Come Together, Right Now: Storylines and Social Identities in Coalition Building in a Local Policy Subsystem

How do social identities contribute to the formation of coalitions in a policy subsystem? Social identities help to understand the bundling of resources and common strategies for action. Thus, we argue that identification with a group and across groups discursively results in the formulation of shar...

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Veröffentlicht in:Politics & policy (Statesboro, Ga.) Ga.), 2021-10, Vol.49 (5), p.1216-1247
Hauptverfasser: Rychlik, Jasmin, Hornung, Johanna, Bandelow, Nils C.
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Zusammenfassung:How do social identities contribute to the formation of coalitions in a policy subsystem? Social identities help to understand the bundling of resources and common strategies for action. Thus, we argue that identification with a group and across groups discursively results in the formulation of shared and competing storylines. As coalitions are characterized by some kind of sameness of their actors which results in shared storylines, we thereby postulate that the link between storylines and social identities provides added value to the explanation of coalition formation. We test whether shared storylines can be traced back to social identities in the different discursive periods of traffic development on a local level in Germany. A media analysis of 110 articles and 14 interviews shows that the assignment of certain group characteristics is discursively confirmed, renegotiated, or rejected. Social identities, therefore, matter for coalition formation. Related Articles Chang, Katherine T., and Elizabeth A. Koebele. 2020. “What Drives Coalitions' Narrative Strategy? Exploring Policy Narratives around School Choice.” Politics & Policy 48 (4): 618‐657. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12367 Shanahan, Elizabeth A., Mark K. McBeth, and Paul L. Hathaway. 2011. “Narrative Policy Framework: The Influence of Media Policy Narrative on Public Opinion.” Politics & Policy 39 (3): 373‐400. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2011.00295.x Vercesi, Michelangelo. 2016. “Coalition Politics and Inter‐Party Conflict Management: A Theoretical Framework.” Politics & Policy 44 (2): 168‐219. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12154 Juntos, ahora mismo: historias e identidades sociales en la construcción de coaliciones en un subsistema de políticas locales ¿Cómo contribuyen las identidades sociales a la formación de coaliciones en un subsistema de políticas? Las identidades sociales ayudan a comprender la combinación de recursos y estrategias comunes de acción. Por lo tanto, argumentamos que la identificación con un grupo y entre grupos da como resultado discursivamente la formulación de historias compartidas y en competencia. Como las coaliciones se caracterizan por algún tipo de uniformidad de sus actores que resulta en historias compartidas, postulamos que el vínculo entre las historias y las identidades sociales proporciona un valor agregado a la explicación de la formación de coaliciones. Probamos si las historias compartidas se pueden rastrear hasta las identidades sociales en los dife
ISSN:1555-5623
1747-1346
DOI:10.1111/polp.12431