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{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"<p>Following the first issue of this year, the special issue on the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) (Bandelow &amp; Hornung, <span>2021</span>), 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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, <span>1993</span>), policy learning also stands as a perspective on its own today. Following the extensive research on learning within the last years (Babarczy &amp; Imre, <span>2017</span>; Dunlop et al., <span>2018</span>; Gerlak et al., <span>2020</span>; Howlett et al., <span>2017</span>; Montpetit &amp; Lachapelle, <span>2017</span>; Moyson et al., <span>2017</span>), policy learning can meanwhile be considered as a distinct framework that fulfills the necessary analytical requirements (Dunlop &amp; Radaelli, <span>2018</span>). The article by Riche et al. (<span>2020</span>) 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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}

{"title":"Problem complexity and narratives in Moscow's waste controversy","authors":"Caroline Schlaufer,&nbsp;Tatiana Khaynatskaya,&nbsp;Marina Pilkina,&nbsp;Victoria Loseva,&nbsp;Sanjay Kumar Rajhans","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1115","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Public problems are not complex per se but are defined as such. This article explores how problem definition in terms of complexity is strategically used in narratives to expand or contain a policy conflict. We draw on the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine how actors use narratives to define problems and link these problems to solutions and characters. Empirically, we examine narratives used in the Moscow waste management debate by drawing on content analysis of online texts and interviews. The results show that government actors seek to contain conflict by assigning less complexity to the waste problem than nongovernmental actors, who expand conflict by defining the waste problem as politically complex. Narratives with high problem complexity include many victims and villains and propose multifaceted and institutional solutions, while narratives with low problem complexity focus on technocratic solutions. Implications for the Russian waste controversy and the NPF are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72163692","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}

{"title":"Informal social groups and policy programs: A Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) on policymaking","authors":"Nils C. Bandelow,&nbsp;Johanna Hornung","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1110","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It was summer 2016 when the research group of the later funded project on “Programmatic Action in Times of Austerity” (ProAcTA) first met in the south of France. Six months later, it had worked out a project proposal that was granted by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under the grant numbers ANR-17-FRAL-0008–01 and DFG BA 1912/3-1. This is where the story of the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) formally begins, although it bases on a variety of previous work on the programmatic approach. Telling this story and presenting the final project results is the core theme of this introductory contribution on “Informal Social Groups and Policy Programs: A Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) on Policymaking.”</p><p>Even before the meeting in 2016, the core research group around the programmatic approach, consisting majorly of (in alphabetical order) William Genieys, Patrick Hassenteufel, and Marc Smyrl, postulated the idea that biographical homogeneity may build the basis for cooperation between policy actors and shape public policy over a longer period of time. This idea dates back to the beginning of the 2000s and is rooted in the observation of sectoral elites emerging in France from the grounds of homogenous education and resources (Genieys, <span>2005</span>; Genieys &amp; Hassenteufel, <span>2001</span>). Defending the budget and authority in their policy sector, the elite actors have been denoted as custodians of state (Genieys, <span>2010</span>), struggling with their counterparts, designated as austerians (derived from austerity), over financial and regulative resources. In doing so, they coalesced around a definable policy program, which led the researchers to name the theoretical perspective “programmatic approach” (Genieys &amp; Hassenteufel, <span>2012</span>).</p><p>Building on these bases, the programmatic approach has been extended further and applied to a variety of policy sectors and countries (Darviche et al., <span>2013</span>). In two more research projects by the French research group (MIRE and OPERA), the programmatic approach sheds light on elite trajectories and their influence on policymaking in France and the United States. Hence, programmatic actors have been found primarily in health policy, from within the state shaping the transformation of health care in France, Germany, Spain, and the UK (Genieys &amp; Smyrl, <span>2008b</span>; Hassenteufel et al., <span>2010</span>).</p><p>Originally sticking to the idea of programmatic elites and the idea of sectoral competition between elite actors that eventually leads to policy change, Hornung and Bandelow (<span>2020</span>) published the first version of the “Programmatic Action Framework.” As Figure 1 shows, the framework included a variety of elite sociological considerations on the transformation of programmatic actors into programmatic elites, the methodological tools to identify these actors, and a struggle between","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/epa2.1110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72163319","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}