KÖZPOLITIKAI DISKURZUSELEMZÉS
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC POLICY

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes the democratic and discursive practice of the implementation and analysis of public policy programmes, in which a key role is played by public and common interpretations and debates. Four major schools were formed in the second half of the 20th century. Argumentative analysis deals with the arguments public policy actors use to support or deny public policy measures. Narrative public policy analysis describes how public policy actors interpret events and their internal relationships along a temporal axis. Cultural public policy analysis emphasizes the decisive role of cultural circumstances. Ethnographic analysis examines particular public policy programmes focusing on their meaning. All four trends attempt to show that a decisive factor in the implementation of public policy programmes is discourse coalition, which is formed through public debates and talks of the actors involved.

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