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Discursive governance in politics, policy, and the public sphere, edited by Umut Korkut, Kesi Mahendran, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Robert Henry Cox

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-224) and index

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Discursive governance in politics, policy, and the public sphere

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909320511

edited by Umut Korkut, Kesi Mahendran, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Robert Henry Cox

"Discursive governance refers to implicit mechanisms of governance such as narratives, leitmotifs, and strategic metaphors in political language. It examines how the framing of policies affects political and social representations in accordance with the wishes of political authorities. Ad hoc discourses generate a space where politicians configure, transmit, and initiate politics ideationally, rather than vouchsafing substantial policy change with respect to governance. This book studies the dynamics of political discourse in governance processes. It demonstrates the process in which political discourses become normative mechanisms, first marking socially constructed realities in politics, second playing a role in delineating the subsequent policy frames, and third influencing the public sphere. The key contribution of this volume is tracing the discursive relationships among actors, namely governments and political parties, policy participants and societal actors, and the public in European nation states, intergovernmental organizations, subnational or regional entities, and geographies beyond Europe where European norms trigger ideational processes of change. The book extends earlier work in the field by exploring how policy and politics create social knowledge, make some ideas publicly salient, and bring together coalitions of actors that find certain policy alternatives attractive and eventually generate political and policy change"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction Discursive Governance: Operationalization And Applications / Umut Korkut, Kesi Mahendran, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, And Robert Henry Cox -- I. Political Parties: How Do the Political Parties Use/Generate Discourses and Representations? -- 1. Racialized Violence Against Migrants In Greece / Lena Karamanidou -- 2. Investing In Our Future? The Influence Of Social Investment Ideas On Family Policy Discourses In Finland, Germany And The UK / Mikael Nygard, Mikkokuisma, Nicole Kruger And Verity Campbell-Barr -- 3. Successful Transplants, Reform Governments, And Health Care Policy Reform In Slovakia And Hungary / Umut Korkut And Aron Buzogny -- 4. It's Got To Be A She: The Media Portrayal Of Selecting The First Female Social Democratic Party Leaders In Sweden And Finland / Mari Niemi -- II. Implementing Policy: Discursive Interpretation of Policy by Political and Social Actors -- 5. Doing More With Less? Financial Engineering Instruments For Urban Development In EU Cohesion Policy / Marcin Dabrowski -- 6. 'Externalization Of The EU Asylum Policy Under The Light Of The Arab Spring: How Did South-European Countries Recalibrate After The Uprisings' / Alexandra Bousiou And Antonios Kontis -- 7. Implementing Gender Budgeting In Scotland And Spain: A Comparative Feminist Analysis / Angela O'Hagan -- 8. The Eye Of The Beholder: Narrating Crisis In The Ongoing Swedish Labor Migration Policy Debate / Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Andrea Spehar And Jonas Hinnfors -- III. Public Sphere: the Resonance and Resistance of Discourses and Representations -- 9. Public Narratives Of European Citizenship: The Dialogical Citizen In The European Public Sphere / Kesi Mahendran, Ima Jackson And Anubhuti Kapoor -- 10. European Integration And Mainstreaming Of Stateless Nationalist And Regionalist Parties: The Scottish National Party And Frisian National Party / Arno Van Der Zwet -- 11. Equal But Separate? LGBTI Rights In Contemporary South Africa / Hande Eslen-Ziya, Aidan Mcgarry, Cheryl Potgieter, And Finn CG Reygan