Prior, Lindsay, Hughes, David, Peckham, Stephen (2012) The Discursive Turn in Policy Analysis and the Validation of Policy Stories. Journal of Social Policy, 41 (2). pp. 271-289. ISSN 0047-2794. (doi:10.1017/S0047279411000821) (KAR id:29795)
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Abstract
This paper is concerned with the language of policy documents in the field of health
care, and how ‘readings’ of such documents might be validated in the context of a narrative
analysis. The substantive focus is on a comparative study of UK health policy documents (N =
20) as produced by the various assemblies, governments and executives of England, Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland during the period 2000–09. Following the identification of some
key characteristics of narrative structure the authors indicate how text-mining strategies allied
with features of semantic and network analysis can be used to unravel the basic elements of
policy stories and to facilitate the presentation of data in such a way that readers can verify the
strengths (and weaknesses) of any given analysis – with regard to claims concerning, say, the
presence, absence or relative importance of key ideas and concepts. Readers can also ‘see’ how
the different components of any one story might fit together, and to get a sense of what has been
excluded from the narrative as well as what has been included, and thereby assess the reliability
and validity of interpretations that have been placed upon the data.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1017/S0047279411000821 |
Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies |
Depositing User: | Tony Rees |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2012 08:22 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:07 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/29795 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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