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020			_a9781138345744
040			_cLCIC LIBRARY
082			_aREF 300.72 F87
100			_aKevin Walby _eEditor
245		0	_aFreedom of information and social science research design /
260			_aLondon : _bRoutledge, _c2020.
300			_a 1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages)
300			_a4975 pages;
520			_aThis multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and processes can contribute to social science research design across sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, journalism and education. Comparing the use of FOI in research design across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa, it provides readers with resources to carry out FOI requests and considers the inuence such requests can have on debates within multiple disciplines. In addition to exploring how scholars can use FOI disclosures in conjunction with interview data, archival data and other datasets, this collection explains how researchers can systematically analyse FOI disclosures. Considering the challenges and dilemmas in using FOI processes in research, it examines the reasons why many scholars continue to rely on more easily accessible data, when much of the real work of governance, the more clandestine but consequential decisions and policy moves made by government ocials, can only be accessed using FOI requests
650			_a Access to Information
650			_aSOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology General
650			_aFreedom of information
700			_aAlex Luscombe _eEditor
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