Measuring interest group framing strategies in public policy debates

Journal of Public Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 223-244

  Klüver, Heike ^a   Mahoney, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

European Union; framing; interest groups; quantitative text analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN UNION; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY MAKING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EUROPE;

EID: 84933181087     PISSN: 0143814X     EISSN: 14697815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X14000294     Document Type: Article

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