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Diskurs und Entscheiden: Zu den Möglichkeiten der Erklärung politischer Entscheidungsprozesse in der interpretativen Policy-Forschung

Discourse and decision: On the possibilities of explaining political decision-making in interpretive policy analysis
[journal article]

Barbehön, Marlon

Abstract

Forschung ein Selbstverständnis kultiviert, wonach das Ziel einer Erklärung politischer Entscheidungsprozesse zugunsten des Verstehens vernachlässigt und bisweilen gar als problematisch zurückgewiesen wird. Demgegenüber unterbreitet der vorliegende Beitrag einen Vorschlag, wie sich ein diskurstheore... view more

Forschung ein Selbstverständnis kultiviert, wonach das Ziel einer Erklärung politischer Entscheidungsprozesse zugunsten des Verstehens vernachlässigt und bisweilen gar als problematisch zurückgewiesen wird. Demgegenüber unterbreitet der vorliegende Beitrag einen Vorschlag, wie sich ein diskurstheoretischer Ansatz und der Begriff des politischen Entscheidens in einer interpretativen Erklärungsperspektive zusammenbringen lassen. Illustriert wird das Argument anhand der Umsetzung der EU-Feinstaubrichtlinie in Frankfurt und Dortmund, indem unter Rückbezug auf die Möglichkeitsräume der städtischen Europadiskurse interpretativ erklärt wird, weshalb beide Städte die Richtlinie in jeweils spezifischer Weise bearbeitet und in lokalpolitische Entscheidungen überführt haben.... view less


In their attempt to refrain from positivist strands of policy analysis, interpretive approaches tend to disregard or even reject the aim of explaining political decision-making, focussing instead on understanding and thick descriptions. In contrast, this paper argues in favour of combining a discour... view more

In their attempt to refrain from positivist strands of policy analysis, interpretive approaches tend to disregard or even reject the aim of explaining political decision-making, focussing instead on understanding and thick descriptions. In contrast, this paper argues in favour of combining a discourse-theoretical approach with the notion of political decision-making in order to interpretively explain the dynamics and results of specific policy-making initiatives. Using the local implementation of the EU directive on ambient air quality in Frankfurt and Dortmund as an empirical example, the paper shows how the different local implementation strategies can be explained by relating the local decision-making processes to the scope of possibilities opened up by the specific EU discourses in both cities.... view less

Keywords
discourse analysis; political decision; policy area; decision making; EU

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science

Free Keywords
interpretative Policy-Forschung; politisches Entscheiden; interpretative Erklärung; lokale Politikforschung; interpretive policy analysis; political decision-making; interpretive explanation; urban policy analysis

Document language
German

Publication Year
2018

Page/Pages
p. 191-212

Journal
der moderne staat - dms: Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 11 (2018) 1

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v11i1.01

ISSN
2196-1395

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0


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