Arenas of policy making

Abstract

The key informant interviews aimed at gathering additional information about the relevant policies at hand in national contexts. The key informants are themselves strategic actors in the field and their views and attitudes are not necessarily objective or close to the truth. Experts’ interviews are thus understood as both adding presumably „objective“ data to our contextual knowledge, which includes previously assembled statistical and other data, as well as providing „contested knowledge“, where the expert knowledge of the key informants has to be weighed against the life experiences of the self-employed.