Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy, and the Public Sphere (PDF)

PhD, is lecturer in early childhood studies at the Plymouth Institute of Education, Plymouth University, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the mixed economy of early childhood education and care, understandings of value change as well as interplay of quality within both these areas. Aron Buzogány is teaching political science at the Freie Universität Berlin and holds a doctoral degree from the same institution. Before returning to Berlin he held academic positions at the University of Munich, the German Public Administration Research Institute in Speyer and Yale University, where he was Fox International Fellow. His research is located at the intersection of research on European integration and Eastern European politics. Mari K. Niemi is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Parliamentary Studies (University of Turku, Finland) and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Strathlyde (Glasgow, United Kindgom). Niemi's publications include articles, books and book chapters on Finland's political history, political campaigning, women's leadership and populist leadership. Marcin D?browski is a research fellow at the Department of Urbanism at TU Delft. At present, he works on governance of urban regions and climate change policy. His specialization is EU cohesion policy, multi-level governance, urban development and policy transfer in the field of regional policy. Angela O'Hagan has a long career in gender equality policy and practice. Her research interests include gender analysis of public processes and institutions in Scotland, UK and Spain, particularly gender budget analysis and feminist policy change. She is engaged in a number of civil society organizations and international networks. Alexandra Boussiou is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (University of Athens), in the research field of comparative migration policies. She has a master's degree in International Relations and Strategic Studies, from Panteion's University Scholl of International and European Studies and a degree in Law from University of Athens Law School. Antonios Kontis is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (University of Athens) and Director of the Institute for Migration and Diaspora Studies. He has extensive teaching and research experience in the areas of Migration, Diaspora and International Economics Relations. Kesi Mahendran is Enactments Programme Director within the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and the Open University. She is a social psychologist who is published on dialogical approaches to mobility, non-mobility, integration and citizenship. She has an overarching interest in the dialogue between citizens and their governments. Jonas Hinnfors is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. He has published works on political parties, social democracy, migration policy. Among recent contributions he co-edited the Comparative European Politics Vol 12, No 6 (2014) Special Issue on 'Political Parties and Migration Policy Puzzles: The European Scene.' Andrea Spehar is senior lecturer in political science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her fields of interest comprise gender approaches to public policies, as well as migration and political parties. Her work has appeared, among others, in the Journal of European Public Policy, Policy Studies and Critical Social Policy. Arno van der Zwet is a Research Fellow in the European Policies Research Centre since 2011. He specialises in regional economic development, European territorial cooperation and territorial politics. He completed his PhD at the University of Strathclyde in 2012 which analysis national identity in autonomist parties. He has previously held a ESRC funded post-doctoral fellowship. Hande Eslen-Ziya, PhD, is an external visiting fellow of the Institute for Society and Social Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University. She published extensively on men and masculinities, and gender and Islam. She was a post-doctoral scholar at the Psychology Department of the University of KwaZulu Natal during the conceptualization of this article. Aidan McGarry is a Senior Lecturer in politics. His research focuses on the political representation of minorities and social movements. His books include 'Who Speaks for Roma? Political Representation of a Transnational Minority' 2010 (Continuum: London) and 'The Identity Dilemma: Social Movements and Collective Identity' (Temple University Press: Philadelphia) 2015. Cheryl Potgieter is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and Head of the College of Humanities. She is also a full professor in psychology and a rated scientist. She has spent time as a visiting scholar at Yale University and the University of Missouri. She is the founding Director and Head of Gender and Development Studies at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Director and Head of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Western Cape (UWC). Professor Cheryl Potgieter has written and researched policy for government departments, the private sector and NGOs. Finn CG Reygan holds a PhD in Psychology and has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His applied research focuses on supporting the lives and well-being of sexual and gender minorities across the lifespan and transnationally. His social justice work appears in academic journals such as Sexualities, Perspectives in Education and Psycho-Oncology. He was a post-doctoral scholar at the Psychology Department of the University of KwaZulu Natal during the conceptualization of this article.