CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Jones, Garrett Donald |
|---|---|
| Title | What's the Problem of Child Poverty Represented to Be? The Politics of Discourse and Anti-Poverty Programme Design in Romania |
| Summary | While the importance of discourse and ideas to policy change or policy stasis are acknowledged, little scholarly attention has been devoted to the relationship between discourse and policy/programme design until recently. Romania presents an intriguing case in the way of discourse and policy/programme design towards tackling child poverty. With the main indicator of poverty (AROPE) in Europe showing that child poverty has remained largely stagnant in Romania between 2007 and 2014, this thesis examines what the problem of child poverty in Romania is represented to be and to what extent it is represented to be a problem in need of effective policy interventions. It does so using discourse analysis of statements from Romania’s political elite between January 2007 and June 2014. The primary finding from this thesis is that effectively tackling child poverty was not presented as a priority nor as a relevant policy issue for Romania’s political elite during the period analysed. Since child poverty was not presented to be a significant problem, child poverty was primarily left unproblematized, with direct repercussions for anti-poverty policy interventions. As an unproblematized issue, solutions to improving Romania’s disconcerting child poverty figures remained practically absent during this period. |
| Supervisor | Kovács, Borbála |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/jones_garrett.pdf |
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