A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding the Changes to the Irish Social Partnership Policy After 2008
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Hogan, John; Timoney, Nicola. 'A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding the Changes to the Irish Social Partnership Policy After 2008'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland Vol. XLV 2015-16, pp.67-92Download Item:
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Employing the critical juncture theory (CJT), a discursive institutionalist approach, this paper examines the nature of the changes to social partnership policy at the end of the decade of the 2000s. Did these changes constitute a transformation in social partnership policy, or were they a continuation of a previously established policy pathway? The CJT consists of three elements – economic crisis, ideational change, and the nature of the policy change – that must be identified for us to be able to declare with some certainty if the changes to social partnership policy constituted a critical juncture. In this context, ideational change is very important, constituting the intermediating factor between a crisis and the subsequent nature of the policy change. Our findings will help explain the nature of the changes to social partnership policy at this time.
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Author: Hogan, John; Timoney, Nicola
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crisis, critical juncture theory, ideas, social partnership, policyISSN:
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