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Government engagement structures determined Muslim civic organisations' political influence across successive administrations

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aliases@hussain_framing_2017, loc. 499

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Government engagement structures determined Muslim civic organisations’ political influence across successive administrations

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While swiftly disbanding New Labour’s self-constructed top-down groups, the coalition did, however, continue to engage only those meeting on the basis of similar unquestioned, taken-for-granted premises. Given that these groups and organizations were not always best placed to campaign and lobby government for change, despite the coalition seemingly affording greater importance to the issue of addressing Islamophobia, the result was little different from what had come before. The same governmental constraints and criteria that had rendered Muslim civic society largely impotent under New Labour had much the same effect under the coalition also. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 499

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  • XREF: Connects to the ADDENDUM article on trees as infrastructure and to governance debates about how state co-optation frameworks shape civil society agency.
  • QUESTION: What were the specific ‘unquestioned, taken-for-granted premises’ that mediated engagement, and how did they shift between the two governments?
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