Narratives and arguments at Leicester IPA conference

Tomáš Dvořák & Simon Smith Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University in Prague On July 7th 2017 a panel “Narrativizing institutional crises” took place at the Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) conference in Leicester, UK. The panel was organized with a specific goal. It was to focus on narratives of crisis, accounts and descriptions of disorder, failures and dysfunctions of public policies, organizations and even institutions. Our hunch was that narrative accounts of crisis can,..