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100			_aOrosz, Janet Foley
245			_aQualitative research method in public administration: introduction to the symposium
260			_c1997
300			_ap.1891-906
362			_aNov
520			_aA discussion on including qualitative research methods in the public administration curriculum led to the development of this symposium. Qualitative research goes beyond "non-quantitative" to consider interpretive, non-positivistic and post-modern research. Submitted manuscripts reflect the wide variation in what qualitative methods are and how they are practiced in the study of public administration. This symposium embraces different forms of qualitative research - case studies approached from an "objectivist" perspective, interpretive experiences, action research, and nonpositivistic, post-modern narrative analysis. Each author included detail about the methodology, in line with prescriptions to judge research quality with information on the process of research. Left for future considerations are such issues as the standards to be applied to such studies and how these research processes are best taught, learned and practiced. - Reproduced
650			_aPublic administration
700			_aReding, Kathleen M.
700			_aMcKenna, Christopher K.
773			_aInternational Journal of Public Administration
909			_a35608
999			_c35608 _d35608