| Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks: German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse Contributor(s): Leifeld, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 3593505703 ISBN-13: 9783593505701 Publisher: Campus Verlag OUR PRICE: $56.43 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (1.20 lbs) 360 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Leifeld, Philip: - Philip Leifeld is a senior lecturer in quantitative methods at the University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences. |
