The Social Construction of an Imperative: Why Welfare Reform Happened in Denmark and the Netherlands but Not in Germany

By Robert Henry Cox. 2001

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Subfields: Finance, Political Science and International Relations

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Why and how do Political Actors Pursue Risky Reforms? (2007, background): “…Green-Pedersen, 2001; Kitschelt, 2001; Swank, 2001) and point to the role of framing, discourse and policy learning in overcoming electoral and institutional resistance against major policy reform (Cox, 2001; Green-Pedersen and Haverland, 2002; Van Kersbergen, 2002; Schmidt, 2002; Starke, 2006).”
Ideas as coalition magnets: coalition building, policy entrepreneurs, and power relations (2016, background): “Skilful actors use this type of idea, the coalition magnet, to advance their own policy preferences by using it to frame their discourse and the ‘need to reform’ (Cox 2001).”
The Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Literature Review (2006, background): “According to this view, problems are socially constructed and in many cases the definition of a problem in the process of agenda-setting is at least as contested an issue as is the search for solutions (Cox 2001; Hay/Rosamond 2002).”
Small States and Small States Revisited (2003, background): “analysis of the successes of the Dutch and Danish reforms of the welfare state compared to German failure.(19) Cox’s main argument points to the importance of policy learning, specifically, the path shaping efforts of political leaders who initiate reform discussions that reframe the politics of ref”
Anticipatory and reactive forms of blame avoidance: of foxes and lions (2016, positive): “…actors can apply during reactive blame games, ranging from justi ﬁ cation (McGraw, 1991; Green-Pedersen, 2002), discourse (Schmidt, 2001), rhetoric (Cox, 2001), and framing (Ross, 2000; Druckman, 2001; Boin et al ., 2009), to persuasion and priming (see König and Wenzelburger 2014 for an…”
The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Affluent Democracies (2007, background): “Even though actual globalization has modest effects, it may still operate as a socially constructed discourse that facilitates welfare state change (Cox 2001, Schmidt 2002, Seeleib-Kaiser 2001).”
Governments and unpopular social policy reform: Biting the bullet or steering clear? (2009, background): “Approaches highlighting the importance of ideas suggest that by invoking a specific discourse or imperative, political actors may overcome the hindrances to change and successfully implement reform (e.g., Cox 2001; Kuipers 2006; Schmidt 2002; Stiller 2007; see also Campbell 2002).”