Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks - Prima edizione

EAN (ISBN-13): 9783593433950
Anno di pubblicazione: 2016
Editore: Campus Verlag GmbH

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Autore: Philip Leifeld
Titolo: Schriften des Zentrums für Sozialpolitik Bremen; Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks; Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks - German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse
Editore: Campus
354 Pagine
Anno di pubblicazione: 2016-04-08
Lingua: Tedesco
37,99 € (DE)
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EA; E107; Nonbooks, PBS / Soziologie/Methoden der empirischen und qualitativen Sozialforschung; Politik und Staat; Verstehen; Politiknetzwerk; Rentenpolitik; Alterssicherungspolitik; Diskursnetzwerk; Riesterreform; Sozialpolitik; Politik E-Book; Programm; Englisch; BC

Contents Prefacexi I.The Theory and Methodology of Discourse Networks 1.Introduction3 2.Actor-centered approaches to discourse7 2.1.The Advocacy Coalition Framework9 2.2.Veto player analysis16 2.3.Punctuated Equilibrium Theory17 2.4.Policy paradigms and social learning21 2.5.Collective symbolic coping23 2.6.Civic arenas25 2.7.Multiple streams26 2.8.Argumentative discourse analysis and discourse coalitions .28 2.9.Epistemic communities30 2.10.Comparison of actor-centered approaches32 3.Content-oriented approaches to discourse37 3.1.Critical discourse analysis38 3.2.Category-based content analysis40 3.3.Frame mapping and the co-occurrence approach41 3.4.Clause- or grammar-based methods and knowledge graphs .43 3.5. Semantic networks45 3.6. Comparison of content-oriented approaches48 4.Hybrid approaches: linking actors and contents53 4.1.Decomposition analysis53 4.2.Political claims analysis54 4.3.Conclusions for a new discourse methodology57 4.4.Policy network analysis60 5.The methodology of discourse network analysis61 5.1.Coding procedure61 5.2.Affiliation networks62 5.3.Actor congruence networks64 5.4.Concept congruence networks69 5.5.Conflict networks71 5.6.Time window networks72 5.7.Attenuation networks78 5.8.Software implementation84 5.8.1.Encoding statements84 5.8.2.Network export facilities86 II. A Showcase: German Pension Politics, 1993-2001 6.German pension politics in the 1990s and the 2001 Riester reform91 6.1.Dimensions of pension systems and the status quo in the 1990s 93 6.1.1.Pay-as-you-go versus capital cover systems93 6.1.2.Public versus private pension systems97 6.1.3.Voluntary versus mandatory contributions98 6.1.4.Intra-generative redistribution versus equivalence .98 6.1.5.Risk balance 101 6.1.6.The pension formula102 6.2.Demographic change and the pension gap104 6.2.1.Demographic Transition as a complex long-term risk 105 6.2.2.Mortality106 6.2.3.Fertility107 6.2.4.Inconsistent solution concepts in the demographic debate110 6.2.5.Migration111 6.3.The 2001 Riester reform112 6.3.1.The 1999 Pension Reform Act112 6.3.2.Changes in the 2001 reform113 6.4.Positive analyses of the policy outcome117 7.Description of the dataset and univariate analysis . . . . .125 7.1. Coding procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....125 7.2. Media bias and validity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....128 7.2.1.Record coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....129 7.2.2.Data coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....133 7.2.3.Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....134 7.3. Actors in the pension discourse . . . . . . . . . . .....134 7.3.1.Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....135 7.3.2.Social actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....136 7.3.3.Liberal actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....136 7.3.4.Financial sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....137 7.3.5.Young actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....137 7.3.6.Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....137 7.3.7.Other actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....137 7.4. Univariate analysis: concepts in the pension discourse..138 7.4.1.System change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....140 7.4.2.Retrenchment within the PAYG paradigm .....151 7.4.3.Strengthening the insurance principle . . . .....160 7.4.4.Increasing the number of contributors . . .....167 8.Empirical analysis of the German pension discourse in the 1990s183 8.1.Discourse activity over time184 8.2.Cross-sectional actor congruence, 1993-2001188 8.3.Longitudinal change199 8.4.Analysis of political parties209 8.5.Identification of ideologies214 8.6.Discussion and conclusion218 III. Models of Discursive Behavior 9.The contagious dimension of political discourse225 9.1.Attention and interaction in media discourse225 9.1.1.Discursive contagion in existing theories226 9.1.2.Two types of contagion227 9.1.3.Hypotheses228 9.2.Methods and data230 9.2.1.Operationalization231 9.2.2.Support versus resistance231 VIIIPOLICY DEBATES AS DYNAMIC NETWORKS 9.2.3.Exponential random graph models with dyadic de- pendence232 9.2.4.Estimation233 9.2.5.Dichotomization of edge weights234 9.2.6.Control variables234 9.2.7.Data236 9.2.8.Potential caveats237 9.3.Results and goodness of fit239 9.4.Discussion244 10.An agent-based model of political discourse249 10.1.A formal model of political discourse251 10.1.1.Defiand basic setup251 10.1.2.Exogenous ideology252 10.1.3.Endogenous ideology252 10.1.4.Concept popularity (bandwagoning)252 10.1.5.Actor similarity (coalition formation)253 10.1.6.Concept similarity253 10.1.7.Actor's history (self-consistency)254 10.1.8.Rare concepts (agenda-setting)255 10.1.9.Government coherence255 10.1.10.Normalization256 10.1.11.Utility functions257 10.2.Analysis258 10.2.1.Measurement258 10.2.2.Betweenness centralization258 10.2.3.Ideological polarization259 10.2.4.Number of components261 10.2.5.Proportion of concepts still alive261 10.2.6.Number of recent concept changes262 10.3.Results262 10.4.Discussion272 11.Conclusion275 11.1.Main achievements275 11.2.Potential weaknesses276 11.3.Outlook278 IV. Appendix Laws and legislative decrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..283 List of actors in the dataset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..285 Software manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..291 1.Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..291 2.Tutorial for beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..292 3.In-depth description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..299 3.1.File format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..299 3.2.Dealing with articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..300 3.3.Recoding statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..302 3.4.Regular expressions highlighter . . . . . . . . . ..302 3.5.Within-actor contradictions . . . . . . . . . . . ..303 3.6.The bottom bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..303 3.7.Exporting time series statistics . . . . . . . . . ..305 3.8.Exporting network data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.rDNA. A Package to Control Discourse Network Analyzer from R307 4.1.Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..315 4.2.Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..315 4.3.Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..316 5.FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . ..317 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..321 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..349