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De Vishlin, C, 2023. Asylum and immigration policy, policy communities and the British news media: a case study in policy-making. PhD, Nottingham Trent University.
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Abstract
This research investigation examines the policy communities and networks (PC&N) perspective as a tool for understanding the influence of the news media in shaping the policy agenda. It does so, by examining the evolution of two case studies in a new policy arena, asylum, and immigration, from policy initiative to policy reversal. In order to understand how the dynamics of discourse shape the development of the policy agenda, it is fundamental to first understand the nature of information flow in social settings. Policy communities and networks provide the appropriate social setting in which to explore the role of the news media, as it facilitates the flow in which information is constructed, distributed, and absorbed within them. Existing literature on the influence of the news media on the development of opinion making is extensive, however literature on the influence of the news media on the development of policy making is emergent. By applying the PC&N perspective to understanding the role of the news media on issue definition, decision making and policy change, this research investigation contributes to the literature on both; as well as the emergent literature on the influence of the news media on immigration and asylum policy itself. In addition, through its empirical examination of the evolution of case study asylum and immigration policy reversals, this research investigation utilises a new methodology, content analysis, to identify the existence, nature and membership of policy communities and networks and insider groups active within them. In providing strong evidence that the policy communities and networks perspective is a valid approach for understanding the nature of policymaking and the role of the news media in shaping policy agendas, it also provides an alternative approach to examining policy making in an emergent field of policy science research, asylum and immigration policy network analysis.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Creators: | De Vishlin, C. |
| Contributors: | Name Role NTU ID ORCID |
| Date: | August 2023 |
| Rights: | This work is the intellectual property of the author. You may copy up to 5% of this work for private study, or personal, non-commercial research. Any re-use of the information contained within this document should be fully referenced, quoting the author, title, university, degree level and pagination. Queries or requests for any other use, or if a more substantial copy is required, should be directed in the owner of the Intellectual Property Rights. |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan |
| Date Added: | 18 Oct 2023 11:04 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2023 11:04 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50008 |
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