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Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks – German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse (Studies in Social Policy Research / Schriften Des Zentrums Fur Sozialpolitik, 29) - Softcover

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Leifeld, Philip

 
9783593505701: Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks – German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse (Studies in Social Policy Research / Schriften Des Zentrums Fur Sozialpolitik, 29)
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ISBN 10: 3593505703 ISBN 13: 9783593505701
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Philip Leifeld is a senior lecturer in quantitative methods at the University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3593505703
ISBN 13 
9783593505701
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
360