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Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation 大型项目中的参与式治理:里昂-都灵高速铁路的结构、机构和民主参与

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac029

Giovanni Esposito, Andrea Felicetti, Andrea Terlizzi

{"title":"Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation","authors":"Giovanni Esposito, Andrea Felicetti, Andrea Terlizzi","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puac029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Megaprojects are increasingly common across countries and attract substantial political attention from a variety of actors. Recent studies have highlighted the need to move from an understanding of megaprojects as linear and rational processes towards a more nuanced approach that accounts for non-linear and conflictual aspects. Participatory governance is often proposed as a valuable resource in this regard. In this paper, we investigate the setting and design of two participatory venues operating in the context of the implementation of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway megaproject: the Italian Observatory for the Turin-Lyon Railway and the French Public Inquiry. Empirical evidence shows that the Italian case featured substantial structural barriers to effective democratic participation. As for the French case, while better designed and implanted in its context, it featured important agentic limitations that undermined its democratic potential. On the basis of our case study, we therefore argue that both the Observatory for the Turin-Lyon Railway and Public Inquiry failed to promote democratic participation. We thus propose a deliberative approach to (the study of) of megaprojects. Whereas deliberative democratic ideas command growing interest across disciplines, these have found only limited application in the study of megaprojects. We contend that a deliberative democratic approach holds promise to improve the democratic and epistemic qualities of decision making on megaprojects.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85636199","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: 4

Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening 利用政策能力框架加强卫生系统

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-25 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac031

F. C. Saddi, S. Peckham, G. Bloom, N. Turnbull, V. Coelho, J. Denis

{"title":"Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening","authors":"F. C. Saddi, S. Peckham, G. Bloom, N. Turnbull, V. Coelho, J. Denis","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puac031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac031","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The policy capacity framework offers relevant analytical ideas that can be mobilized for health system strengthening. However, the employment of this framework in the health field constitutes a relevant interdisciplinary gap in knowledge. This themed issue explores the relationships between the policy capacity framework and health system strengthening, in a multidimensional and interdisciplinary way, in high-income and low–middle-income countries. This introduction unpacks the dynamic interrelationships between the policy capacity framework and health system strengthening, bringing together common and distinct elements from both fields and summarizing possible relationships between them. The analysis shows that both fields together can increase our knowledge on health policies and system’s critical themes and reforms. This challenge could be followed by exploring the convergences between them, as far as concepts/themes (types of capacities and other themes) and levels of analysis are concerned. Although in varied ways, papers in this issue (based on European countries, China, Canada, New Zealand, India, Australia, and Brazil) advance the use of the policy capacity framework for health policy or system strengthening. They give two main interdisciplinary contributions. Critical capacities can be incorporated into the policy capacity framework for the analysis of system strengthening—capacity to adapt, contexts of mixed and complex systems, dynamic view of policy capacity, and policy capacity as a relational power. Policy capacity is contextually interpreted (relative to the problem frame) and dynamic and adaptive (processual and relational), in relation to the properties of a health system, particularly with regard to the existing and developing mixed and complex systems.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75938664","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: 2

Critical policy capacity factors in the implementation of the community health worker program in India 关键的政策能力因素在印度社区卫生工作者方案的实施

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-19 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac032

Bijoya Roy, F. C. Saddi, S. Peckham, Maria Luiza Pereira Barretos

{"title":"Critical policy capacity factors in the implementation of the community health worker program in India","authors":"Bijoya Roy, F. C. Saddi, S. Peckham, Maria Luiza Pereira Barretos","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puac032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper employs the policy capacity framework to develop a multidimensional and nested policy analysis that is able to examine how different types of capacity—analytical, organizational, and political from different related levels of the health system—have contributed to both policy success and failure during the implementation of a politically significant national community health worker (CHW) program in India. Directed toward rural and urban marginalized populations in India, this CHW has become the world’s largest CHW program. Launched in 2006, it has targeted communitization, strengthening of the primary health-care system, and universal health-care coverage, ultimately receiving an international award in 2022. We argue that, in a context of capacity deficits and tensions between different capacity domains, the individual political capacity has been more critical to policy success and strengthening. The analysis not only clarifies the ways in which the government took some initiatives to build up capacity but also highlights capacity deficits along different competency dimensions. This approach demonstrates the value of understanding and creating awareness concerning complex poor-resource settings and low organizational capacity while concomitantly building up the capacities needed to foster (workforce and leadership) strengthening.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79052474","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: 1

Political legitimacy and vaccine hesitancy: Disability support workers in Australia 政治合法性和疫苗犹豫:澳大利亚的残疾支助工作者

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-10 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac030

H. Dickinson, A. Kavanagh, S. Dimov, M. Shields, A. McAllister

{"title":"Political legitimacy and vaccine hesitancy: Disability support workers in Australia","authors":"H. Dickinson, A. Kavanagh, S. Dimov, M. Shields, A. McAllister","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puac030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac030","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 People with disability are an at-risk group in the COVID-19 pandemic for a range of clinical and socioeconomic reasons. In recognition of this, Australians with disability and those who work with them were prioritized in access to vaccination, but the vaccination targets were not met. In this paper, we analyze qualitative data generated from a survey with 368 disability support workers to identify drivers of COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and why the implementation of this policy may have experienced challenges. We identify a range of themes within these data but ultimately argue that a major driver of vaccine hesitancy in this group is a mistrust of government and an erosion of employment terms and conditions. Drawing on the policy capacity literature, we argue that the “Achilles’ heel” for the Australian government in this case is the critical policy capacity of political legitimacy. This finding has important implications for where the government needs to increase/build policy capacity, strengthening its efforts and better relating to organizations that can be helpful in terms of developing public health messaging for disability support workers.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84647514","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: 2

Correction to: COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States 更正:加拿大和美国的COVID-19、减贫和党派关系

IF 9.3 1区社会学

Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac033

引用次数: 0

Analytical capacity as a critical condition for responding to COVID-19 in Brazil 分析能力是巴西应对COVID-19的关键条件

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac028

N. Koga, Pedro Palotti, Pedro Arthur de Miranda Marques Pontes, Bruno Gontyjo do Couto, Marcos Luiz Vieira Soares

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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

IF 9.3 1区社会学

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

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

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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

IF 9.3 1区社会学

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

S. Fukuda‐Parr

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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

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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

{"title":"Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures","authors":"Marlee Tichenor","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puac023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puac023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Designating statistical capacity development as a target for measurement in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) created a dilemma for statistical decision-makers in the United Nations system, as some saw the inclusion of statistical capacity in SDG17 as a “conflict of interest,” making their work both a goal of the SDGs and a means to achieve them. In 2022, there are five indicators for measuring both the statistical capacity of individual countries and the support provided to strengthen it, including one indicator for measuring a country’s ability to monitor the SDGs themselves. In this article, I argue that the epistemic infrastructuring of statistical capacity into the SDG framework is a privileged case. By parsing the interconnections between the data, actors, networks, and processes that constitute statistical capacity on national and global levels, we can understand how central these materialities and processes are in constituting the larger policy agenda of the SDGs as well as debates over the problems that statistical capacity is meant to solve. Like all indicators in the SDG framework, statistical capacity indicators are performative – defined and delineated by the global statistics community that also helps define and delineate the SDG framework’s development problems. Unlike other indicators, however, statistical capacity indicators have the added weight of also producing the conditions of possibility for the “SDG framework itself.” In this way, debates over what constitutes statistical capacity and its strengthening are also debates about ownership of policy agendas and where tensions between the local and global erupt.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74233947","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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