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100	1		_aPORTER, Sam _939509
245	1	0	_aStakeholders and perspectivism in qualitative policy evaluation : _ba realist reflection
260			_aMalden : _bWiley-Blackwell, _cJune 2009
520	3		_aThis paper examines the epistemological bases for the inclusion of stakeholders in policy research. While it concedes that the input of stakeholders provides essential expert and experiential knowledge for the understanding of complex policies and programmes, it contends that the approach which assumes that all interpretations of policy including those of stakeholders should be afforded equal validity, which we term relativist perspectivism, undermines the possibility of robust research by allowing power to replace methodological rigour as the primary research dynamic. It is noted that this problem tends to be more acute when the research is qualitative. A study into the gendered effects of Common Agricultural Policy reforms is used as an illustrative example of how research can be compromised by relativist perspectivism. It is argued that realist research methodologies uniquely provide the capacity to maintain epistemological robustness, while also being able to take due account of the perspectives of stakeholders.
700	1		_aSHORTALL, Sally _939510
773	0	8	_tPublic Administration: An International Quarterly _g87, 2, p. 259-273 _dMalden : Wiley-Blackwell, June 2009 _xISSN 00333298 _w
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