Ronald N. Jacobs

TL;DR: This paper used narrative methods to analyze the cultural dynamics of civil society through a comparison of African-American and "main-stream" newspaper coverage of the Rodney King crisis in Los Angeles and found that the newspapers' different narrative constructions affected the selection and interpretation of significant crisis events, shaped social expectations about how the crisis would be resolved, and constrained the range of symbolic strategies available to local political elites.

TL;DR: A history of opinion in the U.S. media and opinion formation can be found in this article, where a new theory of Deliberative politics is proposed for the space of opinion.

TL;DR: The authors proposes a model of solidarity based on the two genres of Romance and Irony, and argues that these narrative forms offer useful vocabularies for organizing public discourse within and between civil society and its constituent communities.

TL;DR: This paper developed a theory about the narrative foundations of public policy, and demonstrated how this works through a historical analysis of congressional debate about the nonprofit sector in the United States, showing that politicians are drawn to policy narratives in which they themselves occupy the central and heroic character position, and where they are able to protect the scope of their jurisdictional authority.