Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design

ISBN-13: 9781138345744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Kevin Walby; Alex Luscombe

Opis

This multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how freedom of information law and processes can contribute to social science research design, explores the challenges of using freedom of information processes in research and considers the reasons for which freedom of information processes remain under-used in social scientific research. 

Spis treści

Foreword: Thinking About Access  Introduction: Freedom of Information and Research Design in International Perspective  Part 1: Freedom of Information and Research Design: The Foundations  1. Designing Research Using FOI Requests in the USA  2. Accessing Information in South Africa  3. UK Experience of Freedom of Information as a Method of Enquiry  4. Using FOI to Explore Governance and Decision-Making in the UK  Part 2: Freedom of Information and Research Design: Disciplinary Applications  5. Freedom of Information and Australian Criminology  6. Accessing Information in a Technology Industry: Tracing Canadian Drone Stakeholders and Negotiating Access  7. Using Continuous FOI Requests to Uncover the Live Archive: Tracking Protest Policing in the USA  Part 3: Freedom of Information: Triangulation, Data Analysis and Exposition  8. Piecing it Together, Studying Public-Private Partnerships: Freedom of Information as Oligoptic Technologies  9. Researching the Complexities of Knowledge Contestations and Occupational Disease Recognition: FOI Requests in Multi-Method Qualitative Research Design  10. Repertoires of Empirical Social Science and Freedom of Information Requests: Four Techniques for Analyzing Disclosures  Part 4: Freedom of Information and Research Design: Challenges and Dilemmas  11. Analysing Public Policy in the UK: Seeing through the Secrecy, Obfuscation and Obstruction of the FOIA by the Home Office  12. A Double-Edged Sword? Freedom of Information as a Method in Social Research  13. The Falling Currency of Democracy: Information as an Instrument of Control and Certainty in the Postwar and Post-Truth Eras  Postscript: Access in the Absence of FOI: Open Source Investigations and Strategies of Verification