Joel Kaitila
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General description
I am a doctoral candidate in public and social policy, but I mainly identify as a political economy scholar. In my dissertation, I research the policies and ideas purported to improve Finland’s national competitiveness during the 2010s, as well as their outcomes in various contexts.
In 2018-2022 I worked in the “Tiedontuotannon regiimit ja asiantuntijavalta (TIRAS)” research project hosted by the University of Helsinki.
Active JYU affiliations
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doctoral Student
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Grant Researcher
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
Research interests
My research is situated in the fields of political economy, industrial relations, and welfare state scholarship. Theoretically, my aim has been to critically explore the potentials of policy ideas and ideational scholarship in explaining the contents, processes and outcomes of public policymaking. Metatheoretically, I am interested in the intersections of critical realism and constructivism. Methodologically, my research aims at being explanatory, occasionally via immanent criticism.
