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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper critically examines how civil society organisations (CSOs), particularly development and humanitarian non‐governmental organisations (NGOs), shape children's and young people's activism as represented in the scholarly literature. Drawing on a transdisciplinary literature review informed by reflexive professional insights, the paper ...
Samira Abou Alfa +2 more
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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2018 Reflecting upon William Walton’s work in this issue of Fennia, this commentary elaborates on the ideas of post-politics evoked by Walton’s careful examination of Scottish planning. Applying viewpoints of depoliticization and post-politics may not provide
Vesa Kanninen
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The question of “evidence” in the emergence of evidence-based or evidence-aware policies in agriculture [PDF]
Evidence-based or evidence-aware policy approaches are used in many different sectors (health, education, etc.). These approaches are less common in agriculture but are gradually emerging.
Laurent, Catherine E., Trouve, Aurelie
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The legitimation crisis of democracy: emancipatory politics, the environmental state and the glass ceiling to socio-ecological transformation [PDF]
, 2020 The democratic legitimation imperativeof the modern state has been conceptualised as the barrier that stops the environmental state from developing into a green or eco-state–and thus as the glass ceiling to a socio-ecological transformation of capitalist
Blühdorn, Ingolfur
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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
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Paradoxical outsourcing? – outsourcing in left-leaning municipalities
Political Research ExchangeThis article aims to discuss why and how left-leaning governing parties outsource public services to private contractors despite their ideological commitments. Previous research typically links such contradictory decisions to global trends or ideological
Roy Liff, Johan Berlin, David Karlsson
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Depoliticisation, demoralisation and depersonalisation - and how to better them [PDF]
, 2008 An important contribution to the thinking behind this paper came during a recent discussion of government policies called ‘personalisation’. When asked ‘what is the problem to which personalized learning is a solution?’, one delegate at a deputy heads ...
Watkins, Chris
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Dynamics of Transnational Labour Migration Revisited from a Crisis Complex Perspective
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article uses the notion of crisis complex to analyse the relationship between labour migration and crisis from an institution‐ and process‐oriented perspective. Such an interrogation is timely, given the increasingly crisis‐prone dynamics shaping global labour systems and migration governance, including recruitment, skills recognition and
Ioana Jipa‐Muşat, Nicola Piper
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The (De)Politicisation of Work – An Inquiry into the Political Function of Work
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2019 The paper revisits the debate on the political function of work, defined as the contribution of work to the production and transformation of social relations, in both conceptual and empirical terms.
Helena Lopes
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Neo-Statecraft Theory, Historical Institutionalism and Institutional Change [PDF]
, 2016 This article provides a critical examination of the contribution that statecraft theory, which has been subject to recent revision and development, makes to the literature on institutional change.
Adcock +25 more
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