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Expert knowledge for global pandemic policy: a chorus of evidence or a clutter of global commissions? 全球流行病政策的专家知识:证据齐声还是全球委员会的混乱?

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad022

Diane Stone, A. Schmider

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Spreading expertise: think tanks as digital advocators in the social media era 传播专业知识:智库作为社交媒体时代的数字倡导者

1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad025

Jing Zhao, Xufeng Zhu

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Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice 应对政策建议中合法性、价值观和政治方面的挑战

1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad026

Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, Leslie A Pal, M Ramesh

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Expert legitimacy and competing legitimation in Italian school reforms 意大利学校改革中的专家合法性与竞争合法性

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad024

Maria Tullia Galanti

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When bargaining is and is not possible: the politics of bureaucratic expertise in the context of democratic backsliding 当讨价还价是可能的和不可能的时候:民主倒退背景下的官僚专家政治

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-21 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad023

Natália Massaco Koga, Ana Paula Karruz, Pedro Lucas de Moura Palotti, Marcos Luiz Vieira Soares Filho, Bruno Gontyjo do Couto

{"title":"When bargaining is and is not possible: the politics of bureaucratic expertise in the context of democratic backsliding","authors":"Natália Massaco Koga, Ana Paula Karruz, Pedro Lucas de Moura Palotti, Marcos Luiz Vieira Soares Filho, Bruno Gontyjo do Couto","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puad023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puad023","url":null,"abstract":"In looking at the complex relationship between expertise and power in policymaking, what is amiss are studies on how the expertise exchange bargain between politicians and bureaucracy works in practice, especially in antidemocratic contexts. To deal with this limitation, we use Christensen’s (Christensen, J. (2022). When bureaucratic expertise comes under attack. Public Administration) expertise bargain change model for examining the authority transaction between politicians and bureaucrats. Upon external shocks, such as democratic backsliding with the sidelining of policy advice, the extant expertise bargain is challenged. We explore how the bureaucracy acted toward the government’s adversarial (and even antagonistic) stance and how that relationship toward the expertise bargain changed in two policy areas in Brazil (health and environment) during Bolsonaro’s administration (2019–2022). Notably, this article relies mainly on qualitative data from in-depth interviews with bureaucrats who provided expertise to the government on these policy areas during the Bolsonaro administration’s transition. Ancillary documentary sources were examined to detail the strategies of attack from government toward bureaucratic expertise and ancillary documentary sources of quantitative data from a survey with bureaucrats fielded during the Bolsonaro administration’s first year. Results show three factors that condition bureaucratic expertise’s resilience: the nature of the attack (local or extensive), the knowledge base’s and epistemic community’s level of cohesion, and the advice system’s degree of institutionalization. This case study sheds light on how different policy advice arrangements respond and function under antidemocratic contexts, allowing the application and enrichment of policy expertise literature outside regular democratic politics.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"110 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50165254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Citizensourcing policy advisory systems in a turbulent era 动荡时代的公民采购政策咨询系统

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad017

M. Jae Moon, Seulgi Lee, Seunggyu Park

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“I do not consent”: political legitimacy, misinformation, and the compliance challenge in Australia’s Covid-19 policy response “我不同意”:澳大利亚应对新冠肺炎政策中的政治合法性、错误信息和合规挑战

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-09 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad018

M. Dowling, Tim Legrand

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Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of inquiry commission reports in Norway and Sweden 评估COVID-19大流行的危机管理:对挪威和瑞典调查委员会报告的研究

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad020

Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid

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Pragmatism, partnerships, and persuasion: theorizing philanthropic foundations in the global policy agora 实用主义、伙伴关系和说服:全球政策舞台上的慈善基金会理论化

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad016

Janis Petzinger, T. Jung, K. Orr

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Exclusion by design: a case study of an Indian urban housing subsidy scheme 设计排斥:印度城市住房补贴计划的案例研究

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad015

Manav Khaire

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