Narrative Power
(2022) UNDK02 20212Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This study builds on the assumptions of the bureaucratic politics model, and examines how security services create and exploit narratives to increase their power in the domestic context. The study adopts a framework of 'narrative power'. The level of narrative power dictates the service's ability 'to structure and exercise influence over the subsequent discussion of issues as well as the policies adopted to deal with them'. It finds that narrative power can be gained by integrating the service's narratives into prominent, and salient national 'meta narratives'. Successful integration into national meta narratives not only legitimizes the institutions, policies, and practices of these services, but shapes how policy is understood and... (More)
- This study builds on the assumptions of the bureaucratic politics model, and examines how security services create and exploit narratives to increase their power in the domestic context. The study adopts a framework of 'narrative power'. The level of narrative power dictates the service's ability 'to structure and exercise influence over the subsequent discussion of issues as well as the policies adopted to deal with them'. It finds that narrative power can be gained by integrating the service's narratives into prominent, and salient national 'meta narratives'. Successful integration into national meta narratives not only legitimizes the institutions, policies, and practices of these services, but shapes how policy is understood and formulated throughout the foreign policy establishment. (Less)
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- author
- Wicken, Noah Rohan LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- UNDK02 20212
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Narrative power, meta narrative, foreign policy, bureaucratic politics
- language
- English
- id
- 9071090
- date added to LUP
- 2022-03-18 11:00:08
- date last changed
- 2022-03-18 11:00:08
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