A CLAIM SPACE APPROACH TO POLICY FRAMING
2026-09-23
Falsehoods aren’t all equally bad
The truth is sometimes deceiving
The future is uncertain
Power is unaccounted for
Falsehoods aren’t all equally bad
The truth is sometimes deceiving
The future is uncertain
Power is unaccounted for
“To frame is to select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text, in such a way as to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation for the item described.”
“To frame is to select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text, in such a way as to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation for the item described.”
Issue-Signalling Claims: “We care about X”
Impact Claims: “Policy Y impacts issue X in this way”
Evaluation Claims: “We should use policy Y”
It doesn’t ask an algorithm to decide what is true.
It maps the structure of disagreement so humans can judge it openly.