. W. Rhodes Pdf

Interpretive Political Science is the second of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R.A.W. Rhodes. Volume II looks forward and explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration, and draws together articles from 2005 onwards on the theme of 'the interpretive turn' in political science. Part I provides a summary statement of the interpretive approach, and Part II develops the theme of blurring genres and discusses a variety of research methods common in the humanities, including: ethnographic fieldwork, life history, and focus groups. Part III demonstrates how the genres of thought and presentation found in the humanities can be used in political science. It presents four examples of such blurring 'at work' with studies of: applied anthropology and civil service reform; women's studies and government departments; and storytelling and local knowledge. The book concludes with a summary of what is edifying about an interpretive approach, and why this approach matters, and revisits some of the more common criticisms before indulging in plausible conjectures about the future of interpretivism. The author seeks new and interesting ways to explore governance, high politics, public policies, and the study of public administration in general. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the main articles written by Rhodes on policy networks and governance between 1990 and 2005, and explores a new way of describing British government, focusing on policy making and the ways in which policy is put into practice.