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3.4 Case StudyThe content analysis on the national level was complemented by a case study. A case studyis a form of qualitative descriptive research that is used to look at individuals, a small groupof participants, or a group as a whole. It involves an in-depth description of the entity beingevaluated, the circumstances under which it is used, the characteristics of the peopleinvolved in it, and the nature of community in which it is located. In relation to theunderstanding of policy process, a case study is employed to identify actual problems, torecognize key players and their agenda and to become aware of those aspects of situationthat contribute to the problem (Merseth, 1991) 3 . Also, according to Yin (1993), a case studyshould have research issue, units of analysis, and criteria for selection of the case. In thisstudy, the illustrative type of case study was used. The research issue is specific on how thepolicy change at the national level gets translated to the local level as well as how policy atlocal level affects the national level. The unit of analysis is the protected area managementplan. For the criteria for study area selection, the following aspects were considered:- Proximity and accessibility;- Encompassing existing forest stands;- Belonging to the protected area (PA) priority sites identified by DENR; and- Social-political stability and personal safety.The following were performed for the case study: data collection, content analysis ofcomprehensive documents (see Fig. 3), interviews of key informants to verify the collecteddocuments as well as to gather information which were not available from the collecteddocuments.3.5 Data CollectionA number of public documents such as records of congressional and legislative hearings,public consultation proceedings, drafted bills, statements of interest groups and relatedliterature were collected and used as primary data source. For the national level, 22documents were obtained from various national agencies such as the DENR Central Office,The House of Representatives, and Archives of the Senate. The content analysis at the locallevel was based on 5 comprehensive documents obtained from the Ecology Centre under the3 For further information on case study, seehttp://writing.colostate.edu/references/research/casestudy/index.cfm25
Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA). The list of documents is shown in Appendix A.The documents present the whole official documentation of the policy making process.Aside from public documents, informal interviews with policy actors and key informantsinvolved in the policy making and literature reviews were carried out for the purpose ofvalidation and verification of beliefs identified from the content analysis as well as factorsaffecting their decisions (stated in the documents).3.6 Data ProcessingThere are three main parts in the processing of data:(1) Policy actor identification – the information about the actors involved duringthe policy making process were identified from the attendance sheets ofpublic consultations, congress and senate hearings, and committee meetings;letters of statement of interest groups; and journalists in news clippings;(2) Advocacy coalitions – the coalitions at the national level were identifiedbased on the result of content analysis where codings were done according tothe main sources of documents. While at the local level, the same contentanalysis was carried out however, codings were done based on the maingroup of actors. This is because the ways of documenting their policymaking process were different; and(3) Belief systems – In capturing the belief system of the advocacy coalitions,five types of information were utilized. These are:- Output of the conceptual analysis;- Selected code forms (see Appendix B);- Revised structure of belief system (see Table 1);- Research questions (stated in Fig.3, Step 1); and- Verification from interest groups’ publications and informalinterviews.Because of these methodologies, the structure of the chapters 4 and 5 as the result chaptersof the study has three main parts: a) the internal structure of the policy subsystem isdissected to identify actors and their concepts (as output of content analysis of publicdocuments), advocacy coalitions and belief systems and policy outputs; b) the externalfactors affecting the subsystem; and c) the diagnostics and discussions.26
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References:Act 3915, as amended by
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Property Conference of the Internat
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Pulhin, J. M. (1996). Community for
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Walpole, P. et al. (1993): Upland P
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