Norm Building Processes and Forms of Policy Governance

Abstract

This project addresses the question of the interplay between norm building processes and form of policy governance. How do different governance legacies affect the way the antidiscrimination legislation or its requirements/arguments are used in/to motivate policies/policy measures, and which is the relative role of different societal actors/actor constellations – social partners, private sector actors and state agencies, – in promoting the mainstreaming of this legislation?

Keywords

Discrimination, Ethnicity, Governance, Norm Building ,

Publications

Soininen, M. (2009a) Institutions Matter – Governance Makes Difference: Making of Diversity and Antidiscrimination Policy – the Dutch and the UK Case, Report ThemES – Themes on Migration and Ethnic Studies, ISSN 1651-8306; 09/31: Linkoping University Electronic Press

Soininen, M. (2009b) Incentives and identities in joint policy governance: The EU programme EQUAL and Swedish partnerships for economic growth, Refereed Paper, at the Conference Unemployment and the Global Financial Crises: Policy, Partnerships and Practice, The Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne, Melbourne1-2 December 2009,

http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/unemployment09/Soininen.pdf

Soininen, M. (2010) Hacia una democracia incluynte? 30 anos de derechos elocterales para los immigrantes en los comicios suecos?, in Sufragio y participacion politica de los extranjeros extracommunitarios en Europa (eds) D. Moya & A. Vinas Ferrer, Pi I Sunyer Foundation and Institute of Public Law, University of Barcelona

Soininen, M. (2011a) Mechanisms of Exclusion – Ethnicity and Representation in Sweden: Local Party Nominations, in Migration and Representation: Challenges to Political Parties in Liberal Democracies, (eds) Andreas M Wüst, Thomas Saalfeld, and Karen Bird. New York: Routledge

Soininen, M. (2011b) From Problems to Solutions: Equal Opportunities in Political Representation, in Kön, makt, nation, Sainsbury, D and M Soininen (eds.). ISBN 978-91-633-8705-0. Stockholm: Elanders.