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... The analysis of the epistemological differences between neo-positivism and post-positivism allows us to identify different contributions that the evidence produced from each of these epistemologies can generate (Fischer, 2000). While the neo-positivist approach seeks generalizations based on a consensus built through the reproduction of empirical tests and statistical confirmation, the post-positivist approach starts with contextualized knowledge and seeks to produce policy analyses through the examination of discursive processes established between different views in the field (Danziger, 19958 apud Fischer, 2000Dryzek, 1993;Yanow and Schwartz-Shea, 2006). ...
July 2013