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Who’s “in the room where it happens”? A taxonomy and five-step methodology for identifying and characterizing policy actors [PDF]

Implementation Science Communications, 2023
Background Engaging policy actors in research design and execution is critical to increasing the practical relevance and real-world impact of policy-focused dissemination and implementation science. Identifying and selecting which policy actors to engage,
Gracelyn Cruden, Erika L. Crable, Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Jonathan Purtle   +3 more
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How commercial actors used different types of power to influence policy on restricting food marketing: a qualitative study with policy actors in Thailand [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives There is limited research focused explicitly on understanding how commercial actors use different forms of power to influence policy decision making in Thailand.
Jeff Collin, Anne Marie Thow, Sharon Friel, Ashley Schram, Carmen Huckel Schneider, Sirinya Phulkerd, Yandisa Ngqangashe   +6 more
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The role of policy actors’ belief systems and interests in framing public health nutrition problems: a case study of obesity in Australia [PDF]

Public Health Nutrition
Objective: This study investigated how the belief systems and interests of policy actors shaped their framing of the causes and solutions to obesity and how this influenced policy recommendations.
Patricia Ribeiro de Melo, Phillip Baker, Priscila Pereira Machado, Elly Howse, Tanita Northcott, Mark Lawrence   +5 more
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Political Sociology Meets Public Policy: Exploring Policy Formulation as a Locus for Assessing Power of Policy Actors

Političke Perspektive, 2023
The uplift of a governance paradigm opened the door for different non-formal ‎actors to join the policy-making process. This proliferation of actors posed‎ some new questions about the relationship between them.
Marko Kovačić
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Förändra praktiken genom imperativ policy? Lärares förutsättningar för arbetet med kartläggning i förskoleklass.

Utbildning & Demokrati, 2022
Change the practice through imperative policy? Teachers’ conditions for doing assessments in preschool class. This study examines the conditions given to teachers in preschool class in order to execute the guarantee for early interventions and mandatory ...
Helena Ackesjö, Tobias Bromander, Sven Persson   +2 more
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Discursive Institutionalism and Food Policy Research: The Case Study of Canada’s National Food Policy

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
“Food” and “policy” are ambiguous concepts. In turn, the study of food policy has resulted in varying approaches by different disciplines. However, the power behind the discursive effects of these concepts in policymaking—how food policy is understood ...
Mary Coulas
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Strengthening decision-making on sustainable agricultural intensification through multi-stakeholder social learning in sub-Saharan Africa

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2021
Increasing and competing demands on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa mean that policy and investment decisions become more complex. Despite growing consensus on the need for sustainable agricultural intensification, there is limited agreement on how to ...
Richard Lamboll, Valerie Nelson, Million Gebreyes, Daimon Kambewa, Blessings Chinsinga, Naaminong Karbo, Audax Rukonge, Martin Sekeleti, Wesley Litaba Wakun'uma, Tamene H. Gutema, Magreth Henjewele, Jessica Kampanje-Phiri, Patricia Masikati-Hlanguyo, Wilhelmina Quaye, Solomon Duah, Mbarwa Kivuyo, Progress Nyanga, Mavis Akuffobea Essilfie, Nana Yamoah Asafu-Adjaye, Victor Clottey, Adrienne Martin   +20 more
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Reconceptualizing the ‘problem’ of widening participation in higher education in England

London Review of Education, 2021
This article critically analyses national and institutional forms of policy and different conceptions of widening participation in higher education in England by contrasting representations of ‘it’ as a ‘problem’ to be managed, compared with complex ...
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Evidence for Informing Health Policy Development in Low- Income Countries (LICS): Perspectives of Policy Actors in Uganda [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015
Background Although there is a general agreement on the benefits of evidence informed health policy development given resource constraints especially in Low-Income Countries (LICs), the definition of what evidence is, and what evidence is suitable to ...
Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Rhona Mijumbi
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Towards sustainable policy instruments: assessing instrument selection among policy actors

, 2021
To address complex environmental problems we need sustainable policy solutions, which are often disregarded by policy actors in charge of addressing these problems.
Brandenberger, Laurence, Glaus, Anik, Wiedemann, Ruth Maria   +2 more
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