Intergovernmental Policy Feedback and Urban Responses to Immigrants

Williamson, Abigail Fisher

doi:10.1017/s1049096519001355

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“…These social movements try to navigate around institutional policy-making constraints by exploiting venue-shopping opportunities. By contrast, Williamson (2020) finds a more hierarchical relationship between the national and local levels in US immigration policy. She isolates which federal immigration policies are most present in cities and shows that local officials craft different types of local immigration policies if they experience welcoming or punitive national policy.…”

Section: All Policy Making Is Multilevelmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Third-sector actors have emerged as key participants—even leaders—of coalitions. Bazurli (2020) and Williamson (2020) discuss the roles of social movements and nongovernmental organizations; Donaghy (2020) and Hinze and Smith (2020) consider access of neighborhood groups to decision making. However, like the business sector, third-sector actors encompass a range of organizations with varying levels of resources such that detailed analysis of which types of NGOs, foundations, and community organizations are able to participate, to sustain participation, and to have influence are important questions to examine (Clarke 2017).…”

Section: Diverse Actors and The Role Of Institutions In Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors in this symposium explore these three proposed key dimensions of urban policy making. The contributions include cases in which cities actively make policies in the absence of, complementary to, or opposed against policies at other governmental levels, such as migration (Bazurli 2020; Williamson 2020) and digitization (Bramwell 2020). They analyze more conventional urban policy fields such as housing (Donaghy 2020) and large-scale infrastructure development (Hinze and Smith 2020), with fresh insights about the contemporary moment.…”

Section: Articles In the Symposiummentioning

confidence: 99%

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Toward an Urban Policy Analysis: Incorporating Participation, Multilevel Governance, and “Seeing Like a City”

Kaufmann

Sidney

2019

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Section: All Policy Making Is Multilevelmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Diverse Actors and The Role Of Institutions In Participationmentioning

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Section: Articles In the Symposiummentioning

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Toward an Urban Policy Analysis: Incorporating Participation, Multilevel Governance, and “Seeing Like a City”

Kaufmann

Sidney

2019

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“…US cities are constitutionally subservient to the federal government (and state governments) (Kübler and Pagano 2012), especially when it comes to immigration and citizenship issues (Rodriguez 2017). This explains why city officials often pursue policies that are compatible with (state and) federal policies and regulations (Liu et al 2010; Williamson 2020). US cities also have limited options to generate revenue (Peterson 1981).…”

Section: City Government Activists and Urban Citizenship For Undocumementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet these innovative policies and practices by activist city officials are also puzzling given that scholarship on urban politics (e.g. Peterson 1981) foregrounds the legal and fiscal constraints of cities and city officials, especially with regard to federally preemptable immigration and citizenship issues, highlighting why instead we may expect local conformity with, rather than defiance of, national policies and practices (Williamson 2020).…”

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City Government Activists and the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants: Fostering Urban Citizenship within the Confines of US Federalism

Graauw

2020

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With the US federal government more aggressive in its efforts to find, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants, certain government officials in American cities have promoted urban citizenship for undocumented immigrants in their jurisdictions. Often acting on demands from community organisations, these activist city officials have developed policies and practices that include undocumented immigrants in public service provision, formal rights protections, and democratic participation modes. Drawing on scholarship on urban citizenship, urban politics, and multi‐level governance, this article analyses how we can understand these officials’ actions in a system where the federal government has monopoly power over immigration and citizenship matters. Based on the recent experiences of New York City and San Francisco, this article shows that government activists in these cities have promoted urban citizenship for undocumented immigrants by pushing against the confines of US federalism while also reaffirming traditional understandings of national citizenship, thus practicing disruption and conformity simultaneously.

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Policy feedback and the enforcement of international wildlife treaties in Germany

Gabehart,

Fullerton,

Stefes

2023

European Policy Analysis

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Laws are only as good as their enforcement. International treaties are no exception. We investigate how Germany implements international wildlife protection treaties, namely the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Bern Convention. We find that Germany's federal system allows for uneven enforcement of national legislation across the 16 federal states. We utilize Policy Feedback Theory as a theoretical lens to examine how federalism (re‐)produces different enforcement regimes. We rely on qualitative analysis of interviews of German street‐level bureaucrats, government officials, and NGO representatives. We find that macrolevel context impacts how institutions enforce wildlife protection policies. Particularly, Germany's federal structure permits either centralized, decentralized, or cooperative arrangements that result in differences in resources, affecting the ways bureaucrats view their roles and responsibilities. These resource and interpretive effects further feedback into the contextual structure of the federal enforcement system.

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Intergovernmental Policy Feedback and Urban Responses to Immigrants

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Toward an Urban Policy Analysis: Incorporating Participation, Multilevel Governance, and “Seeing Like a City”

Toward an Urban Policy Analysis: Incorporating Participation, Multilevel Governance, and “Seeing Like a City”

City Government Activists and the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants: Fostering Urban Citizenship within the Confines of US Federalism

Policy feedback and the enforcement of international wildlife treaties in Germany

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