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The Discursive Turn in Policy Analysis and the Validation of Policy Stories

LINDSAY PRIOR, David Hughes, STEPHEN PECKHAM

Journal of Social Policy, Volume: 41, Issue: 02, Pages: 271 - 289

Swansea University Author: David Hughes

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/S0047279411000821

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This paper discusses 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 focus is on a comparative study of UK health policy documents (<em>N</em> = 20) as produced by the variou...

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Published in: Journal of Social Policy
Published: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012
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