ABSTRACT Narrative stories are crucial to policy change, as they decisively contribute to how policy problems and policies are defined. While this seems to apply for social policy in particular, narrative stories have remained under-researched and not systematically compared for this area. In this article, we theorise on narratives in social policy by focusing on how similarities and differences between narratives in old- and new-social-risks policy reforms can be conceptualised, taking into account expansion and retrenchment. To systematically link those types of social policy reform with narrative elements, we rely on stories of control and helplessness, as well as the deservingness or undeservingness associated with different target populations. Thereby, distinct types of social policy reform narratives are identified: stories of giving-to-give, giving-to-shape, taking-to-take, taking-to-control, and taking-out-of-helplessness. The article concludes with empirical illustrations of those narrative types, which stem from the case studies presented in this Special Issue.

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给予或接受的故事-社会政策改革叙事的类型学

摘要叙事故事对于政策变革至关重要，因为它们对政策问题和政策的定义起着决定性的作用。尽管这似乎特别适用于社会政策，但对叙事故事的研究仍很少，并且没有对该领域进行系统的比较。在本文中，我们将重点放在如何将旧社会风险政策改革和新社会风险政策改革中的叙事之间的异同概念化（考虑到扩展和裁员）的基础上，对社会政策的叙事进行理论化。为了将这些类型的社会政策改革与叙事元素系统地联系起来，我们依赖于控制和无助的故事，以及与不同目标人群相关的应得或不应的故事。从而，确定了不同类型的社会政策改革叙事：赠予的故事，塑造，接受，控制和消除无助。本文以对这些叙事类型的实证说明作为结尾，这些叙事类型源于本期特刊中的案例研究。