Political Claims Analysis: Integrating Protest Event and Political Discourse Approaches

Koopmans, Ruud; Statham, Paul

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“…The conceptual difference between dominant and minority coalitions lies solely in the exclusive capacity of the former to enact laws. 2 An advantage of looking at political discourse through the lens of political claims analysis (Koopmans and Statham 1999) is that this approach remains theoretically agnostic with regard to actor's motivations. Political claims, as conceptualized in this contribution, not only cover "demands, criticisms, or proposals" but they can also include material interests, ideas, beliefs, preferences, or whatever motivates agents.…”

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Crisis, Policy Discourse, and Major Policy Change: Exploring the Role of Subsystem Polarization in Nuclear Energy Policymaking

Rinscheid

2015

European Policy Analysis

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Why do policy responses to one and the same event often vary so markedly between different jurisdictions? This contribution sheds light on conditions and processes that link crises to policy change or policy stability. Drawing on public policy theories and accounts from crisis management, the type of policy subsystem that is hit by a crisis is theorized to be a decisive factor when it comes to explaining variation in crisis‐induced policy reactions. The theoretical arguments are explored based on a comparative case study of Fukushima's differential impact on nuclear power policymaking in Japan and Germany. In order to systematically analyze interaction patterns of policy elites, the study capitalizes on recent methodological advances and applies a method called discourse network analysis. The analysis yields topographies of policy discourses around the Fukushima crisis in both countries and shows that crises can trigger major policy shifts when “anchors” for policy change—i.e., alternative policy ideas and proposals put forward by a minority coalition—are readily available. If a pre‐crisis subsystem is unitary, on the other hand, the pressure on incumbents is rather low and policy shifts are prevented from going beyond mere incremental adjustments..

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Crisis, Policy Discourse, and Major Policy Change: Exploring the Role of Subsystem Polarization in Nuclear Energy Policymaking

Rinscheid

2015

European Policy Analysis

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“…In line with our theoretical aim to combine institutional and cultural variables in the study of contentious politics in general, and of the claim-making by immigrants and ethnic minorities in particular, the method we adopt is an elaboration of protest event analysis -an approach that have become popular in recent years among political opportunity theorists, who used it to gather systematic evidence on the levels and forms of social movement mobilization. The method adopted here -'political claims analysis' -expands traditional protest event analysis in at least three ways (Koopmans & Statham 1999c). First, it looks not only at protest events as unconventional actions by non-institutional actors, but also takes into account all types of claims and interventions in the public space.…”

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“…Koopmans and Statham (1999a), for example, have looked at the relation between discursive and institutional opportunities to explain the differential success of the extreme right in Germany and Italy. They made an analogous attempt in relation to the mobilization by migrants and, more generally, to political claim-making in the field of ethnic relations, citizenship and immigration (Koopmans & Statham 1999b, 1999c. Our approach builds upon this perspective, which is more helpful for our specific purpose of explaining cross-national variations in claim-making by immigrants and ethnic minorities.…”

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Migrant mobilization between political institutions and citizenship regimes: A comparison of France and Switzerland

Giugni

Passy

2004

European J Political Res

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Abstract. This article focuses on the political claims made by immigrants and ethnic minorities in France and Switzerland. We look at cross-national variations in the overall presence of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the national public space, and the forms and content of their claims. Following a political opportunity approach, we argue that claim-making is affected both by institutional opportunities and by national models of citizenship. The civicassimilationist conception of citizenship in France gives migrants greater legitimacy to intervene in the national public space. Furthermore, the inclusive definition of 'membership in the national community' favors claims pertaining to minority integration politics. However, the pressure toward assimilation to the republican norms and values tends to provoke claims for the recognition of ethnic and cultural difference. Finally, closed institutional opportunities push migrants' mobilization to become more radical, but at the same time the more inclusive model of citizenship favors a moderate action repertoire of migrants. Conversely, the ethnic-assimilationist view in Switzerland leads migrants to stress homeland-related claims. When they do address the policy field of ethnic relations, immigration and citizenship, they focus on issues pertaining to the entry and stay in the host society. Finally, the forms of action are more moderate due to the more open institutional context, but at the same time the action repertoire of migrants is moderated by the more exclusive model of citizenship. Our article is an attempt to specify the concept of 'political opportunity structure', and to combine institutional and cultural factors in explaining claim-making by immigrants and ethnic minorities. We confront our arguments with data from a comparative project on the mobilization on ethnic relations, citizenship and immigration.A great deal of work on contentious politics during the past three decades has followed the political process approach in trying to account for the emergence, dynamics and outcomes of social movements, both comparatively across countries and over time (e.g., McAdam 1999;McAdam et al. 2001;Tarrow 1998;Tilly 1978). The central concept in this perspective is that of political opportunity structures (Brockett 1991;Della Porta 1995;Kitschelt 1986;Kriesi et al. 1995;McAdam 1996;Tarrow 1998), which refers to political-institutional aspects of the movements' context such as the relative openness or closure of the institutionalized political system, the stability or instability of that broad set of elite alignments that typically undergird a polity, the presence or absence of elite allies, and the state's capacity and propensity for repression (McAdam 1996).

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“…First, I selected the daily editorials, commentaries 6 and news articles dealing with the popular initiative YtE and published in the papers' national section between 9 January 2001 (start of the voting campaign by the pro camp) and 5 March 2001 (day after the popular vote). Second, I coded the selected editorials, commentaries and news reports using ''political claims analysis'' (PCA) (Koopmans 2002;Koopmans and Statham 1999). 7 PCA is particularly suited for the present purpose as it allows political statements by the media (in editorials and commentaries) and political actors (in news reports) to be identified, regardless of the form this expression takes (verbal statement, manifestation, political decision, etc.)…”

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The (Partisan) Role of the Press in Direct Democratic Campaigns: Evidence from a Swiss Vote on European Integration

Tresch

2012

Swiss Political Sci Review

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This article analyzes the role of the press in direct democratic campaigns. The paper argues the press has a dual role: On news pages, newspapers ought to inform citizens about the issue positions and frames of the pro and con camps in a balanced way. In editorials, newspapers act as political advocates that promote their own issue frames and try to shape public opinion through voting recommendations. Comparing the issue positions and frames in editorials and news reports in the run-up to the vote on the popular initiative ''Yes to Europe'' in Switzerland, this article shows that newspapers give similar visibility to the pro and con camps regardless of the papers' own editorial position. However, some newspapers favor issue frames that are in line with their editorial perspectives. In conclusion, newspapers are more similar in news report content than in editorial views.

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Political Claims Analysis: Integrating Protest Event and Political Discourse Approaches

Cited by 422 publications

References 20 publications

Crisis, Policy Discourse, and Major Policy Change: Exploring the Role of Subsystem Polarization in Nuclear Energy Policymaking

Crisis, Policy Discourse, and Major Policy Change: Exploring the Role of Subsystem Polarization in Nuclear Energy Policymaking

Migrant mobilization between political institutions and citizenship regimes: A comparison of France and Switzerland

The (Partisan) Role of the Press in Direct Democratic Campaigns: Evidence from a Swiss Vote on European Integration

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