Archiving and Re-using of Qualitative Data as a Path to Development of Public Administration Research

• Authors: Joanna Gajda
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

 In response to the assumptions of new public management models and public or good governance, practical aspects of research in the area of public admin­istration and the development possibilities of qualitative research methods are presented in the article. Due to the fact that qualitative research has become increasingly popular in the above disciplines, data archiving and trans­parency is discussed (Moravcsik), (Yom et al.) and guidelines and principles are established (American Political Science Association). However, there is a lot of controversy among scholars (Monroe), and some examples are missing. This paper presents the challenge of ‘openness’ in the empirical activities (or empirical practice) of researchers. Its purpose is to present the archiving data potential from in-depth interviews on the example of a small set of qualitative data from research in the field of public administration. Firstly, the basic assumptions of new models of functioning of public administration and related consequences for researchers are described. In the second part, the challenges related to openness in contemporary public administration models are briefly mentioned. Next, the method of creating an archive from existing data, individual stages, documents, and data is outlined; it is based on the au­thor’s best practice on Qualidata (American Political Science Association; Van den Eynden et al.) and DA-RT principles.1 The summary includes examples of probable opportunities and challenges related to usage of data archiving for the research in public administration and political science development.

Keywords

EN

Public Administration (PA); qualitative research; qualitative data; (IDI) In-depth interviewing; new public management (NPM); qualitative data archive

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 143-160

Dates

published

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Joanna Gajda

• Pedagogical University of Krakow, Institute of Political Science

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9107-0546

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1641-4233.24.09