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100	1		_aSCHMIDT, Vivien A _99652
245	1	0	_aThe politics of economic adjustment in France and Britain : _bwhen does discourse matter?
260			_cApril 2001
520	3		_aDo legitimating discourses matter for a country`s successful adjustment to economic policy change? Or can adjustment more simply be explained by the interplay of economic and political interests, path dependency, or cultural framing? This article argues that discourse - defined as constituting both a set of policy ideas and values and an interactive process of policy construction and communication - matters, and that it can be shown in some instances to exert a causal influence over and above the interplay of interests, institutions, and culture. In illustration, the article examines critical shifts in the political-economical discourses an policy programs of France and Britain, presenting them as matched cases. It finds that while in Britain the presence of an effective legitimating discourse accompanying economic policy change proved transformative, in France the absence of such a discourse until relatively recently proved problematc
650		4	_aBritain _912415
650		4	_aDiscurso _912100
650		4	_aEconomic Adjustment _917196
650		4	_aEuropean Integration _917192
650		4	_aFrance _917197
773	0	8	_tJournal of European Public Policy _g8, 2, p. 247-264 _d, April 2001 _w
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998			_a20021111 _bCassio _cCassio
998			_a20140721 _b0937^b _ckarina
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c8351 _d8351
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