Rhodes, Roderick2015-12-100033-3298http://hdl.handle.net/1885/68510This 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 context for a statement of where I stand now and key themes in my research; a story of where I go from here. I have a vaulting ambition: to establish an interpretive approach and narrative explanations in political science, so redefining public policy analysis.Keywords: policy analysis; public administration; research; social policy201110.1111/j.1467-9299.2011.01898.x2016-02-24