Discourse Analysis and the Study of Policy Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12869366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maarten A Hajer (0000-0001-9212-645X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-65 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1680-4333 • E-ISSN: 1682-0983 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1057/eps.2002.49 |
| OpenAlex | W2149943852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 2 |
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 interventions, and thus to help resolve pressing social problems (Lasswell, 1951). Yet Lasswell's ‘policy science of democracy’ - in which academics were to fulfil an independent role as public intellectuals addressing public problems, not necessarily in alignment with the state - has been far less influential than the more instrumental sorts of policy analysis aiming to facilitate efficient and effective state action. The growing dissatisfaction with the limitations of the rationalist mainstream of instrumental policy analysis led several authors to appreciate the central importance of language for policy analysis
Comparative politics · Discourse analysis · International political economy · International relations · Linguistics · Multi-level governance · Political economy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Media and Politics
Innovative urban forestry governance in Melbourne?
‘Incoherence Is, in a Way, a Choice’
A discourse analysis of fuel subsidy reduction
How do policy narratives influence policy design? Examining livestock policy in Thailand
Public policy research in Colombia
Science to practice – networked governance of sustainability transitions in an African university
Outrage without Consequences? Post-Snowden Discourses and Governmental Practice in Germany
Feeling secure or being secure? Why it can seem better not to protect yourself against a natural hazard
Ethics in Science and Technology Policy-Making
Zur Aktualität sozialwissenschaftlicher Diskursanalyse – Eine Einführung
Pathways towards reflexive policing
From soils to guts
Come Together, Right Now
Combining the advocacy coalition framework and argumentative discourse analysis
Powerful stories of local climate action
Reckless subjects, future capital? ‘Youth’ as an object of concern in international health organizations’ discourse
Youth activists and occupygezi
From environmental policy consensus to socio-environmental policy controversy
Ecopolitical catatonia
Shiller oder Schiller
Theoretical Perspectives vs. Realities of Policy-Making
What a forest? Whose forest? Struggles over concepts and meanings in the debate about the conservation of the Białowieża Forest in Poland
Dilemmas of Discourse
The civic and political participation of young people in a context of heightened authoritarianism. The case of Turkey
Ideas, institutions, and policy change
Defining their real problems, getting public and policy attention
The policy discourse on negative emissions, land-based technologies, and the Global South
The ‘Problem’ of University-Industry Linkages
Privileged Accounts in the Debate over Coal-Fired Power in the United States
The political risks of technological determinism in rural water supply
Aristotelian framing
Working with the EU
How hegemonic discourses of sustainability influence urban climate action
Interrogating the promises and perils of climate cryptogovernance
Enabling free movement but restricting domestic policy space? The price of mutual recognition
The valuation of a mine – values, facts and contested notions of sustainability in the prospecting for new mines
Risk Inequality and the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus
Marine life versus energy security
Competing coalitions
First and last and always
Civil society coalitions, power relations, and socio-political ideas
The more the merrier? Actors and ideas in the evolution of German hydrogen policy discourse
Electric vehicles for climate, a green economy, or independence? Comparing policy discourse in newspapers across three Canadian provinces
Forests in the Spotlight
Mapping Driving Factors of UK Serious Youth Violence across Policy and the Community
Responsibility and innovation for low waste and circular economy transitions
Trivializing inequality by narrating facts
The region’ between care and control
Policymakers’ Logic on Islamic Banking
Examining the Success of the European Capital of Culture in Sustaining the Cultural Foundations of the European Identity
Framework or metaphor? Analysing the status of policy learning in the policy sciences
Participation, Dialogue, and Civic Engagement
Europe as a Beacon of Democracy? Citizenship Policies Relating to Youth and Migrants in Portugal
What role of education for youth? Discourse within the European Union’s Structured Dialogue
The best flood I ever had”
The Playground of Big Tobacco? Discourse Network Analysis of the Cigarette Advertising Debate and Policy in Indonesia
J ack (and J ill?) of All Trades – A C anadian Case Study of Equity in Apprenticeship Supports
Expectations towards home care re-ablement in Danish municipalities
The reform of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy
Ideas and actors in policy processes
Protesting iconic megaprojects. A discourse network analysis of the evolution of the conflict over Stuttgart 21
Integriertes multidimensionales Design
What's the problem with gender‐based analysis? Gender mainstreaming policy and practice in Canada
Narrative Constructions of Expertise
Blocking Minorities
Political discourse networks and the conflict over software patents in Europe
Who Is Responsible for Disinformation? European Approaches to Social Platforms’ Accountability in the Post-Truth Era
Cybersicherheit und Rollenwandel
The Idea of Power and the Role of Ideas
Rites of Passage
Midwives, Women and the State
Policy discourse in times of crisis
Heating in Great Britain
Choisir sa transition
Climate change and security debates in the United Nations Security Council between 2007-2021
The Security-Innovation Nexus in (Geo-)Political Imagination
The politics of international agri-food policy
War Hypotheses
| Unique citing works | 78 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |