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Constructing Policy Change: ideas, discourse and argumentation

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Giliberto Capano
Università di Bologna
Giliberto Capano
Università di Bologna

Abstract

The panel is aimed at deepening the cognitive turn in policy change analysis from both the theoretical and the empirical perspectives. From the theoretical point of view the panel's focus is on the conceptual distinction among ideas, discourse and argumentation, too often used as synonymous in the literature on policy change. From the empirical point of view, we expect papers contributing to clarifying the role of the different cognitive tools and variables in autonomously influencing policy change.

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