Critical Policy Studies最新文献

{"title":"Jeopardizing liberal democracy: the trouble with demarchy","authors":"Regina Queiroz","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2267631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2267631","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTFriedrich Hayek presents a demarchic conception of democracy as a solution for what he takes to be the inherently corrupt and totalitarian nature of liberal democracy. While still preserving the label ‘liberal representative democracy’, this Hayekian demarchy precludes parliamentary and governmental institutions from providing positive laws and policies on behalf of their constituents where this would require the transfer of the private property of individuals. Such laws and policies would, on this demarchic conception of liberal democracy, undermine individuals’ free usufruct. I argue that demarchy’s detachment from any concern with the well-being of many of its citizens is an illiberal and anti-democratic (sub)version of liberal democracy that increases populism and risks crushing liberal democracy between the pseudo- and anti-liberal support of a totalitarian majoritarian people’s sovereign power and a minoritarian anti-democratic elite. As such, liberal democracy conceived of in Hayekian demarchic terms is itself an oppressive totalitarian political theory incapable of preventing an increase in illiberal and anti-liberal political forces. Moreover, I argue that it is imperative that we acknowledge and appreciate the extent to which demarchy undermines, rather than strengthens, liberal democracy.KEYWORDS: Demarchyilliberalismliberal democracymarketspopulism AcknowledgmentsThe author is grateful for the helpful comments and suggestions of the anonymous reviewers and Britt Harrison.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. https://www.blaetter.de/aktuell/dokumente/»wir-werden-wege-finden-die-parlamentarische-mitbestimmung-so-zu-gestalten-dass-si, accessed 27th July.2. See Law No. 31/2012 of 14/08 (Lei n. 31/2012, de 14 de Agosto (pgdlisboa.pt) acceded 29 January 2021.3. The authors report there are no competing interests to declare.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [0].Notes on contributorsRegina QueirozRegina Queiroz is a researcher at IFILNOVA, NOVA University Lisbon, and teaches at Lusófona University. Her interests lie in the justice and rationality of social and political institutions, uniting Rawlsian theories of fairness, Aristotelian theories of phronesis, comparative analysis of liberalism and neoliberalism, and gender and racial discrimination.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136112895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racial equity, COVID-19, and public policy: The triple pandemic (1st Edition) <b>Racial equity, COVID-19, and public policy: The triple pandemic (1st Edition)</b> , by Elsie L. Harper-Anderson, Jay S. Albanese, Susan T. Gooden, Routlegde, New York, 2023, 262 pp., (Paperback) £27.99, ISBN 9781032261782. (Hardback) £96.00, ISBN 9781032261805. eBook £27.99, ISBN: 978100328696","authors":"Toddy Aditya, Achmad Kosasih, Dayu Retno Puspita","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2268678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2268678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136357948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Whose ‘truth’ matters? Problematizing the epistemological underpinnings of social policy research","authors":"Michael Steven Fraschetti","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2264896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2264896","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDespite many policies produced to mitigate racism and other forms of discrimination in the public education sector, the inability to implement these policies fall short. These policies may appear to address inequities by attempting to meet legal requirements, however, they do not always address the structural power dynamics grounded in white supremacy which continue to perpetuate systemic racism. Drawing on examples from the Ontario public education sector such as employment equity policies, Afrocentric Alternative Schools in the TDSB and the Student Resource Officer program in Toronto schools, I illustrate how positivist inspired “evidence-based” policy processes fail at offering policy solutions for equity issues by ignoring those who do not fall into the purview of the economic and political interests of dominant stakeholders in the policy process. Deploying an anti-racist and anti-colonial framework, I examine the superficial attempts to garner inclusivity through equity policies that continually fail to heal the wounds of exclusion by reproducing multiple band-aid policies rather than formulating a restructuring of public education in the Ontario public education system that will allow equity seeking groups a place at the table.KEYWORDS: anti-colonialanti-racisteducation policypolicy cyclesocial policysystemic oppression Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The establishment of Afrocentric Alternative Schools in Toronto was a response to the educational needs of the of the Afro-Canadian community, aiming to provide culturally relevant education for Black students. Advocated by community activism, these schools prioritize acknowledging and celebrating the African diaspora’s heritage. They address student engagement, identity affirmation, and academic achievement using Afrocentric pedagogies and curriculum.2. Espinoza (Citation2007) explores the ongoing debates and definitions of how the differences between equity and equality underscore their complexities, particularly when striving to balance excellence and fairness in educational systems and broader social contexts. For the purpose of this paper, I draw on Espinoza’s definitions that 'equality' focuses on uniform distribution without necessarily addressing existing disparities, 'equity' emphasizes fairness and justice by considering individual circumstances and historical disadvantages, aiming to provide everyone with an equal opportunity to succeed.3. In 2007, Julian Falconer, a human rights lawyer, leads a School Community Safety Advisory Panel to examine the increase of violent incidences at schools and to offer the TDSB advice on how to ‘fix’ ‘unsafe’ schools across the Toronto region. Multiple consultations occurred with groups such as parents, professional organizations, administrators, superintendents, trustees, social service providers, the Ontario Human Rights Commission and community groups that were included in the fi","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136296038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature","authors":"D. Plehwe","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2283994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2283994","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Critical policy mobility research has transformed the field of policy transfer and diffusion studies. Scholars from critical epistemological traditions in different disciplines such as geography, sociology, political economy and public policy have examined the politics of policy transfer for more than a decade. Apart from challenging the affirmative normative assumptions underlying traditional policy transfer research (“policy learning”), scholars have taken a wide variety of policy actors and agencies into account, considered South-South and South-North policy circulation and recognized the relevance of policy mutation and failure. While transnational actors involved in policy mobility and issues of global governance have moved higher on the agenda in the recent past, opposition forces and resistance to policy mobility organized across borders remain on the margins. A new focus on opposition “strategy mobility” is required to address actors and agencies that aim to roll back past policy mobility processes, or to prevent new efforts to promote policy transfers. Examples from diverse and highly contested policy areas like gender, climate mitigation and public health serve to illustrate the innovative potential of a new focus on strategy mobility to enhance the understanding of the contested character of policy mobility, and to yield a new perspective of global policy conflict studies.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethnographer as honest broker: the role of ethnography in promoting deliberation in local climate policies","authors":"Markéta Zandlová, Karel Čada","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2258174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2258174","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we are interested in how ethnographic research can contribute to the promotion of public deliberation. We do not use ethnography only to study deliberative processes but rather we intend to interpret ethnographic research as a social practice, and we research conditions under which ethnographic research might have deliberative consequences. The paper summarizes the results of the multidisciplinary research project Stories of Drought, which combines natural and social sciences in its approach. The project aims to understand how people in Czech rural areas respond to localized effects of climate change, especially drought. Following a systemic approach to deliberative democracy, we study how ethnography contributes to fulfilling three deliberative functions: (1) the epistemic function; (2) the ethical function and (3) the democratic function. In the context of irrigation disputes in South Moravia, we map the arguments of main actors and critical tensions in local discourses. We conclude that ethnographic research, due to its hybrid position between different sources of knowledge, its institutionally recognized expertise and its ability to establish an ethnographer as a trustworthy actor, can outweigh local critical power imbalances blocking deliberative capacity in local policy systems.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135387400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Non-human policy worlds: an exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy","authors":"Ivana Suboticki, Siri Ø. Sørensen","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2260441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2260441","url":null,"abstract":"Academia is increasingly populated but remains saturated with problems of exclusion, inequality, and injustice. However, policies aimed to govern the sector are criticized for corrupting the core of the academic practice, overlooking complexities, and perpetuating old and constructing new forms of inequalities. We thus need more empowering ways to design policies which can productively transform academia into good spaces to inhabit. To this end, we take a novel approach by viewing higher education policies as world-making spaces. Through ‘social world/arena mapping’ of the Norwegian research and higher education policy, we find that the policy articulates diverse worlds with different logics and purposes for academics to inhabit. However, the actors in these worlds remain passive, and seemingly ‘universal’ actors, able to simultaneously inhabit all the different policy worlds, while systemic inequalities which permeate the sector are largely overlooked. We argue that acknowledging this shortcoming is pivotal to finding new ways to (re)create sustainable spaces in research and higher education that ensure inclusive environments and function as democratic institutions.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136308487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The Art and Craft of Comparison","authors":"Muhammad Hali Aprimadya","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2256385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2256385","url":null,"abstract":",","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44297133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hope, fear and public policy: towards empathetic policy process","authors":"P. Boossabong, Pobsook Chamchong","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2247048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2247048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42224463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Democracy in the post-truth era: restoring faith in expertise","authors":"Rodrigo Gaston Espinola","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2237549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2237549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45698823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The evolution of climate justice claims in global climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC","authors":"Lina Lefstad, J. Paavola","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2235405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2235405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44022604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}