- Title
- The concept 'governance' within parliamentary discourse 1983-93
- Creator
- Jose, Jim; Moore, Tod
- Relation
- 2007 Australasian Political Studies Association Conference (APSA 2007). Australasian Political Studies Association Conference: Refereed Papers (Melbourne 24-27 September, 2007)
- Relation
- http://arts.monash.edu.au/psi/news-and-events/apsa/refereed-papers/index.php
- Publisher
- Monash University
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- We explore the occurrences of the word ‘governance’ within parliamentary debates and documents in the period between 1983 and 1993. Our principal aims are to determine the frequency of these occurrences and identify the meanings arising from and changes of meaning associated with them. These samples from the parliamentary discourse demonstrate that political actors had been using the term intermittently some time before it gained currency within the academic political science literature (broadly defined). We establish that two broad meanings predominated, though neither could be said to align with what has become the familiar meaning within the academic literature since the mid-1990s. It would appear that the use within parliamentary discourse was in some sense transitional and we examine how this might contribute to our understanding of ‘governance’ as an instance of conceptual change.
- Subject
- governance; parliamentary discourse; politicians; change
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927684
- Identifier
- uon:10212
- Language
- eng
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