Focus groups as ethnography: the case of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff
Focus groups as ethnography: the case of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff
The purpose of this paper is to outline the current state of political and administrative ethnography in political science and public administration before suggesting that focus groups are a useful tool in the study of governing elites. They provide an alternative way of “being there” when the rules about secrecy and access prevent participant observation. Briefly, it describes the job of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff before explaining the research design, the preparations for the focus group sessions, and the strategies used to manage the dynamics of a diverse group that included former political enemies and factional rivals
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Rhodes, R.A.W.
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Tiernan, Anne
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2015
Rhodes, R.A.W.
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Tiernan, Anne
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Rhodes, R.A.W. and Tiernan, Anne
(2015)
Focus groups as ethnography: the case of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff.
Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 4 (2), , [4 (2)].
(doi:10.1108/JOE-06-2014-0015).
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to outline the current state of political and administrative ethnography in political science and public administration before suggesting that focus groups are a useful tool in the study of governing elites. They provide an alternative way of “being there” when the rules about secrecy and access prevent participant observation. Briefly, it describes the job of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff before explaining the research design, the preparations for the focus group sessions, and the strategies used to manage the dynamics of a diverse group that included former political enemies and factional rivals
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Accepted/In Press date: 2015
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ISSN: 2046-6749
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