...This chapter offers a theoretical framework for studying and understanding hegemonic discourses and their function and effects. This framework is based on a synthesis of comparative institutionalism and discourse theory, and is focused on the interaction between the hegemonic and the national...

...This chapter explains the theoretical and methodological framework for this research, both in relation to the key tenets of discourse theory and to the empirical content of the analysis. It begins by considering the meaning of ‘discourse’ as language, practice, and context. Its multidimensional...