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subsystem and the pursuit of consent in the political arena. To attract more scholarly attention to this relationship, this paper distinguishes between two types of narratives—the political narrative and the ... Political and Social Science, University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy 1 Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan , Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan , Italy There is increasing
political leaders to bring transformative changes at the municipal level in quick succession. The article concludes that polycentric governance configurations in Nepal are rather becoming complex ... : A Challenge for Development’ in 2004. The report views disaster governance as exercising economic, political, and administrative authority to manage disasters at all levels, mindful of multifaceted
the focus on political aspects of the policy integration process. The papers examine the politics of policy integration from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The results underline the importance ... linkages between existing policy systems. Up to now, the scientific literature has focused on policy integration predominantly from a policy design perspective. This special issue puts the focus on political
of policymaking. We identify three sets of drivers and causal mechanisms behind business repositioning related to political, policy, and market change. We argue that political mechanisms can shift ... ; Lobbying; Policy reform; Climate politics; Energy transition Introduction Corporations are powerful political actors in capitalist societies (Gilens & Page, 2014) . Political analysts have long been
agenda-setting process as a policy commitment, rather than a worked-out proposal ready for negotiations in the political stream. Acknowledging the uncertainty and ambiguity in the decision-making process ... recognized problem and presented within a conducive political context. Although the MSF is considered to have high potential as a policy theory, critics have pointed out that the wide application of the
Mannheim , Germany 1 Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University , Bergheimer Straße 58, 69115 Heidelberg , Germany The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments to impose major restrictions on ... citizens, but also resulted in the strengthening of populist movements and their political representatives, who are generally skeptical of policies that help to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus—a
Researchers in public policy and public administration agree that policy integration is a process. Nevertheless, scholars have given limited attention to political aspects that facilitate or impede ... policy process. Our main argument is that policy integration is in permanent political tension with the sectoral logic of policymaking, which predominantly happens between actors in subsystems. Policy
In public consultations, policymakers give stakeholders access to the policymaking process in exchange for technical or political information. Our article proposes to analyze not only the policy ... resource exchange. In exchange for access to the policymaking process, stakeholders contribute political and technical information in public consultations. Policymakers, in turn, hope to gain expertise and
design, we highlight institutional arrangements as elements of policy design spaces and contend that they fall into four categories that either stress the political or problem orientation of this activity ... indeed fall into the four above-mentioned categories. The cluster analysis further reveals that a fifth, hybrid category exists. Interestingly, the political orientation dominates in the institutional
Despite a growing literature on the politics of evaluation in international organizations (IOs) and beyond, little is known about whether political or administrative stakeholders indeed realize ex ... efficiency, evaluation being one of the measures they take. Yet, in the political reality of public organizations, evaluation finds itself caught between stakeholder struggles for interests and power (Azzam
—increase the chances of MPs of engaging in both biodiversity mainstreaming and its cross-sectoral integration. The results based on a comprehensive collection of political documents from the parliamentary ... question, we analyze Swiss biodiversity policy between 2000 and 2018. Based on a comprehensive collection of political documents (Reber et al., 2022) , we examine the chracateristics of the MPs introducing
proposals passed between 2015 and 2016 at the European Union level. Our findings show that interest groups associated with high analytical and political capacities are perceived as more influential for final ... the interviewed public officials. Our findings show that the groups that are perceived as more influential for the final policy outcome are those that are associated with higher analytical and political
that a relatively small set of political, political economy and social institutions are likely to be important. The argument is then applied through a comparison of the evolution of solar PV policy in ... benefits), siting and industrial policy. This approach is illustrated in the case of the dynamics of support policies for solar photovoltaics (PV). I identify a limited number of political, political
the political process has pointed out that decision-makers learn from evidence to improve policies to solve problems. On the other, scholars have underlined that actors learn from evidence to support ... policy learning and to more political learning from policy evaluations. Nevertheless, this article's empirical analysis also points out that issue salience increases policy learning from evaluations if the
, this ‘one-size-fits-all’ philosophy does not account for tumor biological features to design patient-specific radiation dosing regimens. Moreover, due to the inter-patient variability, patients treated ... patients and not abiding to the one- size-fits all philosophy that is currently employed in routine clinical care. Importantly, the integration of clinical and OMICS features in the predictive model, will
the most common type, with 294 cases (19.0%) [ 15 ]. A cancer plan was drawn up in 2007 but has never been implemented, mainly because of the political crises that have been ongoing since 2010 ... , women, patient associations, and political decision-makers were present at these sessions (60 people). The participants were enthusiastic and involved in the sessions. They asked many questions and added
novel by Rainer Maria Rilke, which is conceptually connected with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s dialectical philosophy and Friedrich Schiller’s humanism. The present work is an interpretation of ... ). Keywords: mexican literature; german philosophy; comparative literature; constitution of the subject; nihilism; humanism Dios es el mundo. La verdad es siempre un contacto interior e inexplicable
that it does not pay sufficient attention to politics. We present a heuristic which includes political perception of both programme and political threats. Our core argument is that much of what is ... more holistic and political understanding of policy dynamics. Disproportionate policy making; Policy overreaction; Policy underreaction; Policy dynamics; Policy sciences - Accepted: 22 May 2021 © The
how democracies manage and absorb political and societal conflicts becomes broadly relevant. Existing theories and perspectives view conflict management through the lens of elections and other ... . Westview Press. Wilson , J. Q. ( 1995 ). Political organizations . Princeton University Press. Wolfe , A. , & Klausen , J. ( 1997 ). Identity politics and the welfare state . Social Philosophy and Policy
which it has little effect” (Flyvbjerg, 2001: 165) . Indeed, several factors counter practice-oriented scholarship. A partial list would include a rationalistic bias ignoring political problem-solving ... , 2004; Barzelay, 2007; Busetti & Dente, 2018; Capano & Howlett, 2019; Melloni et al., 2016; Ongaro, 2009; Pawson & Tilley, 1997) but also and primarily in sociology, political science, and methodology
