Virtual icon Emotions and Public Policy

Abstract

Emphasising emotions has become crucial in studying public policy, with emotions (such as anger, compassion, fear) increasingly being realised as a driving force shaping politics and how policies are formed, debated, implemented, and more. This includes recent theoretical-conceptual advancements (e.g. of emotions and policy-process frameworks such as the Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Narrative Policy Framework) as well as methodological advancements. In the session, we would like to present some findings from our on-going research project CIDAPE (https://cidape.eu/) and this year’s ECPR Joint Session on the topic, and reserve time for an interactive discussion. Speakers: Anna Durnova (University of Vienna) Anna Durnova is Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology. She is the Recipient of the 2024 Mattei Dogan Foundation Price for European Political Sociology, featured by the ECPR. She also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Policy & Politics and Critical Policy Studies..Anna Durnova is currently the Consortium Leader of the CIDAPE Project (Climate, Inequality and Democratic Action: The Force of Political Emotions; Horizon Europe 2024-2027). Sonja Blum (Bielefeld University, Germany) Sonja Blum is Professor of Comparative Politics and Public Policy at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research interests include the policy process, policy narratives, evidence and policy, and an empirical focus on comparative social policy, gender and family policy. She is executive editor for special issues at the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.