This book offers a new, interpretive way of understanding
organizations and policy by analyzing how they convey meaning
through symbolic language, objects, and act. Yanow argues that
contested facts in policy often reflect different policy meanings,
which are often known tacitly and communicated through the symbols
used by an implementing organization.
Yanow argues that policy and organizational actions are often as
expressive of group or national identity as they are instrumentally
oriented. Drawing on the Israel Corporation of Community Centers as
an extended illustration of her arguments, she shows how policy
meanings may be communicated to multiple audiences through the
agency's actions. Using language, physical artifacts, and acts,
Yanow explores how one vision of Israeli identity was communicated
tacitly, at a time when Jewish Israeli "ethnicity" was publicly
undiscussable. In reading public policies and administrative
practices as ways in which a polity constructs and narrates its
identity, Yanow shows how the case example raises questions of what
it means to be a "good" Israeli.
Unlike most policy studies which consider organizations within a
void, "How Does a Policy Mean?" puts policy in a societal context.
Yanow's interpretation of the policy process extends beyond the
field of public policy to examine the way organizations establish
identity and image for themselves and for the wider public. Her
analysis will be of value to those involved in political science,
public administration, and organizational studies.
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