Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-10-18DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14351420409945
Nicole George, Alastair Stark
{"title":"Community resilience and crisis management: policy lessons from the ground","authors":"Nicole George, Alastair Stark","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14351420409945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14351420409945","url":null,"abstract":"Community resilience is a central concept within crisis management policymaking, but it has escaped critical analysis. This article responds to this problem by examining a community-led response to a large natural disaster (the Queensland floods of 2010–11). The findings emerge from the application of a novel ethnographic method, uniquely informed by an insider’s view of the disaster, which generated narratives from ‘the ground’. These narratives highlight a darker side to community resilience, which is largely unacknowledged, but needs to be understood so that we can critically appraise the concept more effectively in the future.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75925225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-10-18DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14501227093917
P. O’Connor, A. Fauve-chamoux
{"title":"European policies and research funding: a case study of gender inequality and lack of diversity in a Nordic research programme","authors":"P. O’Connor, A. Fauve-chamoux","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14501227093917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14501227093917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90272448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-10-18DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14464923526339
Caroline Schlaufer
{"title":"Global evidence in local debates: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in Swiss direct-democratic debates on school policy","authors":"Caroline Schlaufer","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14464923526339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14464923526339","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the use of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other evidence in educational policy discourse in the context of direct-democratic votes in Switzerland. The results of a quantitative content analysis show that PISA is used by all actors to support a wide range of policy measures and ideological positions. Other evidence, however, is only used to support single specific policy positions. These findings demonstrate the ubiquity of PISA. The article discusses these results in view of the question of whether the incorporation of evidence into policy debates contributes to informed discourse.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75141870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-07-31DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14296993009874
Min Tang, Narisong Huhe
{"title":"Does decentralisation bring the people back to the government? An empirical analysis of the effect of decentralisation on political trust","authors":"Min Tang, Narisong Huhe","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14296993009874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14296993009874","url":null,"abstract":"This study offers an empirical test of the effect of decentralisation on political trust. A comparative analysis of citizens in 47 countries suggests indirect and heterogeneous consequences of decentralisation. First, while various dimensions of decentralisation are significantly associated with political trust at the country level, no dimension has a direct effect on political trust at the individual level. Second, not all forms of decentralisation contribute to the promotion of political trust. And, finally, two dimensions of decentralisation (that is, fiscal and administrative) promote political trust through reducing the negative effect of democratic values.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88597170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-07-08DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14362596481598
C. Barnett, Nick Mahony
{"title":"Marketing practices and the reconfiguration of public action","authors":"C. Barnett, Nick Mahony","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14362596481598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14362596481598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78143117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-07-08DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14357452041573
Sara Nyhlén, Katarina Giritli-Nygren
{"title":"The home care principle in everyday making of elderly care in everyday making of eldercare policy in rural Sweden","authors":"Sara Nyhlén, Katarina Giritli-Nygren","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14357452041573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14357452041573","url":null,"abstract":"Translating the urban based national policy of eldercare to a rural context is seen as a key activity for rural policy actors since the fact that rural municipalities face different issues to urban ...","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78137971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-07-08DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14353331264538
P. Cairney, Siabhainn Russell, E. Denny
{"title":"The 'Scottish approach' to policy and policymaking: what issues are territorial and what are universal?","authors":"P. Cairney, Siabhainn Russell, E. Denny","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14353331264538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14353331264538","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘Scottish approach’ refers to its distinctive way to make and implement policy. Its reputation suggests that it is relatively comfortable with local discretion and variations in policy outcomes. Yet, policymakers are subject to ‘universal’ processes – limited knowledge, attention and coordinative capacity, and high levels of ambiguity, discretion and complexity in policy processes – which already undermine central control and produce variation. If policy is a mix of deliberate and unintended outcomes, a focus on policy styles may exaggerate a government’s ability to do things differently. We demonstrate these issues in two ‘cross cutting’ policies: ‘prevention’ and ‘transition’.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78852041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-07-08DOI: 10.1332/030557314X14037965564507
C. Hatier
{"title":"The virtues and vices of resigning from office","authors":"C. Hatier","doi":"10.1332/030557314X14037965564507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557314X14037965564507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91134679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy and PoliticsPub Date : 2016-07-08DOI: 10.1332/030557315X14298700857974
K. Huxley, R. Andrews, James Downe, Valeria Guarneros-Meza
{"title":"Administrative traditions and citizen participation in public policy: a comparative study of France, Germany, the UK and Norway","authors":"K. Huxley, R. Andrews, James Downe, Valeria Guarneros-Meza","doi":"10.1332/030557315X14298700857974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14298700857974","url":null,"abstract":"The participation of citizens in public policy-making has become a key aim for national and supranational institutions across Europe, but the relative importance policy-makers actually accord citizen participation arguably varies due to the alternative administrative traditions within different countries. Using data drawn from a large-scale survey of senior public managers in France, Germany, the United Kingdom (UK) and Norway, we find support for the idea that administrative tradition influences the participation of citizens in public policy. We also identify key institutional factors determining the importance of citizen participation. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47631,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2016-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83809318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}