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This past week, I read Emery Roe's "Narrative Policy Analysis" dukeupress.edu/narrative-poli… - as someone who teaches Public Policy Analysis, I figured I had to go through different policy analytical methods. Moreover, I am a qualitative methods guy, so narratives are kind of my jam.
To be perfectly honest, even though I've always read the foundational literature (Dvora Yanow's Interpretive Policy Analysis, etc.) I have been much more drawn to recent work on the Narrative Policy Framework that Liz Shanahan, @deseraicrow Mike Jones and others have advanced.
If I had to find another "foundational" text that is sometimes (happily, not often) overlooked is Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox and her radon and dioxin causal stories' article. Also often overlooked is Denise Scheberle's article following Stone. It's really interesting though.
I am in no way opposed to quantitative approaches to text analysis, nor do I believe that we ought to "stay in the past". But it is amazing how Roe's Narrative Policy Analysis is so clear and yet his methods are parsimonious, simple and clear. Something to aspire to.
Textual (narrative) analysis can (and probably should) make use of advanced computational methods. But I also believe we can learn from stuff that was published 25 years ago (Roe's NPA was published in 1994!) </end thread>
