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- Title
Policy Image in Urban Governance: Migration Crisis and the City of Zagreb.
- Authors
Poljak, Željko
- Abstract
This paper questions the concept of policy image in terms of urban governance. Policy image is a key concept developed by Baumgartner and Jones in order to explain policy stability and punctuation in the context of punctuated equilibrium theory. When there is a single dominant policy image, it keeps policy in stability, but when there are one or more strong alternative images, it can create punctuation and drastically change certain policies. The author chooses to analyse this concept at an urban level of governance, specifically in the city of Zagreb in Croatia in relation to the migration crisis that occurred in Croatia in late 2015. By using qualitative methodology and a general inductive approach in analysis of interviews that were conducted with city officials and politicians, the author finds just one dominant policy image in terms of different categories which can be associated with the migration crisis and that image is mostly connected with a humanitarian approach. In conclusion, the author argues that this dominant policy image maintained governance in stability in Zagreb during the migration crisis, while stressing the hypothesis that this image was present at a national level of governance as well.
- Subjects
ZAGREB (Croatia); EMIGRATION &; immigration; PUNCTUATED equilibrium (Social science); HUMANITARIAN assistance; QUALITATIVE research
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 2018, Vol 22, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
2001-7405
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58235/sjpa.v22i1.11470