2014/05/30 by Merlijn van Hulst, Dvora Yanow · 5 citations
Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Evaluation and Performance Assessment #Policy Transfer and Learning #Public Policy and Administration Research
paper · doi:10.1177/0275074014533142
openalex publication_date 2014/05/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The concept of frames or framing, especially cast as “frame analysis,” has an established history in public policy. Taking off from the work of Donald Schön and Martin Rein, we develop the idea of policy analytic fram ing, the more dynamic of the two terms, in ways that strengthen what we see as its promise for a more process-oriented and politically sensitive understanding of the activities it is used to characterize. We argue that such an approach needs to engage the following aspects of the work that framing does: sense-making; selecting, naming, and categorizing; and storytelling. In addition, frame theorizing needs to engage not only the way issues are framed but also the intertwining of framing and frame-makers’ identities, and the meta-communicative framing of policy processes.