Beyond National Policymaking: Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and Their Value for IR
Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
Standard
Myth and Narrative in International Politics: Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR. ed. / Berit Bliesemann de Guevara. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. p. 47-66.
Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - CHAP
T1 - Beyond National Policymaking
T2 - Conceptions of Myth in Interpretive Policy Analysis and Their Value for IR
AU - Münch, Sybille
PY - 2016/6/13
Y1 - 2016/6/13
N2 - The ‘interpretive turn’ in policy analysis highlights how language and discourse shape our knowledge of the social world and influence policymaking. In challenging the traditional assumption that problems are part of a pre-given neutral reality to which policymaking responds, authors have started to pay attention to argumentation and persuasion and to elements such as narratives and myths that structure discourse. With the umbrella term interpretive policy analysis uniting interpretive-hermeneutic and poststructuralist approaches, advocates of this kind of research have been very prolific in developing conceptions of myths. As policymaking need not be restricted by national boundaries, this chapter takes stock of the contribution of interpretive policy analysis to the study of myth and how this could be compatible with questions in International Relations.
AB - The ‘interpretive turn’ in policy analysis highlights how language and discourse shape our knowledge of the social world and influence policymaking. In challenging the traditional assumption that problems are part of a pre-given neutral reality to which policymaking responds, authors have started to pay attention to argumentation and persuasion and to elements such as narratives and myths that structure discourse. With the umbrella term interpretive policy analysis uniting interpretive-hermeneutic and poststructuralist approaches, advocates of this kind of research have been very prolific in developing conceptions of myths. As policymaking need not be restricted by national boundaries, this chapter takes stock of the contribution of interpretive policy analysis to the study of myth and how this could be compatible with questions in International Relations.
KW - Politics
KW - Policy Analysis
KW - international relation
KW - Origin story
KW - discourse coalition
KW - discursive Structure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85030164620&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-53752-2_3
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-53752-2_3
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-137-53751-5
SP - 47
EP - 66
BT - Myth and Narrative in International Politics
A2 - Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -