Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework最新文献

Agreement and Trust: in Narratives or Narrators? 协议与信任:叙事还是叙述者?

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf4

D. Lybecker, M. McBeth, Jessica M. Sargen

{"title":"Agreement and Trust: in Narratives or Narrators?","authors":"D. Lybecker, M. McBeth, Jessica M. Sargen","doi":"10.15788/npf4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15788/npf4","url":null,"abstract":"Narratives concerning the working class and their relationship to climate change are important. In particular, how the narrative constructs the relationship and, within this, who communicates a narrative (the narrator) is key. That said, this is a less studied element; the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has limited research on narrators. Subsequently, this work examines individuals’ support of narratives and narrators using an Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) survey of 435 participants. After pretesting for climate change views, the subjects chose which narrator they expected to agree with: Mechanic Pat or Organic Farmer Chris. Through randomization, subjects joined either a congruent treatment group (Mechanic Pat tells the anti-climate change narrative and Organic Farmer Chris tells the pro-climate change narrative) or an incongruent treatment group (Mechanic Pat tells the pro-climate change narrative and Organic Farmer Pat tells the anti-climate change narrative). Results indicate that before reading the narratives, climate change “devotees” (those who agree that climate change is occurring and is human-caused) thought they would agree with Organic Farmer Chris over Mechanic Pat. Whereas there was division in the climate change “skeptics” (those who disagree that climate change is real and human-caused) on the question of what narrator they thought they would agree with. Devotees significantly supported the pro-climate change working-class narrative when told by Organic Farmer Chris as compared to when Mechanic Pat told the same narrative. Further showing the power of a narrator, devotees supported the anti-working class climate change narrative more when told by Organic Farmer Chris rather than when Mechanic Pat told the same narrative. Our findings demonstrate that narrators matter and suggest that the NPF needs to consider narrators as a narrative element worthy of further study.","PeriodicalId":168326,"journal":{"name":"Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129579341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Sanctuary Cities, Focusing Events, and the Solidarity Shift: A Standard Measurement of the Prevalence of Victims for the Narrative Policy Framework 庇护城市、焦点事件和团结转变:叙事政策框架中受害者普遍程度的标准衡量

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf7

Aaron Smith-Walter, Emily Fritz, Shannon O’Doherty

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A Narrative Policy Framework Solution to Understanding Climate Change Framing Research 理解气候变化框架研究的叙事政策框架解决方案

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf9

E. Wolters, Michael D. Jones, K. Duvall

{"title":"A Narrative Policy Framework Solution to Understanding Climate Change Framing Research","authors":"E. Wolters, Michael D. Jones, K. Duvall","doi":"10.15788/npf9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15788/npf9","url":null,"abstract":"The climate change framing literature is vast. So much so that researchers—whether seasoned framing scholars or those foraying into climate change framing research for the first time—can easily be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of studies, the vast array of concepts deployed, the variation in how these same concepts are operationalized, the nuance of a barely numerable assortment of contexts, and the effects all of the aforementioned have on interpreting findings. Here we offer a synthetic review of said literature, focusing on adaptation and mitigation framing studies and findings. In so doing, we first briefly distill the overall developmental arc of climate change framing research. We then provide a conventionally styled thematic overview of the mitigation and adaptation climate change studies. Among other conclusions, we find that while there has been a proliferation of climate change framing research, the findings and the studies themselves are often quite disparate from one another. Moreover, as the literature speaks to itself intermittently and in an ad hoc fashion, it is not readily apparent how climate change framing studies holistically fit together. As a solution to this problem, we offer the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) as a narrative heuristic to help climate change researchers and communicators organize and understand the literature. We argue that an NPF integration of this inherently unwieldy literature increases the likelihood of research utilization and improves the ability of climate change communicators to inform people about the risks of climate change.","PeriodicalId":168326,"journal":{"name":"Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133404973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Stepping Forward: Towards a More Systematic NPF with Automation 向前迈进:迈向更系统化的自动化NPF

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf3

Laura P. Wolton, Deserai A. Crow, Tanya Heikkila

{"title":"Stepping Forward: Towards a More Systematic NPF with Automation","authors":"Laura P. Wolton, Deserai A. Crow, Tanya Heikkila","doi":"10.15788/npf3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15788/npf3","url":null,"abstract":"Advancements in automated text analysis have substantially increased our capacity to study large volumes of documents systematically in policy process research. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF)—which promotes empirical analysis of narratives—has the potential to usher policy narrative research along the same path. Using the NPF and existing semi-automated analysis tools, we investigate the relationship between narrative components—namely, characters and proposed solutions—and the more “skeletal” frames that tie policy narrative elements to one another. To illustrate how these tools can advance policy narrative research, we auto-code 5,708 state and local news articles focusing on hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas. The findings suggest that the use and role of characters and policy solutions are portrayed in significantly different ways depending on the frame used. By using an autocoding approach, these findings increase our methodological and theoretical understanding of the relationship between narrative elements and frames in policy narratives. In discussing these findings, we also consider their implications for how issue frames matter theoretically in the NPF.","PeriodicalId":168326,"journal":{"name":"Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115155410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lost in Translation: Narrative Salience of Fear > Hope in Prevention of COVID-19 迷失在翻译中:恐惧的叙事突出> COVID-19预防的希望

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf5

Holly L. Peterson, Chad Zanocco, Aaron Smith-Walter

{"title":"Lost in Translation: Narrative Salience of Fear > Hope in Prevention of COVID-19","authors":"Holly L. Peterson, Chad Zanocco, Aaron Smith-Walter","doi":"10.15788/npf5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15788/npf5","url":null,"abstract":"Using short, policy-image-like narratives, we explore the relationship between narrative agreement and narrative impacts in the case of COVID-19 in the US. Building upon previous research which identified attention narratives focusing on problems “stories of fear” and those focusing on solutions “stories of hope,” we use a narrative survey experiment of the general public (n=1000) to test the salience of problem and solution narratives and if they impact agreement with Center for Disease Control (CDC) prevention guidelines. Our findings are 1) fear story agreement is partisan but hope story agreement is not 2) fear story is the more salient of the two, 3) narrative agreement for both fear and hope were related to CDC safety guideline agreement, but were partisan, and 4) exposure to neither narrative impacted likelihood to agree with the guidelines as compared to a control group. Our findings are consistent with previous work indicating a Democratic party preference for stories of fear, where Democrats were more likely to support policy action. While we find that agreement with our narratives and guidelines is related, neither narrative treatment successfully altered support for CDC guidelines, suggesting a potential limit for the influence of narratives to either change or reorder existing preferences in highly salient and partisan issue areas like COVID-19 and suggesting a need for more research into the dynamics of narrative attention.","PeriodicalId":168326,"journal":{"name":"Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130528497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Discourse Network Analysis of Nuclear Narratives 核叙事的话语网络分析

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf2

Kuhika Gupta, J. Ripberger, Andrew Fox, H. Jenkins‐Smith, Carol L. Silva

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Speaking from Experience: Medicaid Consumers as Policy Storytellers 经验之谈:医疗补助消费者作为政策说书人

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf6

Kathleen Colville, M. Merry

{"title":"Speaking from Experience: Medicaid Consumers as Policy Storytellers","authors":"Kathleen Colville, M. Merry","doi":"10.15788/npf6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15788/npf6","url":null,"abstract":"Kentucky’s proposed Medicaid reforms, initiated in 2016 and blocked in federal court in 2018 and again in 2019, elicited an extraordinary volume of public input on the value of Medicaid (publicly-funded health insurance for low-income individuals). Personal statements from current and former Medicaid consumers, through written comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, offer insights into the strategies employed by a segment of the public that contributes infrequently to policy debates. Through a combination of manual and automated content analysis of a random sample of 1100 public comments, we analyze the policy narratives of participants, examining how narrative and non-narrative elements varied depending on commenters’ relationship to Medicaid consumers. Nearly all comments met (and most exceeded) the threshold for a policy narrative, while relatively few comments drew on research-based content typically considered privileged in the rule-making process. Further, these narrative elements cohered in distinct storylines from current and past Medicaid consumers and from those who identified as service providers. This research underscores the importance of narratives as sources of evidence in regulatory processes and suggests that public comments are fertile ground for research using the Narrative Policy Framework. This work also illuminates bottom-up narrative construction, a process thus far overlooked in micro-level research presuming that citizens are passive recipients of narratives, rather than producers themselves. For future work examining micro-level narrative production, we identify important considerations, including the role of narrator trust, audience, forms of evidence, setting, and the interaction between the meso and micro levels.","PeriodicalId":168326,"journal":{"name":"Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework","volume":"2014 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134476310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Nonviolent Narrative for European Integration? 欧洲一体化的非暴力叙事?

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf8

Roberto Baldoli, C. Radaelli

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Conclusion 结论

Narratives and the Policy Process : Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.15788/npf10

E. Shanahan

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