The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was developed to provide theoretical and empirical grounding for inquiries into questions about the interplay between communication and policy processes. In our previous work, we argued for the inclusion of framing analysis within the broader NPF structure in order to account for the ways in which problems, solutions, and characters are portrayed to citizens. The study presented here seeks to further develop these complementary approaches to understanding the construction of policy narratives in the important domain of hazards and disaster policy. Communication of risk is central to political and policy dialogue. By accurately and effectively communicating risks, the problem definitions and associated solutions may be more closely aligned with expert risk assessments, actors may mobilize to affect change, and policy change may be more likely. We examine the construction of risk within narratives to analyze how the narrative construction of chronic versus urgent risk may influence policy discussions. In this paper, we link NPF concepts of setting, plot, and moral of the story to frames of risk. This study advances NPF scholarship by linking these theoretical approaches and establishing how framing analysis can aid in measuring narrative concepts.
探究沟通和政策过程之间的相互作用需要理论和实证的支撑,而叙事政策框架(NP)的发展正为此提供了相应基础。在我们之前的工作中,我们主张在更广的NPF结构中列入框架分析,以便解释那些向公民描绘问题、解决方案和角色的方式。这里提出的研究旨在进一步发展这些补充方法,以理解对危害和灾害政策这一重要领域的政策叙事的构建。风险交流是政治和政策对话的核心。通过准确有效地沟通风险,问题定义和相关解决方案可以与专家风险评估更好地保持一致,行动者可以动员起来影响变革,也更可能带来政策变化。我们研究叙事中风险的构建,来分析对慢性风险与紧急风险的叙事构建是如何影响政策讨论的。在本文中,我们将NPF概念中的故事背景、情节和道德与风险框架联系起来。本文通过将这些理论方法联系起来,并确定框架分析如何有助于衡量叙事概念,推进了NPF的学术研究。