Publication Forests in the Spotlight:
Discourse Coalitions and Storylines Shaping the EU Nature Restoration Regulation
In the current issue of the journal Politics and Governance, an article by Simon Fleckenstein, Simon Schaub, and Metodi Sotirov has been published: “Forests in the Spotlight: Discourse Coalitions and Storylines Shaping the EU Nature Restoration Regulation.”
The study examines - drawing on the discourse coalition framework and the coalition magnet concept - how coalition formation and discursive power influence policy-making processes and their outcomes. Using discourse network analysis (DNA), the authors analyze the policy debate around the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (EU-NRR). They identify supporting and opposing discourse coalitions, uncover forest-related storylines, and assess the influence of these coalitions and their storylines on the policy-making process and its outcome.