The study of policy discourse comprises actor-centered and content-oriented approaches. We attempt to close the gap between the two kinds of approaches by introducing a new methodology for the analysis of political discourse called Discourse Network Analysis. It is based on social network...

Anfang Juli 2005 hat das Europäische Parlament die Softwarepatentrichtlinie zurückgewiesen. Nach welchen Regeln werden computerimplementierte Erfindungen derzeit behandelt? Welche Folgen hat die Ablehnung der Richtlinie für die zukünftige Behandlung von Software-Entwicklungen?

Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production and mass communications, relatively little is formally known about the propensity of firms to belong to certain SSOs. This paper uses a social network analysis technique to...