Maarten A Hajer
Biographic Data
| ID | 192341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maarten A Hajer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maarten A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hajer |
| SIGNATURE | HAJER M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9212-645X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The Script of the Science–Policy Interface: Performative Routines in Climate Politics
The urgency of political action to safeguard against anthropogenic climate change is widely acknowledged. Much of this urgency stems from environmental scientists’ projections that have consistently shown dire future risks. A key part in providing such projections with political legitimacy is institutional “science–policy interface” (SPI) arrangements, which influence the ways in which environmental knowledge is produced and the ways in which pol…
Words Matter in Public Policy: Reflections on the Special Issue
Words matter in public policy and politics. But how do we understand the influence of words exactly? Is language a vehicle to express thoughts and ideas, delivering ideas to audiences akin to a conveyor belt? Or does language form ideas in the first place, and is language constitutive of realities, shaping the thoughts of both those who deliver the words and those who listen to the words that are uttered? In a reflection on the special issue, thi…
Mapping Decolonial Futures: Imagining Islands Beyond the Colonial Gaze
Maps and mapping practices aid in understanding spatial phenomena and shape our conceptualization and representation of place. Historically, maps have long served colonial projects of conquest, exerting power over territories, resource extraction, and violence all while privileging the world vision of a few colonial powers. These power dynamics remain embedded in the ways we often visualize and represent place through mapping today. Despite the p…
Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements
Low-income households in South Africa’s rapidly urbanising cities often face significant challenges in accessing grid electricity. These challenges are illustrative of the limitations of conventional municipality-led grid expansion, and necessitate the exploration of alternative energy solutions that could reshape energy provision in these contexts. To better understand how such alternative solutions are envisioned and realised, this paper examin…
Political emotions: A New Policy Science for Tackling the Climate Crisis
The climate crisis and the policy measures intended to address it have become deeply polarized, reflecting broader political divisions. While emotions are increasingly acknowledged as central to policymaking, they are still often framed in policy debates as obstacles to rational decision-making. This persists despite substantial scholarship in political psychology showing that emotions are integral to rationality. This research note introduces th…
Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation
Against the backdrop of escalating climate change and widespread political dissatisfaction, calls are increasing for radical transformation of socioeconomic and political structures. But how such transformations could materialise remains an open question. In this article, we argue for alternative ways of understanding political stasis and change. Drawing on the established tradition of interpreting politics as theatre, we argue that dramaturgical…
The mixed classroom: A pedagogical experiment with students and policymakers
The societal inability to respond accurately to the ecological crisis also requires a reflection on how universities can improve the impact of their practices. This paper reports on a prize-winning experiment aiming to strengthen the interaction of the university with the world of policymaking: a mixed classroom with students and policymakers. This classroom provides an environment in which policymakers and students co-produce insights, while giv…
Odd couples: Reconciling academic and operational cultures for whole-institution sustainability governance at universities
Purpose This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, the UK and The Netherlands. The paper addresses existing literature that championed further integration …
Light At The End Of The Tunnel? The Staging of Expertise During the Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign
In this paper, we compare the governmental and public framings of expertise in the Dutch Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the period between January 1st and April 30th, 2021. Specifically, we collected all statements regarding vaccination on three interrelated stages: (1) the official press conferences; (2) Twitter, for responses to government policies; and (3) political motions that were put forward by Members of Parliament in the days following…
Pluralizing urban futures: A multicriteria mapping analysis of online taxis in Indonesia
The exploration of urban future storylines of transformative change is subject to socio-political processes rather than a mere, objective envisioning of the desirable city. Approaches in urban imagination and planning processes should thus consider plural perspectives across a range of actors and stakeholders beyond the usual suspects of experts and professionals. This paper mobilizes the case of the emergence of online taxis in Indonesia to embr…
The explanatory power of the landscape perspective on inter-organizational collaboration
Collaboration between organizations is generally seen as a pre-requisite for dealing with complex problems, but such efforts appear to be inherently difficult and often disappoint expectations regarding their problem-solving capacity. In this article we add to the existing literature by taking a systemic, landscape perspective on collaborative success and failure. Using a case study of urban regeneration in the Dutch Randstad conurbation, we show…
Power and empowerment of grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions: A review
The sustainability transitions scholarship is increasingly applying power and empowerment frameworks to investigate the role of grassroots innovations in the politics of societal change; however, theoretical fragmentation persists. This paper presents a systematic literature review of 88 studies on grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions that employ the lenses of power and empowerment. We take stock of the conceptual development of …
A new urban narrative for sustainable development
Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non‐use agreement
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering as a speculative part of the climate policy portfolio. We contend, in particular, that solar geoengineering at planetary scale is not governable in a globally inclusive and just manner within the current international polit…
Navigating the political: An analysis of political calibration of integrated assessment modelling in light of the 1.5 °C goal
Some of the most influential explorations of low-carbon transformations are conducted with Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). The recent attempts by the IPCC to look for pathways compatible with the 1.5 °C and 2 °C temperature goals are a case in point. Earlier scholarship indicates that model-based pathways are persuasive in bringing specific possible future alternatives into view and guiding policymaking. However, the process through which th…
Envisioning alternatives in pre-structured urban sustainability transformations: Too late to change the future
In the governance of urban sustainability transformations, participatory futures practices are increasingly popular. Yet there is a rising awareness that the success or failure of these practices depends on how they are staged and the context in which they are conducted. These contextual factors are often less than ideal, and futures practices take place at the crossroads of many pre-determined agendas and priorities. We distinguish four factors …
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game
The urban sustainability transformations that are urgently needed will have significant effects on the daily lives of city dwellers. As ways to imagine and co-design sustainable urban futures, experiments within the present-day urban environment are increasingly popular. This paper investigates how such an experimental approach can serve as the base of an applied urban futures game that enables its players to reflect on and imagine ways to addres…
Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative
The concept of the future is re-emerging as an urgent topic on the academic agenda. In this article, we focus on the 'politics of the future': the social processes and practices that allow particular imagined futures to become socially performative. Acknowledging that the performativity of such imagined futures is well-understood, we argue that how particular visions come about and why they become performative is underexplained. Drawing on constr…
Staging Expertise in Times of Covid-19: An Analysis of the Science-Policy-Society Interface in the Dutch “Intelligent Lockdown”
The corona crisis of 2020 took many by surprise. Quite suddenly, politicians had to make drastic decisions to guarantee public health, affecting basic civil liberties. In justifying their decisions, politicians internationally reverted back to a direct staging of experts to legitimize their proposals for what internationally became known as the “lockdown”. In this article we analyze the performance of the Dutch government that, early on, labeled …
Transformative pathways – Using integrated assessment models more effectively to open up plausible and desirable low-carbon futures
Integrated assessment models (IAM) and resulting scenarios have become increasingly institutionalised and relevant in the science-policy interface of climate policy. Despite their analytical strengths to conceive low-carbon futures, their co-evolution with the transnational science-policy interface of climate politics has also led to a focus on a specific set of techno-economic futures that are typically based on a relatively narrow set of assump…
Working to align energy transitions and social equity: An integrative framework linking institutional work, imaginaries and energy justice
Recent academic evidence suggests that, in contrast to what is often thought, the introduction of renewable energy infrastructures often leads to negative, not positive, social equity outcomes. Against this background, this paper aims to develop and empirically illustrate an integrative framework for analysing the work – or ‘agency’ – exercised by actors operating within and across different global contexts to align renewable energy and social eq…
A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems
This paper investigates how the teaching and learning about “wicked” environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on futuring – the active imagination of the future. The growing academic interest in possible and desirable futures provides a promising starting point for restructuring education as coupling knowledge to imagination and teaching to policy practice can open up new, experiential ways of learning. Empi…
Futures literacy and the diversity of the future
In this paper, we argue that a key component of futures literacy is reflexivity regarding different attitudes toward the future. Various intellectual traditions and futures practices make epistemologically distinct claims about the future and its manifestations in the present. Through their different outlooks on analyzing, understanding, and influencing the future, these diverse approaches represent fundamentally different attitudes to what it me…
Acid Rain
Acid rain was an emblematic issue in environmental politics in the 1970s and in particular in the 1980s. Being an “emblem” meant that people understood the broader environmental problematique through the lens of the particular issue of acid rain. Consequently, the acid rain controversy was not simply about finding solutions to the physical problem of acidification; it was also very much about renegotiating the rules and practices of environmental…
Ecological Modernisation as Cultural Politics
This chapter investigates some similar dynamics in contemporary environmental politics. It argues that environmental politics is now dominated by a discourse that might be labelled ecological modernisation. The chapter presents an outline of this policy- or regulation-orientated programme and gives a brief account of its history. Subsequently, it also presents three ideal-typical interpretations of what ecological modernisation is about. The inte…
A decade of discourse analysis of environmental politics: Achievements, challenges, perspectives
This article assesses the contribution of discourse analysis to the study of environmental politics over the period of the past decade. Defining discourse as a particular linguistic regularity that can be found in conversations distinguishes it from 'deliberation' and 'discussion'. Discourse analysis is seen as focused on situational logics studying 'language-in-use'. Three strengths of discourse analysis are highlighted: its capacity to reveal t…
Policy without polity? Policy analysis and the institutional void
Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative
The concept of the future is re-emerging as an urgent topic on the academic agenda. In this article, we focus on the 'politics of the future': the social processes and practices that allow particular imagined futures to become socially performative. Acknowledging that the performativity of such imagined futures is well-understood, we argue that how particular visions come about and why they become performative is underexplained. Drawing on constr…
Anticipating futures through models: The rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) have gained a prominent role in the climate science-policy interface. The article reconstructs the evolution of IAMs and their changing role in this interface, investigating how and why IAMs have become so prominent. Based on literature analysis, quantitative document analysis and semi-structured interviews, we describe the historic evolution of the interactions between IAMs and policy-making between 1970 and 2…
Futures literacy and the diversity of the future
In this paper, we argue that a key component of futures literacy is reflexivity regarding different attitudes toward the future. Various intellectual traditions and futures practices make epistemologically distinct claims about the future and its manifestations in the present. Through their different outlooks on analyzing, understanding, and influencing the future, these diverse approaches represent fundamentally different attitudes to what it me…
Discourse Analysis and the Study of Policy Making
Since the late 1980s, Discourse Analysis has become an increasingly important force within the policy sciences. The core concern of policy studies has been captured as ‘understanding the world and trying to change it at the same time’ (Nelson, 1996). Rooted in the work of Harold D. Lasswell, who called for a ‘policy orientation’ in social science research, policy studies has constantly sought to develop knowledge in order to facilitate policy int…
An Energetic Odyssey: Understanding ‘Techniques of Futuring’ in the transition towards renewable energy
After the Paris agreement on climate change (2015) climate change politics is no longer about raising awareness but about shaping the sustainability transition itself. It requires us to rethink the role of scientific knowledge, shifting from a tradition of “expected futures” to an approach focusing on “desirable futures” and ways to get there. We argue the sustainability transitions scholarship tends to see constructions of the future (visions, s…
Setting the Stage: A Dramaturgy of Policy Deliberation
This article aims to shed light on the performative dimension of participation in policy making. It is argued that we can enhance our understanding of the dynamics of policy deliberation examining the setting in which the deliberation takes place as well as the particular staging of that setting. Portraying political processes as sequences of staged performances of conflict and conflict resolution, this article analyzes how the design of the sett…
Imagining the post-fossil city: Why is it so difficult to think of new possible worlds
The phenomenon of climate change requires a rethinking of existing socio-geographical arrangements. This paper argues that the transition to ‘post-fossil urbanization’ is hampered by the lack of positive imaginations of alternative possible urban futures and post-fossil city life. It asks the question why it is so difficult to conceive of new possible urban worlds, and tries to answer it by using the established concept of ‘imaginary’ and introdu…
A dramaturgy of critical moments in transition: Understanding the dynamics of conflict in socio-political change
Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non‐use agreement
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering as a speculative part of the climate policy portfolio. We contend, in particular, that solar geoengineering at planetary scale is not governable in a globally inclusive and just manner within the current international polit…
Performing Governance Through Networks
Governance networks typically function in the absence of clearly defined constitutional rules. Network actors, therefore, have to develop a common understanding of the problem as well as build a basis for mutual trust. We suggest that discourse-analytical and dramaturgical concepts can be helpful instruments to analyse these dynamics of trust building in governance networks
Performing Authority: Discursive Politics After the Assassination of Theo Van Gogh
In November 2004, the assassination of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist shocked The Netherlands. Critics of multiculturalism quickly linked the murder to the perceived failure of ‘soft’ integration policies and questioned the authority and legitimacy of Amsterdam’s political leadership. This article studies the response of political leaders to those challenges from a performative perspective. Analysing governance a…
Navigating the political: An analysis of political calibration of integrated assessment modelling in light of the 1.5 °C goal
Some of the most influential explorations of low-carbon transformations are conducted with Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). The recent attempts by the IPCC to look for pathways compatible with the 1.5 °C and 2 °C temperature goals are a case in point. Earlier scholarship indicates that model-based pathways are persuasive in bringing specific possible future alternatives into view and guiding policymaking. However, the process through which th…
The Interactive State: Democratisation from Above
The work of Robert Putnam has provoked a lively debate on the democratic importance of a robust civil society. Criticism of his work concentrates on the fact that his concept of social capital conceives of the relationship between civil society and government predominantly as a one-way affair – a strong civil society is good for politics. Taking up this line of argument, an appreciation of political factors is promoted to explain varying patterns…
Democracy in the risk society? Learning from the new politics of mobility in Munich
It is often assumed that more democratic procedures will help bring about a more sustainable organisation of society. This assumption is questioned using the case of transport policy in Munich, and thus addresses the way in which the key issue of mobility is handled institutionally in a risk society. The importance of new democratic, participatory practices is illuminated as is the prominent role of new practices on a ‘corporatist’ footing. The n…
Working to align energy transitions and social equity: An integrative framework linking institutional work, imaginaries and energy justice
Recent academic evidence suggests that, in contrast to what is often thought, the introduction of renewable energy infrastructures often leads to negative, not positive, social equity outcomes. Against this background, this paper aims to develop and empirically illustrate an integrative framework for analysing the work – or ‘agency’ – exercised by actors operating within and across different global contexts to align renewable energy and social eq…
Who speaks for the climate: Making sense of media reporting on climate change
Maxwell T Boykoff, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN13 9780521115841 (hbk), ISBN13: 9780521133050 (pbk), 240 pp Why is it that major newspapers in the United States
Transformative pathways – Using integrated assessment models more effectively to open up plausible and desirable low-carbon futures
Integrated assessment models (IAM) and resulting scenarios have become increasingly institutionalised and relevant in the science-policy interface of climate policy. Despite their analytical strengths to conceive low-carbon futures, their co-evolution with the transnational science-policy interface of climate politics has also led to a focus on a specific set of techno-economic futures that are typically based on a relatively narrow set of assump…
Agro-food Crises: Institutional and Discursive Changes in the Food Scares Era
When dioxins were found in milk in the Netherlands in the late 1980s, the issue was framed in the media as an ‘environmental scandal’ (Eberg, 1997). Waste incineration plants in the vicinity of cat
A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems
This paper investigates how the teaching and learning about “wicked” environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on futuring – the active imagination of the future. The growing academic interest in possible and desirable futures provides a promising starting point for restructuring education as coupling knowledge to imagination and teaching to policy practice can open up new, experiential ways of learning. Empi…
Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game
The urban sustainability transformations that are urgently needed will have significant effects on the daily lives of city dwellers. As ways to imagine and co-design sustainable urban futures, experiments within the present-day urban environment are increasingly popular. This paper investigates how such an experimental approach can serve as the base of an applied urban futures game that enables its players to reflect on and imagine ways to addres…
Der unscharfe Ort der Politik: Empirische Fallstudien zur Theorie der reflexiven Modernisierung
The Generic City
Political emotions: A New Policy Science for Tackling the Climate Crisis
The climate crisis and the policy measures intended to address it have become deeply polarized, reflecting broader political divisions. While emotions are increasingly acknowledged as central to policymaking, they are still often framed in policy debates as obstacles to rational decision-making. This persists despite substantial scholarship in political psychology showing that emotions are integral to rationality. This research note introduces th…
Discourse Coalitions and the Institutionalization of Practice: The Case of Acid Rain in Great Britain
AG Soziologie und Ökologie: Wie beeinflußt die ökologische Krise gesellschaftliche Beziehungsmuster
Die Frage nach den Folgen der “ökologischen Krise” für gesellschaftliche Beziehungsmuster ist immer eine doppelte Frage: zum einen nach den gesellschaftlichen Definitionsprozessen des Phänomens “ökologische Krise” sowie der damit verbundenen Leitbilder und Rezepturen gesellschaftlicher Gegensteuerung, zum anderen nach individuellen, sozialen und institutionellen Reaktionsmustern auf diese (sich ständig verändernden) Problemdeutungen und Symbolisi…
The politics of environmental discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process
Discourse Analysis
Introduces discourse analysis as a way to analyse the policy process. Draws on two different discourse analytical approaches: the work of Michel Foucault and the social psychological work by Michael Billig and Rom Harré. Concludes by comparing the analysis of policy making using the concept of discourse coalitions to the well‐known concept of ‘advocacy coalitions’.
Ecological Modernisation as Cultural Politics
Der unscharfe Ort der Politik — eine Einleitung
Erleben wir eine Wiederkehr der Politik? Oder eine Krise, vielleicht sogar das Ende der Politik? Für beide Deutungen finden sich Anzeichen. Auf der einen Seite steht das für viele überraschende Faktum einer Renaissance der Sozialdemokratie in Europa: und zwar einer pluralen Mitte-links-Sozialdemokratie, die es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, den Wohlfahrtsstaat unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung zu reformieren, die Demokratie transnational im…
Der unscharfe Ort der Politik: Empirische Fallstudien zur Theorie der reflexiven Modernisierung
Democracy in the risk society? Learning from the new politics of mobility in Munich
It is often assumed that more democratic procedures will help bring about a more sustainable organisation of society. This assumption is questioned using the case of transport policy in Munich, and thus addresses the way in which the key issue of mobility is handled institutionally in a risk society. The importance of new democratic, participatory practices is illuminated as is the prominent role of new practices on a ‘corporatist’ footing. The n…
The Generic City
Spatial Planning in the Network Society-Rethinking the Principles of Planning in the Netherlands
The Dutch planning system rejoices a very positive reputation in the international academic planning literature. Yet both the conceptual orientation and the institutional practices of Dutch planning are eroded. New institutional practices have emerged that effectively form a 'shadow structure' to the official planning system, eroding both its effectiveness and legitimacy. The article suggests that this instititutional development is to be underst…
Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
Discourse Coalitions and the Institutionalization of Practice: The Case of Acid Rain in Great Britain
The attitude of the British government in the acid rain controversy has earned Britain the label of “the dirty man of Europe.”1 In the face of an international moral outcry Britain has been notoriously stubborn in denying accusations that the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions of its coal-fired power stations have caused environmental damage abroad. Analysts trying to pinpoint the reasons for Britain’s failure to deal with the problem po…
Discourse Analysis and the Study of Policy Making
Since the late 1980s, Discourse Analysis has become an increasingly important force within the policy sciences. The core concern of policy studies has been captured as ‘understanding the world and trying to change it at the same time’ (Nelson, 1996). Rooted in the work of Harold D. Lasswell, who called for a ‘policy orientation’ in social science research, policy studies has constantly sought to develop knowledge in order to facilitate policy int…
Argumentative Diskursanalyse. Auf der Suche nach Koalitionen, Praktiken und Bedeutung
Vor ungefähr zehn Jahren untersuchte ich die Kontroverse über das Problem des Sauren Regens in den Niederlanden und Großbritannien. Was dabei herauskam, war im Grunde eine Kritik des damals vorherrschenden ‚realistischen‘ Blicks auf Umweltprobleme, insofern dieser die Definition des Problems als gegeben voraussetzte. Den Kern einer solchen Analyse bildete die Frage, welche Handlungen warum unternommen wurden, wobei die Handlungsdynamik in Begriff…
Deliberative policy analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society
A forceful argument for the implementation of a deliberatively-oriented policy analysis in democratic governance
A frame in the fields: Policymaking and the reinvention of politics
Could policymaking be constitutive of politics? Conventionally, policymaking is conceived of as the result of politics. In this view classical-modernist political institutions seek to involve people in politics via a choice of elected officials who are subsequently supposed to represent the interests of their voters, initiate policy and oversee its implementation. But what if people do not always have clear-cut identities or preferences? What if …
Policy without polity? Policy analysis and the institutional void
The Interactive State: Democratisation from Above
The work of Robert Putnam has provoked a lively debate on the democratic importance of a robust civil society. Criticism of his work concentrates on the fact that his concept of social capital conceives of the relationship between civil society and government predominantly as a one-way affair – a strong civil society is good for politics. Taking up this line of argument, an appreciation of political factors is promoted to explain varying patterns…
Coalitions, Practices, and Meaning in Environmental Politics: From Acid Rain to BSE
In the late 1980s, I studied developments in environmental politics, a field that I had, until then, not examined in any detail. Given my background studying social movements and political institutions, I was intrigued by the ‘career’ of the environmental movement. In twenty years, it had transformed from a counter-cultural movement, practising the symbolic politics of street demonstrations, lifestyle choices, and alternative consumption (express…
Performing Governance Through Networks
Governance networks typically function in the absence of clearly defined constitutional rules. Network actors, therefore, have to develop a common understanding of the problem as well as build a basis for mutual trust. We suggest that discourse-analytical and dramaturgical concepts can be helpful instruments to analyse these dynamics of trust building in governance networks
Setting the Stage: A Dramaturgy of Policy Deliberation
This article aims to shed light on the performative dimension of participation in policy making. It is argued that we can enhance our understanding of the dynamics of policy deliberation examining the setting in which the deliberation takes place as well as the particular staging of that setting. Portraying political processes as sequences of staged performances of conflict and conflict resolution, this article analyzes how the design of the sett…
A decade of discourse analysis of environmental politics: Achievements, challenges, perspectives
This article assesses the contribution of discourse analysis to the study of environmental politics over the period of the past decade. Defining discourse as a particular linguistic regularity that can be found in conversations distinguishes it from 'deliberation' and 'discussion'. Discourse analysis is seen as focused on situational logics studying 'language-in-use'. Three strengths of discourse analysis are highlighted: its capacity to reveal t…
Performing Authority: Discursive Politics After the Assassination of Theo Van Gogh
In November 2004, the assassination of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist shocked The Netherlands. Critics of multiculturalism quickly linked the murder to the perceived failure of ‘soft’ integration policies and questioned the authority and legitimacy of Amsterdam’s political leadership. This article studies the response of political leaders to those challenges from a performative perspective. Analysing governance a…
Diskursanalyse in der Praxis: Koalitionen, Praktiken und Bedeutung
Am 11. September 2001 wurde die Welt Zeuge eines Terrorangriffs, der die Türme des Welthandelszentrums zerstörte. Während sich der anfängliche Schock langsam legte, kam eine neue Frage auf: was sollte mit dem Gelände geschehen, von dem man nun einfach als „Ground Zero“ sprach? Mit dem Welthandelszentrum wurde ein Symbol angegriffen und somit erlangte der Ort, an dem ehemals die Türme gestanden hatten, eine ikonengleiche Bedeutung. Als Folge wurde…
Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society
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