Taking ideas and discourse seriously: explaining change through discursive institutionalism as the fourth ‘new institutionalism’

By V. Schmidt. European Political Science Review, 2010

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Going around in circles? Conceptual recycling, patching and policy layering in the EU circular economy package (2019, background): “In this context, framing is in effect a communication technique that selectively highlights features of reality while omitting others and is a key discursive factor in policy change (Entman 1991, Schmidt 2010).”
Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda (2017, background): “Also while HI does not neglect ideas, 2 it has also been subject to critiques which argue that it has paid insufficient attention to analysing the independent effect of ideas on outcomes and institutions (Blyth 1997, Campbell 1998, Schmidt 2010).”
Governance responses to the fiscal crisis—comparative perspectives (2011, background): “Therefore, the reactions of the public sector can be seen to some extent through the lens of discursive institutionalism and the importance of ideas in understanding the nature of institutions and the policies which those institutions implement (Schmidt, 2008, 2010).”
The Baltic Republics and the Crisis of 2008–2011 (2013, background): “This can be contrasted with compound polities where social partnerships, veto players and/or corporatist structures play a pivotal role in decision making and where accordingly key capacities evolve around deliberation and consultation (Schmidt 2008, 2010; Raudla & Kattel 2011a, 2011b).”
Applying institutional theory to the low-carbon energy transition (2016, positive): “To address this deficiency, Kern [108] combined the organizational institutionalism of Scott [58] with Schmidt’s [10] discursive”
Do economists make policies? On the political effects of economics (2014, background): “, 2010), science studies (Ferguson, 1990; Scott, 1998; Mitchell, 2002) and ideas and politics (Schmidt, 2008; Schmidt, 2010) emphasizes how expert discourse shapes political action.”
Powerful rules governing the euro: the perverse logic of German ideas (2016, positive): “To better understand under what conditions powerful actors’ ideas matter for policy outcomes, I will borrow from, build on and empirically apply existing approaches in ‘actor-centered constructivism’ (Saurugger 2013: 896) and ‘discursive institutionalism’ (Schmidt 2010: 2).”
Social Enterprise – A New Phenomenon in the Field of Economic and Social Welfare? (2015, background): “…into account in tendering processes could be seen as evidence of these organizations positive interactions with, and responses to, the opportunity structures faced, and how their actions (or agency) have contributed to influencing and shaping policy-making processes (Béland 2005; Schmidt 2010).”