Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy, and the Public Sphere [Hardcover]

This book studies the dynamics of political discourse in governance processes. It demonstrates the process in which political discourses become normative mechanisms, first marking socially constructed realities in politics, second playing a role in delineating the subsequent policy frames, and third influencing the public sphere.

The volume offers a wide range of contributions to several highly actual problems (such as the migration problem or the future perspectives of the welfare state), and sophisticated analyses about their impacts on concrete policy fields. Researchers interested in the topics of European integration or gender equality, and in critical or feminist perspectives could also read it with interest. (G?bor Ill?s, Intersections, Vol. 2 (1), 2016)

Ima Jackson is an experienced clinician and lecturer in Health Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University. She specialises in migration and transnational workforce issues as well as gendered migration policy. Anubhuti Kapoor is an independent researcher, who completed her Master's in Social and Cultural Psychology at the London School of Economics. Within her dissertation she examined how religious beliefs influenced integration and belonging of both migrants and non-migrants in London. Lena Karamanidou is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at City University London. Her research interest include the political discourse of asylum and migration, the migration discourse of far right parties in Greece, asylum and migration policies, and the intersections between migration, exclusion and the state. Mikael Nyg?rd, PgD, is professor in social policy at ?bo Akademi University, Finland. His research interests range from welfare state reform analysis, notably in the field of family policy, to empirical research on health, wellbeing and civic participation among different layers of the population. He has published books, book chapters and articles in these and related fields. Mikko Kuisma, Phlƒ!