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Emily Shaw
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BIOGRAPHY

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Thomas College. She contributed an article on “Frame Analysis” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), and a version of this article was used for his Britannica entry on this topic.

Primary Contributions (1)
Frame analysis, a broadly applied, relatively flexible label for a variety of approaches to studying social constructions of reality. The sociologist Erving Goffman, who is credited with coining the term in his 1974 book Frame Analysis, understood the idea of the frame to mean the culturally…
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set (December 2006)
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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