Arguing about the Eurozone crisis: a discursive institutionalist analysis

Abstract

This article uses the framework of ‘discursive institutionalism’ to explore the different ways in which the many approaches to ideas and discursive interaction may complement or contradict one another when applied to the Eurozone Crisis. In so doing, the article considers the different forms, types, levels, rates, and mechanisms of change in ideas followed by the EU leaders’ discursive interactions in the ‘coordinative’ discourse and their ‘communicative discourse’ to the global markets and European publics.