When Framing Fails
Ideas, Influence, and Resources in San Francisco's Homeless Policy Field
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2485441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darren Noy (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 223-242 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sp.2009.56.2.223 |
| OpenAlex | W2019176229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 66 |
Literature examining political framing generally focuses on the way that shared framing leads to cohesive actions and policy outcomes. Using a case study of San Francisco's homeless policy field, this article shows that shared framings among the majority of actors in the policy field did not lead to cooperative alliance among those actors nor to coherent policy based on their shared framing. To understand why shared framing failed, I examine the complex interaction between frames, influence, and material resources. While the center and the left of the policy field shared common diagnostic framings and solution-oriented prognostic framings of homelessness, the right possessed far superior material resources and political influence compared to the left. The center and left divided over different tactical prognostic framings about how to politically relate to the resources and influence of the right. These internal dynamics of the field were further amplified by the field's local institutional and national policy-making contexts. This article adds to understandings of how to map political fields, how ideas shape policy outcomes, and how meaning and materiality interact in the process of politics
Alliance · Framing (construction) · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Network centrality and social movement media coverage
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Experiencing Homelessness
Framing and the health policy process
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When does an issue trigger change in a field? A comparative approach to issue frames, field structures and types of field change
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Keeping the Lights On
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War Hypotheses
The Political Consequences of Social Movements
Marching Toward Reproductive Justice
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The Organizational State
State Structures and the Possibilities for “Keynesian” Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States
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Frame analysis
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Labor‐Environmental Relations
Coalition Framing and the Challenge of a Consonant Frame Pyramid
Neoliberalism, Institutional Change and the Welfare State
Welfare Reform, Family Hardship, and Women of Color
How to Make a Market
Globalizing Resistance
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
Linking Mobilization Frames and Political Opportunities
Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
The Discourse of Globalization
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Crossing Movement Boundaries
Counter Action Frames
Half the Battle
Coalition Work in the Pro-Choice Movement
The World Social Forum
Metaphors Matter
Ideas, Politics, and Public Policy
Framing Processes and Social Movements
The Structure of Context
The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
The Outcomes of Homeless Mobilization
Resources and Resourcefulness
The Talk and Back Talk of Collective Action
Institutional analysis and the role of ideas in political economy
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |