IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cpprxx/v29y2014i5p569-584.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Framing the Zone: Political Executives Engaging in a Narrative-Framing Contest During Strategic Decision-making

Author

Listed:
  • Sander Merkus
  • Jaap de Heer
  • Marcel Veenswijk

Abstract

Storytelling is regarded as an important practice within planning processes. Seminal contributions (Throgmorton, 1992, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 12, pp. 17-31; Flyvbjerg, 1998, Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press) as well as recent research (Jensen, 2007, Planning Theory, 6, pp. 211-236; van Hulst, 2012, Planning Theory, 11, pp. 299-318) demonstrate that there are multiple competing stories about the meaning of any specific plan. This paper contributes to this debate by considering stories as building blocks for a collective action frame in the form of a mutual story. Political executives engage in a framing contest in order to influence such a mutual story. Our case study is based on interpretative analysis of contrasting narratives ands shows how political executives negotiate the meaning of a plan in such a way that the chances of its implementation through funding are optimized.

Suggested Citation

  • Sander Merkus & Jaap de Heer & Marcel Veenswijk, 2014. "Framing the Zone: Political Executives Engaging in a Narrative-Framing Contest During Strategic Decision-making," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(5), pages 569-584, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:29:y:2014:i:5:p:569-584
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2014.976999
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02697459.2014.976999
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/02697459.2014.976999?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jiahui Diao & Shaoming Lu, 2022. "The Culture-Oriented Urban Regeneration: Place Narrative in the Case of the Inner City of Haiyan (Zhejiang, China)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-23, June.
    2. Sander Merkus & Marcel Veenswijk, 2017. "Turning New Public Management theory into reality: Performative struggle during a large scale planning process," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(7), pages 1264-1284, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:29:y:2014:i:5:p:569-584. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cppr20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.