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Considers the policy debates surrounding unemployment in Western Europe after the outbreak of the Great Recession.
List of contents
Part I. The Context Structures and the Policy-Specific Debates: 1. Introduction: shaping the debate on unemployment and the labor market Hanspeter Kriesi, Laurent Bernhard, Flavia Fossati and Regula Hänggli; 2. Theoretical framework: production of policy-specific political communication Regula Hänggli and Flavia Fossati; 3. The political contexts of the national policy debates Hanspeter Kriesi, Flavia Fossati, Laurent Bernhard; 4. The variety of national debates Hanspeter Kriesi, Laurent Bernhard, Flavia Fossati, Regula Hänggli and Christian Elmelund-Præstekær; Part II. The Political Actors and Their Assets: 5. What affects power in the labor market domain? Laurent Bernhard; 6. The labor market policy space Flavia Fossati; 7. Beliefs or interests: what is the driving force behind coalition formation? Laurent Bernhard; 8. The action repertoires for shaping the debates Laurent Bernhard; Part III. Communicating in Public: 9. Framing strategies: important messages in public debates Regula Hänggli; 10. The positioning of the actors in the public debates Hanspeter Kriesi and Regula Hänggli; 11. Inside the interaction context Laurent Bernhard; 12. Quality of public debates Regula Hänggli and Richard van der Wurff; Part IV. Conclusion: 13. Conclusion Laurent Bernhard.
About the author
Laurent Bernhard is a senior researcher at the Swiss Centre for Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS), which is based at Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.Flavia Fossati is Assistant Professor for Social Policy at Universität Wien, Austria. Her research interests include social, labour market and migration policy, labour market integration and discrimination research.Regula Hänggli is a professor specialized in political communication at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. She is also a member of a federal expert group addressing the digital transformation of our society.Hanspeter Kriesi holds the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, Florence. In 2017, he received the Mattei-Dogan Prize. Currently he is working on an European Research Council (ERC) project on the political consequences of the Great Recession in Europe.
Summary
This study of the policy debates surrounding unemployment in Western Europe after the outbreak of the Great Recession will appeal to researchers in comparative politics, political communication and welfare state research. It will also interest practitioners involved in labour market policy.
