The European commissions climate policy norm
(2025) FKVK02 20251Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis uses norm research and a developed theoretical framework to find the ‘climate policy norm’ that affects and creates the argumentation for the European Commission's climate policy measures, and puts it on the life cycle of norms for the years 2019 and 2024. Through a comparative discourse analysis and qualitative data study, this paper develops the theoretical understanding of norm research. The traditional framework of the cycle of norms, emergence, cascade and internalisation is developed by adding another stage in the life cycle taken from previous scholars’ research. The new stage is called ‘tipping point’ through which a norm in this framework can evolve. By finding the ‘climate policy norm’ in both years, the thesis... (More)
- This thesis uses norm research and a developed theoretical framework to find the ‘climate policy norm’ that affects and creates the argumentation for the European Commission's climate policy measures, and puts it on the life cycle of norms for the years 2019 and 2024. Through a comparative discourse analysis and qualitative data study, this paper develops the theoretical understanding of norm research. The traditional framework of the cycle of norms, emergence, cascade and internalisation is developed by adding another stage in the life cycle taken from previous scholars’ research. The new stage is called ‘tipping point’ through which a norm in this framework can evolve. By finding the ‘climate policy norm’ in both years, the thesis succeeds in positioning the ‘climate ‘policy norm’, in the tipping point and cascade stage for the year 2019 and in the internalization stage for the year 2024. The thesis accounts for a mixture of both traditional norm research and EU studies to widen the approach. Using the table of what constitutes the different stages of the norm life cycle, this paper shows that the variables that matter are covered by the table produced in the thesis. By showing how Ursula Von der Leyen argues for climate measures in the Mission letters given to the respective commissioner, the paper connects and shows the arguments in the ongoing general discourse that surrounds the European Commission is connected to how Von der Leyen chooses to express herself in the Mission letters. The connection between the arguments found in the data analysis and the norm found is visible. (Less)
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- author
- Persson, Reine LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- FKVK02 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Norm, The European Commission, Life cycle of norms, Norm evolution, Mission letters
- language
- English
- id
- 9191320
- date added to LUP
- 2025-08-08 11:24:49
- date last changed
- 2025-08-08 11:24:49
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abstract = {{This thesis uses norm research and a developed theoretical framework to find the ‘climate policy norm’ that affects and creates the argumentation for the European Commission's climate policy measures, and puts it on the life cycle of norms for the years 2019 and 2024. Through a comparative discourse analysis and qualitative data study, this paper develops the theoretical understanding of norm research. The traditional framework of the cycle of norms, emergence, cascade and internalisation is developed by adding another stage in the life cycle taken from previous scholars’ research. The new stage is called ‘tipping point’ through which a norm in this framework can evolve. By finding the ‘climate policy norm’ in both years, the thesis succeeds in positioning the ‘climate ‘policy norm’, in the tipping point and cascade stage for the year 2019 and in the internalization stage for the year 2024. The thesis accounts for a mixture of both traditional norm research and EU studies to widen the approach. Using the table of what constitutes the different stages of the norm life cycle, this paper shows that the variables that matter are covered by the table produced in the thesis. By showing how Ursula Von der Leyen argues for climate measures in the Mission letters given to the respective commissioner, the paper connects and shows the arguments in the ongoing general discourse that surrounds the European Commission is connected to how Von der Leyen chooses to express herself in the Mission letters. The connection between the arguments found in the data analysis and the norm found is visible.}},
author = {{Persson, Reine}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The European commissions climate policy norm}},
year = {{2025}},
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