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• 1 Week 1: The Social construction of policy problems

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• Why do ills become an issue?

  Concentration of newspapers; almost all newspapers are owned and part of the same media company: ownership is an important thing.

• Principles of selection in public arena

  Competition: between different types of frames, the way you frame a problem says something about how you adress the problem. 
  Drama: constructing couple officialy facts with some emotional rhetoric attached

• Beyond the public arena model

  Gilbert & Henry --> discreet, behind the door problems, like in your own social life for example. 
  
  Mexican Flu Pandemic of 2009
  Framing changed over time from public heath to vital activities.

• Logic of discretion vs logic of publicity

  On the one hand you can have this public arena; convince people that they are all effected by it.
  Or confined and still public arena: specific publics.
  
  Discreet compromises: negotiations as politicians do all behind closed doors to be discreet and fragile. Now all in the open: doesnt work anymore.
  
  how you frame the problem and solution (behind closed doors with experts or through the public arena)

• Framing the cure at the WHO in 2020

  Up to 2020 standpoint was: way out of crisis is immunity. Defined her community: contact with something or be vaccinated. 
  Since fall 2020: changed frame --> no longer ...infection. They changed the frame. Question related to COVID19 in tutorial.

• 2 Week 2: Precarisation and labour market policies in post-industrial societies: reconciling flexibility and security

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• Minimum wage and unemployment

  Supply function: the higher the wages the more willingly people are going to work and sell their labour power.
  Demand side does opposite: if we have to pay such high wages we are going to find an other solution, the lower the number of people that will be hired. 
  
  Crossing line: 
  MW: Minimum wage: you get unemployment (?)

• Sociological theory of labour markets

  Arena: two opposing camps
  Polanyi: trading commodities in market but the argument is that labour (and land=is not being made extra, and money) they are not proper commodities, b/c they have special characteristics.
  Cant wait: otherwise they would starve.

• Backward-bending, supply function

  Streeck
  People offering their labour in labour market
  if you lower wages so much, not going to lead to reduction in ...
  if you lower omg
  People cannot survive without wage so more supply will arise (i guess.
  If you keep on reducing wages, supply is not going to go back but will increase by getting more jobs. 

• Four structural handicaps labour supply faces

  You cannot influence how many people are going to look for a job, you will not influence the capital.
  Cultural: are people willing to have children or not (who all will enter job market), or opening borders of your country

• Strategic options for suppliers of labour

  Unless you place borders!
  borders for labour are much more implemented than for capital
  cartels: not really cartels but looks like it: make sure you dont get a competition of labourish.