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Rhetorical Objectives and Program Efficiency in Swedish Policy about Immigrants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

CARL DAHLSTRÖM
CARL DAHLSTRÖM
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science Göteborg University P.O. Box 711, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Abstract

This paper explains differences in the policy objectives and policy programs of Swedish immigrant policy as a consequence of the fact that policy objectives tend to be evaluated in public political debates whereas policy programs are evaluated through administrative reviews within government. Given contrasting contexts, different questions are important for policy legitimacy. The public debate focuses on questions of moral values, while the audit within government deals with issues of efficiency. Policy objectives and policy programs therefore respond differently to criticisms that separate rhetoric and practice. As a result, Swedish immigrant policy rhetoric and practice were from the outset only loosely joined and have failed to converge over time.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Public Policy , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , December 2007 , pp. 319 - 340
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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