Debating unemployment policy: political communication and the labour market in Western Europe

Part I. The Context Structures and the Policy-Specific Debates: 1. Introduction: shaping the debate on unemployment and the labor market Hanspeter Kriesi, Laurent Bernhard, Flavia Fossati and Regula Hanggli; 2. Theoretical framework: production of policy-specific political communication Regula Hanggli and Flavia Fossati; 3. The political contexts of the national policy debates Hanspeter Kriesi, Flavia Fossati, Laurent Bernhard; 4. The variety of national debates Hanspeter Kriesi, Laurent Bernhard, Flavia Fossati, Regula Hanggli and Christian Elmelund-Pr'stek'r; Part II. The Political Actors and Their Assets: 5. What affects power in the labor market domain? Laurent Bernhard; 6. The labor market policy space Flavia Fossati; 7. Beliefs or interests: what is the driving force behind coalition formation? Laurent Bernhard; 8. The action repertoires for shaping the debates Laurent Bernhard; Part III. Communicating in Public: 9. Framing strategies: important messages in public debates Regula Hanggli; 10. The positioning of the actors in the public debates Hanspeter Kriesi and Regula Hanggli; 11. Inside the interaction context Laurent Bernhard; 12. Quality of public debates Regula Hanggli and Richard van der Wurff; Part IV. Conclusion: 13. Conclusion Laurent Bernhard.