The PAGANINI project includes a range of different case studies that are worked upon by different teams. One way to make things working despite all these differences is to share a common language. This is our ‘PAGANINI vocabulary’, that is the set of concepts, that we all draw upon when we make sense of our case studies and workpackages. It has been elaborated by our team in Amsterdam.

refers to a situation in which, on the one hand, the existing rules and norms that shape politics and policy-making with regard to a specific issue are considered problematic and/or unacceptable, while yet, on the other hand, there is evidence that clear rules are considered indispensable by the parties involved to determine who is responsible, who has authority over whom, what sort of accountability is to be expected and so on. As a result, in situations of institutional ambiguity, the ‘rules of the game’ – the way in which a perceived problem can and should be legitimately framed and publicly handled – are themselves the subject of political deliberation and struggle.