scholarly journals Public contestation over agricultural pollution: a discourse network analysis on narrative strategies in the policy process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schaub
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Drinking Water Resources ◽  
Policy Beliefs ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

AbstractThe overuse of fertilizers in agriculture and their entry into freshwater has many negative impacts on biodiversity and poses problems for drinking water resources in Germany. In response to exceeding levels of nitrate concentrations in groundwater in parts of the country, an intense public dispute evolved and a significant policy change in fertilizer regulation occurred in 2020. Based on the German case of agricultural water pollution, this study demonstrates in an innovative way how discourse network analysis is a fruitful method for the integrated study of actor coalitions and their use of narrative strategies in public debate. Theoretically, the study draws on the narrative policy framework (NPF) to explain how actor coalitions use narrative strategies to attempt to influence policymaking on water pollution by agricultural activities. The empirical analysis builds on newspaper articles and press releases disseminated between 2010 and 2020. The results demonstrate how two opposing actor coalitions with congruent policy beliefs formed in the struggle over fertilizer regulation. These not only diverged in their policy beliefs but also differed in their use of narrative strategies to try to expand or contain the policy issue. More precisely, the coalitions adapted their narratives over time in response to changes in the likelihood to win or lose. Furthermore, the results suggest the coalition in favor of stricter fertilizer regulation was more sophisticated in its effort to mobilize specific target groups. Overall, the article provides a valuable contribution to the literature on the NPF by combining research on coalition formation and policy narratives.

scholarly journals Harnessing policy windows : using lessons from the post 9 11 GI Bill passage to garner congressional support for US military requirements

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Katherine Obradovich
Keyword(s):  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Gi Bill ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Policy Windows ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework

The goal of this dissertation is to examine how stakeholders adjusted their narrative strategies to develop support for transferability of veterans' educational benefits to their spouses and dependent children, which was eventually established in the Post9/11 GI Bill. Prior studies have not examined this particular topic, and this dissertation presents an exploratory study that contributes to various hypotheses present in the Narrative Policy Framework. This dissertation demonstrates that stakeholder groups use narrative strategies to expand or constrain the policy issue to support their desired end states and that changes in policy discussion help explain policy changes and revised outcomes.

Science, stories and the anti-vaccination movement

Human Affairs ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Veselková
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Science Stories ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Mandatory Vaccination ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
Positivist Approach

AbstractThis paper discusses the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the use or non-use of expert-based information in policy-making. Special attention is paid to the Narrative Policy Framework introduced by Jones & McBeth in 2010. This theory of the policy process adopts a quantitative, structuralist and positivist approach to the study of policy narratives. The Narrative Policy Framework is useful for the analysis of the use of expert-based information to resolve so-called wicked problems, which are characterized by intense value-based conflict between policy coalitions. The methodological approach of the Narrative Policy Framework is illustrated using the policy issue of mandatory vaccination.

scholarly journals Sanctuary Cities, Focusing Events, and the Solidarity Shift: A Standard Measurement of the Prevalence of Victims for the Narrative Policy Framework

10.15788/npf7 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Smith-Walter ◽  
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Emily Fritz ◽  
Shannon O’Doherty ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Focusing Events ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Immigration And Customs Enforcement ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework

Numerous state and local jurisdictions across the United States have adopted policies limiting their cooperation with federal deportation efforts carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Sometimes referred to as “sanctuary cities,” these jurisdictions interpret federalism in a way that resists active participation in federal immigration enforcement. Employing the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), we analyze 164 public consumption documents to examine policy narratives disseminated by interest groups engaged in the policy debate surrounding sanctuary cities between 2010 and 2017. Using data derived from a content analysis of these documents, we develop a new measure, the solidarity shift, to capture the prevalence of victims in policy narratives; we find there are significant differences in the narrative strategies employed by advocates and opponents of sanctuary jurisdictions, with opponents’ narratives demonstrating more active responses to external events and a higher proportion of victims, relative to other characters. We also find that the killing of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco can be seen as a focusing event because of the narrative actions of anti-sanctuary city advocates and their reliance on the solidarity shift, which resulted in significant changes to anti-sanctuary city narrative strategies.

scholarly journals Discourse Network Analysis of Nuclear Narratives

10.15788/npf2 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuhika Gupta ◽  
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Joseph Ripberger ◽  
Andrew Fox ◽  
Hank Jenkins-Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Group Stability ◽  
Stability Of Coalitions ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
Future Work

This study combines insight from discourse network analysis (DNA) and the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to develop a new approach to studying narrative discourse within and across policy coalitions. The approach facilitates examination of narrative cohesion, which may impact the stability of coalitions and the impact of narrative discourse on policy change. We demonstrate the value of the approach by using it to study meta narratives on Twitter within and across groups of policy actors who support and oppose the expansion of nuclear energy in the United States. The approach reveals a variety of patterns that are unlikely to be seen using more common approaches to narrative policy analysis. Most notably, there were signs of narrative cohesion within both groups, but there were also slight fissures that may indicate strategic efforts to communicate with different constituents or fault lines that threaten group stability. These findings set the stage for future work on the relationship between narrative cohesion and policy outcomes.

Between entrepreneurs and workers: Cleavages and compromises in rationales and policy solutions regarding ‘dependent contractors’

2021 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2110303
Author(s):  
Louis Florin ◽  
François Pichault
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Solutions ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Labour Regulation

The emergence of dependent contractors challenges the existing institutions regarding social protection and labour regulation. This article aims at identifying the political narratives that explain the emergence of New Forms of Employment (NFE) and dependent contracting along with the policy solutions proposed by the social partners at the EU and international level. By analysing policy documents from the social partners through the lens of a qualitative version of the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), the authors indentify two distinct narratives – ‘devaluation of work’ and ‘entrepreneurship and flexibility’. The authors show how these rationales lead to various policy solutions and identify oppositions and possible compromise.

scholarly journals The Institutional Grammar Tool meets the Narrative Policy Framework: Narrating institutional statements in consultation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire A. Dunlop ◽  
Jonathan C. Kamkhaji ◽  
Claudio M. Radaelli ◽  
Gaia Taffoni
Keyword(s):  
Policy Framework ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework

scholarly journals The Narrative Policy Framework: child or monster?

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Jones ◽  
Claudio M. Radaelli
Keyword(s):  
Policy Framework ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework

Repairing the damage: cleaning up hazardous coal ash can create jobs and improve the environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Richardson ◽  
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Eric Dixon ◽  
Ted Boettner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Coal Ash ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Negative Impacts

Although coal has powered the nation for generations and today offers well-paying jobs—often the best opportunities in more rural areas—coal negatively affects human health and the environment at every point in its life cycle: when it is mined, processed, transported, burned, and discarded (Freese, Clemmer, and Nogee 2008). Local communities— often low-income communities and/or communities of color—have for decades borne the brunt of these negative impacts, including air pollution, water pollution, and work- place injuries, illnesses, and fatalities.

Does the Narrative Policy Framework Apply to Local Policy Issues?

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Taylor O’Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Policy Framework ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework

scholarly journals The mutual specification of genres and audiences: Reflective two-mode centralities in person-to-culture data

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Lizardo
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Measurement Framework ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Cultural Choices ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Recent developments at the intersection of cultural sociology and network theory suggest that the relations between persons and the cultural forms they consume can be productively analyzed using conceptual resources and methods adapted from network analysis. In this paper I seek to contribute to this developing line of thinking on the culture-networks link as it pertains to the sociology of taste. I present a general analytic and measurement framework useful for rethinking traditional survey (or population) based data on individuals and their cultural choices as a “two mode” persons X genres network. The proposed methodological tools allow me to develop a set of “reflective” metrics useful for ranking both persons and genres in terms of the pattern of choices and audience composition embedded in the cultural network. The empirical analysis shows that these metrics have both face and criterion validity, allowing us to extract useful information that would remain out of reach of standard quantitative strategies. I close by outlining the analytic and substantive implications of the approach.

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