Interpretive Political Science

Professor Mark Bevir is a member of the Department of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He was born in London and educated at the University of Exeter, U.K., where he got a BA (1st Class), and the University of Oxford, UK where he was awarded a DPhil. Before moving to Berkeley, he worked at the University of Madras, India, and University of Newcastle, UK. He has held visiting positions in Australia, Finland, France, U.K., and the U.S. Currently he is co-convener of the Interpretive Political Science specialist group of the Political Studies Association and President of the Society for the Philosophy of History.

• Interpretive Political Science - Edited by Mark BevirVOLUME 1: INTERPRETIVE THEORYa.) GeneralInterpretative Social Science - An Overview - Frank C. Richardson and Blaine J. FowersEpistemological Stances for Qualitative Inquiry: Interpretivism, hermeneutics, and social constructivism - Thomas Schwandtb.) Meaning in ActionCommon-sense and Scientific Interpretation in Human Action - Alfred SchultzThe Model of the Text: Meaningful action considered as a text - Paul RicoeurSocial Science - Peter WinchInterpretation and the Sciences of Man - Charles TaylorOn Language, Culture and Social Action - Miguel Cabrerac.) Tradition and AgencyStructure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences - Jacques DerridaHappy in our Chains? Agency and Language in the Postmodern Age - David ShawOn Tradition - Mark BevirHistorical Interpretation, Intentionalism, and the Philosophy of Mind - Vivienne BrownToward a Theory of Social Practices: A development in culturalist theorizing - Andreas Reckwitzd.) Narrative and CritiqueNarrative in Political Science - Molly Patterson and Kristen Renwick MonroeHistorical Explanation, Folk Psychology, and Narrative - Mark BevirNietzsche, Genealogy, History - Michel FoucaultGenealogy as Critique - Raymond GeussNaturalism and Genealogy - Bernard WilliamsVOLUME 2: INTERPRETIVE METHODSGeneralHermeneutics, Political inquiry, and Practical Reason: An evolving challenge to political science - Michael T. GibbonsInterpretation and Its Others - Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodesb.) Qualitative MethodsBridging Positivist and Interpretivist Approaches to Qualitative Methods - Ann LinDemocracy and Dichotomies: A pragmatic approach to choices about concepts - David Collier and Robert AdcockConcept Formation in Political Science: An anti-naturalist critique of qualitative methodology - Mark Bevir and Asaf KedarOn Improving Qualitative methods in Public Administration Research - Ralph Brower, Mithce Abolafia and Jered CarrEmerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research - Yvonna Lincolnc.) Ethnography and InterviewingThick Description: Towards an interpretive theory of culture - Clifford GeertzFrom the Inside Out: Ethnographic methods in political research - Bayard de Volo, Lorraine and Edward SchatzAsking Questions: Techniques for semistructured interviews - Beth LeechTalking and Listening from Women′s Standpoint: Feminist strategies for interviewing and analysis - Marjorie DevaultAppealing Work: An investigation into how ethnographic texts convince - Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locked.) Textual AnalysisAn Overview of Content Analysis - Steve StemlerExtracting Policy Positions from Political Texts: Using words as data - Michael Laver, Kenneth Benoit and John GarryIdeology and Post-Marxism - Ernesto LaclauPrinciples of Critical Discourse Analysis - Teun A. van DijkHow Buildings Mean - Nelson Goldman and Catherine Z. ElginVOLUME 3: INTERPRETING POLITICSGeneralIn Defense of Disunity-Pragmatism, Hermeneutics, and the Social - Keith TopperConceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for political science - Lisa WedeenBeliefs and IdentitiesMaking Sense of Religion in Political Life - Kenneth D. Wald, Adam L. Silverman and Kevin S. FridyThe Imaginary Inclusion of the "Good Homosexual": The British new right′s representation of sexuality and race - Anna Marie SmithComplexities of Identity/Difference: Black consciousness ideology in South Africa - David HowarthBeyond Belief: Ideas and symbolic technologies in the study of international relations - Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldesb.) Cultural PracticesEthnicity, Democratization, and Political Dramas: Insight into ethnic politics in Mauritania - Cedric JourdeChanging Places: transnational networks, ethnic politics and community development in the Ecuadorian Amazon - Thomas PerreaultThe Court as an Idea, not a Building (or a Game): Interpretive institutionalism and the analysis of supreme court decision making - Howard GilmanConstructing Post-Cold War Collective Security - Brian Frederkingc.) Traditions and ResistanceBeyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The multiple traditions in America - Rogers SmithThe Great Moving Right Show - Stuart HallSub Rosa Resistance and the Politics of Economic Reform: Land redistribution in post-soviet Ukraine - Jessica Allina-Pisano′It′s Not Like Shopping′: Citizens, consumers, and the reform of public services - John Clarked.) Historical SociologyThe Birth of Bio-politics′: Michel Foucault′s lecture at the College de France on neo-liberal governmentality - Thomas LemkeRethinking Moral Economy - Thomas Clay ArnoldThe Liberty Bell: A meditation on labor, liberty, and the cultural mediations that connect or disconnect them - Paul WillisSounds of Nationhood - Michael ShapiroVOLUME 4: POLICY AND PRACTICEGeneralTaking Language Seriously: Toward a narrative theory of knowledge for administrative research - Jay WhiteGrout: Alternative kinds of knowledge and why they are ignored - Mary Schmidtb.) Policy Analysis - TheoryPolicy Analysis as a Hermeneutic Activity - John DryzekConcepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis - Linda SmircichInterpretation and the Practice of Policy Analysis - Bruce JenningsThe Communcation of Policy Meanings- Implementation as Interpretation and Text - Dvora YanowSetting the Stage-a Dramaturgy of Policy Deliberation - Maarten A. Hajerc.) Policy Analysis - PracticeState Traditions, Administrative Reform, and Regionalization - John Loughlin and B. Guy PetersThe Bureaucratization, Commodification, and the Privatization of Sexual Harassment through Institutional Discourse: A study of the ′Big Ten′ universities - Robin P. ClairLanguage Games: Dialogical analyses of INF negotiations - Gavan Duffy, Brian Frederking and Seth A. TuckerMarginalizing Public Participation in Local Planning: An ethnographic account - Caroline TauxeThe Politics of Deliberation: Qat chews as public spheres in Yemen - Lisa Wedeend.) Dialogue and DeliberationLeadership Studies: From procedure and abstraction to reflexivity and situation - Mats AlvessonTalking and Doing in the Work of Administration - Hal Colebatch and Pieter DegelingLearning from Practice Stories: The priority of practical judgment - John ForesterParticipatory Governance as Deliberative Empowerment- The Cultural Politics of Discursive Space - Frank FischerCollaborative Policymaking: Governance through dialogue - Judith Innes and David Booher