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Emotions and policy change in the wake of political scandals: How did the Qatargate shake the European Parliament?

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract While there is an increasing interest in the role of emotions in policy studies, not much is known about how emotions unfold in one of the most emotional situations that can be encountered in politics: political scandals. To investigate how the discursive articulation of emotions shapes the policy responses to political misconduct from a ...
Rosa Sanchez Salgado, Seda Gürkan
wiley   +1 more source

Power Relations in the Preparation of the Nondiscrimination Act: The Controversial Issue of Supervising Discrimination in Working Life

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of Europeanisation and neo‐corporatism, we examine the lengthy process of revising the Nondiscrimination Act in Finland, spanning from 2007 to 2023. The focus is on the mandate of the Nondiscrimination Ombudsman in the workplace and on explaining the sudden policy change of strengthening it after a prolonged standstill.
Laura Jauhola, Kati Rantala
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetorical uses of public space: the discursive organization of a space in conflict

Athenea Digital, 2007
In this paper I explore the discursive use of public space, understood as a rhetorical resource for localized social action. Analysing several extracts of written documents and in-depth interviews, I focus on the rhetorical use of space-formulations and ...
Di Masso Tarditi, Andrés
doaj  

Making Sense and Talking Sense: A Case Study of the Correlations Between Sensemaking, Identity and Image in the New Zealand Functional Food Industry [PDF]

, 2011
Functional foods are purported by scientists to provide consumers with health benefits over and above food’s most basic uses: providing energy and sustaining life.
Worth, Benjamin John
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Policy Entrepreneurs and the Design of Administrative Reform: A Conceptual Framework and the Israeli Case

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting the design of public administrative reform? We present a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of policy entrepreneurs on public administrative reform. We start by proposing a typology of the various policy entrepreneurs active in the administrative reform arena.
Nissim Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Three dimensions in rhetorical conflict analysis: A topological model [PDF]

Conflict & Communication Online, 2016
Conflict is omnipresent in human relations. So is rhetoric in conflict situations. Hence, there is a danger of taking conflict and its different forms of resolution for granted when we do rhetorical analysis. “Rhetoric” is often used as a general and non-
Trygve Svensson
doaj  

Automatic generation of large-scale paraphrases [PDF]

, 2005
Research on paraphrase has mostly focussed on lexical or syntactic variation within individual sentences. Our concern is with larger-scale paraphrases, from multiple sentences or paragraphs to entire documents.
Power, Richard, Scott, Donia
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Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source

Persuasive discourse and language planning in Ireland [PDF]

, 2011
Colonial language discourse typically consists of evaluations concerning the respective merits of two or more languages, and the cultures they represent. This can serve as a warrant for imposing a ‘superior’ language.
Gray G, Mazzon G
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The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
wiley   +1 more source