There is currently considerable activity in the UK directed towards the reconstruction or refurbishment of secondary and primary schools. In this context, the paper looks closely at various discourses that evolve around school architecture. The omnipresent discourses at the national level are...

The tension between (social) order and change, or, alternatively formulated, between structure and agency, has a long history in the social sciences (e.g. Verburg 1991). The discussion has substantial philosophical overtones. In this article we recount the history of the discussion. We both...

การวิจัยครั้งนี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อวิเคราะห์วาทกรรมในเชิงประจักษ์...

This Article argues that the conventional (rationalist) approach to world politics characterized by political bargain cannot fully capture the new social reality under the contemporary global ambience where ideational factors such as ideas, values, culture, and norms have become more salient and...

We analyze managerial discourse in corporate communication (‘CEO-speak') during a six month period following a legitimacy-threatening event in the form of an incident in a German nuclear power plant. As discourses express specific stances expressed by a group of people who share particular...

Политическая система любого государства, в том числе и России, неизбежно изменяется, эволюционирует, отвечая на вызовы окружающего мира. Далеко не последнее...

The financial crisis of 2007-09 soon morphed into a crisis of public debt. This paper argues that the way the Eurozone crisis was discursively constructed led to a large scale entrenchment of European welfare states. First of all, how the crisis was constructed did not reflect its actual causes...

Der Gründungszuschuss ist das bedeutendste Förderinstrument zur Existenzgründung aus Arbeitslosigkeit. Während umfangreiche Evaluationsstudien zu seinen arbeitsmarktpolitischen Wirkungen vorliegen, gibt es bislang kaum theoriegeleitete Arbeiten, die seine Vergabe in den Arbeitsagenturen...

After communicative planning theory (CPT) emerged in the 1980's, challenging assumptions and prevailing theories of planning, debates ensued among planning theorists that led to apparently opposing groups with little space for mutual learning. The most difficult obstacle is that critiques of CPT...