Wohlfahrtsstaatliche Reformkommunikation

Delhees, Stefanie; Körte, Karl-Rudolf; Schartau, Florian; Switek, Niko; Weissenbach, Kristina

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“…As the interest of the article lies in the broader picture of differences and similarities in the policy communication between (heads of) governments, it draws on context factors that are relatively broad and located on the macro level. Three kinds of such context factors can be extracted from the literature on the policy communication and policy strategies (Béland, 2009; Delhees et al, 2008; Green-Pedersen, 2002; Kuipers, 2006; Pfau-Effinger, 2005; Ross, 2000; Turowski, 2010; Vis and Van Kersbergen, 2007; Wenzelburger, 2011): these are political-institutional, political-cultural, and socioeconomic conditions.…”

Section: Hypotheses On the Effects Of Contextual Factorsmentioning

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Communicating austerity measures during times of crisis: A comparative empirical analysis of four heads of government

König

2016

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article develops a coherent framework for analyzing policy communication; Conceptualizes how policy communication can be understood as a function of contextual factors; Empirically maps the policy communication of four political leaders. Points to the importance of political competition and welfare culture for systematic variation in policy communication. To what extent are political leaders’ policy communications shaped by the context in which they act? This article addresses this so far largely disregarded question by means of a systematic comparison of broader communication profiles. Based on a content analysis, it empirically maps how Mario Monti, Mariano Rajoy, Enda Kenny and David Cameron communicated austerity policies, which meant considerable cuts in the welfare state, during the European debt crisis. The findings suggest that a lower degree of political competition manifests in political leaders’ communication in terms of a more consensual stance. The evidence is also partly in line with the assumption that liberal welfare culture allows for a policy communication that is more strongly based on norm- and value-based justifications. Surprisingly, the expectation that the crisis condition led to a stronger emphasis on the costs/risks of the status quo is not borne out in the data.

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Communicating austerity measures during times of crisis: A comparative empirical analysis of four heads of government

König

2016

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…The experience of Chancellor Schröder’s infamous ‘Agenda 2010’ 4 underscores the uncertain role of effective communication in the German context: While the unlikely success in overcoming the entrenched reservations about sweeping political innovation seems to suggest that Schröder had the ‘vision thing’ and made effective use of suitable ‘reform rhetorics’, a careful analysis of the decision-making process reveals that several other factors – such as in particular the weakening of German corporatism – were more important in making the ‘Agenda’ happen (see Freier, 2008; Fleckenstein, 2008). Indeed, the public leadership performance of the chancellor and other senior members of the federal executive surrounding these wide-ranging labour relations and welfare state reforms tends to be considered by many as a glaring example of a ‘communication malaise’ (see Gaste, 2006; Delhees et al , 2008: 133–135).…”

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The politics of leadership capital in compound democracies: inferences from the German case

Helms

2015

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This article offers a contextualization of the recently introduced leadership capital concept within the wider field of political leadership research, and a demonstration of its usefulness for studying leadership performances and patterns in different institutional and political contexts. At the centre of this piece, is an application of the leadership capital approach to studying the conditions and manifestations of executive leadership in the Federal Republic of Germany, which is being considered a classic case of a compound democracy. As the inquiry into the German case suggests, the politics of leadership capital is in fact strongly shaped by the institutional framework of a regime. That said, institutions do not determine the accumulation and spending of leadership capital, and after all, even within a given institutional context, different leaders lead by making different choices. As a case study on Helmut Kohl, the Federal Republic’s longest serving chancellor, demonstrates, the leadership capital approach marks a useful and meaningful conceptual device for a deeper analytical understanding of a leader’s performance. An inquiry carried out along these lines suggests in particular that informality was one of Kohl’s key strengths across all three dimensions of leadership capital (skills, relations, and reputation), which effectively ‘freed’ him to some considerable extent from the supposedly vital ‘performative’ parts of the office of chief executive.

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Regieren und Regierungen in Rheinland-Pfalz – eine vergleichende Betrachtung

Körte¹

2010

Politik in Rheinland-Pfalz

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Wohlfahrtsstaatliche Reformkommunikation

Cited by 25 publications

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Communicating austerity measures during times of crisis: A comparative empirical analysis of four heads of government

Communicating austerity measures during times of crisis: A comparative empirical analysis of four heads of government

The politics of leadership capital in compound democracies: inferences from the German case

Regieren und Regierungen in Rheinland-Pfalz – eine vergleichende Betrachtung

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