Public PolicyStudies

"Where are the Missing Masses? The Quasi-publics and Non-publics of Technoscience"

by shiju sam varughese

Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2012 (Special Issue: Young Scholars Take a Forward Look), DOI 10.1007/s11024-012-9197-3

The paper offers a political-philosophical analysis of the state and publics in the age of technoscience to propose... more The paper offers a political-philosophical analysis of the state and publics in the age of technoscience to propose three distinct categories of publics: scientific-citizen publics constituted by civil society, quasi-publics that initiate another kind of engagement through the activation of ‘political society,’ and non-publics cast outside these spheres of engagement, based on the empirical contexts of public engagement with technoscience in non-western contexts like India.

Urban freight modelling and policy analysis

by marcucci edoardo

The times of natural progress are over - road safety as the object of research and politics in France since 2002 <2005>

by Joerg Potthast

European Transport Safety Council, Handbook on Safety and Sustainability, 12-20

(from the editors' presentation) The first paper, by Jörg Potthast, addresses the making of road safety research in... more (from the editors' presentation) The first paper, by Jörg Potthast, addresses the making of road safety research in France at the start of this century and raises the question whether and to which extent road safety research and research into sustainable mobility need to be better integrated. In doing so, the author subjects programme research in road safety to a test in an obvious and yet unusual way. This concerns a “real” test case, triggered by a massive change in the policy sphere of road safety. On 14 July 2002 Chirac declared “road safety” (along with “cancer” and “equality for the disabled”) to be the highest national priority and thereby pulled off a coup. Everyone was surprised, including the transport research community. What effects did this declaration have for specialised research in this area? Has it been possible to translate this proclamation into research programmes, which in turn further an implementation of policy? How porous is the everyday practice in programme research for an abrupt change in external circumstances?

A Model Assessment Tool for the Incident Command System: A Case Study of the San Antonio Fire Department

by Brian O'Neill

Les transferts institutionnels à l'usage des politiques d'égalité hommes-femmes dans les nouveaux États membres de l'Union européenne. De l'invention d'un …

by Maxime Forest

An historical-institutionalist and sociological approach to policy transfers in the field of gender equality in... more An historical-institutionalist and sociological approach to policy transfers in the field of gender equality in Central and Eastern Europe

Incidental exposure to no-smoking signs primes craving for cigarettes

by Brian Earp

Earp, B. D., Dill, B., Harris, J., Ackerman, J., and Bargh, J. (2011). Incidental exposure to no-smoking signs primes craving for cigarettes: An ironic effect of unconscious semantic processing? Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology, Vol 2, No 1, 12-23.

The present study tests whether incidental exposure to no-smoking signs may ironically boost craving for cigarettes in... more The present study tests whether incidental exposure to no-smoking signs may ironically boost craving for cigarettes in smokers. Smokers viewed photographs in which no-smoking signs were either incon- spicuously embedded (prime) or edited out (control). Participants then used a joystick to make quick approach vs. avoid motions while viewing smoking-related and neutral stimuli on a computer screen (Chen & Bargh, 1999). We hypothesized that primed smokers, but not controls, would show an automatic reach bias toward the smoking-related stimuli. The data supported our prediction. Possible mechanisms for the effect are discussed, as well as implications for public health policy, negation-based social campaigns in general, and our understanding of the unconscious processing of semantic information.

Microcredit using Equity Financing: an Alternate Approach to Micro Financing in an Interest Free Economy

by Salman Ahmed Shaikh

Interest is prohibited in all monotheist religions; however, it features as an essential element in practiced... more Interest is prohibited in all monotheist religions; however, it features as an essential element in practiced capitalism. Interest based financial system has created two major havocs in last two decades i.e. in East Asia in 90s and in the Great Recession since 2007. This paper highlights the extent of development problems faced by the world. With interest at zero bound in U.S since 2008 and with unemployment at 11% level, scarcity of capital cannot solely explain this. However, interest based Microfinance has had mixed results. Interest based lending at Micro level is usually carried out at very high interest rates, more so when the lending takes place informally without institutional intermediation. Institutional intermediation serves a good purpose, but it can also be designed using equity modes of financing. This can relieve the financee and increase diversity of entrepreneurial activities as in debt based microfinance, not much diversity can happen with compulsory servicing of debt. The related questions as to how the institutional arrangement would work to carry out this system, how documentation problems be resolved, how trust level can be created, how effective monitoring can be undertaken and how the intermediaries generate finance themselves and mobilize funds are answered in this paper.

English: Governance and International Institutions: From Definition to Measurement

by Denita Cepiku

Evidence-based policy: A technocratic wish in a political world

by Jenny Lewis

Book chapter in: Evidence-based health policy: problems and possibilities.
Published by: Oxford University Press in 2003

Pertinent effects and policy displacement in Public Policy: The case of the Greek University Reform

by Loudovikos Kotsonopoulos

Draft Paper presented at 5 ECPR Potsdam Conference

Submission to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority on the Review of Business Qualifications,

by Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw (2011) Submission to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority on the Review of Business Qualifications, 14 October, 2011.

This submission to a government agency argues for greater leadership in decision-making about the structure and... more This submission to a government agency argues for greater leadership in decision-making about the structure and curriculum for business qualifications. The focus is on the governance structure which will best deliver the skills the country will need and provide a liberal education for all students.

Marshall—Making Wittgenstein Smile

by Robert Shaw

Robert Keith Shaw (2005). Marshall—Making Wittgenstein Smile. Educational Philosophy and Theory 37 (3):397–405.

In the 1980s and 1990s the discipline of philosophy of education had an impact on schooling and the public service in... more In the 1980s and 1990s the discipline of philosophy of education had an impact on schooling and the public service in New Zealand because of the contracted work of James Marshall and Michael Peters. This personal reflection by Robert Shaw is a tribute to James Marshall and provides insight into the relationship between Ministry officials, the community, and educational researchers.

Innovation inside government: The importance of networks

by Jenny Lewis

Published in: Innovation in the public sector: Linking capacity and leadership (V Bekkers, J Edelenbos and B Steijn, eds) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Co-authored with Mark Considine and Damon Alexander.

Network structures: Working differently and changing expectations

by Kerry Brown

”Kallt krig, het könsdebatt”

by Fia Sundevall

(2011) i Linderoth (red.) Kriget som aldrig kom: 12 forskare om kalla kriget. Karlskrona; Stockholm: Marinmuseum; Statens maritima museer.

Medicine, Economics and Agenda-Setting

by Jenny Lewis

Published in Social Science and Medicine 1999, 48(3): 393-405.
Co-authored with Mark Considine.

Improving trans-nationalPolicy learning in innovation: synthesis and conclusions

by Rene Wintjes

Vita e destino dello spazio pubblico (Life and destiny of the Public Space)

by CARLO ANTONICELLI

Published in Molecole Online (www.molecoleonline.com) web magazine of social issues that collects the work of many young scholars focusing on the contradictions of the labour field in contemporary Italy.

Molecole Online is the public voice of young workers of the biggest Italian Trade Union (CGIL).

2006. 'Linguistic Categories, Education, and Occupations in Singapore.' Ph.D. thesis in Sociology, New School for Social Research.

by Kiat-Jin Lee

Utilizing an array of statistical, oral life history, ethnographic, and other research, this doctoral dissertation is... more Utilizing an array of statistical, oral life history, ethnographic, and other research, this doctoral dissertation is a historical-comparative analysis of the implications of the expansion of mass education and industrialization on the inequalities among the English-speaking, Chinese-speaking, and Malay-speaking in Singapore. This thesis is part of a larger project. A book manuscript will be the final product of these endeavors. Succinctly, this dissertation corroborates that when and how the antecedents of each linguistic group arrived in Singapore determined its market situations and life chances. Not only did they supply the condition regarding its capacity to maximize the makeover of the political economy when the Straits Settlements, of which Singapore was a component, became a Crown Colony, these also in turn situated the equally crucial circumstance about its categorically differentiated ability to exploit educational expansion and industrialization a century later, where schooling was again pivotal.

John Major's Citizens Charter. Fifteen years later

by John Mullen