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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Policy Networks"”.
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Policy communities and policy networks : educational policy making in Saskatchewan
The purpose of the study was to describe the policy community within which educational policies are currently developed in Saskatchewan. The study used the policy-community/ policy-network conceptual framework of Atkinson and Coleman (1985) and Coleman and Skogstad (199Gb). The assumption was made …
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Solarize America : how policy networks adopt and adapt good ideas
… and local actors are experimenting with creative policy approaches in the clean energy space. I investigate the facilitating role that networks play in the production and implementation of these policy ideas. I look at policy networks through the case of Solarize, a community-based solar energy …
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Transforming think tanks into ‘policy hubs’: The creation of research−policy networks
The development of public policy has been dogged for many decades by two main issues: the use of evidence and knowledge generated through research, and the engagement of external policy actors or non-state actors in the policy process. The collaborative role of universities and think tanks has …
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Transforming think tanks into ‘policy hubs’: The creation of research−policy networks
The development of public policy has been dogged for many decades by two main issues: the use of evidence and knowledge generated through research, and the engagement of external policy actors or non-state actors in the policy process. The collaborative role of universities and think tanks has …
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“Music moves Europe”: Music festivals, musicians, and transnational policy networks in the European Union
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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EU politics and the making of the General Data Protection Regulation: Consociationalism, policy networks and institutionalism in the process of balancing actor interests
This thesis analyses the policy process of adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), replacing the EU Directive 95/46/EC, the global “golden standard” setter in the field of privacy and data protection. The GDPR was proposed in January 2012 and was adopted in April 2016 following a …
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The Influence of Policy Discourses on multilevel water governance: a case study of the Equatorial Nile Basin
… on climate change and water security during policy making impact on actual water management, analysing the Equatorial Nile Basin and its riparian countries (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and DR Congo) as a case study. The thesis looks at the significance of informal policy networks …
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The pobladores and local democracy in Chile : the case of El Bosque and Peñalolén
… organizations in the local polity and policymaking, fostering organizational fragmentation, selective deactivation and cientism. The "participatory-deliberative" style combines innovative adaptation of public policies to "fit" the local demand, extensive use of networks and public …
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Policy issue networks: Social network analysis case studies
… (SNA) can be a powerful, proactive tool for policy makers to understand the online policy networks in which they operate. It does so by undertaking SNA at two points in time to quantify the actor nodes of three Canadian public policy networks, comparing the network evolution over time, and …
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Supporting People:how did we get here and what does it mean for the future?
… and impact of Supporting People, a policy of the New Labour and Coalition governments of 1997 to the present designed to provide housing related support to those considered vulnerable. The theoretical framework uses concepts from past studies of implementation, policy networks, …
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Corporatising water and wastewater services in Scotland : governance, regulation and operations
… century. The adoption and implementation of a policy framework which affords a key role to private sector participation in a formally public utility is a central focus of this thesis. The analysis developed below of the politics of water locates the Scottish case firmly within wider global …
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Local government capacity and tourism development in Thailand.
… emphasis in the country on decentralizing policy-making and service delivery to local populations and on encouraging greater local democracy and accountability. In the past governance in Thailand has been highly centralized. Inevitably, there were some tensions between ensuring that these …
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Import/export : raw materials, hemispheric expertise, and the making of Latin American art, 1933-1945
… resistance to, the United States' Good Neighbor Policy networks. Artists, haunted by criticisms that art in Latin America was a "cultural import" from Europe, engaged with a U.S. market that treated their art as a source of "exportable prestige." This dissertation analyzes the entanglement of …
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The limits of local politics: local socialism and the local economy in the 1980s; a case study of Sheffield's economic policies
… expressed, for example, in Rhodes' discussion of policy networks), and (following Duncan, Goodwin, Halford, and Savage) as long as localities are not understood as coherent expressions of underlying relations. Following a critical discussion of the locality debates (associated with the ESRC's …
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Negotiating regional futures:the successes and failures of the West Midlands Regional Development Agency Network
… institutions. The key objectives of the new policy impetus emphasise increased joined-up thinking and holistic regional governance. Partners were enjoined to promote cross-sector collaboration and present a coherent regional voice. This study aims to evaluate the impact of an RDA on the …
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The European Community and innovation policy : reorienting towards diffusion
… mechanisms in European Community (EC) innovation policy. With the shift from the traditional linear model towards an integrative approach to innovation, the role of diffusion of technologies and knowledge, achieved greater weight. This shift in both the thinking of academic experts, and of …
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The Governance of Anaerobic Digestion in the United Kingdom: Insights from England and Scotland
… on multi-level governance, network governance, policy networks approach and urban climate governance. The exploration of these literatures leads to the adoption of an analytical framework on governance effectiveness, which includes governance, economic and geographical factors. England and …
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Engineering Tolerance: Origins of Multicultural Education Policies in the Atlantic World from 1941 to 1988
… the early 1940s through 1989 on one subject of policymaking— attempts to shape the minds of citizens through education and schooling. Resulting policies were remarkably similar, in that these were policies that reorganized schools systems and repurposed education to establish in their children a …
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The Diffusion of Climate Protection Planning among U.S. Municipalities
… that lead municipalities to join relevant policy networks, but provides little guidance for overcoming the aforementioned obstacles and adopting policies to reduce community-wide GHG emissions. This dissertation increases the understanding of climate protection planning by examining whether …
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