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The Role of Public Discourse in European Social Democratic Reform Projects

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Public discourse, understood both as ideas about public action and interactive processes that serve to 'coordinate' the construction of those ideas and to 'communicate' them to the public, has been central to the success (or failure) of the reform projects of social democratic parties. Certain background factors, including countries' policy legacies, problems, preferences, and capacity set the stage for reform while good ideas which are cognitively sound and normatively appropriate as well as relevant, coherent, and consistent contribute to reform success. But institutional context also matters with regard to how ideas are conveyed to whom, with 'simple' polities emphasizing the 'communicative' discourse to the general public and more 'compound' polities the 'coordinative' discourse among policy actors. This is demonstrated with examples from Germany, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.

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  • Schmidt, Vivian A., 2005. "The Role of Public Discourse in European Social Democratic Reform Projects," European Integration online Papers (EIoP), European Community Studies Association Austria (ECSA-A), vol. 9, June.
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    2. Martin B. Carstensen, 2010. "The Nature of Ideas, and Why Political Scientists Should Care: Analysing the Danish Jobcentre Reform from an Ideational Perspective," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 58(5), pages 847-865, December.

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