Interpreting Hashtag Politics

1. Front Matter

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2. Policy Ideas and Hashtag Politics

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   Pages 1-11

3. Theorising Policy Ideas

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   Pages 12-25

4. The Lifecycle of Policy Ideas

   • Stephen Jeffares

   Pages 26-44

5. Identifying Policy Viewpoints

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   Pages 45-67

6. Social Media and Policy Practices

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   Pages 68-84

7. Capturing the Digital Footprint of Policy Discussion

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   Pages 85-111

8. Interpreting Social Media Data

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   Pages 112-134

9. The Future of Hashtag Politics

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   Pages 135-146

10. Appendix

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    Pages 147-160

11. Back Matter

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Why do policy actors create branded policy ideas like Big Society and does launching them on Twitter extend or curtail their life? This book reveals how policy analysis can adapt in an increasingly mediatised to offer interpretive insights into the life and death of policy ideas in an era of hashtag politics.

• digital
• Policy
• politics
• social media
• Twitter
• us politics

• School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham, UK

  Stephen Jeffares

Stephen Jeffares is a lecturer at INLOGOV, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham UK. He is co-author of Hybrid Governance with Chris Skelcher and Helen Sullivan. His work draws on text analytics and Q methodology to understand changing debates surrounding public policy and public services.

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