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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"policy communities"”.
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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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U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran: structures, actors, and policy communities
… an in depth study of the structures, actors, and policy communities associated with U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran. Since 2006, the U.S. government has spent more than $200 million for its Iran-related public diplomacy via State Department "democracy promotion" programs, National Endowment for …
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New-media social networks, issue networks, and policy communities : getting and using power
… to get and use power to influence public policy. Informed by social and policy network theories, the method used Facebook as an organizing tool to create and position a recreation issue network in tension with an environmental policy community, exploring the concepts of layering, …
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The Origins of British-American Cooperation in Foreign Affairs 1897-1920
… at the emergence and methods of two overlapping ‘policy communities’ that shaped this phase of the Anglo-American relationship, and at the nascent trans-Atlantic intelligence networks that helped tie them together. Their efforts decisively influenced how American internationalism and British …
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From housing rights to housing provision : two case studies in the trajectory of the housing rights movement & the development of community housing in Australia, 1975-1996
… were introduced into Australian public housing policy. The context for this research is the failure by the housing rights movement to continue with aims which were politically independent of the ALP, the descent of the movement into "tenure politics", the move to the Right by the ALP after the …
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The role of research scientists in adaptive management programs
… optimal utilization of scientific information in policy decisions. The primary cause of these tensions is a mutual lack of understanding of the differences between the norms of practice within the scientific and policy communities, respectively. Adaptive management is a promising strategy to …
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Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective
… professional lives of female teachers in rural communities in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provide a focus for exploring the relationship between official representations of teachers' work and the professional lives teachers …
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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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A Comparative Analysis Of Mental Health Reform: Canada, The United Kingdom, And Australia
… impact the use and outcomes of mental health policy levers. The research investigates the relationship between healthcare governance and government structure, financing and service system designs, and professional regulation and payment. Drawing insights from Postpsychiatry and Mad activism, …
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Communicating science amid environmental controversy : how scientists interact with policy in the San Francisco Bay-Delta
… differently by different actors in the policy process. Scientists, therefore, face the challenge of communicating their research to non-scientific audiences-such as stakeholders, policy makers, and the general public-in a highly politicized context. This essay examines how scientists …
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Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Multilevel Policy Network
This dissertation is a descriptive study of a policy network designed for U.S. government and global cooperation to promote Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It is aimed at exploring the historical and structural features of the ITS policy network, and evaluating its roles in the policy …
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Between Hard and Soft Power: A Historical Analysis of U.S. Defense Diplomacy
… limited attention from both academic and policy communities. In other words, the defense diplomacy debate rests upon an unstable conceptual foundation.</p> <p>This study deconstructs the components of defense diplomacy drawn from existing scholarship and argues that its essence lies in the …
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On the fringes of formality : organizational capability in street-level bureaucracies in Brazil
… across the policing, education and industrial policy sectors in Brazil. It does this in particular by looking at intermediate outputs of front-line service delivery units (police units, schools, and innovation institutes), using this as a proxy for bureaucratic administration, which has been …
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South African Police reform in the 1990s : internal processes and external influences
In the contemporary era policy-making is increasingly being shaped by non-domestic influences and actors. The mobility of policy ideas and mechanisms across time and space provides a challenge: How best to conceptualise the routes and modes of travelling whereby ideas and instruments are …