TY - JOUR

T1 - From zero migration to the migration state

T2 - Whitehall cultures, institutional conversion and policy change

AU - Consterdine, Erica

PY - 2015/1/1

Y1 - 2015/1/1

N2 - This paper examines whether reforms to the machinery of government under new labour can help to explain immigration policy change. Taking a new institutionalist approach, the paper argues that immigration policy change was partly shaped by processes of departmentalism, the joined-up government strategy and the consequential introduction of new policy actors into what had hitherto been a more tightly-knit policy network. The paper further argues that because the policymaking process has long been organised around the Whitehall model, departments have an organisational culture which shapes and structures the way policymakers perceive and frame a policy issue. When, however, actors move between departments - as a consequence of joined-up government - they apply knowledge and culture acquired from their previous department and transfer them to new policy areas. It is also the case that as a result of joined-up government, multiple departments have begun to make claims on immigration policy, with their institutionalised organisational culture and knowledge reflected in policy.

AB - This paper examines whether reforms to the machinery of government under new labour can help to explain immigration policy change. Taking a new institutionalist approach, the paper argues that immigration policy change was partly shaped by processes of departmentalism, the joined-up government strategy and the consequential introduction of new policy actors into what had hitherto been a more tightly-knit policy network. The paper further argues that because the policymaking process has long been organised around the Whitehall model, departments have an organisational culture which shapes and structures the way policymakers perceive and frame a policy issue. When, however, actors move between departments - as a consequence of joined-up government - they apply knowledge and culture acquired from their previous department and transfer them to new policy areas. It is also the case that as a result of joined-up government, multiple departments have begun to make claims on immigration policy, with their institutionalised organisational culture and knowledge reflected in policy.

KW - Departmentalism

KW - Immigration

KW - Institutional conversion

KW - Joined-up government

KW - JUG

KW - New institutionalism

KW - New labour

KW - Policy change

KW - Public policy

KW - Whitehall

U2 - 10.1504/IJPP.2015.070551

DO - 10.1504/IJPP.2015.070551

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:84949488582

VL - 11

SP - 129

EP - 142

JO - International Journal of Public Policy

JF - International Journal of Public Policy

SN - 1740-0600

IS - 4-6

ER -