A knowledge brokerage approach for assessing the impacts of the setting up young farmers policy measure in Greece

Background: Knowledge brokering is promoted as a means of enabling exchange between fields and closer collaboration across institutional boundaries. Yet examples of its success in fostering collaboration and reconfiguring boundaries remain few.Aims and objectives: We consider the introduction of a dedicated knowledge-brokering role in a partnership across healthcare research and practice, with a view to examining the interaction between knowledge brokers’ location and attributes and the characteristics of the fields across which they work.Methods: We use qualitative data from a four-year ethnographic study, including observations, interviews, focus groups, reflective diaries and other documentary sources. Our analysis draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual framework.Findings: In efforts to transform the boundaries between related but disjointed fields, a feature posited as advantageous – knowledge brokers’ liminality – may in practice work to their disadvantage. An unequal partnership between two fields, where the capitals (the resources, relationships, markers of prestige and forms of knowledge) valued in one are privileged over the other, left knowledge brokers without a prior affiliation to either field adrift between the two.Discussion and conclusions: Lacking legitimacy to act across fields and bridge the gap between them, knowledge brokers are likely to seek to develop their skills on one side of the boundary, focusing on more limited and conservative activities, rather than advance the value of a distinctive array of capitals in mediating between fields. We identify implications for the construction and deployment of knowledge-brokering interventions towards collaborative objectives. Key messages <ul><li>Knowledge brokers are vaunted as a means of translating knowledge and removing barriers between fields;</li> <li>Their position ‘in between’ fields is important, but their influence in those fields may be limited;</li> <li>Lacking the resources and relationships to work across fields, they may align with only one;</li> <li>Both the structure of fields and the prior knowledge and habitus of brokers will influence knowledge brokerage’s success.</li></ul>

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Effectiveness of "Lending Window Operations" as a Restrictive Monetary Policy Measure

Japanese Economic Studies ◽

10.2753/jes1097-203x060271 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 71-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Akiyoshi Horiuchi

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Policy Measure

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Monetising behavioural change as a policy measure to support energy management in the residential sector: A case study in Greece

Energy Policy ◽

10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112759 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 161 ◽

pp. 112759

Author(s):

Konstantinos Koasidis ◽

Vangelis Marinakis ◽

Alexandros Nikas ◽

Katerina Chira ◽

Alexandros Flamos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Management ◽

Behavioural Change ◽

Policy Measure ◽

Residential Sector

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The revolution will be hard to evaluate: How simultaneous change in multiple policies affects policy-based health research

10.1101/2020.10.02.20205971 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ellicott C. Matthay ◽

Erin Hagan ◽

Spruha Joshi ◽

May Lynn Tan ◽

David Vlahov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Research ◽

State Level ◽

Limited Attention ◽

Social Policies ◽

Policy Changes ◽

Policy Measure ◽

Country Level ◽

Systematic Sample ◽

Simultaneous Change ◽

Very High

AbstractExtensive empirical health research leverages variation in the timing and location of policy changes as quasi-experiments. Multiple social policies may be adopted simultaneously in the same locations, creating clustering which must be addressed analytically for valid inferences. The pervasiveness and consequences of policy clustering have received limited attention. We analyzed a systematic sample of 13 social policy databases covering diverse domains including poverty, paid family leave, and tobacco. We quantified policy clustering in each database as the fraction of variation in each policy measure across jurisdictions and times that could be explained by co-variation with other policies (R2). We used simulations to estimate the ratio of the variance of effect estimates under the observed policy clustering to variance if policies were independent. Policy clustering ranged from very high for state-level cannabis policies to low for country-level sexual minority rights policies. For 65% of policies, greater than 90% of the place-time variation was explained by other policies. Policy clustering increased the variance of effect estimates by a median of 57-fold. Policy clustering poses a major methodological challenge to rigorously evaluating health effects of individual social policies. Tools to enhance validity and precision for evaluating clustered policies are needed.

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Water Wars by Other Means: Virtual Water and Global Economic Restructuring

Global Environmental Politics ◽

10.1162/glep_a_00141 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 86-103

Author(s):

Andrew Biro

Keyword(s):

North Africa ◽

Political Legitimacy ◽

Economic Restructuring ◽

Virtual Water ◽

Policy Measure ◽

Domestic Water ◽

Historical Trends ◽

Water Wars ◽

American Primacy ◽

Water Scarce

In the mid-1990s, Tony Allan coined the term “virtual water” to describe international grain shipments, arguing that for purposes of economic efficiency and political legitimacy, governments in water-scarce nations would be better served by importing grain and diverting limited domestic water supplies to higher-value purposes than by producing grain. This concept has gained considerable traction in explaining the absence of “water wars,” particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As a prescriptive policy measure, I argue first that the exemplarity of the MENA serves an ideological function, premised on a market environmentalist approach, and framing “water crisis” as a problem of physical scarcity rather than underdevelopment. Historical trends in virtual water imports, as well as the problem of American primacy in virtual water exports, are then used to develop an account of virtual water trade that situates it within the political and economic restructuring associated with US-led globalization.

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Hierarchy-Attenuating Policy Measure

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t22963-000 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer L. Zimmerman

Keyword(s):

Policy Measure

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Academic life in the impact vanguard: the view from knowledge exchange organisations

The Impact Agenda ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447339854.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 137-160

Author(s):

Katherine E. Smith ◽

Justyna Bandola-Gill ◽

Nasar Meer ◽

Ellen Stewart ◽

Richard Watermeyer

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Translation ◽

Knowledge Exchange ◽

Research Impact ◽

Interview Data ◽

Academic Life ◽

Types Of Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Brokerage ◽

Experimental Subjects ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact

This chapter focuses on academics working in university-based groups that have been charged with, and funded to achieve, knowledge translation and research impact. These are, we suggest, academics working at the vanguard of the impact agenda, who we might consider as experimental subjects from whom we can learn. This chapter includes a summary of the types of knowledge brokerage roles and organisations that have been created in the UK and the perceived and stated rationales for these new roles and organisations, and an analysis of interview data providing insights into the perspectives of academics working within two such groups.

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Adjudicating Economics? Central Bank Independence and the Appropriate Standard of Judicial Review

German Law Journal ◽

10.1017/s2071832200002947 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 265-280 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Matthias Goldmann

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Central Bank ◽

Judicial Review ◽

Constitutional Court ◽

Unconventional Monetary Policy ◽

The European Union ◽

Policy Measure ◽

European Central ◽

Basic Law ◽

Federal Constitutional

In Karlsruhe's recent request for a preliminary ruling, an unconventional monetary policy measure of the European Central Bank (ECB) finds an unconventional judicial response. Based on its mandate to enforce the fundamental right to vote, the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) leaves no doubt about its view that the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions Programme (OMT Programme) violates the law of the European Union and hence the German Basic Law, unless one reads them in a rather restrictive way. But as unconventional monetary policy steps up the need for the ECB to justify the legality of its measures, so does the FCC's unconventional expansion of the scope of judicial review raise questions which the recent decision in its—generally laudable—brevity leaves underexplored. In particular, the decision does not dwell much on the issue whether it is appropriate for a court to review issues of monetary policy, and which standard of review should apply. Only Judge Gerhardt calls the majority's standard of review into question when he doubts whether the requirement for transgressions of the European Union's competences to be “manifest” is a workable criterion for defining the scope of the FCC's ultra vires control.

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