Kiristystä vai kilpailukykyä? : auktoriteettiperformanssit ja strategiset kertomukset neuvotteluissa "yhteiskuntasopimuksesta"

Authors

• Esa Reunanen

Abstract

By adopting an actor-centric perspective on mediatization of politics, this article examines how media performances affected the power balance within the policy networks negotiating the “social contract” in Finnish labor markets during 2015. The research material consists of newspaper articles (n=321) on the case, and semi-structured interviews (n=16) with members of the policy networks. The article develops an analytical method that combines (strategic) narrative analysis with vocabu­laries from the literature on authority and the theory of communicative action. By analyzing four types of “authority performance”, the article describes how the balance of power changed from a relatively strong governmental position in summer 2015 to a stronger labor movement position in autumn 2015.