The Role of Frames in Welfare Legitimacy
(2018) ECPR SGUE Conference — Location: Paris (13.June.2018)
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- Welfare states and social policies are at a critical juncture. The first struggle lies in the debates to impose the narratives able to legitimise reforms. Looking at citizens discourses about welfare policies is then important. What are their opinion and what discursive strategies do they rely on to formulate their opinion? The particular focus here is on a peculiar policy: workers’ free movement policy. Media coverage about about it might play a determinant role. Citizens look for political information through media. Media coverage may then orientate citizens’ judgement about policies and may ultimately have (de)legitimizing effects regarding citizens’ assessment of the different policy options. Analysing citizens’ discourses enables to observe whether and how citizens rely on frames as discursive tool. Integrating frames conveyed by newspapers and TV bulletin about workers’ free movement policies, and their influence on citizens’ discourses, enables to assess whether or not media establish the formulation of the debate and/or its meaning. Methodologically, a qualitative analysis of citizens’ focus groups and media coverage permits to observe the respective of the frames they make to express their opinion. Data are collected media content and secondary analysis of focus groups. The perspective shed light on the fact that: citizens are more interested in policies outcomes than in legitimacy or transparency debates and; despite this, they assess policies on the basis of ex-ante debates rather than on policies.
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Pennetreau, D. (2018). The Role of Frames in Welfare Legitimacy. ECPR SGUE Conference, Paris. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/123856