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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 -