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How Fragmented Are Global Policy Debates on Health Data Sharing? Studying Fragmentation Through Discourse Network Analysis

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 5, Page 1783-1813, September 2026.
Abstract Global policy‐making is often described as taking place in a fragmented and complex institutional landscape. In this article, we revisit the verdict of fragmentation through the lens of discourse network analysis, seeking to understand the extent to which global policy debates can be characterised as fragmented.
Maria Weickardt Soares   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Words Matter in Public Policy: Reflections on the Special Issue

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 5, Page 1867-1875, September 2026.
Abstract Words matter in public policy and politics. But how do we understand the influence of words exactly? Is language a vehicle to express thoughts and ideas, delivering ideas to audiences akin to a conveyor belt? Or does language form ideas in the first place, and is language constitutive of realities, shaping the thoughts of both those who ...
Maarten A. Hajer
wiley   +1 more source

Discourse Networks and Contentious Global Public Policy

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 5, Page 1662-1687, September 2026.
Abstract This article develops a comprehensive typology of policy frame trajectories and proposes a research agenda to explain the complex, evolving dynamics of framing in European and global public policy‐making. Challenging static and instrumentalist views, frames are conceptualised as malleable, relational and contingent, unfolding through processes
Anna Holzscheiter, Ece Özlem Atikcan
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing Frame Trajectories in Policy Debates: Placing the EU in Global Discourse Networks

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 5, Page 1643-1661, September 2026.
Abstract This special issue explores the evolving trajectories of policy frames in European and global public policy, emphasising the non‐linear processes through which frames emerge, diffuse and become salient or silenced over time. The contributions focus on how actors in governance, ranging from governments and international organisations to civil ...
Ece Özlem Atikcan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intentionality and Attentionality Dynamics in an Institutional Change Process

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2700-2731, September 2026.
Abstract In this article, we explore how actors' intentionality emerges, develops, and co‐evolves with institutional change. Although intentions are essential in shaping institutional change agents' motivations and actions, our understanding of their dynamics is limited and biased by the assumption that intentions are usually identifiable prior to ...
Sofiane Baba, Taïeb Hafsi, Omar Hemissi
wiley   +1 more source

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