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Studying Public Policy through Immigration Policy: Advances in Theory and Measurement
Author(s) -
Filindra Alexandra,
Goodman Sara Wallace
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/psj.12358
Subject(s) - conceptualization , writ , immigration , field (mathematics) , perspective (graphical) , immigration policy , public policy , political science , politics , policy analysis , positive economics , public administration , sociology , regional science , economics , law , computer science , mathematics , pure mathematics , artificial intelligence
This essay provides a critical review of the field of immigration policy studies from the perspective of measurement and modeling. It serves to contextualize and broaden the views presented in the special issue. As such, we combine insights from American and comparative politics, pinpoint key limitations and challenges in the field, and identify areas of strength within each subfield which could inform theory and measurement development for the other. Ultimately, the concerns about conceptualization, definition, and measurement that we identify and discuss herein, do not apply only to immigration policy studies but to policy studies writ large.