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{"title":"Narrative plots for regulatory, distributive, and redistributive policies","authors":"Johanna Kuhlmann,&nbsp;Sonja Blum","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1127","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1127","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has ignited a remarkably active research community, one of its main contributions being distinct narrative elements—including settings, characters, and plots. Yet, while the plot constitutes a core element of narrativity, it has received less attention vis-à-vis other narrative components. Existing classifications of plots have been proven to possess a great ability to capture “universal” policy stories, but not the specific variations of different <i>types</i> of policies. This article presents a typology of plots by linking their universal and policy-specific themes, thereby theorizing from Lowi's seminal typology of regulatory, distributive, and redistributive policies. Empirically, it focuses on the political communication of Germany's policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy narratives were mined from Twitter and from governmental press conferences (March–June 2020). The qualitative NPF analysis demonstrates that the identified plots—<i>restricting-to-control</i>, <i>liberating-to-promote</i>, <i>providing-to-promote</i>, <i>giving-to-give</i>, and <i>giving-to-promote</i>—can grasp different regulatory, distributive, and redistributive policies as well as their variety.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 S2","pages":"276-302"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1127","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42266287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Institutional Grammar Tool meets the Narrative Policy Framework: Narrating institutional statements in consultation","authors":"Claire A. Dunlop,&nbsp;Jonathan C. Kamkhaji,&nbsp;Claudio M. Radaelli,&nbsp;Gaia Taffoni","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1126","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1126","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We compare the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) and the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT). Given the focus of this special issue on the NPF, we first theorize how the IGT can contribute to the development of NPF categories, but also how the former gains conceptual leverage from the latter. We argue that it is useful to consider jointly NPF and IGT as this expands the benefit of NPF usage for policy researchers—uncovering not only the stories policy actors tell but also what these stories mean in terms of institutional statements. We provide a demonstration of how the conversation between these two policy lenses may develop by analyzing original data on the design of consultation procedures in the European Union, Finland, Ireland, and Malta.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 S2","pages":"365-385"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39519294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do governments care about socioeconomic inequalities in health? Narrative review of reports of EU-15 countries","authors":"Neus Carrilero,&nbsp;Anna García-Altés,&nbsp;Viky Morón Mendicuti,&nbsp;Boi Ruiz García","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1124","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1124","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Socioeconomic inequalities in health have been an issue in all European countries since the publication of the “Black Report” in the United Kingdom in 1980. However, data show that nowadays there are important socioeconomic health inequalities within EU countries. The purpose of this paper is to review EU-15 government reports that address socioeconomic inequalities in health. We reviewed 101 reports. The pioneer countries in analyzing this topic have a Beveridge-type health system, and they are the leaders over time. The top socioeconomic indicators used are education level, social class, deprivation level of the area, and nationality. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic situation and its economic consequences, EU governments need to continue monitoring the existing inequalities in health and to act transversely in all public policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 2","pages":"521-536"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44784818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Constructing policy narratives for transnational mobilization: Insights from European Citizens’ Initiatives","authors":"Jale Tosun,&nbsp;Simon Schaub","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1125","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1125","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One of the European Union (EU) institutions’ responses to the alleged “democratic deficit” in the EU is the introduction of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). The ECI provides an agenda-setting tool accessible to different advocacy groups. This study investigates the narrative strategies of ECI organizers to mobilize citizens across the EU. Which storytelling characteristics are present in the policy narratives used by ECIs? To address this question theoretically, we rely on the Narrative Policy Framework. Empirically, we examine 59 ECIs registered between 2012 and 2020. The analysis concentrates on three dimensions of policy narratives: the mentioning of (i) story characters and (ii) cost-benefit frames as forms of narrative strategy to increase public attention, and (iii) evidence as a means of persuasion. Our findings show that ECIs predominantly make use of the devil shift in their policy narratives and use cost-benefit frames and evidence to expand the scope of conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 S2","pages":"344-364"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44695761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From zero to villain: Applying narrative analysis in research on organizational reputation","authors":"Johanna Kuenzler","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1123","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1123","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What narratives accompany the emergence of a negative reputation? I combine research on public organizations’ reputation with narrative analysis. Narratives offer multiple benefits to reputational research, playing an important role in human cognition and comprising social constructions of both organizations and other actors. Organizations profit from insights of narrative analysis concerning their reputation management. I apply the Narrative Policy Framework to the Swiss Child and Adult Protection Agencies (CAPA). A quantitative analysis of 667 narratives in mass media shows that the emergence of the CAPA’s negative reputation was accompanied by villain depictions early on, with narratives assuming a different quality after an implementation scandal. Also the CAPA’s target groups underwent marked changes in their depictions, most notably with problem causers being cast as heroes in several narratives, thus questioning the CAPA’s basic legitimacy as problem-solving organization. These findings provide the CAPA with concrete starting points to amend their reputation.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 S2","pages":"405-424"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45788701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse","authors":"Øyvind Gjerstad,&nbsp;Kjersti Fløttum","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1122","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1122","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present study proposes an analysis of climate change (CC) narratives in answers to an open-ended survey question, where we ask what a climate-friendly lifestyle may imply. The representative survey has been conducted online by the Norwegian Citizen Panel/DIGSSCORE, located at the University of Bergen. The survey provided 1,149 answers from respondents across Norway. The analysis combines a lexical and a text linguistic approach (Fløttum &amp; Gjerstad, 2017), based on Adam's (2008) analysis of the narrative text sequence (initial situation–complication–(re)action–resolution–final situation), and inspired by the Narrative Policy Framework's (NPF) notions of plot and narrative characters (Jones et al., 2014). Our analysis identified four main topics: consumption, transportation, politics, and energy, while the cast of characters is dominated by the first-person singular, frequently portrayed as hero, and the first-person plural in a predominantly villainous role. The frequent use of negation and argumentative connectives reflects the contentious nature of the issue.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 S2","pages":"386-404"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51345366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agri-food technology politics: Exploring policy narratives in the European Parliament","authors":"Colette S. Vogeler,&nbsp;Sandra Schwindenhammer,&nbsp;Denise Gonglach,&nbsp;Nils C. Bandelow","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1114","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1114","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) highlights the role of arguments and emotions included in stories to influence the policy process. Most applications refer to highly politicized issues. How are narratives used in less politicized debates? This paper applies the NPF to two debates within the European Parliament (EP) which generally gain less public media attention than national debates. By conducting a discourse network analysis of two policy debates on agri-food technologies in the EP, we show that both debates do not rely as much on emotions as compared to public debates, but are to a greater degree based on argumentative and scientifically grounded reasoning. The use of the NPF characters of victims, villains, and heroes are fairly limited. Instead, the recently introduced character of the beneficiary is used frequently to highlight the advantages and benefits of the preferred policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 S2","pages":"324-343"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44813341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Driving bans for diesel cars in German cities: The role of ENGOs and Courts in producing an unlikely outcome","authors":"Annette Elisabeth Töller","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1120","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1120","url":null,"abstract":"Driving bans for diesel cars have been adopted, are looming or have been narrowly avoided in 41 major German cities as of April 2021. This paper analyses this highly unlikely outcome of a political process that began in 2010 by addressing a number of causal factors and qualifying the weight and the way in which they contribute to the overall result. First, in the category of institutions, there are the European Ambient Air Quality Directive and the right of environmental associations to sue; second, the striking failure to adopt alternative measures to significantly reduce NO 2 concentration; third, in the category of actors there is the Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) utilizing the right to take legal action in its “fight for clean air” as well as the German administrative courts which handled the legal cases filed by the DUH by placing great emphasis on health protection and compliance with European law.","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 2","pages":"486-507"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49235879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning, policy instruments and networks in EU policy-making—Trends in European policy analysis","authors":"Nils C. Bandelow,&nbsp;Johanna Hornung,&nbsp;Fritz Sager,&nbsp;Ilana Schröder,&nbsp;Klaus Schubert","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1113","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Following the first issue of this year, the special issue on the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) (Bandelow &amp; Hornung, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;), the EPA editorial team proudly presents the open spring issue. Those who regularly follow the updates of our journal probably noticed already the change in the production schedule. From 2021 on, EPA will publish four issues a year, starting in 2021 with two special issues in winter and autumn, and the regular issues being published in May and November. It is a great step ahead for the journal, which would not have been possible without the ongoing support and collaboration of our authors and reviewers, to whom we send a great thank you! This success is also visible in the current SCOPUS CiteScore, which improved compared to the previous year (3.9 in 2019) and currently equals 4.2 (as of March 2, 2021: https://www2.scopus.com/sourceid/21100886407). Beyond numbers, this score symbols EPA's impact in the research community, which follows the high-quality articles of authors across Europe and the diversity of research fields that these articles engage with. We'd like to take this opportunity to again thank each and every one who contributes to our journal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alongside the transition regarding the publication schedule, we happily announce further changes in the EPA editorial team. The position as editorial administrator and manager, which since the early beginnings of the EPA journal has been performed by Johanna Hornung, will be taken by Ilana Schröder in the future. She will devote at least as much effort to this task as her predecessor did, and we cannot imagine a better person to replace this vacancy. Johanna Hornung will not leave the journal but, given her outstanding work as editorial manager in the past, will become one of the journal's general editors. She will proceed with putting her full heart and mind into this journal's journey, and is both excited and looking forward to this new task.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As regards content, this year's second issue includes a number of articles that connect to recent trends in European Policy Analysis: Originally strongly interwoven with the ACF as a framework of the policy change and learning (Sabatier &amp; Jenkins-Smith, &lt;span&gt;1993&lt;/span&gt;), policy learning also stands as a perspective on its own today. Following the extensive research on learning within the last years (Babarczy &amp; Imre, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Dunlop et al., &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;; Gerlak et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Howlett et al., &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Montpetit &amp; Lachapelle, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Moyson et al., &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;), policy learning can meanwhile be considered as a distinct framework that fulfills the necessary analytical requirements (Dunlop &amp; Radaelli, &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). The article by Riche et al. (&lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;) investigates under which conditions learning takes place in governance networks and systematically reviews 40 public administration studies to answer this question. The ","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 1","pages":"144-146"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72165939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Education and austerity in the European Union from an autism perspective: Policy mapping in Ireland, Portugal, Italy, and Greece","authors":"Robin van Kessel,&nbsp;Ines Siepmann,&nbsp;Luis Capucha,&nbsp;Apostolos Kavaliotis Paschalis,&nbsp;Carol Brayne,&nbsp;Simon Baron-Cohen,&nbsp;Katarzyna Czabanowska,&nbsp;Andres Roman-Urrestarazu","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1121","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores how autism and education policy are affected by austerity measures in Ireland, Portugal, Italy, and Greece by using a path dependence analysis. The implementation of mixed mainstream classrooms and improvements to infrastructure coincided with the ratification of inclusive education policy. Austerity measures appeared temporally associated with furthering of integration and inclusion policy for all countries under study, potentially due to the economic incentives of an integrated system. This trend is especially visible in Ireland, Portugal, and Greece, whereas lesser so in Italy. Even though the initial focus of this analysis was autism, the findings are applicable to the general area of special education needs due to the non-specific nature of national policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"7 2","pages":"508-520"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43575695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}