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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source

Technopolitical Energy Governance as Administrative Closure: Digitalisation and the Depoliticisation of Energy Politics in Iran and Saudi Arabia

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digitalisation is widely framed as a route to more efficient and participatory public administration. In authoritarian settings, however, digital governance often works less as administrative improvement than as a technopolitical instrument for managing dissent and insulating policy from contestation.
Arash Beidollahkhani
wiley   +1 more source

Clarifying Public Policy for Stronger Public Administration in Development

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public policy is ubiquitous, yet its meaning is often unclear. This ambiguity is not just conceptual. Because policy work is a large part of what public administrations do, how we define policy shapes how we structure and organize our administrative mechanisms.
Matt Andrews
wiley   +1 more source

What Went Wrong? Donor‐Driven Gender Interventions in Afghan Education and the Failure of Contextual Adaptation (2001–2021): A Critical Systematic Review

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2001 and 2021, international donors invested billions of dollars in gender‐in‐education programming in Afghanistan, yet the country remained among the worst globally for women’s rights and educational access. This article argues that this failure reflects a structural epistemological disconnect: a fundamental divergence between Western
Ahmad Jamshid Safi
wiley   +1 more source

‘We want to be the hosts of this story’: Learning from community‐led approaches to data governance of land use for nature recovery

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Debates abound regarding how to use land for nature recovery and environmental governance. Such decisions require an understanding of benefits and trade‐offs, and increasingly rely on vast quantities of data, delivered through digital technologies.
Lucy Jenner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caring with forests: Human and more‐than‐human care in forest occupations in Germany

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and participatory action research within forest occupations in Germany, this paper develops the concept of ‘caring with forests’ to theorise the mutual, multidimensional relationships of care that emerge between humans and more‐than‐human beings in environmental protest settings.
Sebastian Garbe
wiley   +1 more source

The aesthetic dis- and configuration of democracy: on Nadia Urbinati’s conception of democratic opinion and the aesthetic function of democratic politics

open access: yesFilosofický časopis
Nadia Urbinati, in her writings, has recurrently warned about the dangers of theorizing democracy in aesthetic terms. She sees most aesthetic elements of a mediatized politics as harmful for the very project of democracy itself.
Räber, Michael
doaj   +1 more source

Rock, paper, pigeon: Exploring speculative ecologies through more‐than‐human play

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract As interactive technologies and playful storytelling increasingly explore posthuman and more‐than‐human perspectives, opportunities emerge to reframe natureculture heritage—as it recognizes that human lives, technologies and societies are always connected with the lives and environments of other species and ecosystems—as intrinsically ...
Pedro Galvão‐Ferreira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining equity: Government and community notions of equity in marine conservation co‐management

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Perceived inequities lie at the core of many conservation conflicts, yet empirical comparisons of how different stakeholders conceptualise equity remain rare. Despite its prominence in global policy frameworks, equity is context‐dependent and understood differently by different actors, making it difficult to define and operationalise. Using an
Tom M. Gammage   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: An epistemic theory of democracy by Robert E. Goodin and Kai Spiekermann

open access: yes, 2020
In An Epistemic Theory of Democracy, Robert E. Goodin and Kai Spiekermann offer a systematic argument articulating the epistemic value of democracy, aiming to show that democracies have an important advantage over other forms of government due to their ...
Ardila, Camilo
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