Critical policy ethnography

Vincent Dubois

Handbook of Critical Policy Studies

Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series

Edited by Frank Fischer, Douglas Torgerson, Anna Durnová and Michael Orsini

Critical policy studies, as illustrated in this Handbook, challenges the conventional approaches public policy inquiry. But it offers important innovations as well, in particular its focus on discursive politics, policy argumentation and deliberation, and interpretive modes of analysis.

Handbook

Published in print:: 18 Dec 2015

ISBN:: 9781783472345

eISBN:: 9781783472352

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783472352

Pages:: c 544

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Chapter 24: Critical policy ethnography

Vincent Dubois

Handbook Chapter

Published:: 18 December 2015

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783472352.00034

Pages:: 462–480 (19 total)

Collection: Social And Political Science 2015

Abstract

Based on a comprehensive review of the various orientations of policy ethnography, this chapter illustrates four defining features of critical policy ethnography: challenging mainstream positivist approaches to public policy; confronting commonsense and official views on policy; setting individual experiences and micro-observations in the broader perspective of power and inequality structures; and unveiling social, economic, symbolic and political domination processes operating in and through policy processes.

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