“…The first and possibly most obvious pool is that concerned with the ideological content of political discourse, and with the use of technical or managerialist language and terminology to obscure or deny the subjectivity and contestability of political debates or decisions (Jenkins, 2011). In recent years, qualitative analyses in this vein have burgeoned as the ideological underpinnings of 'common sense' narratives have been studied, focusing on, for example, free market economic values in the United States (Swanson, 2007), immigration policy in Australia (Pickering, 2001), economic reform in New Zealand (Gregory, 2006), debates concerning unemployment in the European Union (Wodak, 2011;Muntigl, 2002), national responses to globalisation (Watson and Hay, 2004), environmental governance (Swyngedouw, 2011), and even the reform of air traffic management (Oosterlynck and Swyngedouw, 2010). More broadly Wodak's (2011) analysis of the practice of 'politics as usual' in the everyday life of politicians in the European Parliament provides some insight, not into institutions or procedures per se, but into the ways in which the behaviour of politicians is conditioned by certain modes of thought that serve to subconsciously depoliticise certain issues.…”