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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Epistemic community"”.
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The Role of the Epistemic Community in Influencing Privacy Legislation: The United States and the European Union
… century prompted the formation of a privacy epistemic community that informed and influenced privacy policy and legislation in the United States and the European Union. Because the United States was more advanced in computer technology than the European nations, awareness of privacy issues, …
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Actors and Their Roles in European Education Policy: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding the Bologna Process
… a summary of policy coordination and the epistemic community and the notion of soft law and the open method of coordination (OMC) in European policymaking. Possible causes for changes in implementation of Bologna are investigated, as are the origins of the Bologna Process and its goals. …
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The Politics of Pensions in Ireland
… a network of professionals formed a pensions epistemic community. The research is presented as a narrative of the community gaining power in the 1970s, and consolidating it over the remainder of the century. They successfully countered a policy trajectory of a stronger role for the state …
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And the truth shall make you free : the international norm of truth-seeking
… The second explanatory variable is an active epistemic community, which is a committed network of professionals who are strongly attached to the practice and to its rationales, and who actively advance the practice. The third variable is change in the content of the norm, which reflects the …
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Regional Security, Early Warning and Intelligence Cooperation in Africa
… is based on the assumption drawn from security community and epistemic community theory that, enabling the creation of shared meanings and shared knowledge there is the potential for both the CEWS and CISSA to have a positive influence on the choices that stakeholders take in favour of peaceful …
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Knowledge from a social perspective
… are responsibly developed through time by the epistemic community for the promotion of truth. The account of knowledge derived from these inherently social norms is reliabilist, responsibilist and social. The particular combination of reliabilism and responsibilism fostered by the …
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Drug policy-making in Sri Lanka 1984-2008: people, politics and power
… The conceptual foundations for this study were epistemic community theory, stakeholder analysis and policy transfer theory; and the thesis will seek to explain policy in changing contexts. Semi-structured key informant interviews and documentary analysis were the main research methods employed. …
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Permission to believe: descriptive and prescriptive beliefs in the Clifford/James debate
… of our shared responsibilities to our shared epistemic asset. This ‘practical interest we ought to have' offers an explanation for our duty, as members of an epistemic community, to get and evaluate evidence; and for the ‘utility' stakes of Bayesian imaginary gambles. Helped by Edward Craig's …
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Governance Territoriale Comunitaria e Sistemi di Pianificazione. Riflessioni sull'Allargamento ad Est dell'Unione Europea
… interest for the territorial dimension of community policies. During the last 20 years, the EU elaborated several attempts to correct the growing territorial disequilibria caused by its achievements in terms of economic integration. The discourse underlying EU territorial interventions and …
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Who does external quality assurance policy in Sāmoa serve, and who benefits?
… networks make up an influential part of the epistemic community that shapes how quality assurance policy officials think about quality assurance in higher education. Secondly, the ideal of international recognition and neoliberal management principles such as effectiveness, efficiency, …
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Drivers of Change: Explaining IMF Low Income Country Reform in the Post Washington Consensus
… in thinking among IMF insiders and the broader epistemic community of development economists have causal effect on LIC policy reform. Evidence gathered through process tracing methods shows that reform occurred after economic ideas that underwrote previous policy positions lost legitimacy among …
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Feminine fictions: An embodied autobiography : navigating feminine embodied ontologies with/in aesthetic autobiography
… one for their relationships as a couple or in a community. The weak and strong point of this quest concerns the issue of subjectivity and objectivity for women.” Pg 39 Irigaray, L (1994) Thinking the Difference: for a peaceful revolution trans Karin Montin, Routledge New York The Feminine …