Contextualising policy analysis in Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
John Hogan ◽  
Mary P. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Academic Authors

In the introduction to the volume the editors offer an overview of concepts that will appear throughout the book and set the scene for readers with a summary of the Irish political and economic context. The chapter then sketches the kinds of policy analysis the volume encompasses, providing readers with a guide to the wide-ranging and diverse contributions. These contributions include those from practitioner authors who provide a number of case studies and other examples of policy analysis from their own experiences, and academic authors who provide insights into a variety of approaches to the study of policy analysis applied in Ireland since independence. The chapter also outlines how the chapters of the volume are grouped in four subsections.

5. Discourse analysis, post-structuralism, and foreign policy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Research Designs

This chapter examines the use of discourse analysis in the study of foreign policy. In the study of international relations, discourse analysis is associated with post-structuralism, a theoretical approach that shares realism’s concern with states and power, but differs from realism’s assumption that states are driven by self-interest. It also takes a wider view of power than realists normally do. Post-structuralism draws upon, but also challenges, realism’s three core assumptions: groupism, egoism, and power-centrism. The chapter first considers the theoretical principles that inform post-structuralist discourse analysis before discussing the research designs and methodological techniques employed by discourse analysts. It also offers examples and four learning boxes featuring mini-case studies and locates poststructuralist discourse analysis within the field of foreign policy analysis. Finally, it assesses the strengths and weaknesses of post-structuralist discourse analysis.

Revisiting Richard Simeon's “Studying Public Policy”

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 665-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Skogstad ◽  
Linda A. White
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Policy Prescription

AbstractThe articles in this symposium reflect on Richard Simeon's article, “Studying Public Policy,” published forty years ago in this journal. In this introduction, we review these articles’ contribution to three themes in “Studying Public Policy”: first, the goal of the study of public policy should be policy analysis and explanation, not policy prescription; second, the analysis of public policy outcomes requires a holistic and contextually situated analytical framework; and third, building theory requires methods of comparative analysis, not single case studies. We also propose items for a future policy studies agenda.

scholarly journals Diplomatic Protest in Foreign Policy: Analysis and Case Studies

1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 756
Author(s):  
Lester P. Wohlers ◽  
Joseph C. McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis

scholarly journals The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel McArthur ◽  
Aaron Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Media ◽  
Unique Dataset

Recessions appear to coincide with an increasingly stigmatising presentation of poverty in parts of the media. Previous research on the connection between high unemployment and media discourse has often relied on case studies of periods when stigmatising rhetoric about the poor was increasing. We build on earlier work on how economic context affects media representations of poverty by creating a unique dataset that measures how often stigmatising descriptions of the poor are used in five centrist and right-wing British newspapers between 1896 and 2000. Our results suggest stigmatising rhetoric about the poor increases when unemployment rises, except at the peak of very deep recessions (e.g. the 1930s and 1980s). This pattern is consistent with the idea that newspapers deploy deeply embedded Malthusian explanations for poverty when those ideas resonate with the economic context, and so this stigmatising rhetoric of recessions is likely to recur during future economic crises.

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