Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy, and the Public Sphere

1. Introduction: Discursive Governance: Operationalization and Applications
Umut Korkut, Kesi Mahendran, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Robert Henry Cox

Part I. Political Parties. How Do the Political Parties Use/Generate Discourses and Representations?

2. Racialized Violence against Migrants in Greece
Lena Karamanidou

3. Investing in Our Future? The Influence of Social Investment Ideas on Family Policy Discourses in Finland, Germany, and the UK
Mikael Nygård, Mikko Kuisma, Nicole Krüger, Verity Campbell-Barr

4. Successful Transplants, Reform Governments, and Health Care Policy Reform in Slovakia and Hungary
Umut Korkut, Aron Buzogány

5. It’s Got to Be a She! The Media Portrayal of Selecting the First Female Social Democratic Party Leaders in Sweden and Finland
Mari K. Niemi

Part II. Implementing Policy: Discursive Interpretation of Policy by Political and Social Actors

6. Doing More with Less? Financial Engineering Instruments for Urban Development in EU Cohesion Policy
Marcin Dąbrowski

7. Externalization of the EU Asylum Policy under the Light of the Arab Spring: How Did South-European Countries Recalibrate after the Uprisings?
Alexandra Bousiou, Antonios Kontis

8. Implementing Gender Budgeting in Scotland and Spain: A Comparative Feminist Analysis
Angela O’Hagan

9. The Eye of the Beholder: Narrating Crisis in the Ongoing Swedish Labor Migration Policy Debate
Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Andrea Spehar, Jonas Hinnfors

Part III. Public Sphere: The Resonance and Resistance of Discourses and Representations

10. Public Narratives of European Citizenship—the Dialogical Citizen in the European Public Sphere
Kesi Mahendran, Ima Jackson, Anubhuti Kapoor

11. European Inegration and Mainstreaming of Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties: The Scottish National Party and Frisian National Party
Arno Zwet

12. Equal but Separate? LGBTI Rights in Contemporary South Africa
Hande Eslen-Ziya, Aidan McGarry, Cheryl Potgieter, Finn CG Reygan

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy, Public Administration, Political Theory