Ideas and agency in immigration policy: A discursive institutionalist approach
Ideas and agency in immigration policy: A discursive institutionalist approach
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DOI：
10.1111/1475-6765.12170
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
Hampshire, James
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作者：
Boswell, Christina;Hampshire, James
政治学文献倾向于以两种不同的方式描述思想在政策中的作用：作为代理人为实现预先给定的偏好而动员的战略工具;或者作为对被认为合法或可行的东西施加约束的结构。话语制度主义试图将这些见解联合收割机结合起来，表明虽然行动者确实受到根深蒂固的观念的约束，但他们在选择和结合观念方面享有一定的自主权。本文试图从两个方面进一步发展这种方法。首先，它确定了三个话语策略，通过这些策略，政策参与者可以有选择地调动思想：他们可能会在其他层面上突出一个层次;利用公共哲学中的矛盾心理;或者通过调用政策遗产来将方案思想与时间联系起来。其次，文章阐明了这种战略选择可以反过来修改现有的公共哲学和方案的想法，从而影响政策变化的机制。这些索赔审查比较话语在德国和英国2000年和2008年之间的移民政策自由化。所有三个话语策略的证据。此外，本文还展示了如何在德国的情况下，这些话语陈述导致了长期的调整，在潜在的方案思想和公共哲学的移民。
Political science literature tends to depict the role of ideas in policy in two distinct ways: as strategic tools mobilised by agents to achieve pre-given preferences; or as structures imposing constraints on what is considered legitimate or feasible. Discursive institutionalism seeks to combine these insights, suggesting that while actors are indeed constrained by deeply entrenched ideas, they nonetheless enjoy some autonomy in selecting and combining ideas. This article seeks to further develop this approach in two ways. First, it identifies three discursive strategies through which policy actors can selectively mobilise ideas: they may foreground one level over others; exploit ambivalence in public philosophies; or link programme ideas over time by invoking policy legacies'. Second, the article elucidates the mechanisms through which such strategic selections can in turn modify existing public philosophies and programme ideas, thereby influencing policy change. These claims are examined by comparing discourse on immigration policy liberalisation in Germany and the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2008. Evidence is found of all three discursive strategies. Moreover, the article shows how, in the German case, these discursive representations led to longer-term adjustments in underlying programme ideas and public philosophies on immigration.