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Crises, shocks, and perturbations are frequently considered turning points in public policy literature. The Advocacy Coalition Framework has become one of the most employed policy process frameworks, focusing on policy subsystems, belief systems and shocks as one of the drivers of policy change. Relying on a network approach, this article aims at analysing the EU asylum policy by exploring the prioritisation of policy core beliefs before, during and after the so-called refugee crisis. From a methodological perspective, discourse network analysis (DNA) is employed. The results show that the system of policy core beliefs has not stabilised in the aftermath of the crisis, implying a ‘conservative’ crisis response approach and short-term effects on the policy subsystem. The innovation of this article stands on the theoretical–analytical elaborations of some crisis management and public policy literature core concepts and the empirical testing of said concepts through an original dataset with DNA.
在公共政策文献中,危机、冲击和扰动经常被视为转折点。倡导联盟框架已成为最常用的政策过程框架之一,其重点是政策子系统、信念系统和作为政策变化驱动力之一的冲击。本文采用网络方法,旨在通过探讨所谓难民危机之前、期间和之后政策核心理念的优先次序,分析欧盟的庇护政策。从方法论的角度来看,本文采用了话语网络分析(DNA)。研究结果表明,政策核心理念体系在危机后并没有稳定下来,这意味着 "保守 "的危机应对方法和对政策子系统的短期影响。本文的创新之处在于对一些危机管理和公共政策文献的核心概念进行了理论分析阐述,并通过 DNA 原始数据集对上述概念进行了实证检验。