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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

From self-narration to a worldview: a phenomenological, narratological, and linguistic case study of a patient with a complex clinical picture of bipolar disorder. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychiatry
Oblak A   +10 more
europepmc   +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

Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 2305-2331, September 2026.
Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
wiley   +1 more source

The Multiple Realities of Action: A Phenomenological Answer to the Question of Unsettled Contexts

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT How is action constituted when the taken‐for‐granted cultural resources and supports usually shaping it lose their taken‐for‐grantedness? This question is relevant to a range of culturally unsettled situations, including those stemming from crises, displacements and even extensive reflexivity.
Galit Ailon
wiley   +1 more source

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