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View article: Mixed Framing: Blame Avoidance and Credit‐Claiming in Retrenchment Politics
Mixed Framing: Blame Avoidance and Credit‐Claiming in Retrenchment Politics Open
This article is concerned with the political communication of unpopular retrenchment reforms. It proposes a further conceptual and empirical integration of the key concepts of blame avoidance and credit‐claiming. Contrary to dominant persp…
View article: The Origins of Policy Ideas in German Pension Debates
The Origins of Policy Ideas in German Pension Debates Open
Understanding the origins of policy ideas can be crucial when trying to explain dynamics of political change and continuity. Paradigmatic changes in the German pension system have been attributed to the import of “foreign” neoliberal polic…
View article: Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms
Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms Open
Literatures on institutional, ideational and policy change have made great strides in dynamically conceptualizing agency within structure. What continues to be insufficiently understood, however, is how actors actually work with ideas, tha…
View article: Between Competition and Cooperation: Financial Incumbents and Challengers in German Pension Politics
Between Competition and Cooperation: Financial Incumbents and Challengers in German Pension Politics Open
It has long been overlooked that factions of finance such as banks and insurers can have opposing policy interests. This paper is concerned with the preferences and strategies of private financial actors in the context of private prefunded…