Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/38873 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2010,21
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
The study of policy discourse comprises actor-centered and content-oriented approaches. We attempt to close the gap between the two kinds of approaches by introducing a new methodology for the analysis of political discourse called Discourse Network Analysis. It is based on social network analysis and qualitative content analysis and takes an entirely relational perspective. Political discourse can be analyzed in a dynamic way, and the approach makes previously unobservable cleavage lines and alignments measurable at the actor level, at the level of the contents of a discourse, and a combined layer. We compare discourse network analysis with political claims analysis, a competing method, and apply both methods to the European-level discourse on software patents. Our results demonstrate how an anti-softwarepatent coalition was mobilized and how it gained control over important frames, while the well-organized pro-software-patent discourse coalition was not able to gain sovereignty over the discourse.
Subjects: 
Software Patents
Intellectual Property Rights
Discourse Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis
Political Discourse
Policy Networks
Public Policy Analysis
Social Movements
Political Claims Analysis
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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