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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"epistemic communities"”.
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Epistemic Communities and Proliferation: The Implications of Nuclear Knowledge
<p>How do epistemic communities facilitate nuclear proliferation? The nuclear nonproliferation regime contains numerous actors exerting varying levels of influence on policy outcomes and state behavior. Neoliberal institutional theory emphasizes the role of sub-national groups play in forming …
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Epistemic communities and regional governance: policy development in municipal finance reform
… Its prime purpose is to examine the use of epistemic communities (ECs) as a means to confront the wicked problems of urban America. </p> <p>In this context, I have developed a framework for identifying and analyzing epistemic communities. The three-part framework developed in this …
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Magical epistemic communities : the construction of specialized social realities in Bunyoro, Uganda and Los Angeles, California.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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The Globalization of Artificial Intelligence: African Imaginaries of Technoscientific Futures
… excludes marginalized countries, nations and communities in ways that not only bar their participation in the reception of AI, but also as being part and parcel of its creation. Underpinned by decolonial thinking, and perspectives from science and technology studies and African studies, this …
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Innovation and Knowledge: An Explorative Study of Entrepreneurial Firms in Germany
… We argued that science is organised in epistemic communities, which are built upon shared identities, and in which members share the same tacit and experiential knowledge, which is passed on through personal contacts, eliminating and punishing opportunistic behaviour. We found evidence …
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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 Road to Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies: An Analysis of the (Re-)Articulation of the Norms Governing the Legitimate Use of Force
… this text draws upon models of norm change and epistemic communities to show that private military and security companies have used their pragmatic legitimacy and epistemic power to decisively shape the discursive construction of a new regulatory framework that legitimises the exercise of …
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Human trafficking in Ireland – reconstituting the rights identity of trafficked persons
… is largely dependent on the strategic wisdom of epistemic communities (Haas, 1992) in Irish civil society and by the Department of Justice and Equality, Ireland. This thesis analyses the Irish anti-trafficking framework using this critical approach and argues that by using policy responses that …
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Examining Changes in African American Students' Epistemic Agency as STEM Learners
… be responsive to sociohistorical factors of epistemic injustice that dissociated African Americans identities from being producers of knowledge. This study argues that the construction of a learning progression to advance the epistemic participation of African American students is aligned …
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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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Sacred Justices: Seeking Indigenous Environmental Justice in Courts
… (IEJ) in litigation pursued by Indigenous communities in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. The thesis advances IEJ as a principle that may be framed, used and developed in juridical spaces. The research draws from existing scholarship, primarily Indigenous scholarship, and offers an …
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Carbon finance, tropical forests and the state : governing international climate risk in the Democratic Republic of Congo
… have especially adverse affects on subsistence communities dependent on forest resources for their daily existence. If REDD architecture would live up to its stated goal of also improving livelihoods in the non-Annex I countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, it …
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Why states cooperate: international environmental issues
… the actual event. Finally, I discuss the role of epistemic communities in regime formation and maintenance. Based on the results of the application of each analytical framework, I conclude that the Grotian perspective (expressed in terms of the institutional bargaining approach) is best able to …
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Governing regional telecommunication networks in a developing region: the SADC case
… infrastructure, African regional economic communities (RECs) have increasingly recognised the importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in realising the vision of regional integration, and as a major determinant of national and regional competitiveness. Despite member …
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Governmentality and power in 'design for government' in the UK, 2008-2017: an ethnography of an emerging field
… the construction of discursive formations, epistemic communities, disciplinary apparatuses, and regimes of practices, the thesis breaks away from an instrumental mode of researching and conceptualising design. The original contribution of the thesis is, first, in treating design as a …
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In the era of normative power Europe
… that a constellation of 'norm entrepreneurs' or epistemic communities what is referred to as an elite technocracy-influence, champion and marshal how the Caribbean state is socialized inter- and intra-regionally, per moral imperatives. This study determines that this dual 'socializing' engagement …
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The Process of Harmonisation of the law of international commercial arbitration: Drafting and diffusion of uniform norms
… the concepts of legitimacy of global governance, epistemic communities and norm diffusion as elaborated in International Relations theory. The second chapter analyses the debate on the harmonisation of international trade law and outlines the main techniques, means and actors of this process, with …
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El Indo-Pacífico en el centro del debate: ¿un desajuste real entre la política de defensa y la política exterior de Chile?
La Política de Defensa Nacional 2020 incorpora el concepto de Indo-Pacífico para referirse a la región que incluye a Asia y Oceanía. Anteriormente, esta área había sido referida en documentos de la Defensa del Estado de Chile mediante otros términos, como Asia-Pacífico o Cuenca del Pacífico, …