Bridging qualitative and quantitative methods for classifying policy actors into policy discourse communities: thematic analysis and formal concept analysis approaches

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dc.authorscopusid24296878000
dc.contributor.authorSüerdem, A.K.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:17:16Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:17:16Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractPolicy decision process is usually depicted as a neutral and technical process in which problem solving capacity of a policy decision determines the validity of its effectiveness. However, socio-political space is fragmented and policy making process reflects the conflicts between different socio-political actors. Empirical detection of policy networks is a problematic issue since world views reflecting policy beliefs can best be elicited in unstructured narrative forms which do not easily lend themselves to a systematic and objective classification of the narrating actors. Thus, the data for such research is usually collected through structured interviews which provide a solid basis for quantitative classification techniques such as cluster analysis. However, structured interviews are prone to imposing researcher’s perspective to the data rather than reflecting the world views of the policy actors. The aim of this paper is to offer a systematic way of classifying policy actors into policy communities according to the data collected through unstructured policy narratives. For this purpose the paper proposes a method that bridges qualitative thematic analysis with quantitative formal concept analysis. © 2010 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1504/IJDATS.2010.034056
dc.identifier.endpage216en_US
dc.identifier.issn1755-8050
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84858422035en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4en_US
dc.identifier.startpage199en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1504/IJDATS.2010.034056
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6485
dc.identifier.volume2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectDiscourse Analysisen_US
dc.subjectFormal Concept Analysisen_US
dc.subjectPolicy Networksen_US
dc.subjectThematic Analysisen_US
dc.titleBridging qualitative and quantitative methods for classifying policy actors into policy discourse communities: thematic analysis and formal concept analysis approachesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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