Judicial Responsiveness to Valence Issues: An Event History Analysis of the Initial Sex Offender Registration and Notification (<scp>SORN</scp>) Laws

Easterly, Bianca

doi:10.1111/lapo.12046

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“…The policy institutions identified in the social work literature as arenas for policyrelated activities have all been the subject of studies adopting a neo-institutional perspective. These include the legislature (Auel and Christiansen 2015;Blomgren and Rozenberg 2012;Papp and Russo 2018), the judicial system (Easterly 2016;Lindquist 2017), and the executive branch (Madama 2013). Close examination of the workings of these institutions over time reveals the factors that lead to institutional change and the ways in which the structure and internal workings of institutions, at a given period in time, influence the policy formulation process and the results of this process.…”

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Social Workers and the Policy Process: When Does Opportunity Knock?

Gal

Weiss‐Gal

2020

J of Pol Practice & Research

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Social workers' policy engagement has been the subject of growing interest in the social work discourse in recent years. In order to contribute to theoretical and empirical knowledge for social workers and social work organizations seeking to undertake their policy role, this article will seek to better understand one of the types of factors that determines this engagement, particularly on the macro level. The focus of much of the discussion on the factors associated with social workers' policy engagement has been on social workers' motivation to engage in policy practice and the degree to which their workplaces facilitate this type of activity. However, the discourse tends to ignore the impact of the policy environment on this. Drawing on the concept of "opportunity structures" and insights from the neo-institutionalist literature, this article suggests that social workers' access to the policy-making process is crucial if we seek to better understand their policy practice. On the basis of examples from different countries and historical periods, and a more in-depth examination of Israeli case studies, we underscore the ways in which opportunity structures deriving from institutional or temporal factors lead to divergences in the form and level that policy engagement by social workers takes in different contexts.

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