Does Discourse Matter in the Politics of Welfare State Adjustment?

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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).”
Explaining the welfare state: power resources vs. the Quality of Government (2011, background): “The issue of whether the welfare state system will lead to an undermining of personal responsibility is thus important and such discourses can lead to a loss of legitimacy for the general idea of social protection and redistribution by the state (Schmidt, 2002).”
Monetary union, fiscal crisis and the preemption of democracy (2011, background): “…external constraints, and it may also support hard choices and painful sacrifices − provided that these can be justified in public discourses as being effective and normatively appropriate in dealing with common problems or achieving the collective purposes of the polity (Schmidt 2002, 2006).”