Care policies in practice: how discourse matters for policy implementation
This article puts public policy research in dialogue with gender and politics studies to enhance our understanding of the implementation of care policies. Care policies present interesting problems of implementation because of the multiplicity of aims, values, inequalities, actors and levels of gove...
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| description | This article puts public policy research in dialogue with gender and politics studies to enhance our understanding of the implementation of care policies. Care policies present interesting problems of implementation because of the multiplicity of aims, values, inequalities, actors and levels of governance involved. Nonetheless, previous research shows two important gaps: 1) the neglect of discursive factors in studies of implementation; and 2) the lack of attention to implementation processes in the analysis of care policies. This article suggests a general framework to address these issues which considers discourse as a transversal factor connecting actors and institutions engaged in policy implementation. The articles in this special issue demonstrate that including discourses in the analysis of care policy implementation makes visible the influence of gender+ norms and the dynamic and contentious processes surrounding them in a variety of institutional arenas, levels, and national contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-530729f5812849029f5268c9897d6a962022-12-22T03:37:40ZengOxford University PressPolicy & Society1449-40351839-33732019-10-0138453755310.1080/14494035.2019.17022781702278Care policies in practice: how discourse matters for policy implementationRossella Ciccia0Emanuela Lombardo1School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UKEmanuela Lombardo, Department of Political Science and Administration, Universidad Complutense de MadridThis article puts public policy research in dialogue with gender and politics studies to enhance our understanding of the implementation of care policies. Care policies present interesting problems of implementation because of the multiplicity of aims, values, inequalities, actors and levels of governance involved. Nonetheless, previous research shows two important gaps: 1) the neglect of discursive factors in studies of implementation; and 2) the lack of attention to implementation processes in the analysis of care policies. This article suggests a general framework to address these issues which considers discourse as a transversal factor connecting actors and institutions engaged in policy implementation. The articles in this special issue demonstrate that including discourses in the analysis of care policy implementation makes visible the influence of gender+ norms and the dynamic and contentious processes surrounding them in a variety of institutional arenas, levels, and national contexts.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2019.1702278policy implementationcarediscoursegender equality policiesintersectionality |
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