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The Institutional Grammar Tool meets the Narrative Policy Framework: Narrating institutional statements in consultation
Author(s) -
Dunlop Claire A.,
Kamkhaji Jonathan C.,
Radaelli Claudio M.,
Taffoni Gaia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european policy analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.558
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2380-6567
DOI - 10.1002/epa2.1126
Subject(s) - narrative , political science , leverage (statistics) , sociology , art , literature , computer science , machine learning
Abstract We compare the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) and the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT). Given the focus of this special issue on the NPF, we first theorize how the IGT can contribute to the development of NPF categories, but also how the former gains conceptual leverage from the latter. We argue that it is useful to consider jointly NPF and IGT as this expands the benefit of NPF usage for policy researchers—uncovering not only the stories policy actors tell but also what these stories mean in terms of institutional statements. We provide a demonstration of how the conversation between these two policy lenses may develop by analyzing original data on the design of consultation procedures in the European Union, Finland, Ireland, and Malta.