Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy, and the Public Sphere

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Discursive Governance: Operationalization and Applications....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Racialized Violence against Migrants in Greece....Pages 15-29
Investing in Our Future? The Influence of Social Investment Ideas on Family Policy Discourses in Finland, Germany, and the UK....Pages 31-46
Successful Transplants, Reform Governments, and Health Care Policy Reform in Slovakia and Hungary....Pages 47-61
It’s Got to Be a She! The Media Portrayal of Selecting the First Female Social Democratic Party Leaders in Sweden and Finland....Pages 63-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Doing More with Less? Financial Engineering Instruments for Urban Development in EU Cohesion Policy....Pages 77-93
Externalization of the EU Asylum Policy under the Light of the Arab Spring: How Did South-European Countries Recalibrate after the Uprisings?....Pages 95-108
Implementing Gender Budgeting in Scotland and Spain: A Comparative Feminist Analysis....Pages 109-125
The Eye of the Beholder: Narrating Crisis in the Ongoing Swedish Labor Migration Policy Debate....Pages 127-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Public Narratives of European Citizenship—the Dialogical Citizen in the European Public Sphere....Pages 147-162
European Inegration and Mainstreaming of Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties: The Scottish National Party and Frisian National Party....Pages 163-177
Equal but Separate? LGBTI Rights in Contemporary South Africa....Pages 179-189
Back Matter....Pages 191-235