[Tps] WPSA - Interpretation Public Policy and Methods

[Navdeep Mathur]

On Behalf of Dvora Yanow -

Colleagues:

For anyone planning or thinking about attending the upcoming Western
Political Science Association meeting March 20-22 in San Deigo, there are
some interesting panels drawing on interpretive approaches:

Public Policy Section

Panel 19. 06 - Framing Public Policy
Panel 19. 07 - Interpretive Approaches to Public Policy Analysis
(co-sponsored with 6.02)
Panel 19. 08 - Public Policy and Interpretation as Method (co-sponsored with
6.07)

Interpretation and Methods Section
(Peri Schwartz-Shea and Ron Schmidt have outdone themselves pulling together
this large and varied program):

Panel 06. 01 - The Methods Cafe [see below]
Panel 06. 02 - Interpretive Approaches to Public Policy Analysis
Panel 06. 03 - The Spaces of Politics / The Politics of Space - Part I
Panel 06. 04 - Roundtable: Methodology and the Study of Space - Part II
Panel 06. 05 - Roundtable: Yes, you can get a job using interpretive
methodologies: Career issues in Political Science
Panel 06. 06 - Diversity, Politics & Interpretive Method
Panel 06. 07 - Public Policy & Interpretation as Method
Panel 06. 08 - Democracy, Citizenship & Interpretation
Panel 06. 09 - Interpretive Approaches to Political Institutions
Panel 06. 10 - Theoretical & Practical Issues for Interpretive Methods
Panel 06. 11 - Methodology and the Political Science Discipline
Panel 06. 12 - The Politics of Place: Space, Memory, Language, and
Resistance
Panel 06. 13 - The Politics of Citizenship and Identity
Panel 06. 14 - Challenges in Conducting Multi-Method Research on Racial and
Ethnic Politics
Panel 06. 15 - Regulation Policy and Analysis
Panel 06. 16 - Public Policy and the Private Citizen
Panel 06. 17 - Research and Professional Development: New Issues/Challenges
in the 21st Century
Panel 06. 18 - Upgrading our Toolbox: New Insights on Qualitative and
Quantitative Techniques for the Study


The Methods Cafe

Date:   Thursday, March 20, 2008, 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm

Hosts:  Bergeron, Joe, jbergero at uci.edu, University of California, Irvine
        Ahmed, Zahra, ahmedz at uci.edu, University of California, Irvine

Methods and 'Specialists':

Contesting the political theory/empirical research dichotomy
     Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy , kaufmatv at whitman.edu, Whitman College

Critical concept analysis
     Dow, Douglas, dougdow at utdallas.edu, University of Texas at Dallas

Field research methods
     Pachirat, Tim, timothy.pachirat at gmail.com, The New School for Social
Research
     Yanow, Dvora, d.yanow at fsw.vu.nl, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam)

Feminist methods
     Hawkesworth, Mary, mhawkes at rci.rutgers.edu, Rutgers University

Methods of comparative political theory
     Godreij, Farah, farah.godrej at ucr.edu, University of California,
Riverside

Post-colonial analysis
     Bruyneel, Kevin, kbruyneel at babson.edu , Babson College

Recasting beliefs in light of experience: Theorizing during, before, and
after fieldwork
     Zirakzadeh, Cyrus, cyrus.zirakzadeh at uconn.edu, University of
Connecticut

Value-critical public policy analysis
     Schmidt, Sr., Ron, rschmidt at csulb.edu, California State University,
Long Beach

A fuller description of how the Cafe works can be found in the April 2007
issue of PS: Political Science & Politics (40: 383-86), the APSA quarterly
on the profession.

There are certainly other panels of interesting in the program -- at least
one other on 'space and politics' that I see.  The whole program can be
accessed at

http://www.oir.csus.edu/wpsa/browse.asp

Dvora Yanow
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