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Narrative analysis for the policy analyst: A case study of the 1980-1982 medfly controversy in California

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Narrative policy analysis provides a way of analyzing those highly uncertain and complex policy issues whose truth-value cannot be ascertained and about which the only thing practicing policy analysts know are the stories policymakers use in articulating these issues. One extremely well-documented controversy, the 1980-82 California Medfly Crisis, illustrates how a comparison and analysis of the structure of the dominant stories in that controversy reduces some of its underlying uncertainty. By focusing on the differential risk perceptions reflected in the stories, narrative policy analysis identifies an important area in which conventional policy analysis could have contributed to the controversy's resolution.

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  • Emery M. Roe, 1989. "Narrative analysis for the policy analyst: A case study of the 1980-1982 medfly controversy in California," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 8(2), pages 251-273.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:8:y:1989:i:2:p:251-273
    DOI: 10.2307/3323382
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    1. Ching Leong, 2017. "Hajer’s institutional void and legitimacy without polity," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 50(4), pages 573-583, December.

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