This paper uses quantitative and qualitative text analysis methods to study the discourse surrounding Germany's current …

actor-network theory (ANT) and policy discourse approaches. This is achieved through discarding ontologically unsound … concepts of radical human/non-human symmetry in ANT, while re-materialising the concept of discourse, and theorising how to … test the veracity of strands in discourse which make truth claims about the material world. The result shows that the …

Public discourse, understood both as ideas about public action and interactive processes that serve to 'coordinate' the … ideas are conveyed to whom, with 'simple' polities emphasizing the 'communicative' discourse to the general public and more … 'compound' polities the 'coordinative' discourse among policy actors. This is demonstrated with examples from Germany, France …

discourse on the EU. In order to reconstruct how interests, identities and normative ideas relating to the legitimacy of an EU …