Guaranteeing positive destinations for youth in a Danish municipality: the transfer, translation, and transformation of a policy instrument

Abstract

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.

Exploración Integral de la Gestión Pública en el Desarrollo Territorial: Una revisión sistemática

“…Sin embargo, en el contexto de América Latina existe un dilema frente a las nuevas tendencias de racionalización, racionalización, privatización de estructuras y progreso, por otro lado, la necesidad de aumentar la cobertura, eficiente y justa para llenar los vacíos como desafíos (Adrianzén et al, 2022). En efecto, la nueva realidad sociopolítica plantea serios desafíos a la gestión pública, no solo en cuanto a la gestión, sino también en el funcionamiento de los asuntos públicos (Castillo, 2019;Friche et al, 2023). Debido, el gobierno no cuenta con directivas emitidas para atender los problemas de las diferentes regiones.…”