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A social network analysis of Canadian food insecurity policy actors.

Canadian journal of dietetic practice and research, 2018
PURPOSE This paper aims to: (i) visualize the networks of food insecurity policy actors in Canada, (ii) identify potential food insecurity policy entrepreneurs (i.e., individuals with voice, connections, and persistence) within these networks, and (iii ...
L. McIntyre, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, C. Mah, J. Godley   +3 more
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Policy actors: doing policy work in schools

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
This paper considers the ‘policy work’ of teacher actors in schools. It focuses on the ‘problem of meaning’ and offers a typology of roles and positions through which teachers engage with policy and with which policies get ‘enacted’. It argues that ‘policy work’ is made up of a set of complex and differentiated activities which involve both creative ...
Ball, Stephen J., Maguire, Meg, Braun, Annette, Hoskins, Kate   +3 more
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Advancing scholarship on policy conflict through perspectives from oil and gas policy actors

Policy sciences, 2023
J. Kagan, Tanya Heikkila, C. Weible, Duncan Gilchrist, R. Berardo, Hongtao Yi   +5 more
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Scholars as Policy Actors

American Educational Research Journal, 2012
Courts, students are told, will protect minorities’ legal rights against popular sentiment and political pressure. But courts can be expected to protect rights only within boundaries shaped in part by popular and political opinion. This suggests that litigation outcomes regarding education rights issues will depend on shifting the policymaking context
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Social Workers as Policy Actors

Journal of Social Policy, 2013
AbstractThis article offers an empirical analysis of the role of social workers as policy actors in parliamentary committees. Based on an initial finding that social workers participated in 14 per cent of all the deliberations of parliamentary committees in the Israeli parliament, the article examines the actual inputs of these social workers in the ...
IDIT WEISS-GAL, JOHN GAL
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Policy Advice and Public Policy. Actors, Contents and Processes

Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 2017
This article reviews the literature on policy advice and policy advisory systems by taking into consideration three sets of basic questions: who the policy advi- sors are; what type of policy advice they deliver; and how they intervene in the policy process and in policy dynamics.
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The Intergovernmental Policy Actors

2008
This chapter will explore some of the ways in which ideas and principles regarding the ‘cultural economy’ have been promoted by the organizations of the UN system. In analysing these itineraries, it will focus on the agenda-setting processes: how policy issues have been defined, who the different participants and stake-holders have been, what role has ...
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Actor Constellations and Policy Making

2017
The chapter focuses on the HE sector itself, and the way in which it shapes HE policies in the light of two different perspectives: The rst emphasizes the importance of organizational arrangements of the HE sectors for the shaping of HE policies. Then a comparative analy- sis of three countries--England, Italy and Norway is developed.
Ivar Bleiklie, Svein Michelsen, Mary Henkel, Emanuela Reale   +3 more
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Elite Actors and Policy Innovation

2008
The case studies collected in chapter 3 illustrated the contingent and at least partly endogenous nature of interests. The studies in the present chapter address the other pillar of new institutionalist analysis, the central role given to the structural preconditions of policy, both in times of stability and change.
William Genieys, Marc Smyrl
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Policy actors

2007
Peter Knoepfel, Corinne Larrue, Frédéric Varone, Michael Hill   +3 more
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