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The rise and fall of the magic kingdom: understanding Kevin Rudd's domestic statecraft
Full text linkPolitical participation in Australia: contingency in the behaviour and attitudes of citizens
No full textThis article explores the idea that a citizen's relationship with their polity is contingent on and liable to change under certain conditions. The assessment of the prospects for political reform requires an understanding of the contingent nature of political engagement. Drawing from a survey of a representative sample of Australians three insights emerge. First, although many Australian citizens are not directly engaged in political actions beyond voting most do present a ‘standby’ role that suggests potential to engage. Second, willingness to shift patterns of engagement may depend on general orientations towards the polity and we find extensive evidence of negative understanding of the political system as well as more positive endorsement of representative political practices. Our third finding is that citizens might be prepared to change their relationship with the polity depending on the kind of politics that is offered; hence providing a creative space for political reform
Policy transfer in a competition state:Britain’s ʼnew deal’
No full textThe main submission of this chapter is twofold. First, the British Labour government has adopted a policy agenda, which in its most crucial aspects reflects the continuing transformation of the British State into a competition state. Secondly, within a competition state policy actors and institutions increasingly promote new forms of complex globalization through processes of policy transfer. The main challenge facing governments all over the world is their capacity to adapt to the exogenous constraints and opportunities brought about by different processes of globalization while maintaining a relatively effective domestic policy programme. State actors and institutions promote new forms of complex globalization in the attempt to adapt state action to cope more effectively with what they see as global realities. As Anne Gray argues, ‘New Labour has explicitly chosen to continue the Tories’ workfarist approach to labour market policy. Welfare policy has thus been incorporated into the new economic orthodoxy of the competition state.</p
An illusionistic device in the hours of Etienne Chevalier
No full textEvans Mark-L. An illusionistic device in the hours of Etienne Chevalier. In: Scriptorium, Tome 35 n°1, 1981. pp. 81-83
Evidenced-based policy making in the social sciences: Methods that Matter
No full textDrawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making. Chapter by chapter this expert group of social scientists showcase their chosen method or approach, showing the context, the method’s key features and how it can be applied in practice, including the scope and limitations of its application and value to policy makers. Arguing that it is not just econometric analysis, cost benefit or surveys that can do policy work, the contributors demonstrate a range of other methods that can provide evidenced-based policy insights and how they can help facilitate progressive policy outcomes. The book will be ideal for upper level undergraduate students as well as Public Policy post-graduates, and can be used as the basis of an intensive learning experience for policy makers.</p
The Influence of Sports on Jacques Lecoq's Actor Training
No full textThis chapter is an updated and slightly abridged version of the article I wrote for the the Sports special issue of the Theatre, Dance and Performer Training journal (Routledge), issue 2:2, published in 2012. It examines the influence of sports and sports training on the pedagogy of the influential French theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, and in particular on the twenty movements at the heart of the first year of the training at Lecoq's school in Paris
Lecoq and Film
No full textLecoq was always clear that his School was primarily a school for theatre artists; performance for film was not part of the curriculum
Policy Transfer in Global Perspective
No full textThis conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book’s main concern has been with identifying the domestic and international circumstances likely to bring about policy transfer, the scope and dimensions of policy transfer and which aspects of the policy transfer framework should and should not be pursued in empirical work. Policy transfer analysis can only be distinctive from the analysis of normal forms of policy-making if it focuses on the remarkable movement of ideas between systems of governance through policy transfer networks and the intermediation of agents of policy transfer. The empirical chapters in the book also provide compelling evidence to sustain the claim that processes of political globalization appear to have increased the opportunities for policy transfer to take place. The importance of political reasons for policy change is also highlighted in the book.</p
Introduction: Is Policy Transfer Rational Policy-making?
No full textPolicy transfer is a generic concept that refers to a process in which knowledge about institutions, policies or delivery systems at one sector or level of governance is used in the development of institutions, policies or delivery systems at another sector or level of governance. Public organizations in both developed and developing countries do not always possess the expertise to tackle the problems they confront and increasingly look outside the organization to other governments or non-governmental organizations for the answers to problems. The recent literature analysing policy convergence, policy diffusion, policy learning and lesson drawing assesses the nature of different forms of policy transfer from the perspective of a host of disciplines ranging from domestic and international political science to comparative politics. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book.</p
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