著者

永松 俊雄

出版者

室蘭工業大学

雑誌

室蘭工業大学紀要 = Memoirs of the Muroran Institute of Technology (ISSN:13442708)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, pp.19-38, 2011-03-18

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Framing helps us to organize complex phenomena into coherent and comprehensive stories. In the policy process, framing often accounts for social conflicts because they differ among actors who are concerned with the same issue. In general, their frames are closely related to their own interests. This article, firstly, describes the relationship between interests and actions of each actor, and discusses the impacts of framing on the policy process. Secondly, it explores, through a case study of Minamata disease, how each actor makes her/his frame of the issue, why the frame is different among actors, and why the frame has an impact on the action in the policy process.