The Dynamics of Frame-bridging: Exploring the Nuclear Discourse in Scotland. Issue 2 (May 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Dynamics of Frame-bridging: Exploring the Nuclear Discourse in Scotland. Issue 2 (May 2017)
- Main Title:
- The Dynamics of Frame-bridging: Exploring the Nuclear Discourse in Scotland
- Authors:
- Brown, Antje
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Simple indicative factors such as political populism and resource abundance cannot fully explain the Scottish Government's anti-nuclear energy policy. To grasp the current policy stance, it is necessary to pay attention to the wider contextualisation of policy framing and specifically the dynamic of story-telling and frame-bridging that ultimately feeds into governmental policy. The Scottish Government's decisive 'no' to a new nuclear fleet can be better understood by considering the underlying (and deliberate) bridging of policy frames that is noticeable between environmental, pacifist, and Scottish independence actors. This bridging not only affects the individual sets of story-telling but also develops a dynamic that reinforces individual stories and transcends well beyond the groups' original remit and objectives. With the help of policy framing analysis, research interviews and documentary analysis, the article explores the dynamic connections between anti-nuclear and independence activists and their causes in Scotland. The article highlights their triangular bridges in terms of personnel, language and story-telling and argues that these are instrumental in shaping the Scottish Government's anti-nuclear energy policy.
- Is Part Of:
- Scottish affairs. Volume 26:Issue 2(2017)
- Journal:
- Scottish affairs
- Issue:
- Volume 26:Issue 2(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 26, Issue 2 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0026-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 194
- Page End:
- 211
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05
- Subjects:
- policy-frame analysis -- Scottish governance -- nuclear discourse
Scotland -- Politics and government -- Periodicals
320.941105 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/scot ↗
http://www.euppublishing.com/journals ↗
http://www.scottishaffairs.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3366/scot.2017.0178 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0966-0356
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- Legaldeposit
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