Discourse Theory in European Politics : Identity, Policy and Governance


David R. Howarth
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2005
Omfang
1 online resource (383 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Discourse Theory: Achievements, Arguments, and Challenges; 1 European Integration and Security: Analysing French and German Discourses on State, Nation, and Europe; 2 Passions of Identification: Discourse, Enjoyment, and European Identity; 3 Polity as Politics: Studying the Shaping and Effects of Discursive Polities; 4 Problematizing the Mobilization of Hospital Directors; 5 Political Administration; 6 The Human Rights Act: Politics, Power, and the Law. - 7 Right-wing Populism and the Radical Centre: Explaining the Electoral Growth of the Vlaams Blok in Belgium8 Third Way Politics Today; 9 New Labour's Politics of the Hard-working Family; 10 From Welfare to Social Exclusion: Eugenic Social Policies and the Swiss National Order; 11 Media Discourse and the Public Sphere; 12 Coalitions, Practices, and Meaning in Environmental Politics: From Acid Rain to BSE; Applying Discourse Theory: the Method of Articulation; Index. - This volume of essays employs discourse theory to analyze mainstream topics in contemporary European politics. Inspired by developments in post-structuralist, psychoanalytic and post-Marxist theory, each contributor problematizes a central issue in European governance, including European security, Third Way politics, constitutional and administrative reform, new forms of nationalism and populism, the shift from welfare to workfare, environmental politics and local government. Alongside these substantive issues, the book tackles questions raised by the difficulties of applying discourse theory
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0333968433. - 1403917191

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