What They Talk About When They Talk About Homelessness
Discourse and Knowledge Culture as a Barrier to Integrated Policy Initiatives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2116327 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maja Flåto (0000-0002-5259-3771, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 923-942 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279421001057 |
| OpenAlex | W4210274441 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
Integrated government initiatives have become a common approach following the institutional fragmentation of New Public Management reforms. Complex societal issues require equally complex solutions, which sectorial units of government cannot attend to alone. However, integrated policy initiatives are prone to a range of obstacles. Using a study of policymaking aimed at homelessness in Norway as a case, this paper discusses how sectorial-shared knowledge creates barriers to a common view of policy problems and solutions. Engaging theories of governmental fragmentation, coordination, discourse, and epistemic cultures enable an exploration of how the involved policy sectors understand and address homelessness. The findings indicate that all policy sectors seem to recognise their responsibility within a social welfare frame, but despite having cooperated for several years, embeddedness in sectorial discourse and epistemic culture causes differing problem definitions. Established terms and categories within homelessness policies are filled with content according to epistemic embeddedness, thereby contributing to obscure the differences, rather than integrate the policy initiatives
Discourse analysis · Economic growth · Economics · Embeddedness · Fragmentation (computing) · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Public policy · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Deliberative Policy Analysis
Discourse and Knowledge
Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research
Beyond Evidence-Based Policy in Public Health
The challenge of policy coordination
Foucault and Political Reason
Reframing Public Policy
Staten, barnevernet og utenrikspolitikken
Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology
Powers of Freedom
Frame Reflection
Trust in Numbers
The 'Arc of Prosperity' Revisited
Evidence‐based policy
Capturing complex realities
Poststructural policy analysis – a guide to practice
Governing Homelessness
Led rather than leading? Research on homelessness in Britain
Culture in global knowledge societies
The New Consensus, the Old Consensus and the Provision of Services for People Sleeping Rough
Welfare Regimes, Social Values and Homelessness
Policy integration
Public Administration Research in Norway
The powers of problem definition
Approaches to Homelessness Policy in Europe, the United States, and Australia
The three worlds of welfare capitalism
Introduction
Ideational Theorizing in the Social Sciences since “PolicyParadigms,SocialLearning, and theState
Democracy and administrative policy
Theorizing Ideas and Discourse in Political Science
The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD)
Discursive Institutionalism
Homelessness, bedspace and the case for Housing First in Canada
A Sociology of Quantification
Epistemic Cultures
Commensuration as a Social Process
Unraveling the Social Construction of Homelessness
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |