A Mixed Methods Approach for Identifying Influence on Public Policy

Autor/in	Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B.
Titel	A Mixed Methods Approach for Identifying Influence on Public Policy
Quelle	In: Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 8 (2014) 2, S.115-138 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1558-6898
DOI	10.1177/1558689813490996
Schlagwörter	Mixed Methods Research; Public Policy; Influences; Politics of Education; Change Agents; Research Methodology; Policy Analysis; Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Males; Research Design; Identification; Case Studies; Test Validity; Performance Factors; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Ordnung; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Politikfeldanalyse; Ethnografie; Ausland; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Forschungsdesign; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Testvalidität; Leistungsindikator; Australien
Abstract	Fields from political science to critical education policy studies have long explored power relations in policy processes, showing who influences policy agendas, policy creation, and policy implementation. Yet showing particular actors' influence on specific points in a policy text remains a methodological challenge. This article presents a five-stage, embedded mixed methods design for establishing influence on educational policy moving from a policy text outward. I use an example analysis of Australia's policy making on boys' education--the report "Boys: Getting it Right" (2002)--to show how data transformation measures, both quantitizing and qualitizing, within a larger qualitative study helped identify influence. This mixed design, I argue, can be useful in other research contexts, with variations for data availability and researcher resources. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10