A Narrative Policy Framework: Clear Enough to Be Wrong?

Narratives are increasingly subject to empirical study in a wide variety of disciplines. However, in public policy, narratives are thought of almost exclusively as a poststructural concept outside the realm of empirical study. In this paper, after reviewing the major literature on narratives, we arg...

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Publicado en:Policy Studies Journal Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 329 - 354
Autores principales: Jones, Michael D., McBeth, Mark K.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell May 2010
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