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Putting people back into networks

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Roderick Rhodes

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Abstract

This article argues that political scientists should spend more time observing policy networks, using ethnographic tools to capture the meaning of everyday activities. The first section reviews briefly the literature on policy networks, arguing for an ethnographic approach. To show how individual actors construct networks, the second section looks at the experience of consumers, managers and permanent secretaries of living and working in networks. The final section comments on what the fieldwork tells us about both network theory and ethnographic methods.

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Author(s): Rhodes RAW

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Australian Journal of Political Science

Year: 2002

Volume: 37

Issue: 3

Pages: 399-416

Print publication date: 09/06/2010

ISSN (print): 1036-1146

ISSN (electronic): 1363-030X

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1036114021000026337

DOI: 10.1080/1036114021000026337

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