TY - JOUR
T1 - Guaranteeing Positive Destinations for Youth in a Danish Municipality
T2 - The Transfer, Translation, and Transformation of a Policy Instrument
AU - Friche, Nanna
AU - Enemark, Nanna Ramsing
AU - Ydesen, Christian
N1 - Any re-use of the Accepted Manuscript are restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - In 2019, Hjørring Municipality launched a comprehensive Youth Guarantee programme to ensure ‘positive destinations’ for the municipality’s youth. The strategy was explicitly inspired by Edinburgh’s interpretation of the Scottish Youth Guarantee. In this article, we conceptualize the Youth Guarantee as a policy instrument and unpack the transfer, translation, and transformation from the initial coincidental inspiration to the policy instrument developing a ‘life of its own’. The instrument serves as a vehicle for creating a constituency centred on a value-based governing paradigm, alliances, and the enthusiastic spread of the Youth Guarantee spirit. The case serves as an example of how the transfer, translation, and transformation processes of a policy instrument into a foreign legal context can play out, as well as how dominating forms of governance centred on values, alliances, and common enthusiasm in the constituency – and even the contours of a governance paradigm – can be teased out through such an endeavour.
AB - In 2019, Hjørring Municipality launched a comprehensive Youth Guarantee programme to ensure ‘positive destinations’ for the municipality’s youth. The strategy was explicitly inspired by Edinburgh’s interpretation of the Scottish Youth Guarantee. In this article, we conceptualize the Youth Guarantee as a policy instrument and unpack the transfer, translation, and transformation from the initial coincidental inspiration to the policy instrument developing a ‘life of its own’. The instrument serves as a vehicle for creating a constituency centred on a value-based governing paradigm, alliances, and the enthusiastic spread of the Youth Guarantee spirit. The case serves as an example of how the transfer, translation, and transformation processes of a policy instrument into a foreign legal context can play out, as well as how dominating forms of governance centred on values, alliances, and common enthusiasm in the constituency – and even the contours of a governance paradigm – can be teased out through such an endeavour.
KW - Education Policy
KW - Youth Policy
KW - Local Government
KW - public value management
KW - Policy Borrowing
U2 - 10.1177/14749041211049909
DO - 10.1177/14749041211049909
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1474-9041
VL - 22
SP - 98
EP - 113
JO - European Educational Research Journal
JF - European Educational Research Journal
IS - 1
ER -