Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

4 MEANING AND METHODOLOGY

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Interpretation and method : empirical research methods and the interpretive turn / edited by Dvora Yanow

and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7656-1462-

ISBN-10: 0-7656-1462-6 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Political science—Methodology. 2. Political science—Research—Methodology. I. Yanow, Dvora. II.
   Schwartz-Shea, Peregrine, 1955–

JA71.I575 2006

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