Policy debates as dynamic networks : German pension politics and privatization discourse /
By: Leifeld, Philip [author.].
Series: Studies in social policy research ; volume 29. Publisher: Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, 2016Description: xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9783593505701; 9783593505701:; 3593505703.Subject(s): Pensions -- Government policy -- Germany | Policy networks | Privatization -- Germany | Pension trusts -- Government policy -- Germany | Policy networks -- Germany | Privatization -- Government policy -- Germany | Political planning -- Germany | Policy sciences -- Germany | Policy networks -- Case studies | Social sciences -- Network analysis -- Case studies | Political sociology -- Case studies | Discourse analysis -- Case studiesDDC classification: 331.2520943 Summary: How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods, political discourse is cast as a temporal network of actors and their statements in the media over time. In a case study, Philip Leifeld applies discourse network analysis to the policy debate on old-age security in Germany. Demonstrating that German pension politics was characterized by an increasing polarization of competing coalitions towards the end of the 1990s, Leifeld shows how structural breaks in the discourse network can explain major policy changes and a radical turn to privatization in 2001. -- Provided by publisher.Summary: How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods, political discourse is cast as a temporal network of actors and their statements in the media over time.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Konstanz, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-349) and index.
How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods, political discourse is cast as a temporal network of actors and their statements in the media over time. In a case study, Philip Leifeld applies discourse network analysis to the policy debate on old-age security in Germany. Demonstrating that German pension politics was characterized by an increasing polarization of competing coalitions towards the end of the 1990s, Leifeld shows how structural breaks in the discourse network can explain major policy changes and a radical turn to privatization in 2001. -- Provided by publisher.
How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods, political discourse is cast as a temporal network of actors and their statements in the media over time.