<div><font size="2">On Behalf of Dvora Yanow -</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Colleagues:<br><br>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:<br>
<br>Public Policy Section<br><br>Panel 19. 06 - Framing Public Policy<br>Panel 19. 07 - Interpretive Approaches to Public Policy Analysis (co-sponsored with 6.02)<br>Panel 19. 08 - Public Policy and Interpretation as Method (co-sponsored with 6.07)<br>
<br>Interpretation and Methods Section<br>(Peri Schwartz-Shea and Ron Schmidt have outdone themselves pulling together this large and varied program):<br><br>Panel 06. 01 - The Methods Cafe [see below]<br>Panel 06. 02 - Interpretive Approaches to Public Policy Analysis<br>
Panel 06. 03 - The Spaces of Politics / The Politics of Space - Part I<br>Panel 06. 04 - Roundtable: Methodology and the Study of Space - Part II<br>Panel 06. 05 - Roundtable: Yes, you can get a job using interpretive methodologies: Career issues in Political Science<br>
Panel 06. 06 - Diversity, Politics & Interpretive Method<br>Panel 06. 07 - Public Policy & Interpretation as Method<br>Panel 06. 08 - Democracy, Citizenship & Interpretation<br>Panel 06. 09 - Interpretive Approaches to Political Institutions<br>
Panel 06. 10 - Theoretical & Practical Issues for Interpretive Methods<br>Panel 06. 11 - Methodology and the Political Science Discipline<br>Panel 06. 12 - The Politics of Place: Space, Memory, Language, and Resistance<br>
Panel 06. 13 - The Politics of Citizenship and Identity<br>Panel 06. 14 - Challenges in Conducting Multi-Method Research on Racial and Ethnic Politics<br>Panel 06. 15 - Regulation Policy and Analysis<br>Panel 06. 16 - Public Policy and the Private Citizen<br>
Panel 06. 17 - Research and Professional Development: New Issues/Challenges in the 21st Century<br>Panel 06. 18 - Upgrading our Toolbox: New Insights on Qualitative and Quantitative Techniques for the Study<span></span> <br>
<br><br>The Methods Cafe<br><br>Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008, 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm<br><br>Hosts: Bergeron, Joe, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jbergero@uci.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">jbergero@uci.edu</font></a><font size="2">, University of California, Irvine<br>
Ahmed, Zahra, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ahmedz@uci.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">ahmedz@uci.edu</font></a><font size="2">, University of California, Irvine<br>
<br>Methods and 'Specialists':<br> <br>Contesting the political theory/empirical research dichotomy<br> Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy , </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:kaufmatv@whitman.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">kaufmatv@whitman.edu</font></a><font size="2">, Whitman College<br>
<br>Critical concept analysis<br> Dow, Douglas, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:dougdow@utdallas.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">dougdow@utdallas.edu</font></a><font size="2">, University of Texas at Dallas<br>
<br>Field research methods<br> Pachirat, Tim, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:timothy.pachirat@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font size="2">timothy.pachirat@gmail.com</font></a><font size="2">, The New School for Social Research<br>
Yanow, Dvora, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:d.yanow@fsw.vu.nl" target="_blank"><font size="2">d.yanow@fsw.vu.nl</font></a><font size="2">, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam)<br>
<br>Feminist methods<br> Hawkesworth, Mary, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mhawkes@rci.rutgers.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">mhawkes@rci.rutgers.edu</font></a><font size="2">, Rutgers University<br>
<br>Methods of comparative political theory<br> Godreij, Farah, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:farah.godrej@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">farah.godrej@ucr.edu</font></a><font size="2">, University of California, Riverside<br>
<br>Post-colonial analysis<br> Bruyneel, Kevin, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:kbruyneel@babson.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">kbruyneel@babson.edu<span></span> </font></a><font size="2">, Babson College<br>
<br>Recasting beliefs in light of experience: Theorizing during, before, and after fieldwork<br> Zirakzadeh, Cyrus, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:cyrus.zirakzadeh@uconn.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">cyrus.zirakzadeh@uconn.edu</font></a><font size="2">, University of Connecticut<br>
<br>Value-critical public policy analysis<br> Schmidt, Sr., Ron, </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:rschmidt@csulb.edu" target="_blank"><font size="2">rschmidt@csulb.edu</font></a><font size="2">, California State University, Long Beach<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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<br>
<br></font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.oir.csus.edu/wpsa/browse.asp" target="_blank"><font size="2">http://www.oir.csus.edu/wpsa/browse.asp</font></a><br><br><font size="2">Dvora Yanow</font><br>
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