Selected Essays, Volume II explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for political science, focusing on different ways of studying politics.

• Introduction


• 1: Further on Down the Road - Blurring Genres


• Part I: Theory


• 2: On Interpretation


• Part II: Methods


• 3: On Ethnography


• 4: On 'Being There'


• 5: On Focus Groups


• 6: On 'Life History'


• 7: On 'Court Politics'


• Part III: Applications


• 8: On Greedy Institutions


• 9: On Reform


• 10: On Local Knowledge


• 11: On Westminster


• Conclusion: Interpreting the 'Interpretive Turn'


• 12: What Is New About the 'Interpretive Turn' and Why Does It Matter?

Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government (Research) at the University of Southampton. He is life Vice-President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom; a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). In 2012, he was awarded International Research Association for Public Management and Routledge Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Public Management Research. In 2014, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award by the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom for his outstanding contribution to political science. In 2015, he was awarded the biennial ECPR's (European Consortium for Political Research) Lifetime Achievement Award.