An Examination of Higher Education Policy Problems Using Narrative Policy Analysis

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-9-2019

Publication Title

American Behavioral Scientist

First page number:

1

Last page number:

18

Abstract

Policy actors and coalitions use narratives to frame higher education policy problems and solutions. In this article, I illustrate how I employed narrative policy analysis (NPA) in practice to demonstrate how state policy actors and coalitions created policy storylines that offered social orientation, reassurance, or guidance for a stubborn higher education policy problem in one state. I begin the article with a review of NPA, followed by a discussion of the methods and tools that guided my analysis and scholars interested in NPA can employ. Next, I provide a brief overview of the policy problem context followed by a detailed description and examples of analysis for policy artifacts and the construction of policy storylines.

Keywords

Higher education; Public policy; Narrative policy analysis

Disciplines

Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

Language

English

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