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How does a policy mean? :

Yanow, Dvora.

How does a policy mean? : interpreting policy and organizational actions / Dvora Yanow. - Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1996. - 1 online resource (xx, 261 pages) : illustrations

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

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

English.

ISBN: 0585161550 9780585161556

LCCN:

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Policy sciences.
Corporate culture.
Social values.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--General.
Corporate culture.
Policy sciences.
Social values.
Beleidswetenschap.
Interpretatie.
Organisatiesociologie.
Social Sciences.
Social Sciences - General.
Kommunale Kulturpolitik
Kommunale Sozialpolitik
Organisationskultur
Verstehende Soziologie
Verwaltung

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Israel
Israel.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: H97 / .Y37 1996eb

Dewey Class. No.: 320/.6