Social policy and discourse analysis : policy change in public housing
Orthodox social policy research and analysis has focused on variables and quantitative measurement, and has downplayed the importance of meaning and identity. Taking a critical examination of social policy on public housing by way of illustration, this book demonstrates how discourse analysis can be use in applied research. Marston from RMIT.
vii, 148 p. : gráf. ; 24 cm.
9780754638896, 0754638898
1123752120
Introduction; Studying policy change; The place of critical discourse analysis in policy studies; Contextualizing the case study; Framing the 'problem' in mediatized policy discourse; Acts of resistance: interpreting the moral subjects of policy discourse; Possibilities and limitations of discourse analysis for policy studies; Bibliography; Index.