Politiknetzwerke — Vorteile und Grundzüge einer qualitativen Analysestrategie

Baumgarten, Britta; Lahusen, Christian

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“…transnational migration–related family networks, biographical networks) have been the predominant focus of qualitative network research. Although some have studied policy networks (Baumgarten and Lahusen, 2006; Schiffer and Hauck, 2010; Schindler, 2006), there exists no elaborated concept of how to apply QNA to supranational policy networks.…”

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Qualitative network analysis: A useful tool for investigating policy networks in transnational settings?

Ahrens

2018

Methodological Innovations

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The European Commission designs and promotes policy networks in almost all policy fields. Knowledge about networks is necessary for a better understanding of the overall policymaking process in multilevel governance systems like the European Union (EU). Studying EU networks helps to explain how policies emerge, how they are framed and processed, why they take the character they do, and how they might contribute to understanding the course of European integration. The political system of the EU is characterized by the coexistence and interdependence of formal and informal networks that are part of its multilevel governance. While the interplay of formal and informal actor's networks has been researched to some extent (Klüver, 2014; Mahoney, 2008), informal policy networks have been paid less attention in EU integration theory (Christiansen and Piattoni, 2004)-one reason being that rules for processes, membership, and responsibilities are often not clearly defined and are not readily detectable from the outside. Informal policy networks may include expert groups, civil society organizations (CSOs) such as lobby groups, social partners, or companies that argue about policy content also discussed in the formal policy-making process. Researchers used social network analysis (SNA) as an essential technique to investigate such complex networks among actors, be they individuals, small groups, or international organizations (Carrington et al., 2005; Jansen, 2006; Wasserman and Faust, 1994). SNA allows investigating a broad range of professional and personal networks and their quantitative aspects such as group size, the number, and status of contacts. A common challenge in network analysis is the lack of information on other elements of social life like inter-agency and process-related aspects (Crossley, 2010). Qualitative network analysis (QNA) aims addressing the shortcomings of SNA by applying a micro-perspective instead of a macroperspective and qualitative instead of quantitative methods, and taking an insider instead of an outsider view. A qualitative approach to networks prompts a focus on personal and social networks, for instance, friendships, family relations, or migration ties. Until now, only a few attempts have been made to apply QNA to policy networks (Baumgarten and

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“…A qualitative approach to networks prompts a focus on personal and social networks, for instance, friendships, family relations, or migration ties. Until now, only a few attempts have been made to apply QNA to policy networks (Baumgarten and Lahusen, 2006; Schiffer and Hauck, 2010; Schindler, 2006), and none of them took EU policy-making as an example.…”

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Qualitative network analysis: A useful tool for investigating policy networks in transnational settings?

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2018

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“…We suggest using the network theory to substantiate the idea of governance theoretically and to resolve the still existing theoretical gaps in the governance concept. Our assumption is that by creating dynamics, the structure of a policy network has a certain impact on how political decisions are made and what the specific outcomes of political processes are (Baumgarten and Lahusen, 2006: 178).…”

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“…In our research example the network takes shape around the issue of protecting children and around the statutory basis ( Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag – State Treaty for the Protection of Minors in the Media), both of which generate a specific context of interaction (Hans-Bredow-Institut, 2007: 123–82; Hasebrink and Lampert, 2008). The questions of how structures and processes are built and meant within a network and which actors dominate have to be answered empirically (Baumgarten and Lahusen, 2006: 178). In other words, we are interested in the ‘governance of networks' instead of in ‘network governance’ (Kenis and Raab, 2008: 140).…”

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Network analysis

Löblich

Pfaff-Rüdiger

2011

International Communication Gazette

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Structures of interest, influence and power in communication policy are shifting due to increasing digitization, economization and globalization. Against this background it is necessary to reflect more than before upon methods to study the relations between actors and their potential influences on regulation processes. The article explains qualitative network analysis as a research strategy for communication policy research and discusses qualitative interviews and network cards as research tools to put network analysis into practice. The theoretical basis consists of governance and network theory. The article focuses on an analysis of the German youth protection system, which provides practical insight into a qualitative network study.

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“…Th is qualitative study uses interviews with experts and network maps to reconstruct the network of actors involved in youth media protection. Th erefore, the study is not directed at (cross-media) communication networks but toward a "policy network" (Baumgarten & Lahusen, 2006) that has a special relationship to media and communication policy. Other examples with a comparable orientation investigate career networks in the creative industries (Kröger et al, 2013) or journalists' networks of sources (Hepp et al, 2015).…”

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Investigating communication networks contextually: Qualitative network analysis as cross-media research

Hepp

Roitsch²,

Berg³

2016

MedieKultur

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Th is article introduces the approach of contextualised communication network analysis as a qualitative procedure for researching communicative relationships IntroductionTh e idea of a "network" has become a commonplace in work on media and communication, one that goes beyond the idea of the internet as a "network of networks". For example, it also involves the "networking" of digital media. Th e use of this concept of "network" has Investigating communication networks contextuallyQualitative network analysis as cross-media research Andreas Hepp, Cindy Roitsch, and Matthias BergMedieKultur 60 88 Andreas Hepp, Cindy Roitsch, and Matthias Berg Article: Investigating communication networks contextually also developed extremely rapidly in qualitative studies in media and communication; there is hardly a single article dealing with current phenomena in this area that does not allude in one way or another to the idea of "network". Th is is also the case with so-called "crossmedial media research" in which the reconstruction of "polymedia" (Madianou, 2014) networks is repeatedly treated as a way to analyse human communicative relationships across a variety of media. By contrast, it has to be said that there is very little in the way of network analysis in qualitative work on media and communication if, by this, one understands an enterprise possessing its own qualitative instruments that can deal with network structures and practices. Th is becomes even clearer if we move beyond qualitative studies devoted to the social networks formed by media actors and consider communication networks that arise through the media.On this basis, we wish to present here our approach to contextualised communication network analysis, using a recent study we made of the communication networks and mediatised conceptions of social community among young people. We develop our argument in four steps. First, we will present the current state of discussion on qualitative network analysis in studies of communication and media. Th en, we will present a general outline of our approach to contextualised communication network analysis. Following this, we will elaborate the potential of this approach as well as the challenges that it faces. We conclude by stating the reasons for our belief that qualitative (communication) network analysis represents an approach that off ers a promising, but neglected, avenue for work in communication and media.

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Politiknetzwerke — Vorteile und Grundzüge einer qualitativen Analysestrategie

Cited by 17 publications

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Qualitative network analysis: A useful tool for investigating policy networks in transnational settings?

Qualitative network analysis: A useful tool for investigating policy networks in transnational settings?

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