Discursive institutionalist approach to understanding the changes to the Irish social partnership policy after 2008

John Hogan, Nicola Timoney

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)67-92
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
Volume45
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Crisis
  • Critical juncture
  • Ideas
  • Policy
  • Social partnership

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