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Remaking the Sustainable Development Goals: relational Indigenous epistemologies 重塑可持续发展目标:相关的本土认识论

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-07-28 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac026

Johannes M. Waldmüller, M. Yap, K. Watene

引用次数: 2

When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness 当指标失败时:SPAR，流行病防范的无形措施

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-07-16 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac024

S. Fukuda‐Parr

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引用次数: 4

The policy dilemmas of blockchain 区块链的政策困境

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-07-14 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac025

Judith Clifton, L. Pal

引用次数: 2

Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures 统计能力的发展和知识基础设施的建立

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-07-14 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac023

Marlee Tichenor

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引用次数: 3

Governance and societal impact of blockchain-based self-sovereign identities 基于区块链的自我主权身份的治理和社会影响

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac018

Rachel Benchaya Gans, J. Ubacht, M. Janssen

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引用次数: 3

COVID-19, crisis responses, and public policies: from the persistence of inequalities to the importance of policy design 2019冠状病毒病、危机应对和公共政策:从不平等的持续存在到政策设计的重要性

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-05-18 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac021

D. Béland, A. He, M. Ramesh

引用次数: 9

Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector 保持对技术化公共部门的信任

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-05-17 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac019

Balázs Bodó, H. Janssen

{"title":"Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector","authors":"Balázs Bodó, H. Janssen","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puac019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Emerging technologies permeate and potentially disrupt a wide spectrum of our social, economic, and political relations. Various state institutions, including education, law enforcement, and healthcare, increasingly rely on technical components, such as automated decision-making systems, e-government systems, and other digital tools to provide cheap, efficient public services, and supposedly fair, transparent, disinterested, and accountable public administration. The increased interest in various blockchain-based solutions from central bank digital currencies, via tokenized educational credentials, and distributed ledger-based land registries to self-sovereign identities is the latest, still mostly unwritten chapter in a long history of standardized, objectified, automated, technocratic, and technologized public administration. The rapid, (often) unplanned, and uncontrolled technologization of public services (as happened in the hasty adoption of distance-learning and teleconferencing systems during Corona Virus Disease (COVID) lockdowns) raises complex questions about the use of novel technological components, which may or may not be ultimately adequate for the task for which they are used. The question whether we can trust the technical infrastructures the public sector uses when providing public services is a central concern in an age where trust in government is declining: If the government’s artificial intelligence system that detects welfare fraud fails, the public’s confidence in the government is ultimately hit. In this paper, we provide a critical assessment of how the use of potentially untrustworthy (private) technological systems including blockchain-based systems in the public sector may affect trust in government. We then propose several policy options to protect the trust in government even if some of their technological components prove fundamentally untrustworthy.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"124 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87809209","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}

引用次数: 3

The education sustainable development goal and the generative power of failing metrics 教育可持续发展目标和失败指标的生成力

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac020

Sotiria Grek

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引用次数: 2

Producing decent work indicators: contested numbers at the ILO 制定体面工作指标:国际劳工组织有争议的数字

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac017

J. Berten

{"title":"Producing decent work indicators: contested numbers at the ILO","authors":"J. Berten","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puac017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article investigates the production of decent work indicators within the ILO, to demonstrate that developing measurement infrastructures in global policymaking requires political work. The concept of decent work responds to the perceived marginalization of the ILO in social and labor policy and was supposed to provide a new unifying normative framework for the organization. The article shows that creating decent work indicators encountered challenges due to its highly politicized production process. Proponents of quantification (mostly workers’ representatives) and opponents (mostly employers’ representatives) disagreed about the function of indicators: should they be country-specific or allow for universal assessment of progress from above. In effect, although indicators of decent work have been integrated into the Sustainable Development Goals—mostly as part of goal no. 8, many are still incomplete. As a result, the indicators did not establish a “framework of assessment,” which would have been guided by universal standards of progress allowing the ILO to “govern at a distance,” and could not initiate a paradigmatic policy shift, impeding the infrastructuralization of measurement. Theoretically, the article advances our understanding of policy formulation and design on the transnational level by showing the political foundation of knowledge-based instruments. Empirically, it rests on a Grounded Theory-based analysis of key ILO documents, including Governing Body minutes, conference and expert meeting reports, and official publications, mainly from the period from 1998 to 2015.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77807060","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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Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures 量化世界中的全球公共政策:作为认知基础设施的可持续发展目标

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-04-27 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac015

Marlee Tichenor, Sally E Merry, Sotiria Grek, Justyna Bandola-Gill

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