Elite interviews: critical practice and tourism

Darbi, William Phanuel Kofi; Hall, C. Michael

doi:10.1080/13683500.2014.887663

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“…For the private sector, CEOs and high-level managers (i.e., senior decision-making roles) were included for their expert knowledge of market trends and corporate decision-making and management. Elite interviews can be challenging-e.g., due to issues of positionality, power and restricted access-but they provide important insights into high-level decision-making processes [30]. For other stakeholders, participants were included based on their expertise and involvement in food systems; e.g., policy-makers directly involved in food policy-making.…”

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Stakeholder Perceptions of Policy Tools in Support of Sustainable Food Consumption in Europe: Policy Implications

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Transitioning agri-food systems towards increased sustainability and resilience requires that attention be paid to sustainable food consumption policies. Policy-making processes often require the engagement and acceptance of key stakeholders. This study analyses stakeholders’ solutions for creating sustainable agri-food systems, through interviews with a broad range of stakeholders including food value chain actors, non-governmental organizations, governmental institutions, research institutions and academic experts. The study draws on 38 in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in four European countries: France, Iceland, Italy and the UK, as well as three interviews with high-level EU experts. The interviewees’ solutions were analysed according to a five-category typology of policy tools, encompassing direct activity regulations, and market-based, knowledge-based, governance and strategic policy tools. Most of the identified solutions were located in the strategic tools category, reflecting shared recognition of the need to integrate food policy to achieve long-term goals. Emerging solutions—those which were most commonly identified among the different national contexts—were then used to derive empirically-grounded and more universally applicable recommendations for the advancement of sustainable food consumption policies.

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Stakeholder Perceptions of Policy Tools in Support of Sustainable Food Consumption in Europe: Policy Implications

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“…I understand this second refusal as the avoidance of being involved in interviews and disclosing internal political stories of the system as mentioned above. This experience confirms the challenges of gaining access and trust in elite interviews, as described in the literature (Darbi and Hall, 2014;Drew, 2014;Mikecz, 2012).…”

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“…As Darbi and Hall (2014) point out, luck and chance are vital in elite interviewing. The Party Secretary during the time of my case study, Mr Nguyen Ba Thanh, an informant that I most desired to interview, was critically ill at the time I conducted my data collection;…”

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Influences on the policy process in local government in Vietnam: The case of low-income housing policy in Da Nang City from 2005-2013

Nguyen¹

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<p>There is a growing literature on the policy process at the central level in Vietnam but less attention is paid to exactly how policy gets shaped and implemented at the local level in the specific culture and context of Vietnam and the evolving role of the one-party state. Accordingly, this thesis examines the development of low-income housing policy in Da Nang City from 2005 to 2013 in order to understand the critical influences on the policy process at a local government. It employs qualitative techniques to analyse data collected from interviews and conversations with the participants in the policy process and a collection of published and unpublished documents relating to the process. The findings show that it is possible to apply Hofferbert’s (1974) funnel of causality model with some adjustments, based on insights from other theoretical approaches, to understand influences on the policy process. The significant influences include socio-economic conditions (particularly rapid urban population growth and the impact of urban renewal), which are shaped by some key historical and geographical features, institutional arrangements (especially the relationship between central and local government), and a network of policy actors centred on policy elites. This study contributes to the literature in three ways. Firstly, although space for policy innovation was constrained by the authority of central government, the city government in fact enjoyed significant autonomy in policy implementation and the central–local relationship had room for policy experimentation and learning, which was still an effective way to change policy at both central and local levels. Secondly, local leaders in Vietnam could have a critical role in re-developing and implementing policies. This finding differs from the conventional wisdom that policymaking in Vietnam is collective and consensus-based. In this case, a strong policy leader could impose his will on the whole local state apparatus. Thirdly, the study also shed light on the opportunities for policy learning in the developing relationship between the state and private sectors in Vietnam. Faced with profit-driven private developers, the local government had to experiment with various incentives to ensure their participation in developing low-cost housing. Comparing the policy outcome before and after the private sector’s participation suggests that low-income housing can be developed in partnership with the private sector, given appropriate government policies. The findings of this study offer some implications for people in and outside Vietnam’s party and government systems, who want to influence public policy in Vietnam.</p>

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“…The same is to be said with the way the researcher speaks and/or is dressed (i.e., more smartly than the participants) (Ballinger & Payne, 2000). This finding implies that the discussion of power in professional ethical conduct should be included in texts on research design (such as those by Finn, Elliott-White, & Walton, 2000;Fowler, 2014;Veal, 2006) and how response errors could have been caused by assumed researcher power during data collection (Darbi & Hall, 2014). Ethics committees might include this concern when reviewing procedural ethics applications.…”

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The Ethics of Excellence in Tourism Research: A Reflexive Analysis and Implications for Early Career Researchers

Khoo‐Lattimore¹

2018

Tourism Analysis

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Set against the framework of today's competitive research environment, this article focuses on a less discussed category of ethics within tourism: that of the researcher as a professional. "Data" are presented as reflexive considerations on the ethical challenges and dilemmas an early career researcher faced during her transition from the early to mid-career phase. Personal experiences are compared to a multidisciplinary literature on ethics, education, knowledge production, and distribution. This article concludes that it is possible for early career researchers in the current tourism academic climate to remain ethical and successful at the same time—if they engage constantly and reflexively with the ethical questions that surround their own identity, power, and responsibility as academics. The article also asks that the tourism research community and institutional structures place more emphasis on the discussion of ethics and codes of conduct.

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Elite interviews: critical practice and tourism

Cited by 22 publications

References 101 publications

Stakeholder Perceptions of Policy Tools in Support of Sustainable Food Consumption in Europe: Policy Implications

Stakeholder Perceptions of Policy Tools in Support of Sustainable Food Consumption in Europe: Policy Implications

Influences on the policy process in local government in Vietnam: The case of low-income housing policy in Da Nang City from 2005-2013

The Ethics of Excellence in Tourism Research: A Reflexive Analysis and Implications for Early Career Researchers

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