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title	:	How Does a Policy Mean? : Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions
author	:	Yanow, Dvora.
publisher	:	Georgetown University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0878406115
print isbn13	:	9780878406111
ebook isbn13	:	9780585161556
language	:	English
subject	Policy sciences, Corporate culture, Social values.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	H97.Y37 1996eb
ddc	:	320/.6
subject	:	Policy sciences, Corporate culture, Social values.

Page iii How Does a Policy Mean? Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions Dvora Yanow Georgetown University Press / Washington, D.C.

Page iv Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. 1996 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1996 This volume is printed on acid-free offset book paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yanow, Dvora. How does a policy mean? : interpreting policy and organizational actions / Dvora Yanow. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Policy sciences. 2. Corporate culture. 3. Social values. I. Title. H97.Y37 1996 320.6dc20 ISBN 0-87840-611-5 (cloth: alk. paper). 95-42087

Page v We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding Excerpt from "Little Gidding" in FOUR QUARTETS, copyright 1943 by T.S. Eliot and renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company

Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv 1 Policy Implementation and Organizational Actions: Interpretations and Texts 1 What is Interpretive Analysis? 4 Symbolic Relationships: Language, Objects, and Acts as Artifacts 9 Interpreting Policies: Artifacts and Policy Meanings 13 Identity Stories: Public Policies as Texts, Clients and Others as Readers 22 Links with Postmodern and Other Theories of Multivocality 27 How did One Policy Mean? 28 Notes 30 2 How Do You Know When You've Found an Organizational Metaphor? Reflecting on Methods 34 Collecting Data 36 Making Sense 42 Whose Meanings? 48 Writing Up 52 Summing Up 54 Notes 55 3 The Israel Corporation of Community Centers, Ltd. 57 Part One. Social Concerns 61

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