The Role of CSR in International Policy Agendas

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Ilona Szőcs ◽  
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
Keyword(s):  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Agendas

scholarly journals The Active Aging Agenda, Old Folk Devils and a New Moral Panic

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C.J. Pike
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Older People ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Active Aging ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Agendas

The proposal that older people should engage in “active aging” has come to dominate local, national, and international policy agendas. This encompasses a variety of ways that older persons might maintain active citizenship, but invariably promotes physical activity and exercise as having health and social benefits, despite a lack of conclusive evidence to support such claims. In this paper, I further examine the meaning of these claims through an analysis of policy documents, reports, and media articles which promote the perceived benefits of physical activity in later life. I revisit Cohen’s (2002) concepts of folk devils and moral panics to understand how these messages simultaneously problematize older people while creating a market for emergent moral entrepreneurs who claim to have the solution to the problem they have in part created. I conclude with recommendations for improved understanding of the benefits and appropriate provision for active aging.

scholarly journals University alliances in the Europe of knowledge: Positions, agendas and practices in policy processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Vukasovic ◽  
Bjørn Stensaker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
European Level ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Policy Arena

Several university alliances have been established in Europe in an attempt to influence the development of policies in research and education. As such, these alliances can be seen as being new players in the increasingly complex multi-actor, multi-level governance in this policy domain. The paper compares two key university alliances in Europe; in particular, how membership differences are related to their positions in the policy arena, their policy agendas and their policy formation and lobbying practices. The study contributes to understanding of, first, the role of university alliances in European level policy processes concerning higher education and research; and, second, the implications their involvement might have for future shaping of European initiatives in the knowledge domain.

Does Anyone Care about the Poor? The Role of Redistribution in Mayoral Policy Agendas

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-254
Author(s):  
J. Wesley Leckrone ◽  
Michelle Atherton ◽  
Nicole Crossey ◽  
Andrea Stickley ◽  
Meghan E. Rubado
Keyword(s):  
The Poor ◽  
Policy Agendas

World Order after Caucasian War

2010 ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
V. Sheinis
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Policy Choice ◽  
International Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Supranational Institutions ◽  
The U.S

The world order based on Yalta and Potsdam decisions as well as on two nuclear superpowers infighting has filed as a history. What is coming up to take its place? A correlation between power and law in international policy, national sovereignty and supranational institutions, territorial integrity of states and the right of nations to self-determination, bloc infighting atavisms, so called "double standard" and international interventions – these are critical debating points that the author develops his own approach to. The role of the U.S. in world policy, and the foreign policy choice of Russia are also examined.

Beyond the Hegemony of Neoliberal Ideas: Ideational Diversity and Policy Variegation in the Neoliberal State

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052110523
Author(s):  
Asa Maron
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Bureaucratic State ◽  
Policy Proposals

Sociologists commonly adopt a bifurcated understanding of the neoliberal state, showing how neoliberalism’s advance coincides with the growing authority of specific actors and ideas inside the bureaucratic state as others’ authority declines. This article complicates this view by probing the dynamics of non-neoliberal action inside the state, demonstrating the ways even demoted state actors can strategically muster power resources to forward distinct policy agendas. Taking a long-term perspective on social policy developments since the early 2000s, this article reviews the case of Israel, where neoliberal policies' new hegemony and adverse outcomes triggered counter-actions inside the state, ultimately leading to policy change. Paying particular attention to the role of ideas, this article argues that by rearticulating their policy mission to align with market conventions, non-neoliberal actors were able to persuade neoliberal actors to support their policy proposals, succeeding to advance creative policy alternatives under hostile political conditions. Highlighting this strategic capacity and ideational resilience and acumen in adapting to neoliberal critique reveals how demoted state actors can manage to sustain entrenched organizational goals and institutional motivations even as they help ease the adaptation of their historical mission to the neoliberal zeitgeist.

The Role of Social Housing in the ‘Care’ and ‘Control’ of Tenants with Mental Health Problems

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadie Parr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health It ◽  
Housing Officers ◽  
Housing Professionals ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
And Control

Social housing is at the intersection of two policy agendas, namely anti-social behaviour and community care. This means that tenants with mental ill-health might at once be defined as vulnerable and in need of support to enable them to live independently, but simultaneously their behaviour may be viewed as a threat to the safety of others serving to legitimatise disciplinary and punitive forms of intervention on the grounds of ‘difference’. This paper focuses on the role of housing professionals in the management of cases of ASB involving people with mental ill-health. It argues that housing practitioners are not adequately equipped to make judgements on the culpability of ‘perpetrators’ who have mental ill-health and ensure their response is appropriate. This raises questions about the training housing officers recieve, and more broadly, whether the competing policy aims of community care and ASB can be reconciled.

scholarly journals “Leaving No Child Behind:” Preferences for Social Inclusion and Altruism

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Menon ◽  
Federico Perali ◽  
Marcella Veronesi
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Rehabilitation Programs ◽  
The Family ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Crime Risk

AbstractSocial inclusion is a priority item of international policy agendas. However, little is known about households’ preferences for policies aiming at social inclusion. We implement a household survey in both northern and southern Italy to investigate preferences for financing rehabilitation programs for juvenile offenders, a particularly vulnerable group exposed to social exclusion. We find that although societies can be equally socially inclusive, families’ propensity towards “leaving no child behind” varies depending on the presence of children in the family, and household income. We also show that differences in preferences do not depend only on socio-demographic characteristics but also on the subjective concern about crime risk, the immigration rate as well as on altruistic motives. Our results guide the implementation of policies promoting social inclusion across regions.

scholarly journals A Theory of Hegemonic Stability in South American Regionalism? Evidence from the Case of Brazil in UNASUR and Venezuela in ALBA

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
María Victoria Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Regional Governance ◽  
South American ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Political Cycle ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Theory Of Hegemonic Stability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hegemonic Stability

Abstract Both Brazil and Venezuela structured their foreign policy agendas in the early 21st century on the projection of their respective leadership in regional schemes such as UNASUR and ALBA, respectively, following an intermediate hegemonic strategy. The loss of dynamism of these post-hegemonic initiatives problematizes the relationship between regional governance and the role of regional powers. ALBA is a scheme contingent on the political cycle and political voluntarism intrinsic in Venezuela’s leadership. The bloc has lost members and relevance in recent years. As for UNASUR, most of its member states have withdrawn from the bloc and it is currently not operating. In short, post-hegemonic proposals lose dynamism and support once the leadership that promoted them weakens. A certain ‘hegemonic stability theory’ contextualized to South America with regard to the leadership of Brazil and Venezuela in recent years seems to be fulfilled: the decline in power of these countries helps to account for political reversals and changes in regional governance.

scholarly journals Das globale Huhn

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (135) ◽  
pp. 263-285
Author(s):  
Ulrich Petschow ◽  
Anita Idel
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Resources ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Breeding Systems ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Traditional Breeding

The loss of agrobiodiversity is an upcoming field on international policy agendas. The case study “global chicken” reveals the causes of the loss of agrogenetic resources of chicken. This loss is caused by agricultural research linked with economic interests and property right systems as well as the enforcement of a fordist production model in the agricultural sector with immense distributional effects especially on agrogenetic resources. The hybrid chicken breeding industry destroys genetic resources by “outcompeting” traditional breeding systems.

scholarly journals Private sector development and the persistence of fragility in Sierra Leone

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-631
Author(s):  
Brian Ganson ◽  
Herbert M’cleod
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Private Sector Development ◽  
Extensive Documentation ◽  
Peaceful Development ◽  
State Relations

AbstractRhetoric from both domestic and international policy actors equated foreign direct investment and robust business growth in Sierra Leone with an exit from fragility. To the contrary, the trajectory of private sector development experienced from 2002 to 2014 contributed to Sierra Leone's socio-political challenges, replicating in the contemporary period dynamics of grievance and exclusion that were root causes of the country's endemic instability and then civil war. This study challenges the practices and refines the ideas underlying the prevailing vision for business-led development in Sierra Leone and other fragile states. It links extensive documentation of the role of business in Sierra Leone with peacebuilding and statebuilding frameworks to present a novel perspective on the mechanisms of action of private sector development in contexts of persistent fragility. In doing so, it provides a foundation on which further theoretical propositions for the ordering of business-state relations in support of transitions from fragility to peaceful development can be developed and tested.

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