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Policy Integration for Overcoming Fragmented Government Action in South Africa: The Case of the National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 1, February 2025.
ABSTRACT In South Africa, as globally, scholars in public policy, administration, and governance have acknowledged the necessity of integrated policy approaches to address complex, cross‐sectoral, and multilevel government issues. However, the complex of problems and fragmented government structures and actions hinder effective policy implementation ...
Guswin de Wee, Amina Jakoet‐Salie
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Towards Hemispheric Conversations in the Americas: Internal Colonialism and Efforts to Decolonise the Self in Abya Yala

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 120-146, January 2025.
Abstract We bring the concept of internal colonialism—developed by Indigenous and racialised activist‐scholars in Abya Yala—into conversation with settler colonialism, white supremacy, white privilege, and Indigenous fleshed or embodied politics.
Daniel P. Gámez   +3 more
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Elections, coalitions, and the politics of Brazil's macroeconomic stabilization

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 1227-1245, December 2024.
Abstract After several failed attempts in previous years, Brazil's Plano Real finally ended hyperinflation in 1993–1994, and a significant driver of inequality and poverty was eliminated as a result. By combining data from Congress and newspaper archives, 17 interviews, and secondary sources, this article takes a qualitative approach to explore the ...
Daniel H. Alves
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Resilient Commoning: The Reproduction of the Basque Commons in the Longue Durée

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 2321-2342, November 2024.
Abstract In this article, I offer an innovative approach to examining the reproduction of commoning in the longue durée. I adopt a broad, but fundamentally spatial, understanding of commoning and enclosure that recognises not only the material but also the political, socio‐cultural, and labour commons.
Jonah Olsen
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Identifying causal mechanisms of unexpected policy change: Accumulated punctuation in the field of lobbying transparency in Germany

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, Volume 10, Issue 3, Page 334-355, Summer 2024.
Abstract Recent trends toward mechanistic approaches offer a new perspective in understanding policy change and stability. This paper analyzes causal mechanisms leading to unexpected policy change by using punctuated equilibrium theory. As empirical illustration, the paper presents a case study on the introduction of the German mandatory lobbying ...
Maximilian Schiffers, Sandra Plümer
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Can Facebook's community standards keep up with legal certainty? Content moderation governance under the pressure of the Digital Services Act

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 16, Issue 3, Page 588-606, September 2024.
Abstract Content moderation by social media companies is a challenge for regulators around the world. The European Union is trying to tackle this challenge with its Digital Services Act (DSA). Notably, Article 14 DSA aims to impose language requirements based on the principle of legal certainty to social media companies' terms and conditions, of which ...
Mathieu Fasel, Sophie Weerts
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Pursuing Opacity: Geographies of Visibility in the Western Mediterranean

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 1378-1398, July 2024.
Abstract The Moroccan and Spanish governments pursue the visibility of people and things. They observe and survey in order to codify, catalogue, classify, and calculate. Rather than trace the contours of such projects, this paper seeks to provoke a more sustained engagement with modes of errantry that confound their logics of command and control ...
José Ciro Martínez
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Key and emerging themes in gene editing: A lexicometric analysis of publications in the biological sciences (1990–2022)

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 2, Page 399-407, March 2024.
Various techniques to modify genomes have been developed over the past decades, from molecular cloning to gene editing techniques. What are their applications? What are the key themes discussed by scientists? To answer these questions, we provide a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 14,739 scientific articles published between 1990 to 2022 ...
Morgan Meyer, Frédéric Vergnaud
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What security and for whom? The social construction of exclusion of migrants from citizen security and health security in Mexico

open access: yesLatin American Policy, Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 55-78, March 2024.
Abstract This article explores the social construction of international migrants as a threat to public health and public safety in Mexico, specifically in the case of the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, since relations within this new sense of “otherness” in this city cause issues for public health and citizen security as traditionally conceived. An in‐
Philippe Stoesslé
wiley   +1 more source

Assembling Under the Westway: The Emergence of Social Infrastructure in North Kensington, London

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 249-275, January 2024.
Abstract This paper explores the generative capacity of activist movements defending their community assets from commodification or closure to produce new forms of social infrastructure. We explore this through the case study of activism along the Westway, a motorway in West London. The area has a strong tradition of community activism, particularly in
Pablo Sendra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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