TY  - JOUR
A1  - Giesen, Michael
T1  - Framing gender-based violence in multi-level contexts
BT  - a networked approach to studying adoption of the Istanbul Convention
JF  - European journal of politics and gender
N2  - International institutions are an essential driving force of contemporary policies to combat gender-based violence but remain toothless if political actors do not implement them in domestic policies. How can scholars conceptualise the transposition of international gender-based violence norms into domestic policies? I argue that discourse network analysis provides a powerful conceptual and methodological extension of critical frame analysis to understand how frames shape the meaning of gender-based violence norms in multi-level institutional contexts. Frames’ normative and cognitive network structure invites combining discourse network and frame analysis techniques that locate frames’ power in their ability to connect different institutional spheres temporally and spatially. I outline a multi-level research agenda that traces the framing processes of international norms and their domestic implementation through gender-based violence policies in the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention. This agenda includes avenues to study how complex transnational policy frameworks like the Istanbul Convention play out in domestic policy implementation.
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1332/251510821X16693059192022
SN  - 2515-1088
SN  - 2515-1096
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 76
EP  - 91
PB  - Bristol University Press
CY  - Bristol
ER  -