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Huda, Juhi. "An Examination of Policy Narratives in Agricultural Biotechnology Policy in India." World Affairs 181, no. 1 (March 2018): 42–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0043820018783046.
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The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) focuses attention on the importance of narratives in policy debates and on their empirical analysis. While NPF has become an increasingly important and accepted approach to studying the policy process, the vast majority of research applies it to the policy contexts of the United States, which limits tests of its potential generalizability and responsiveness to cultural specificity. To broaden the contextual scope of the approach, this study applies the NPF to a non-U.S. policy context through examining the controversial issue of agricultural biotechnology policy in India. It analyzes media coverage from leading English newspapers in India to explore the strategic use of narrative variables in policy narratives. In doing so, it highlights the important role of incomplete policy narratives in policy debates and outcomes. Policy narratives do not always contain a full suite of narrative components, and yet they may be among the most common messages received by the public and political actors. Through an analysis of incomplete narratives, this study attempts to further refine the definition of policy narratives and consider which narratives are important from empirical and audience reception perspectives. Results show that incomplete narratives occur more frequently and contain relevant narrative variables.
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Rodrigues Neto, Damasio Duval, and Márcio Barcelos. "Histórias na agenda: uma aplicação do “Narrative Policy Framework”." Revista de Administração Pública 54, no. 6 (December 2020): 1632–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220190395.
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Abstract This study applies the “Narrative Policy Framework” (NPF) to the affirmative action policy process of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL) and proposes theoretical intersection between the NPF and agenda setting literature, seeking to find out the role of policy narratives in policy processes. NPF is an empiric-oriented framework that posits that the policy-makers’ stories have generalizable components and are built and crafted in accordance to their ideas. These are policy narratives, and are at the center of the policy process. By analyzing formulation stages of public policy and referring to ideas and narratives, the NPF refers to the agenda setting literature and provides means for empirical research of agenda setting concepts. The study undertook analysis of regulatory outputs and semi-structured interviews. Findings indicate that policy narratives have affected institutional regulatory outputs regarding UFPel’s affirmative action policies.
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Shanahan, Elizabeth A., Michael D. Jones, and Mark K. McBeth. "Policy Narratives and Policy Processes." Policy Studies Journal 39, no. 3 (July 27, 2011): 535–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.2011.00420.x.
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SHANAHAN, ELIZABETH A., MARK K. MCBETH, and PAUL L. HATHAWAY. "Narrative Policy Framework: The Influence of Media Policy Narratives on Public Opinion." Politics & Policy 39, no. 3 (May 26, 2011): 373–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2011.00295.x.
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Kahlon, Tahir Ul Mulk, Ghulam Qumber, and Rafaqat Islam. "Crafting Resistance through Narratives in Afghanistan." Global Regional Review III, no. I (December 30, 2018): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2018(iii-i).02.
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Narrative offers an evocative opportunity to understand the power of knowledge manipulation within the public policy system. Despite the influence of narratives in designing, formulating, and implementing of public policies, it is a relatively nascent concept in public policy studies.The war in Afghanistan truly represents a battle of narratives. This paper takes a Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) approach to explore the narratives used by resistance forces in Afghanistan within the belief system of a religion. It acknowledges that narratives matter and that by studying the same, one can construe their influence on policies. The paper finds that resistance groups such as the Taliban, mobilize support and operate in battlefields across Afghanistan; simultaneously bolstering their legitimacy and community influence garnering support from within and outside Afghanistan.
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Lawlor, Andrea, and Deserai Crow. "Risk-Based Policy Narratives." Policy Studies Journal 46, no. 4 (October 21, 2018): 843–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psj.12270.
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Rodrigues Neto, Damasio Duval, and Márcio Barcelos. "Stories in the agenda: a Narrative Policy Framework study." Revista de Administração Pública 54, no. 6 (December 2020): 1632–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220190395x.
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Abstract This study applies the “Narrative Policy Framework” (NPF) to the affirmative action policy process of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL) and proposes theoretical intersection between the NPF and agenda setting literature, seeking to find out the role of policy narratives in policy processes. NPF is an empiric-oriented framework that posits that the policy-makers’ stories have generalizable components and are built and crafted in accordance to their ideas. These are policy narratives, and are at the center of the policy process. By analyzing formulation stages of public policy and referring to ideas and narratives, the NPF refers to the agenda setting literature and provides means for empirical research of agenda setting concepts. The study undertook analysis of regulatory outputs and semi-structured interviews. Findings indicate that policy narratives have affected institutional regulatory outputs regarding UFPel’s affirmative action policies.
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Drennan, Lex. "FEMA’s fall and redemption—applied narrative analysis." Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 27, no. 4 (August 6, 2018): 393–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-07-2017-0163.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to recover the narratives constructed by the disaster management policy network in Washington, DC, about the management of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. Recovering and analysing these narratives provides an opportunity to understand the stories constructed about these events and consider the implications of this framing for post-event learning and adaptation of government policy. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted through an extended ethnographic study in Washington, DC, that incorporated field observation, qualitative interviews and desktop research. Findings The meta-narratives recovered through this research point to a collective tendency to fit the experiences of Hurricane Katrina and Sandy into a neatly constructed redemption arc. This narrative framing poses significant risk to policy learning and highlights the importance of exploring counter-narratives as part of the policy analysis process. Research limitations/implications The narratives in this paper reflect the stories and beliefs of the participants interviewed. As such, it is inherently subjective and should not be generalised. Nonetheless, it is illustrative of how narrative framing can obscure important learnings from disasters. Originality/value The paper represents a valuable addition to the field of disaster management policy analysis. It extends the tools of narrative analysis and administrative ethnography into the disaster management policy domain and demonstrates how these techniques can be used to analyse complex historical events.
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Honeck, Thomas. "A touch of post-truth: the roles of narratives in urban policy mobilities." Geographica Helvetica 73, no. 2 (April 4, 2018): 133–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-133-2018.
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Abstract. This paper characterizes different types of policy narratives that influence the trans-local motion of urban policies and elaborates on their relations. The paper first introduces conceptual and methodological recommendations from policy narrative literature to debates on policy mobility. In an empirical section, it then analyzes narratives that support policies on temporary use of vacant lands and buildings in the German cities of Berlin and Stuttgart. Based on semi-structured interviews with experts and document reviews, the paper finds different, partly competing narratives on temporary use in both case study cities. It identifies their typical elements, categorising them by form and content. Referential narratives are understood as connecters between different cities and influencers of policy mobility. Finally, the paper shows how narratives work with association as well as imagination and thus emphasize the non-factual, yet inherent aspects of relational policy making.
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Lofaro, Ryan J., and Hugh T. Miller. "Narrative Politics in Policy Discourse: The Debate Over Safe Injection Sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." Contemporary Drug Problems 48, no. 1 (February 16, 2021): 75–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450921993821.
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Safe injection sites are spaces where people who inject drugs can do so under the supervision of staff at the sites who attempt to revive them if they overdose. Public officials in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have proposed the sites as a means to reduce opioid overdose deaths in the city, a policy proposal that has been politically and legally contested. This article uses the Narrative Politics model to elucidate the concerns, values, and aspirations of the competing narratives in the public discourse over safe injection sites in Philadelphia. Despite the aspirations expressed within the Harm Reduction narrative to open such a site, opposition from the Nimby (not in my backyard) narrative has, at the time of this research, successfully precluded such a step. Other narratives in the discourse include the Abstinence narrative opposing safe injection sites and the Social Justice narrative opposed to incarceration but also hesitant to wholeheartedly endorse the Harm Reduction narrative for its delayed advocacy of compassionate treatment of people who use drugs now that the face of the person who uses opioids is a white one. In addition to juxtaposing competing narratives against one another and considering their alignments, disagreements, and interactions, the authors consider absences and shared presuppositions. The social construction of the purported drug addict varies in some ways between and among the prevailing narratives; in other ways, all the narratives problematize “addiction” as an affliction that justifies techniques of discipline aimed at caring for and controlling the population.
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Montoya-López, Juan Carlos, Ayda Vanessa Mosquera-Andrade, and Oscar Alberto Peláez-Henao. "Inquiring pre-service teachers’ narratives on language policy and identity during their practicum." July/December 27, no. 2 (August 31, 2020): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.19183/how.27.2.544.
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This narrative inquiry study aims to unveil the incorporation of policy agency within the construction of teacher identity of pre-service teachers in their academic practicums. Drawing on a critical-sociocultural approach to narrative inquiry, language policy, and teacher identity, the narratives of five students of an English teaching program in Medellín, Colombia, were examined. Their reflections and decision making on foreign language policies regulating their pedagogical practices at various schools show their social and critical awareness. Teaching represents a high moral load for them as they embrace a humanistic perspective. However, their narratives also pose challenges to language teaching programs in helping pre-service teachers to build micropolitical agency supported on solid theoretical knowledge to participate in policymaking. On the one hand, their narrations of the policy appropriation process they undertook show their frustration and disappointment in trying to participate when policy structures and other policy arbiters were close to them. On the other hand, when policy structures and arbiters openly allowed their policy participation, their actions and reflections focused on methodological concerns but rarely addressed social or critical awareness regarding curriculum design and development. Therefore, supporting pre-service teachers in strengthening their identities with solid theoretical constructs should be a priority because they will build micropolitical agency to overcome political tensions and negotiate their policy participation.
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Istiqoh, Akhdiva Elfi, Zuly Qodir, and Zakly Hanafi Ahmad. "Narrative Policy Framework: Presidential Threshold Policy Toward the 2024 Election." Jurnal Bina Praja 14, no. 3 (December 2022): 505–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21787/jbp.14.2022.505-516.
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General elections are interpreted as a concrete manifestation of the implementation of democracy in Indonesia. However, the use of the Presidential Threshold is a matter of debate ahead of the 2024 General Election. The issue related to the Presidential Threshold has become a hot issue reported by the Indonesian media. The media have an essential role in shaping public narratives related to policymaking. The part of public records can create collective awareness by providing information about actors' choices in making a policy decision. This study aims to analyze how policymaking actors in Indonesia make decisions regarding using the Presidential Threshold in the 2024 General Election seen from the public narrative formed in the media. A Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) study will be conducted to describe and explain the structure of political narratives in policymaking. This study uses a qualitative research method with a QDAS (Qualitative Data Analysis Software) approach. The data sources in this study came from reputable online media in Indonesia. Research findings show that the government's attitude toward the House of People's Representatives (DPR) as policymakers does not waver towards implementing the 20% Presidential Threshold in the upcoming 2024 elections. However, the narrative built on the media regarding implementing the Presidential Threshold is more dominated by the contrast. This is inseparable from the political interest ahead of the 2024 general election. Namely, to carry and win presidential and vice-presidential candidates who are supported by each political actor involved.
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van Noort, Carolijn, and Thomas Colley. "How do strategic narratives shape policy adoption? Responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative." Review of International Studies 47, no. 1 (November 10, 2020): 39–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210520000388.
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AbstractStrategic narratives are increasingly considered important for domestic and international support for foreign policy. However, debate continues about why some strategic narratives successfully shape policy outcomes, while others are rejected. How states construct strategic narratives is well established. We know less about how states appropriate the strategic narratives of others, and the role this plays in policy adoption. Addressing this, we introduce a theoretical framework to trace the relationship between strategic narratives and policy adoption. Its central premise is that a state is more likely to adopt a new policy if it can strategically narrate about it in a way that promises material gain but without undermining its ontological security. We test our framework using states’ responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Examining the Second Belt and Road Forum in 2019, we trace how far China's strategic narratives are appropriated by multiple states – Kazakhstan, Italy, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States, India, and Mexico. Countries appropriate China's narrative emphasis on connectivity, trade, and prosperity. However, they contest that China's intentions are benign, based on its human rights record, assertive foreign policy, and fears of indebtedness. Finally, we discuss our framework's utility in explaining what makes strategic narratives persuasive in International Relations.
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Terlizzi, Andrea. "Narratives in power and policy design: the case of border management and external migration controls in Italy." Policy Sciences 54, no. 4 (October 20, 2021): 749–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11077-021-09440-4.
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AbstractThis article explores the relationship between policy narratives and the design of the Italian border management and external migration control regime in the last two decades. First, drawing from the theory of social construction and policy design and through a qualitative application of the Narrative Policy Framework, the article traces the evolution of narratives developed by key actors in government. Second, it investigates the design of the Italian externalization policy. Empirical material is drawn from government documents and decision-makers’ parliamentary interventions, press conferences, speeches, newspaper interviews and op-eds. The evidence shows that the dominant narratives have remained constant over time. Humanitarian rhetoric has been mobilized to justify and legitimize the implementation of security measures through bilateral agreements signed with African countries. The implications of such a design are relevant in that it poses serious concerns in terms of respect for migrants’ human rights. Overall, the article offers new insights into the empirical investigation of policy narratives and sheds light on the role of narratives in the social construction of migration policy design.
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Betsch, Cornelia, Corina Ulshöfer, Frank Renkewitz, and Tilmann Betsch. "The Influence of Narrative v. Statistical Information on Perceiving Vaccination Risks." Medical Decision Making 31, no. 5 (March 29, 2011): 742–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989x11400419.
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Background. Health-related information found on the Internet is increasing and impacts patient decision making, e.g. regarding vaccination decisions. In addition to statistical information (e.g. incidence rates of vaccine adverse events), narrative information is also widely available such as postings on online bulletin boards. Previous research has shown that narrative information can impact treatment decisions, even when statistical information is presented concurrently. Objectives. As the determinants of this effect are largely unknown, we will vary features of the narratives to identify mechanisms through which narratives impact risk judgments. Methods. An online bulletin board setting provided participants with statistical information and authentic narratives about the occurrence and nonoccurrence of adverse events. Experiment 1 followed a single factorial design with 1, 2, or 4 narratives out of 10 reporting adverse events. Experiment 2 implemented a 2 (statistical risk 20% vs. 40%) × 2 (2/10 vs. 4/10 narratives reporting adverse events) × 2 (high vs. low richness) × 2 (high vs. low emotionality) between-subjects design. Dependent variables were perceived risk of side-effects and vaccination intentions. Results. Experiment 1 shows an inverse relation between the number of narratives reporting adverse-events and vaccination intentions, which was mediated by the perceived risk of vaccinating. Experiment 2 showed a stronger influence of the number of narratives than of the statistical risk information. High (vs. low) emotional narratives had a greater impact on the perceived risk, while richness had no effect. Implications. The number of narratives influences risk judgments can potentially override statistical information about risk.
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Artelaris, Panagiotis, and George Mavrommatis. "Territorial Cohesion as a Policy Narrative: From Economic Competitiveness to ‘Smart’ Growth and Beyond." Social Inclusion 8, no. 4 (December 3, 2020): 208–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i4.3336.
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During the last two decades, a lot of ink has been spent in favour of narrative analysis of policy. According to such approaches, policy processes are influenced by narratives that are spread around specific ‘issues’ and lead to their solutions. Following a similar vein, this article examines territorial cohesion as a policy narrative and how it can be perceived as a narrative constituted by a diverse narrative structure. Territorial cohesion is a dynamic narrative that changes through time. As time goes by and different politico-economic philosophies get more influential, technological changes also bring along different priorities, broader EU narratives change, and territorial cohesion adapts to such changes. Accordingly, within the post-2014 framework (2014–2020), territorial cohesion’s (spatialised) social inclusion perspective was subdued to the economic competitiveness sub-narrative in a globalised world. For the new programming period (2021–2027), the European Cohesion Policy will continue to be increasingly linked to the place-based narrative and most of its funding will be directed towards a ‘smarter’ and ‘greener’ Europe within a global space of flows and fast technological changes. The aim of a ‘smarter’ Europe based on digital transformation and smart growth is a new version of the economic competitiveness sub-narrative, while a ‘greener’ Europe is the new policy meta-imperative (“European Green Deal”). However, it must be considered how the Coronavirus crisis and the measures to fight its economic effects play out on these policy narratives.
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Taimur Shamil and Muhammad Nadeem Mirza. "Mapping Contours of Pakistan-US Foreign Policies in Trump Era: Narrative and Counter-Narratives." Strategic Studies 40, no. 3 (October 12, 2020): 22–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.53532/ss.040.03.0072.
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Narratives are used by the states to create an environment in which foreign policy takes place. The US, over the years, has framed the war on terror and its relations with Pakistan in a specific way to justify its foreign policy goals. It has used coercion as well as enticements in order to force Pakistan to fulfill its foreign policy wish-list. Pakistan which has over the years been on the receiving end of these narratives has displayed unprecedented counter-narrative strategy. Applying Neoclassical Realism as a theoretical paradigm, this paper maps the continuity and change in the narrative and counter-narrative strategies of the US and Pakistan.
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Podshibyakinа, T. A. "STRATEGIC NARRATIVES AS A SOFT POWER POLITICAL RESOURCE: THE IMMORTAL REGIMENT ON GUARD OF THE INTERESTS OF RUSSIA." Вестник Пермского университета. Политология 15, no. 3 (2021): 52–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2021-3-52-59.
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The article examines the question of Russia's use of "soft power" in its foreign policy in the context of a nar-rative scientific direction. The research goal is to describe strategic narratives as a communication technolo-gy of "soft power". The author evaluates the heuristic possibilities of the concept of strategic narratives as an analytical research tool. As the civil action "Immortal Regiment" is chosen as a political practice, it was nec-essary to clarify whether the photograph is a kind of narrative and to offer a triangulation of narrative and quantitative methods of analysis. The empirical part of the study is based on content analysis, allowing re-cording the dynamics of the global spread of the Immortal Regiment campaign. The outcome is an assess-ment of the effectiveness of using strategic narratives as a resource of Russia's soft power in foreign policy on the example of the "Immortal Regiment" campaign at the global level. The classification of media re-sources as communicative intermediaries in the spreading of strategic narratives is carried out. It is shown that the narrative that Russia is trying to convey is the history of the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War, reflecting the official discourse of historical policy and the policy of commemorating these events.
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Suswanta, Suswanta, Danang Kurniawan, Achmad Nurmandi, and Salahudin Salahudin. "Analysis of the Consistency Policy Indonesia's Capital Relocation in the Pandemic Era." Jurnal Studi Sosial dan Politik 5, no. 1 (June 29, 2021): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.19109/jssp.v5i1.7865.
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This study aims to look at the narrative of public policies related to the relocation of the Indonesian capital in the era of the Covid Pandemic 19. The narrative is seen through the development of opinions of government policy actors, political parties, and society. This study uses a Q-DAS (Qualitative Data Analysis Software) approach; besides the data in this study are media and social media data. The media have an essential role to play in shaping public narratives related to policymaking. The role of public narratives can create collective awareness in providing information about actor choices in policy decision-making. This research will conduct a Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) study, which can describe, explain the structure of political narratives in policymaking. The results showed that the Government's attitude was inconsistent regarding relocating the State Capital (IKN) after the Covid 19 Pandemic. The policy choices made by the Government were evident from the Government's narrative that temporarily suspended the relocation of the State Capital (IKN). The policy steps taken by the Government are the impact of the developing public narrative related to the relocation of the State Capital (IKN) in the Covid 19 Pandemic era. The factors affecting budget availability are Covid 19, weak public support, regulations, and aspects of environmental damage. These factors have developed in the public narrative on mass media and social media so that the Government took steps to delay the process of moving the country's capital city (IKN).
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Berlinger, Nancy. "UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL NARRATIVES OF DEMENTIA: TASKS AND TOOLS FOR HUMANITIES SCHOLARSHIP." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.962.
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Abstract Humanities scholarship on dementia has long focused on the depiction of dementia in literature, film, and other genres. Recent research on neurodiversity includes humanistic scholarship on creativity within dementia. It is time for interdisciplinary humanities scholarship to focus on narratives of dementia that circulate within aging societies, are embedded in policy, and shape experiences of typical people living with dementia or providing dementia care. This paper argues for the normative importance of studying values-laden cultural narratives, recognizing competing or evolving narratives within a society, and demonstrating how to reframe flawed narratives beyond necessary attention to ageist and ableist language. It presents examples of approaches to social narrative analysis; describes tools and training that could be integrated into humanities scholarship on dementia and aging, and considers the potential role of social narrative analysis in articulating and launching policy ideas for aging societies.
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Allard, Silas W. "Reimagining Asylum: Religious Narratives and the Moral Obligation to the Asylum Seeker." Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 29, no. 1 (October 18, 2013): 121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.37521.
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The narrative that grounds the asylum policy of the United States portrays asylum seekers as passive objects of external forces. This narrative emerges from the complex interplay of exceptionality and victimization that characterizes the legal status and popular perception of the refugee. It is then read back onto the asylum seeker through a supereroga- tory asylum policy that is unable to recognize the moral demand made by the asylum seeker. The project this essay is drawn from seeks to challenge the policy of asylum as charity by interrogating alternative narratives grounded in the Hebrew Bible story of the Exodus and the Qu’ranic story of the Hijra. In these narratives, flight from oppression is portrayed as an act of moral agency, and the asylum seeker’s capacity as Other to make a moral demand on the Self emerges. Thus, I argue that an asylum policy informed by these alternative narratives needs must question its supererogatory assumptions.
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Chang, Katherine T., and Elizabeth A. Koebele. "What Drives Coalitions' Narrative Strategy? Exploring Policy Narratives around School Choice." Politics & Policy 48, no. 4 (August 2020): 618–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/polp.12367.
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Martinez, Joel E., Lauren A. Feldman, Mallory J. Feldman, and Mina Cikara. "Narratives Shape Cognitive Representations of Immigrants and Immigration-Policy Preferences." Psychological Science 32, no. 2 (January 13, 2021): 135–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797620963610.
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Scholars from across the social and media sciences have issued a clarion call to address a recent resurgence in criminalized characterizations of immigrants. Do these characterizations meaningfully impact individuals’ beliefs about immigrants and immigration? Across two online convenience samples (total N = 1,054 adult U.S. residents), we applied a novel analytic technique to test how different narratives—achievement, criminal, and struggle-oriented—impacted cognitive representations of German, Russian, Syrian, and Mexican immigrants and the concept of immigrants in general. All stories featured male targets. Achievement stories homogenized individual immigrant representations, whereas both criminal and struggle-oriented stories racialized them along a White/non-White axis: Germany clustered with Russia, and Syria clustered with Mexico. However, criminal stories were unique in making our most egalitarian participants’ representations as differentiated as our least egalitarian participants’. Narratives about individual immigrants also generalized to update representations of nationality groups. Most important, narrative-induced representations correlated with immigration-policy preferences: Achievement narratives and corresponding homogenized representations promoted preferences for less restriction, and criminal narratives promoted preferences for more.
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Metla-Rozentāle, Lelde, Vineta Kleinberga, Kristiāna Žaunerčika, and Andris Sprūds. "Reflection of the EU Climate Policy Strategic Narrative in the Programmes of Latvian Political Parties—External Convergence and Influence on Shaping Public Opinion." Energies 15, no. 9 (April 21, 2022): 3049. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15093049.
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Climate change, as well as the challenges that come with it, is one of the main issues in international and national politics today. Addressing the threats posed by climate change requires close cooperation at the international level and within each country, creating a dialogue between the political elite and society, thus promoting a common understanding and action across the European Union (EU). The aim of this research is to (1) identify what climate policy narratives are projected to the Latvian electorate (public) and (2) assess how these narratives are aligned with the EU-defined strategic climate policy narrative. The theoretical basis and methodological approach of the study is based on the concept of strategic narrative. It is assumed that the viability and impact of a strategic narrative is enhanced when there is coherence between all stages of the narrative life cycle (i.e., the EU level and the national policy level). The empirical basis of the study is based on the identification of the EU climate policy narrative in the sector’s regulatory documents, as well as an analysis of the election programmes of Latvian political parties (the last European Parliament (2019) and parliamentary (2018) election programmes). The results show that the narrative that the Latvian public receives from its political elite through the European Parliament and the national pre-election programmes is significantly different from the EU strategic narrative on climate policy. Based on the theoretical concept of strategic narrative, it can be concluded that the observed dissimilarity of narratives does not stimulate the inclusion of the Latvian public in the common EU space of climate policy understanding and action.
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Logunova, Larisa, and Vladislav Rychkov. "Memory Field: Design and Fight of Narratives." Ideas and Ideals 12, no. 4-1 (December 23, 2020): 191–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.17212/2075-0862-2020-12.4.1-191-213.
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The policy of memory is a strategy of interaction between power institutions and social groups in the public space on issues of national history. Images of social memory are used by actors to create narratives – complete, plot-complete narratives of past events. Social groups declare their identity and the right to their own interpretations of historical events through the creation of narratives. The clash of alternative interpretations of events leads to a mnemonic conflict, which is the reflection of the political struggle for the right to memory. Dialogue and mediation are tools of memory policy. The logic of this policy implies reconciliation and solidarity of all social groups that have survived a single historical fate, but have a differentiated social memory. People remember how these events reflected on the fate of their families. The methodology of researching the politics of memory is based on sociocultural and historical-comparative analysis, combines phenomenological and constructivist approaches. In analyzing the problem, the article uses the theory of attraction fields of P. Bourdieu. Such a methodological construction helps to study the field structures of social memory, the specifics of constructing a narrative, and the possibilities of a political solution to the mnemonic problems of the nation. The policy of memory is presented as a tool for managing public consciousness in the mental structures of the community. It is contradictory, ideologically determined, involves the collision or coordination of alternative narratives. The structures of power that determine the rules of the “game” on the “memory field”, articulating “official narratives”, have the right to decide on the priority strategy of memory policy. But the influence on the formation of memory policy strategies is possessed by any social groups representing “unofficial” narratives. The construction of a memory policy is based on strategies — targeted, sequential actions that assert in the collective consciousness the version of national history as dominant. Strategies are embodied in variable scenarios - tactical measures of a situational nature that determine the moves and placement of acting characters for the implementation of strategies. The authors identified the main types of memory policy strategies: reproach (realization of a “martyrdom”), oblivion of the tragic past (crowding out facts contradicting “heroic” interpretations from official narratives), conflict of interpretations (contradicting “official” and “unofficial” narratives), dialogue (discourse and coordination of interpretations) with the relevant scenarios of the development of the political situation - the chanting of “historical greatness”, silence, repentance, contradictory narratives, reconciliation and solidarity . The result of the analysis of the problems of social memory in Russia are the theoretical constructs of the narrative confrontation with the following options for scenario solutions that formulate memory policy strategies.
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Dahan, Yitzhak. "Urban distress and political narrative: Life stories of local leaders in a poor, underprivileged suburb and the reconstruction of urban order." Qualitative Social Work 16, no. 2 (August 1, 2016): 255–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325016658113.
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This study discusses the relations between life stories, political narratives and attitudes towards social problems taken by local leaders living in a poor, underprivileged suburb. Using the ‘biographical-narrative’ method, it addresses the questions—How do local conditions (in terms of: housing, social class, municipal policy, social networks, NGO settings, local conflicts, organizational narratives, etc.) affect local leaders’ narratives, biographies, attitudes and strategies and, vice versa—How do their narratives affect the urban order? In order to attain these answers, this paper presents two contradicting narratives, taken from two different local activists, both acting on behalf of the weak Arab population in an Israeli suburb at the turn of 21st century. The findings show that these divergent narratives and resultant attitudes were both deeply rooted in each narrator’s life story and close social milieu. Furthermore, such life stories, charged by certain biographical resources, generated and maintained particular strategies that, in turn, affected the reconstruction of their immediate urban socio-political order. Applying the ‘biographical-narrative’ method to the urban political realm has created a unique configuration of social analysis with some policy implications, especially in regard to community social work.
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Robison, Shea K. "The political implications of epigenetics." Politics and the Life Sciences 35, no. 2 (2016): 30–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pls.2016.14.
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Background. Epigenetics, which is just beginning to attract public attention and policy discussion, challenges conventional understanding of gene-environment interaction and intergenerational inheritance and perhaps much more besides.Question. Does epigenetics challenge modern political ideologies?Methods.I analyzed the narratives of obesity and epigenetics recently published in the more liberalNew York Timesand the more conservativeWall Street Journal. For the years 2010 through 2014, 50 articles on obesity and 29 articles on epigenetics were identified, and elements in their causal narratives were quantitatively analyzed using a well described narrative policy framework.Findings.The narratives on obesity aligned with the two newspapers’ reputed ideologies. However, the narratives on epigenetics aligned with neither ideology but freely mixed liberal and conservative elements.Discussion.This small study may serve as a starting point for broader studies of epigenetics as it comes to affect political ideologies and, in turn, public policies. The narrative mix reported here could yet prove vulnerable to ideological capture, or, more optimistically, could portend the emergence of a “third-way” narrative using epigenetics to question atomistic individualism and allowing for less divisiveness in public-health domains such as obesity.
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Gray, Garry, and Michael D. Jones. "A qualitative narrative policy framework?Examining the policy narratives of US campaign finance regulatory reform." Public Policy and Administration 31, no. 3 (January 6, 2016): 193–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076715623356.
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Eliaz, Kfir, and Ran Spiegler. "A Model of Competing Narratives." American Economic Review 110, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): 3786–816. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20191099.
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We formalize the argument that political disagreements can be traced to a “clash of narratives.” Drawing on the “Bayesian Networks” literature, we represent a narrative by a causal model that maps actions into consequences, weaving a selection of other random variables into the story. Narratives generate beliefs by interpreting long-run correlations between these variables. An equilibrium is defined as a probability distribution over narrative-policy pairs that maximize a representative agent's anticipatory utility, capturing the idea that people are drawn to hopeful narratives. Our equilibrium analysis sheds light on the structure of prevailing narratives, the variables they involve, the policies they sustain, and their contribution to political polarization. (JEL D72, D83, D85, F52)
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Phillips, Coretta. "Utilising ‘modern slave’ narratives in social policy research." Critical Social Policy 40, no. 1 (March 11, 2019): 30–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018319837217.
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Modern slavery has received somewhat limited attention in social policy. Partially responding to this gap, while acknowledging the contested nature of the term ‘modern slavery’, this article makes the case for the primary and secondary analysis of ‘slave narratives’ which provide experiential and agential accounts by those directly harmed by forced labour, coerced sex work and other forms of exploitation. Analysis of a narrative interview with Sean, a (citizen-)victim of forced labour proved under s.71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, demonstrates the multifaceted nature of labour exploitation and its multiple, severe and long-lasting harms. That the form and structure of Sean’s narrative of forced labour resembles those used in the abolitionist cause against antebellum slavery points to a certain timeless essence to forced labour exploitation. The article concludes with implications for intervention.
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Krebs, Ronald R. "How Dominant Narratives Rise and Fall: Military Conflict, Politics, and the Cold War Consensus." International Organization 69, no. 4 (2015): 809–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818315000181.
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AbstractContemporaries and historians often blame the errors and tragedies of US policy during the Cold War on a dominant narrative of national security: the “Cold War consensus.” Its usual periodization, according to which it came together in the late 1940s and persisted until the late 1960s when it unraveled amidst the trauma of the Vietnam War, fits well with a common theory of change in ideas and discourse. That theory expects stasis until a substantial unexpected failure (in this domain, military defeat) discredits dominant ideas and unsettles dominant coalitions. However, systematic data reveal the standard history of this important case to be wrong. Based on a large-scale content analysis of newspaper editorials on foreign affairs, this article shows that the Cold War narrative was narrower than conventional accounts suggest, that it did not coalesce until well into the 1950s, and that it began to erode even before the Vietnam War's Americanization in 1965. To make sense of this puzzle, I develop an alternative theory of the rise and fall of the narratives that underpin and structure debate over national security. Rooted in the dynamics of public narrative and the domestic politics of the battlefield, the theory argues that military failure impedes change in the narrative in whose terms government officials had legitimated the mission, whereas victory creates the opportunity for departures from the dominant narrative. Process-tracing reveals causal dynamics consistent with the theory: failure in the Korean War, which might have undermined Cold War globalism, instead facilitated the Cold War narrative's rise to dominance (or consensus); and the triumph of the Cuban Missile Crisis made possible that dominant narrative's breakdown before the upheaval of Vietnam. This hard and important case suggests the need to rethink the relationship between success, failure, and change in dominant narratives of national security—and perhaps in other policy domains as well.
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Winett, Liana B., Jeff Niederdeppe, Yiwei Xu, Sarah E. Gollust, and Erika Franklin Fowler. "When “Tried and True” Advocacy Strategies Backfire." Journal of Public Interest Communications 5, no. 1 (July 13, 2021): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/jpic.v5.i1.p45.
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A core principle of policy advocacy is that to engage decision makers in the urgency, complexity, and controversy of problems, advocates must effectively tell the story of those issues. Policy stories, or narratives, paint mental pictures of what a problem is, who is affected, and how it came to be. Yet, the persuasive effects of narratives on one key group, state legislators, remain understudied. Drawing from the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), media advocacy, and public interest communications, we sought to inform advocacy strategy by illuminating state legislators’ responses to messages about public investments in quality childcare for all. Contrary to expectations, we found that narratives can have unintended effects challenging or even diminishing legislator support. We discuss implications for advocacy strategy.
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Hoekman, Bernard, and Douglas Nelson. "How Should We Think about the Winners and Losers from Globalization? A Reply to Nicolas Lamp." European Journal of International Law 30, no. 4 (November 2019): 1399–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chz070.
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Abstract How should we think about the winners and losers from globalization? What role can narrative analysis play in doing so? We argue that to be useful, identifying politically relevant narratives on the distributional effects of globalization, and the role played by trade agreements in fostering such effects, must have an empirical basis. Characterizing different narratives and inferring from each the implications for the (re-)design of international agreements without analysis whether the suggested policy reforms will help losers from globalization does not advance matters. Effectively employed, narrative analysis can extend our knowledge of the politics of trade and policy towards globalization more generally. To do so, it must have an analytical foundation, centre on the relationship of the narrative to the facts, ask which narrative is more persuasive based on empirical evidence and assess whether inferred policy implications will address the core issues of concern to those who employ the narrative.
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Ball, Arnetha F. "The Value of Recounting Narratives." Narrative Inquiry 8, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 151–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.8.1.07bal.
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This article examines the narratives of more than fifty students and teachers who live and work in inner-city areas of the U.S. and South Africa. The purpose of this investigation was to consider some striking similarities in the themes that emerged from the narratives of "most memorable learning experiences" shared by these inner-city learners and their implications for policy. In this article, attention is given not only to the value of these narratives to the individuals who have shared them, but also to the value of sharing these narratives with "Others" (i.e., policy makers, administrators, and curriculum developers) who are engaged in dialogues about the reform of education for inner-city populations here in the U.S. and in South Africa. The U.S. and South Africa are two countries with similarities that make them well-suited for this investigation. Structurally, the U.S. and South Africa are both seeking ways to more effectively educate large numbers of inner-city students who are culturally and linguistically different from the "mainstream" and from the students for whom the majority of instructional materials and school expectations are tailored. With an end to legal segregation in the U.S. and apartheid in South Africa, policy makers in both countries are making critical decisions concerning the reconstruction of education systems for students whom they know very little about. A disjunction exists between the lives of the students and the policy environment that seeks to design and control the educational experiences of inner-city youth. Through narratives, this article helps the reader to appreciate this disjunction and exposes a sharp contrast between the world in which the inner-city youth lives and the world implied by the policies and practices that are proposed. I propose that narratives of memorable learning experiences collected from students and teachers who live and work in inner-city areas can provide insight concerning "what counts" as learning and what aspects of life and school experiences have most shaped their lives as learners. This article demonstrates two important functions of narrative: it demonstrates how students and teachers who live and work in inner-city areas make sense of their experiences through narrative, and how (by listening to the voices of inner-city students and teachers) others can gain a data base from which to craft expanded visions of the possibilities for the change and restructuring of schools. (Content analyses of oral and written narrative data)
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Eckart, Dennis. "Discrimination, feminist narratives, and policy arguments." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 13, no. 1 (1993): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554477x.1993.9970660.
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Eckart, Dennis R. "Discrimination, Feminist Narratives, and Policy Arguments." Women & Politics 13, no. 1 (June 24, 1993): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j014v13n01_02.
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Goldberg, Tsafrir, Dan Porat, and Baruch Schwarz. "“Here started the rift we see today”." Narrative Inquiry 16, no. 2 (December 15, 2006): 319–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.16.2.06gol.
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The story about the collective past, which is embedded in the students’ minds, may serve a significant role in learning history. The fit between students preconceived narratives and the official narrative in textbooks might considerably influence their ability to understand and use the official narrative as a cultural tool. 105 12th grade students wrote narratives about the Melting Pot policy in the absorption of the “Great Aliyah” (Mass immigration) to Israel in the 1950’s, a corner stone of Israeli collective identity. The students’ narratives were analyzed in order to identify overt opinions, and basic narrative characteristics, such as plot schemes, agency and recurrent themes. The narratives were compared to the central characteristics of the official narrative of the Great Aliyah mediated through history textbooks. Students’ dominant narrative stood in opposition to the textbooks narrative, putting forward a highly critical perspective of the immigration absorption. Additional findings show students of “Ashkenazi” (European-Jewish) origin to be significantly more critical towards the Melting Pot policy and it’s consequences for the Mizrahi Jews than students of “Mizrahi” (Arab-Jewish) origins. The authors seek to explain their findings within the framework of socio-cultural theory, as evidence of the students’ use of social representation of the past as a cultural tool for explaining a problematic present. The personal historical narrative seems to serve as a tool for positioning the individual in relation to the past and in constructing potentialities of responsibility to contemporary reality.
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Häyrynen, Simo, and Jussi Semi. "Revitalizing the Successful Past in the North: Narratives of Change in the Peripheral Post-Industrial City of Kajaani, Finland." Urban Science 3, no. 4 (December 8, 2019): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci3040110.
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Finding a new destination for declining industrial communities is a common European trend, wherein local, national and EU interests are intertwined and sometimes contested. New meaning is sought, among other things, in economics, political activity, and images of the past. This article analyzes local development narratives in the case of the “northern periphery”. This paper highlights how the shrinking town of Kajaani, Finland, reacts to the state’s changing role in regional industrial strategies by comparing different local interpretations of future expectations. The research material comprises interviews, city strategies, and editorials from a local newspaper. This paper suggests that the previously dominant narrative of decentralization still holds sway in the minds of the local advocates. However, it is flavored by the narrative of the knowledge-based economy forming three interrelated local narratives: the narrative of the small town; the narrative of closure; and the narrative of traction. The analysis shows that a northern model city of former industrial policy is seeking to reform and develop its original strengths. However, strong links to previous doctrines of state regional policy still frame the potential of local interpretations and make them specifically Nordic development narratives.
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Martinez, Magdalena. "An Examination of Higher Education Policy Problems Using Narrative Policy Analysis." American Behavioral Scientist 63, no. 3 (January 9, 2019): 369–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764218820569.
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Policy actors and coalitions use narratives to frame higher education policy problems and solutions. In this article, I illustrate how I employed narrative policy analysis (NPA) in practice to demonstrate how state policy actors and coalitions created policy storylines that offered social orientation, reassurance, or guidance for a stubborn higher education policy problem in one state. I begin the article with a review of NPA, followed by a discussion of the methods and tools that guided my analysis and scholars interested in NPA can employ. Next, I provide a brief overview of the policy problem context followed by a detailed description and examples of analysis for policy artifacts and the construction of policy storylines.
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Robertson, Shanthi, and Val Colic–Peisker. "Policy Narratives versus Everyday Geographies: Perceptions of Changing Local Space in Melbourne's Diverse North." City & Community 14, no. 1 (March 2015): 68–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cico.12098.
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This paper presents a comparative case study of two northern suburbs in Melbourne, Australia, in order to analyze local perceptions of proximity, mobility, and spaces of community interaction within diverse neighborhoods experiencing socioeconomic and demographic transition. We first look at government policies concerning the two suburbs, which position one suburb within a narrative of gentrification and the other within a narrative of marginalization. We then draw on diverse residents’ experiences and perceptions of local space, finding that these “everyday geographies” operate independently of and often at odds with local policy narratives of demographic and socioeconomic transition. We conclude that residents’ “everyday geographies” reveal highly varied and contested experiences of sociospatial dimensions of local change, in contrast to policy narratives that are often neoliberally framed.
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Biedenkopf, Katja. "Polish Climate Policy Narratives: Uniqueness, Alternative Pathways, and Nascent Polarisation." Politics and Governance 9, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 391–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i3.4349.
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European Union (EU) climate politics have polarised over the past decade. Poland especially stands out as the EU member state that has most vehemently opposed numerous decisions to increase the EU’s level of ambition, stirring some turbulence in EU climate politics. Yet, with the publication of the European Green Deal (EGD) in 2019, the European Commission has likewise created turbulence in the Polish parliament’s climate debate. This article analyses those debates and identifies three distinct policy narratives: <em>Poland is in a unique situation</em>, <em>Poland pursues an alternative pathway</em>, and <em>climate policy endangers competitiveness</em>. The <em>alternative pathway</em> narrative, which advocates for the continued use of coal while capturing emissions, faded at roughly the same time when the EGD was proposed at the EU level. Simultaneously, the <em>unique situation</em> narrative, which calls for recognition of Poland’s uniqueness in combination with increased (financial) support, became stronger. The analysis confirms the dominance of the governing party’s narratives, but contrary to previous studies, detects nascent polarisation on climate policy between the right-wing political parties, on the one hand, and the centre-right and centre-left parties, on the other.
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Oppermann, Kai, and Alexander Spencer. "Narrating success and failure: Congressional debates on the ‘Iran nuclear deal’." European Journal of International Relations 24, no. 2 (December 4, 2017): 268–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066117743561.
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This article applies a method of narrative analysis to investigate the discursive contestation over the ‘Iran nuclear deal’ in the US. Specifically, it explores the struggle in the US Congress between narratives constituting the deal as a US foreign policy success or failure. The article argues that foreign policy successes and failures are socially constructed through narratives and suggests how narrative analysis as a discourse-analytical method can be employed to trace discursive contests about such constructions. Based on insights from literary studies and narratology, it shows that stories of failures and successes follow similar structures and include a number of key elements, including: a particular setting; a negative/positive characterization of individual and collective decision-makers; and an emplotment of success or failure through the attribution of credit/blame and responsibility. The article foregrounds the importance of how stories are told as an explanation for the dominance or marginality of narratives in political discourse.
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Ramli Ramadhan and Risna Noviati Amalia. "ANALISIS NARASI / DISKURSUS TERHADAP KEBIJAKAN PERHUTANAN SOSIAL Di WILAYAH KERJA PERHUTANI." Wahana Forestra: Jurnal Kehutanan 16, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/forestra.v16i1.5416.
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The Social Forestry Policy (PS) in the Perhutani working area has started a new beginning towards the current PS implementation. The issuance of regulation P.39 / 2017 was colored by various narratives / discourses from various actors decorating the journey of the policy issuance above. Using a narrative / discourse analysis approach, this study intends to explore the narratives used by parties in the policy process and those who receive the impact of SF policies. The research method used is descriptive qualitative analysis within-depth interviews with selected respondents proportionally (purposive sampling). The results of the study explain that the narrative of each party is different. The narrative brought by the pro to the policy is based on the condition of the forest and the social conditions of the community around the forest that have not been successfully improved, including the PHBM program that needs to be evaluated. The IPHPS scheme provides opportunities for access and higher profit sharing for the community to manage forests with low cover conditions (10%) and or social conditions that need to be addressed. Perhutani brought a narrative about the current regulation violating the previous regulation.
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Wiley, Kimberly. "Implementing Domestic Violence Policy: When Accountability Trumps Mission." Affilia 35, no. 4 (December 17, 2019): 533–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109919894649.
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Nonprofit and governmental relations become increasingly formidable with a nonprofit’s number of public funding streams. Complexity of conflicting funding regulations traps the nonprofit in a state of dysfunction. Interviews with managers currently working in domestic violence advocacy organizations (DVAOs) in the United States are analyzed with a grounded analysis approach to identify the outcome of policy conflict tied to their multiple public funding streams. An unspoken policy narrative emerges that underlies more overt social policy narratives. This emergent narrative drives organizational activities toward accountability tasks and away from mission fulfillment tasks. DVAOs are bound within institutional gridlock.
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Tsyrfa, Iu. "INFLUENCE OF POWER NARRATIVES ON THE FORMATION OF THE US FOREIGN POLICY IDENTITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY." Innovative Solution in Modern Science 7, no. 43 (December 27, 2020): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.26886/2414-634x.7(43)2020.7.
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Since today the constructivist study of international relations puts the social components of their formation in the foreground, the foreign policy identity of a state becomes primary thing in determining its national interests and its foreign policy course. Accordingly, the goal of this article is to determine the complex influence of power narratives on the formation of the US foreign policy identity in the 21st century in the context of transformation of the domestic political matrix and redistribution of the influence between various political forces in this country. To achieve this goal, the author used the following research methods: the system analysis method, while determining the theoretical and methodological foundations for studying the phenomenon of foreign policy identity; the method of analogies and comparisons, while considering the power and political organization and institutionalization of the spatial structure of government in the United States; the method of comprehensive analysis, while establishing the main indicators of effectiveness of the influence of power narratives on the formation of the US foreign policy identity; the method of factor analysis, while substantiating the need to use individual approaches in building power narratives of the American politicians. As a result, the author determined that the US authorities form their narratives using an exclusive approach to the construction of collective identity of the society. However, such an algorithm is quite successful while forming stable foreign policy identity of the US.Key words: foreign policy identity, USA, power, narrative, G. Bush, B. Obama, War on Terror.
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Yan, Haoyang, Patricia J. Deldin, Stephanie K. Kukora, Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, Kenneth Pituch, and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher. "Using Narratives to Correct Forecasting Errors in Pediatric Tracheostomy Decision Making." Medical Decision Making 41, no. 3 (February 9, 2021): 305–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989x21990693.
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Purpose Parents who face goals-of-care tracheostomy decisions may lack an understanding of challenges affecting their child’s and family’s long-term quality of life (QOL) to accurately forecast possible outcomes for decision making. We sought to examine whether and how parents’ narratives of the child’s and family’s long-term QOL influence parental tracheostomy decisions and forecasting. Method We recruited US adult Amazon Mechanical Turk participants ( N = 1966) who self-reported having a child (<6 y old) or planning a pregnancy within 5 y. Participants read a vignette about making a tracheostomy decision for their hypothetical neurologically impaired baby. They were randomized to 1 of the following 4 conditions: 1) Baby QOL narratives, 2) Family QOL narratives, 3) Baby QOL + Family QOL narratives, and 4) control: no narratives. They then made a decision about whether or not to pursue tracheostomy, forecasted their concerns about the baby’s and family’s QOL, reported their values and social norm beliefs about tracheostomy, comfort care, and parental medical decision making, and completed individual differences scales and demographics. Results Controlling for individual characteristics, participants in the Baby QOL and Baby QOL + Family QOL conditions were less likely to choose tracheostomy as compared with the control (odds ratio [OR] = 0.38 and 0.25, respectively, P < 0.001). Fewer participants in the Family QOL condition chose tracheostomy compared with the control, but this difference was not statistically significant (OR = 0.70, P = 0.11). Moreover, narratives increased pessimistic forecasting, which was associated with less interest in tracheostomy. Conclusion Narratives clarifying long-term implications of pursuing tracheostomy have the potential to influence forecasting and decisions. Narrative-based interventions may be valuable in other situations in which forecasting errors are common.
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Broadhead, Jacqueline. "How an Interdisciplinary Approach to Narrative Can Support Policymaking on Migration and Integration at the City Level." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 697, no. 1 (September 2021): 207–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027162211057493.
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Narrative change and strategic communications are attractive tools for city officials setting policy for integration and migration. These tools allow for the construction and development of shared stories of place-based identity and belonging. Stories about migration often focus on (border) control, the value of the contribution of migrants, and the need for compassion. However, these frames of compassion and control are often oppositional: they can alienate rather than persuade, and they can neglect constituents whose views do not align with the polarities. They also elide other narrative frames, which may appeal to broader groups, particularly those focused on integration and belonging. This article analyzes three cities’ attempts at narrative change strategies that complexify migration narratives with place-based narratives of inclusion. From these case studies, this article identifies practical implications for local policy-makers and sets an interdisciplinary agenda for future research.
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Sokolshchik, L. M., E. Z. Galimullin, A. V. Bondarenko, and V. M. Semenov. "Historical Memory in the Context of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of the Presidency of Joseph Biden." Journal of International Analytics 13, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 48–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2022-13-3-48-66.
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Modern day politicians often refer to historical memory in order to construct and/or adjust foreign policy. The analysis of historical memory as one of the tools for constructing foreign policy narratives is attracting increasing scientific interest in the study of international relations. Under conditions of deep socio-political split in the USA and fragmentation of American identity, representatives of the Democratic administration actively turn to historical memory, trying to explain the changing international realities and justify the implemented foreign policy course. The article attempts to identify the key historical narratives of the Biden Administration and analyze how their use influences the foreign policy of the U.S. at the present stage. To achieve this goal, the authors used the method of narrative interpretation to conduct a qualitative analysis of a broad source base (speeches, interviews, press conferences of key representatives of the U.S. executive branch). As a result, a number of foreign policy narratives with the most characteristic historical subjects for the current administration were identified. It has been established that U.S. leaders address historical memory as part of discourses on the promotion of liberal democracy in the world; the limits of “hard power” and the fight against international terrorism; human rights and freedoms; relations with Russia; and the defense of a liberal world order. It is determined that historical narratives are often used by the United States to legitimize its unilateral and discriminatory foreign policy actions. The authors conclude that for the current administration the construction of foreign policy narratives through selective reference to the subjects of American historical memory becomes one of the key tools of adaptation to the development of international multipolarity, mobilization of its resources and consolidation of allies to defend the “free world” from “illiberal” opponents.
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Louder, Elena, and Carina Wyborn. "Biodiversity narratives: stories of the evolving conservation landscape." Environmental Conservation 47, no. 4 (October 19, 2020): 251–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892920000387.
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SummaryNarratives shape human understanding and underscore policy, practice and action. From individuals to multilateral institutions, humans act based on collective stories. As such, narratives have important implications for revisiting biodiversity. There have been growing calls for a ‘new narrative’ to underpin efforts to address biodiversity decline that, for example, foreground optimism, a more people-centred narrative or technological advances. This review presents some of the main contemporary narratives from within the biodiversity space to reflect on their underpinning categories, myths and causal assumptions. It begins by reviewing various interpretations of narrative, which range from critical views where narrative is a heuristic for understanding structures of domination, to advocacy approaches where it is a tool for reimagining ontologies and transitioning to sustainable futures. The work reveals how the conservation space is flush with narratives. As such, efforts to search for a ‘new narrative’ for conservation can be usefully informed by social science scholarship on narratives and related constructs and should reflect critically on the power of narrative to entrench old ways of thought and practice and, alternatively, make space for new ones. Importantly, the transformative potential of narrative may not lie in superficial changes in messaging, but in using narrative to bring multiple ways of knowing into productive dialogue to revisit biodiversity and foster critical reflection.
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Steen, Sara, Traci Lacock, and Shelby McKinzey. "Unsettling the discourse of punishment? Competing narratives of reentry and the possibilities for change." Punishment & Society 14, no. 1 (January 2012): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1462474511424681.
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In academic and policy circles, there is widespread optimism about the ability of reentry to change the terms of the punishment debate. In this article, we assess the impact of the reentry concept on discourse and reform in Colorado through analysis of the recent work of the Colorado Criminal and Juvenile Justice Commission. We identify two distinct reentry narratives, which we call the reintegration and recidivism reduction narratives. The reintegration narrative challenges dominant assumptions about punishment in ways consistent with the rehabilitation model, while the recidivism reduction narrative stays close to the retributive model. While the reintegration narrative was clearly present in the Colorado conversation about reform, most of the policy recommendations put forth were driven by the recidivism reduction narrative, in large part due to concerns about potential public perceptions of the Commission’s work. We conclude that reentry has not only failed to change the discourse in any significant way, it has also served to further entrench the retributive framework of punishment.