A Conceptual and Practical Workshop in Interpretive Political Science

Interpret This!

A Conceptual and Practical Workshop in Interpretive Political Science

Short Course 15, APSA 2007 (Chicago)

Organizers: Lee Ann Fujii (George Washington University), Kara Heitz (George Washington University), Timothy Pachirat (The New School), Peregrine Schwartz-Shea (University of Utah), Dorian Warren (Columbia University), Dvora Yanow (Vrije Universiteit)

9:30-10:45 Situating interpretive methods in political science

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, University of Utah

Research without variables

Dvora Yanow, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam)

A brief history of ideas

Readings: Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, eds.,Interpretation and method: Empirical research methods and the interpretive turn. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe, 2006. Chapters 1, 4, 5 (suggested additional reading: chs. 2, 3, 21, 22, and introductions to the book and all four sections).

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Interpretive methods in the subfields

Note: We will not make time for discussion during this part of the morning. Discussion will take place at tables over lunch; see below.

American Politics: Dorian Warren, Columbia University

American Political Development: Victoria Hattam, New School for Social Research

Comparative Politics: Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago

International Relations: Ido Oren, University of Florida

Political Theory & International Political Economy: Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Public Law: Julie Novkov, State University of New York, Albany

Public Policy & Administration: Dvora Yanow, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam)

12:30-2:00 Lunch in the subfields

We have asked the Corner Bakery [Address TBA] to set aside tables. We will walk there ‘en masse.’ Participants should choose a subfield and subfield ‘leader’ to follow and join for lunch and further discussion of the morning presentation. The cost of lunch is not covered in the fee for the course.

2:00-5:00 The 'discipline' of improv as a model for research methods

2:00-3:30 Exercises in improvisation: Second City, with the help of

Lee Ann Fujii, George Washington University

Reading: Dvora Yanow, “Learning in and from improvising: Lessons from theater for organizational learning.” Reflections (The Society for Organizational Learning Journal) 2:4 (June 2001), 58-62.

3:30-3:45Break

3:45-5:00Reflection and discussion: All participants

Optional evening continuation (no host; for those who signed up in advance)

6:00-7:30 Dinner (Flat Top Grill, 319 W. North Ave.)

.2 of a mile walk

8:00 Second City show (1616 N. Wells St.)

Suggested readings:

from Dorian Warren

forthcoming

from Victoria Hattam

Victoria Hattam, “History, Agency, and Political Change,” Polity 32, 3 (Spring 2000): 333-338.

*Victoria Hattam and Joseph Lowndes, “The Ground Beneath our Feet: Language, Culture, and the Micro-Politics of Change,” in Stephen Skowronek and Matthew Glassman, eds., Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, “Beyond the Iconography of Order,” in James Farr, John S. Dryzek, Stephen T. Leonard, ed., Political Science in History: Research Programs and Political Traditions.

Adam D. Sheingate, "Political Entrepreneurship, Institutional Change, and American Political Development,"Studies in American Political Development 17 (2) (Fall 2003): 185-203.

*Amy Kaplan, “Left Alone with America: The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture,” in Kaplan and Donald Pease, ed., Cultures of United States Imperialism (1993).

*Toni Morrison, “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature,” Michigan Quarterly Review 28 (Winter 1989): 1-34.

*Robert Vitalis, “Birth of A Discipline,” in David Long and Brian C. Schmidt, ed., Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations (2005).

Mae Ngai, “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law,” Journal of American History 86, 1 (June 1999).

Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies,” in David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, ed Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues.

James Farr, “Remembering the Revolution: Behavioralism in American Political Science,’ in Farr, Dryzek, and Leonard, eds., Political Science in History. 198-224.

Sonya M. Amadae, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism (2003), esp chap 5.

Rogers M. Smith, “If Politics Matters: Implications for a ‘New Institutionalism,’” Studies in American Political Development, 6, 1 (Spring 1992): 1-36.

Kevin Bruyneel, The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of US-Indigenous Relations (2007).

from Lisa Weeden

Weeden, Lisa. “The Politics of Deliberation: Qat Chews as Public Spheres in Yemen.” Public Culture 2007, 19 (1): 59-84.

Weeden, Lisa. Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. (University of Chicago Press. 1999), esp. chapters 1, 3, 4, and 5.

from Ido Oren

Oren, Ido. “Can Political Science Emulate the Natural Sciences? The Problem of Self-Disconfirming Analysis.” Polity, 38/1 (January 2006): 72–100.

Oren, Ido. “The Subjectivity of the ‘Democratic’ Peace: Changing U.S. Perceptions of Imperial Germany.” International Security 20 (Fall 1995): 147–84.

Oren, Ido. Our Enemies and US: America's Rivalries and the Making of Political Science. (Cornell Univ. Press, 2003)

from Timothy W. Luke

Agger, B. 1990. The Decline of Discourse: Reading, Writing and Resistance in Postmodern Capitalism. New York: Falmer Press.

Agger, B. 1989. Reading Science: A Literary, Political and Sociological Analysis. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall.

Appadurai, A. 1996. ModernityatLarge: CulturalDimensionsofGlobalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Berger, P. and T. Luckman. 1966. The Social Construction of Reality. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

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Foucault, M. 1982. “Afterword: The Subject and Power,” Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, ed. H. L. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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*Luke, T. W. 1999a. “The Discipline as Disciplinary Normalization: Networks of Research,” New Political Science, 21, no. 3, 345-363.

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from Julie Novkov

Brandwein, Pamela. “The Civil Rights Cases and the Lost Language of State Neglect.” In The Supreme Court and American Political Development. Eds. Ronald Kahn and Kenneth Kersch. University of Kansas Press, 2006. Pp. 275-325.

Brandwein, Pamela. Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

Cover, Robert. “Violence and the Word.” Yale Law Journal 95: 1601-1629 (1986).

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Kahn, Ronald and Kenneth Kersch. “Introduction.” In The Supreme Court and American Political Development. Eds. Ronald Kahn and Kenneth Kersch. University of Kansas Press, 2006. Pp. 1-30.

Novkov, Julie. Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Novkov, Julie. “Law and Political Ideologies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics. Eds. Dan Keleman, Greg Caldeira, and Keith Whittington. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Novkov, Julie. “Pace v. Alabama: Interracial Love, the Marriage Contract, and Post-bellum Foundations of the Family.” In The Supreme Court and American Political Development. Eds. Ronald Kahn and Kenneth Kersch. University of Kansas Press, 2006. Pp. 329-65.

Novkov, Julie. Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954. Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press, 2008.

from Dvora Yanow

Jun, Jong S. 2007. The social construction of public administration: Interpretive and critical perspectives. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Fischer, Frank. 2003. Reframing public policy: Discursive politics and deliberative practices. NY: Oxford University Press.

Hajer, Maarten A. and Wagenaar, Hendrik eds. 2003. Deliberative policy analysis. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Yanow, Dvora. 2003. Constructing American "race” and “ethnicity": Category-making in public policy and administration. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe. (empirical)

Yanow, Dvora. 2000. Conducting interpretive policy analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Yanow, Dvora. 1996. How does a policy mean? Interpreting policy and organizational actions. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. (empirical)

"Policy interpretations." 1995. Special issue. Policy Sciences 28. (empirical)

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