Realist Biography and European Policy : An Innovative Approach to European Policy Studies

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The method of biographical story-telling applied to newly emerging fields of research. Realist Biography and European Policy is the first concerted attempt to integrate the separate strands of (critical) realism as a developed philosophy for social science with biographical narrative methods as a co...

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Otros Autores: Mrozowicki, Adam, Turk, Jeffrey David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social sciences > Biographical methods.
Economic policy > Evaluation.
Critical realism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.
Realisme critique.
Sciences sociales > Histoires de vie.
European Union countries.
Pays de l'Union europeenne > Politique economique > Évaluation.
European Union countries > Economic policy > Evaluation.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the Need for Realist Biography in European Policy Studies; 2. Realism and Social Research: A Morphogenetic Approach; 3. Biography-using Research (BNIM), Sostris, Institutional Regimes, and Critical Psycho-Societal Realism; 4. Biographical Costs of Transnational Mobility in the European Space; 5. Biographical Approach in the Study of Identities of Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe.
  • 6. Social Dialogue as a European Social Field: Setting up a "Critical Realist" Explanatory Framework of the Practices of the European Works Councils in Multinationals in Europe7. Biographies and the Drafting of EU Environmental Policy in an Anthropological Framework; 8. Linking Structural and Agential Powers: A Realist Approach to Biographies, Careers and Reflexivity; Contributors; Index.

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