Critical Policy Studies最新文献

{"title":"Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism","authors":"Lucas Erlbacher, S. Schmalz","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2218463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2218463","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How did geo-economic and technological competition between the United States and China arise? And what is the Chinese perspective on the US-China rivalry? In this forum article, we analyze the conflict from a critical political economy perspective. We argue that the US has mobilized its structural power as the leading high-tech country in global value chains to curtail China’s ascent. By elucidating Chinese responses to American structural power, we shed light on the development and complexities of this conflict, thereby contributing to a more profound comprehension of the US-China geo-economic competition. We conclude that the intensifying US-Chinese rivalry has the potential to foster a new era of public policies characterized by global statism.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47255924","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":"When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards","authors":"Felix Syrovatka","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2191860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2191860","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42528047","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":"Politics and fantasy in UK alcohol policy: a critical logics approach","authors":"B. Hawkins, M. van Schalkwyk","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2188470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2188470","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48545379","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":"Inclusion as ownership in participatory budgeting: facilitators’ interpretations of public engagement of children and youth","authors":"P. Lehtonen, Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2192412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2192412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43445224","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":"Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers","authors":"Giulia C. Romano, Osmany Porto de Oliveira","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2180400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2180400","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Most research in policy transfer studies focused on cases of policies originating from the ‘Global North’. However, recently countries of the ‘Global South’ became sources of models. With the exception of a few studies, literature has not considered these developments. This paper aims at contributing to this direction, by proposing an agenda drawn from policy transfer studies as well as from the observation of Brazil’s and China’s engagement in policy transfer. This exercise helps highlight a series of aspects overlooked by the literature. Understanding their motivations, their timing and other important aspects related to these processes can shed new light on policy transfer phenomena. New research questions are introduced and illustrated by examples from Brazil and China.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47019117","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 politics of patrolling ‘safety guards’ in Sweden: outsourcing, depoliticization, and immunization","authors":"Jennie Brandén","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2182334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2182334","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The contracting of private guards to patrol public spaces has rapidly become a widespread approach to increase public safety and prevent crime in Swedish municipalities. Drawing on interviews and policy materials from three municipalities, this paper examines how private patrolling guards has become a solution to (un)safety in Sweden, and the political implications of this development. The governmentality analysis shows how the rendering of (un)safety as technical and governable depoliticizes safety by detaching it from its social and political connotations. At the same time, in the process of demarcating the space to be ‘guarded,’ safety is problematized as a matter of order and sameness in public space, which (re)produces racialized boundaries between those to be made safe and those considered threatening safety. The study further demonstrates how the outsourcing of responsibility for public safety to the security industry is bringing about a shift in democratic legitimacy, accountability, and the monopoly on the use of force, largely without political contestation in the studied municipalities. The paper concludes by discussing the underlying rationale of this practice of governing (un)safety as informed by a biopolitical logic of immunization: safeguarding and immunizing some, at the expense of those marked as risky ‘others’.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47198434","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":"Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax","authors":"Terry O’Sullivan, E. Daniel, F. Harris","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2180401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2180401","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the perceived risk to health posed by obesity, governments in over 40 countries have introduced sugar taxes (also known as soda taxes), often as part of wider plans to improve national food environments. In this study we apply critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze 29 television news interviews addressing the sugar tax, in order to expose how and why media companies and the experts involved stage and maintain controversy. Our analysis provides evidence of a broad range of devices, ranging from the macro choice of interviewees and the role of the interviewer to their micro level rhetorical choices. They also include experts molding the same evidence to support their position and interviewers posing questions they know will result in a blunt contradiction. While individually each device may appear relatively inconsequential, their repeated use generates possibilities for selfperpetuating intertextuality and provides a sense of intractability that contributes to public disengagement with the issue. The value of studies such as this is to elucidate the use, ubiquity and effects of these devices that may otherwise go unnoticed or unquestioned.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43680174","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":"Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism","authors":"Tom McDOWELL","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2169838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2169838","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although it is broadly accepted that neoliberalism emerged as a reaction to what its foundational thinkers believed was a crisis of modern liberalism, little work has been done to understand either the timing or the nature of the intellectual shift that gave rise to it. Through an assessment of Friedrich Hayek’s thought, this article claims that the neoliberal critique of liberalism is primarily grounded in an epistemological dispute about the capabilities of mind that can be traced to the early nineteenth century and the development of Jeremy Bentham’s universal principle of self-preference. Hayek’s epistemological perspective, anchored in a theory of the understanding, and Bentham’s conception of mind as plastic, knowable, measurable, and reformable, led each thinker to embrace vastly different constitutional models. This epistemological dispute is critical to grasp, not merely for historical precision, but also because many of its essential features lurk at the heart of contemporary debates about the rise of an anti-democratic neoliberalism, and the future of liberal democracy.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46158581","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":"Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies","authors":"Joy Y. Zhang","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2180402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2180402","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The concept of decolonization was originally proposed as an epistemic project that focused on anti-hegemonic endeavors to counter power imbalances. However, in recent years, it has become a buzz word across different fields in the Global North, often slipping into a tokenistic exercise. This paper argues that the decolonizing promise of moving beyond power asymmetries and acquiring the ability ‘to think from and with’ others will not be fulfilled unless we take seriously the need for a radical shift in recognizing global others’ epistemic status. Drawing on empirical case studies of China’s and India’s rises in the life sciences and their respective impacts on Anglo-American policy discussions, this paper demonstrates what decolonizing our temporal and spatial (or relational) assumptions of contemporary science could mean in practice. More importantly, it argues that decolonization in the pluriverse of contemporary science should simultaneously be a radical and prudent project. As such, decolonizing is not only a challenge for the Global North but also for the Global South. The decolonization project argued for in this paper is conducive to a fresh ontological attention of critical policy studies and a recalibrated relational focus of governing practices.","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47044079","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":"Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies","authors":"Rosana de Freitas Boullosa, Regine Paul, T. Smith-Carrier","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2023.2184707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2184707","url":null,"abstract":"As contemporary politics and governance unfold around an ever more urgent ‘sense of crisis’, the notion of crisis itself has become a prominent conceptual starting point for critically minded producers of scientific knowledge in the field of policy studies. Indeed, a year ago, just after Russian President Vladimir Putin had given the order to invade Ukraine and start a war that has caused tremendous suffering on all sides, the editors of this journal felt that the emerging sense of ‘turmoil’ required a revived debate about the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies (see issue 16.2). This call was very much in line with debates long invigorated by CPS editors and authors, highlighting how the social sense of crisis can expose and disrupt dominant policy discourses, open spaces for the critique of normalized policy and governance, reinforcing our ethical implications, but also potentially prompt the emergence of new ideational and institutional arrangements. Encouraged by this normative call, we see Critical Policy Studies as an ongoing endeavor to identify and nourish common intellectual roots: it is through critically exploring the interdependencies between policy, sense-making, and crisis scenarios globally and locally that our community of authors has contributed to more democratic and socially just forms of governance. This seems as urgent as ever in a world where, on the one hand, global and local inequalities and injustices have increased rather than decreased; violent conflicts, including genocide, continue; as do structural and institutional forms of racism, sexism, and classism; and where, on the other hand, democratic regimes have slidden into authoritarianism and are restricted to an increasingly smaller part of the world. Indeed, the progressive political forces, stunned by the expansion of ultra-right governments, have realized that behind the ultranationalist and ultraconservative discourses there is a dangerous global political and economic articulation, which puts the very essence of democracy at stake. As democracy only has strength and meaning when it unfolds as a collective process of public discussion, sense-making, contestation, and deliberation, editors of this journal – past and present – continue to ask how a journal like ours, whose primary interest is knowledge and its production, can nourish a collective stance in its defense. A first potential path concerns a type of policy studies that wants to critically engage with the world around us and facilitate democratic change. This community should continue to build on the critical exploration of dominant crisis narratives in the policy world in their specific spatiotemporal context, paying close attention to the ways in which ‘crisis’ frames and modes of operation bear on policy practice on the ground across different sites, but also in locating venues for deliberation and contestation in ‘crisis’ settings that can work toward global social justice and democratic altern","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43306201","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}