scholarly journals A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
Maria Schiller ◽  
Julia Martínez-Ariño ◽  
Mireia Bolíbar
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Immigrant Policy ◽  
German Cities

scholarly journals A relational approach to local immigrant policy-making: collaboration with immigrant advocacy bodies in French and German cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 2041-2061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Schiller ◽  
Julia Martínez-Ariño ◽  
Mireia Bolíbar
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Immigrant Policy ◽  
German Cities

Complexity below, complexity above: Intra-class conflict, immigration imaginaries, and elite alliances in the Arizona–Mexico borderlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-265
Author(s):  
Raymond Michalowski ◽  
Frederic I Solop
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Relational Theory ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Relational Approach

This article develops an interdisciplinary, relational approach to political power as a theoretical framework for analyzing how grassroots immigration activists interact with and influence elites responsible for constructing immigration policy. We illuminate this theoretical approach with examples from ethnographic field research with pro- and anti-immigration grassroots activists in southern Arizona to show how competing narrative frames about the border are used by grassroots actors as part of their efforts to influence elite policy-making. We conclude that shifts in US immigration policy have been shaped by intra-class, racialized, conflicts between pro- and anti-immigration factions within the working class, and vertical alliances between elite factions from above and working-class factions from below. We suggest that the criminology of mobility can be advanced by utilizing an interdisciplinary, relational theory of political power to examine how intra-class struggle and inter-class alliances dynamically shape immigration narratives and policies.

scholarly journals A touch of post-truth: the roles of narratives in urban policy mobilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Honeck
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Local Motion ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Narrative Literature ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
German Cities

Abstract. This paper characterizes different types of policy narratives that influence the trans-local motion of urban policies and elaborates on their relations. The paper first introduces conceptual and methodological recommendations from policy narrative literature to debates on policy mobility. In an empirical section, it then analyzes narratives that support policies on temporary use of vacant lands and buildings in the German cities of Berlin and Stuttgart. Based on semi-structured interviews with experts and document reviews, the paper finds different, partly competing narratives on temporary use in both case study cities. It identifies their typical elements, categorising them by form and content. Referential narratives are understood as connecters between different cities and influencers of policy mobility. Finally, the paper shows how narratives work with association as well as imagination and thus emphasize the non-factual, yet inherent aspects of relational policy making.

Global expertise, local convincing power: Management consultants and preserving the entrepreneurial city

Urban Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Vogelpohl
Keyword(s):  
Power Management ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Management Consultants ◽  
Entrepreneurial City ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Private Management ◽  
German Cities

The advice of management consultancies on urban policy is particularly influential in moments of crisis involving entrepreneurial principles. As global experts, management consultants appear as appropriate assistants for steering growth-oriented, competitive urban development. In order to show how consultants turn the urban into an entrepreneurial project to be managed, I discuss the literature on urban policy and consultants then examine the activities of private management consultancies in six German cities. Empirically, I first explore the specificities of urban policy advice given by globally operating consultancies (their methodological approach and the projectisation of the urban; global networks and comparative–competitive thinking; fast databases; reputation; externality). Second, I critically reflect on how the consultants’ advice is fundamentally reshaped by local actors in the process of policy making (through participation, appropriation, slowdown and politicisation). The paper thus critically evaluates the rise of expertise–policy relations and calls attention to mechanisms for patching the fractures of the entrepreneurial city.

Understanding local government’s engagement in immigrant policy making in the US

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Anne Visser ◽  
Sheryl-Ann Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
The Us ◽  
Immigrant Policy

Party and Policy in West German Cities

1976 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gilpin
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
City Governments ◽  
German Government ◽  
Party Control ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
German Cities ◽  
Leftist Parties ◽  
Intervening Variables

This paper attempts to measure the impact of party ideology focusing on policy making in West German urban government. An effort is made to determine whether city governments under the control of leftist parties sponsor different, possibly more leftist policies than cities under conservative control. It is found that while “leftist” control of municipal administrations does not produce leftist policies, conservative control does have a major impact in inhibiting the growth in the scope of local government.Several reasons for the only rough correspondence between party control and policy are examined. The low correlation between leftist (SPD) control and municipal output is traced to differences among SPD cities in the power of the SPD majority, in class structure, and in degree of financial independence. It is also traced to the lack of intercorrelation among the forms of “leftist” performance and the incremental nature of most urban policy making. Other factors—the power of municipal counter-elites and the federalistic structure of the West German government—are discounted as possible intervening variables.

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