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Annulment proceedings and multilevel judicial conflict [PDF]
This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political ...
Adam, Christian +3 more
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Interdependent policy instrument preferences: a two-mode network approach [PDF]
In policymaking, actors are likely to take the preferences of others into account when strategically positioning themselves. However, there is a lack of research that conceives of policy preferences as an interdependent system.
Bressers +18 more
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Detecting formal and informal interests in forest governance
To reveal the interests of actors in forest governance, this paper proposes a power-based interest identification (PII) approach. Based on the assumption of intentional action, the benefits that actors derive from policy impacts are the result of ...
Jiacheng Zhao +4 more
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Past research in Health and Physical Education has repeatedly highlighted that curriculum development is an ongoing, complex and contested process, and that the realisation of progressive intentions embedded in official curriculum texts is far from ...
Karen Lambert, D. Penney
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Transfer agents and global networks in the 'transnationalization' of policy [PDF]
This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/ knowledge transfer processes to suggest a dynamic for the transnationalization of policy results.
Stone, Diane
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Regional officials who are dealing with target groups and should cope with real world limits and conflicts heavily influence implementation of agri-environmental policies.
J. Pražan
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Policy translation in assemblage: networked actors mediating science teachers’ policy play
Educational policies exist as part of complex systems of many policies, all of which science teachers must make sense before using in practice. Using Actor-Network Theory to view policy translation in assemblages, we examine how networked actors mediate ...
Kathryn M. Bateman, Scott McDonald
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Russia in Africa: Foreign Policy, Actors and Engagements
The article examines Russia’s foreign policy tools in Africa and analyses the Russian sphere of influence on the continental countries. In this context, it is discussed that Russia has exploited the foreign policy legacy left by the Union of Soviet ...
Fuat Emir Şefkatli, Oğuz Giray
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This paper draws upon education policy sociology, and sport coaching literature, in critically examining sport coaches as policy actors. Stephen Ball and colleagues’ conceptualisation of different policy actor positions and roles provided the framework ...
Andrew M. Hammond, D. Penney, R. Jeanes
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Policy issue interdependency and the formation of collaborative networks
Environmental problems often span a set of challenges that each may engage different policy actors across different policy domains. These challenges, or policy issues, nonetheless exhibit interdependencies that may constrain the ability of actors to work
Johanna Hedlund +2 more
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