Thinking On
This article provides a brief intellectual history of my journey from traditional public administration through modernist-empiricism to an interpretive approach and its associated research themes; a story of how I got to where I am. I do so to provide the historical context for a statement of where I stand now on key themes in my research; a story of where I go from here. I have a vaulting ambition; to replace the theory and methods of mainstream policy science with an interpretive approach and narrative explanations, so redefining public policy analysis. The published version is available as ‘Thinking on: I was so much older then.’ Public Administration 89 (1) 2011: 196-212.