Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks

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Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks is written by Philip Leifeld and published by Campus Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3593505703 (ISBN 10) and 9783593505701 (ISBN 13).

Policy debates between political actors can facilitate, strain, or change the direction of future policy-making. However, existing measurement approaches do not tap the full potential of discursive-institutionalist explanations of policy outcomes. Based on social network analysis of political discourse, this book develops a formal methodology for the dynamic analysis of political discourse using text data. As a showcase, the German politics of old-age security in the 1990s are analyzed in this book in detail. The literature offers several ideational explanations for the 2001 Riester reform, a major policy innovation that breaks with previous incrementalist descriptions of pension policy-making. This book is an attempt to overcome the methodological limitations of policy network analysis and operationalize the relational elements hidden in political debates"