Discourse analysis of participation in Flemish cultural policyhttps://doi.org/10.34934/DVN/XDGDVRDewinter, HanneSocial Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA2025-11-192026-01-08T13:00:02ZThis dataset contains 140 Flemish cultural policy documents published between 1990 and 2024. The collection includes strategic notes, policy plans, evaluation reports, ministerial briefs, and other official texts. The dataset was compiled for a critical discourse analysis examining how the rhetoric of participation is mobilised within Flemish cultural policy over time. The accompanying study identifies underlying paradigms and traces patterns, shifts, tensions, and omissions in participatory discourses across three decades of policymaking. The dataset enables researchers to explore how notions of participation relate to broader political, cultural, and institutional power dynamics. All documents were collected from public governmental sources or official archival portals.Arts and HumanitiesSocial SciencesCultural policyParticipationDutchDewinter, H., Bradt, L., Rutten, K., & Vandermeersche, G. (2025). Limits to the participation paradigm? Unpacking the rhetoric of participation in Flemish cultural policy (1990-2024). International Journal of Cultural Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2025.2583906, doi, DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2025.2583906, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10286632.2025.25839062025-03-31Dewinter, HanneHanne Dewinter2025-11-13199020242024-10-012025-03-31NACultural policy documents (textual data)Codebook (textual data)The documents included in this dataset were obtained from publicly accessible Flemish governmental platforms and archival repositories. Primary sources include official policy portals, ministerial websites, parliamentary archives, and digital collections of the Government of Flanders. All documents were retrieved from publicly available online sources and represent original publications from Flemish cultural policy actors between 1990 and 2024.FlandersFlandersBelgiumCC0 1.0