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Full of Meaning: Thick Description as Product of Public Administration Research

Ethnography, as a research strategy, is certainly not a dominant strategy in Public Administration. However, interpretive researchers have lately called for the use of an ethnographic research strategy to the field under study (e.g. Bevir and Rhodes 2003; Hajer 2003). Whether they stress the importance of the study of day-to-day working life of practitioners or call for more involvement with the experience of citizens, the idea is that the study of practices should be grounded locally. In this line of thought Yanow (2003) has argued that researchers should take local knowledge more into account.