Theoretical framework and methodology

Abstract

Many political scientists have begun “to take ideas and discourse seriously” in order to fill gaps in realist conceptions of institutions and policy in positivist scholarship that are ill-equipped to analyse change processes of the kind I observe in Tunisia since the revolution. Following this discursive turn in political science, my research design takes a political discourse theoretical approach to the ‘transitional justice’ policy process in Tunisia in order to investigate how transitional justice discourse is produced and how it functions in relation to the politics of transition.