How Does A Policy Mean?: Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions Tapa blanda - 1997

Georgetown Univ Pr, 1997. Paperback. New. 284 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Offers an interpretive way of understanding organizations and policy by analyzing how they convey meaning through symbolic language, objects, and act. This title argues that policy and organizational actions are often as expressive of group or national identity as they are instrumentally oriented.

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Georgetown Univ Pr, 1997. Paperback. New. 284 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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ISBN: 9780878406128
Georgetown University Press, 01 February 1997
Soft cover, 288 pages
This book offers a new, interpretive way of understanding organizations and policy by analyzing how they convey meaning through symbolic language, objects, and act. Yanow argues that contested facts in policy often reflect different policy meanings, which are often known tacitly and communicated through the symbols used by an implementing organization. Yanow argues that policy and organizational actions are often as expressive of group or national identity as they are instrumentally oriented. Drawing on the Israel Corporation of Community Centers as an extended illustration of her arguments, she shows how policy meanings may be communicated to multiple audiences through the agency's actions. Using language, physical artifacts, and acts, Yanow explores how one vision of Israeli identity was communicated tacitly, at a time when Jewish Israeli "ethnicity" was publicly undiscussable. In reading public policies and… Leer más