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The Narrative Policy Framework: child or monster?
- Source :
- Critical Policy Studies; Oct2015, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p339-355, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Recent critiques of the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) have described the framework as a hybrid – and perhaps contradictory – platform using postpositivist theory in the service of positivistic methods. While the NPF has done much to advance what one might term its positivist hypotheses-testing orientation, the ongoing relationship between the NPF and its postpositive, interpretative foundation is – to date – unclear. This article explores the relationship between the NPF and interpretivism. In our exploration, we detail NPF dimensions of ontology, epistemology, socio-theoretic choice, disciplinary boundaries, generalizing versus particularizing styles and normativity, as these dimensions relate to interpretivism. We find the NPF and interpretivism to be quite compatible along our analyzed dimensions – albeit with major epistemological differences. We conclude with a discussion outlining what the NPF has to offer interpretivism and what interpretivism has to offer the NPF. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19460171
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Critical Policy Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 110025374
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2015.1053959