Joan Higgins, Nicholas Deakin, John Edwards and Malcolm Wicks, Government and Urban Policy: Inside the Policy Making Process, Blackwell, Oxford, 1983. vii + 215 pp. £15.00, paper £5.95.

Using the Urban and Economic Mobility initiative undertaken by President Obama, I explore how and if race-gender is recognized in the framing of urban policy during the Obama administration. There is a distinctive race-gender dimension to urban policy. In urban areas, data suggests that poverty is both raced and gendered. The purpose of this chapter is to engage in an analysis of the relationship between race-gender and space in relation to urban policy-making. This analysis specifically looks at how Black women are treated in the urban policy-making process of the Obama administration. However, it also serves as an analysis into how Black women are understood in Black politics more specifically as it grapples with the larger question of how ideologies of gender, which often engage a rather masculinist approach, influence the quest for freedom and equality. An analysis of the Obama administration is somewhat of a proxy for an analysis of how gender, particularly Black womanhood, is treated in Black politics. As I argue, the ideologies of gender that influence urban policy, resulting in the invisibility of Black womanhood, are also prevalent in Black politics. What should Black politics look like beyond Obama?

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Participação cidadã e reconfigurações nas políticas urbanas nos anos 90

Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais ◽

10.22296/2317-1529.2004v6n2p35 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 35 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Flávia De Paula Duque Brasil

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Local Governments ◽

Policy Making ◽

Urban Policy ◽

Local Level ◽

Urban Policies ◽

Municipal Council ◽

Collective Actors ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Urban Planning And Management

O artigo aborda as instâncias de participação nas políticas urbanas que se multiplicam no cenário contemporâneo, a partir do trânsito de projetos societários endereçados à democratização do planejamento e da gestão das cidades. Sustenta-se que, a despeito da heterogeneidade das experiências, dos seus limites, dificuldades e contradições (inerentes ao processo de reconstrução das relações entre Estado e sociedade no Brasil), os canais de participação têm configurado trilhas alternativas e novas linhagens de políticas locais. No primeiro momento discutem-se os conceitos de público e participação cidadã, mapeando possibilidades de influência dos atores societários na formação da agenda e produção das políticas urbanas. No momento seguinte, as instâncias de participação são objeto de exame, privilegiando-se os Conselhos Municipais de Política Urbana, suas características, papéis, potenciais e alcances. Finalmente, detém-se ilustrativamente no Conselho Municipal de Política Urbana e na Conferência Municipal de Política Urbana de Belo Horizonte.Palavras-chave: participação cidadã; política urbana; conselhos municipais. Abstract: This article addresses citizens participation in urban policies, focusing on participatory arrangements implemented by local governments since the late eighties in Brazilian context. These experiences could be regarded as expressions of collective actors democratizing projects referred to urban planning and management. This paper argues that, despite the experiences diversity, their limits, difficulties and contradictions, participation have produced alternative policies models. First, the text approaches public space and citizens participation concepts and stresses civil society possibilities to influence agenda-setting and policy-making process. Next, local-level participatory arrangements are examined, emphasizing urban policy municipal councils. Their character, roles, potentials and limits are pointed out. Last, Belo Horizonte’s Urban Policy Municipal Council and the Urban Policy Municipal Conference are analyzed as an illustrative case.Keywords: citizens participation; urban policies; municipal councils.

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Making Policies with Data: The Legacy of the PoliVisu Project

The Data Shake - SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-63693-7_8 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 105-122

Author(s):

Freya Acar ◽

Lieven Raes ◽

Bart Rosseau ◽

Matteo Satta

Keyword(s):

Policy Making ◽

Urban Policy ◽

Data Use ◽

Added Value ◽

Specific Policy ◽

Use Of Data ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Data Production ◽

Institutional Actors ◽

Policy Problems

AbstractThe PoliVisu project has the goal to investigate the potential of data use and visualisation in urban policy making. The project has explored how data supported policy making is adopted by public administrations and what we can learn from their experience. This is done by enrolling pilot cases with different and specific policy problems. From the experience of the PoliVisu pilots the influence and added value of data in the policy making process is assessed. Considering the recent “shake” in data production and use, PoliVisu has adopted four driving questions, as follow: what are the new roles data can play in the policy making process?, What is the added value of data for policy making? How can innovative visualisations contribute to improve the use of data in policy making processes? To what extent can an increased adoption of data affect the policy making process? How is the data shake affecting the involvement of non-institutional actors in the policy making process? This paper explores these questions, by presenting the experiences and the lessons learnt, also focussing on specific pilots’ initiatives and results.

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Positive Reintegration as a Way of Small and Medium-Sized Business Development

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-6-83-88 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 83-88

Author(s):

A. Zolotov ◽

M. Mukhanov

Keyword(s):

Policy Implementation ◽

Policy Making ◽

Economic Reforms ◽

Alternative Possibility ◽

New Approach ◽

Compensation Mechanisms ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Monitoring And Enforcement ◽

The Subject ◽

Modernization Process

А new approach to policy-making in the field of economic reforms in modernizing countries (on the sample of SME promotion) is the subject of this article. Based on summarizing the ten-year experience of de-bureaucratization policy implementation to reduce the administrative pressure on SME, the conclusion of its insufficient efficiency and sustainability is made. The alternative possibility is the positive reintegration approach, which provides multiparty policy-making process, special compensation mechanisms for the losing sides, monitoring and enforcement operations. In conclusion matching between positive reintegration principles and socio-cultural factors inherent in modernization process is provided.

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A Policy Network Analysis on the Policy-Making Process of the After-Schools

Korea University Institute of Educational Research ◽

10.24299/kier.2018.31.3.99 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 99-118

Author(s):

Min kyoung Kim ◽

Yeong mo Jeong

Keyword(s):

Network Analysis ◽

Policy Making ◽

Policy Network ◽

Policy Making Process

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A Study on the Policy-making Process of the Three Kindergarten Bills: Focusing on Fast Track Systems and the Devil Shift

Korean Policy Studies Review ◽

10.33900/kaps.2020.29.3.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 135-171

Author(s):

Jeong Ho Yoo ◽

Yunju Yang ◽

Ji Hye Choi ◽

Seung Taek Lee ◽

Rosa Minhyo Cho

Keyword(s):

Policy Making ◽

Fast Track ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

The Devil

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Interest group participation in the policy-making process : pipeline decision 1977

10.22215/etd/1980-13154 ◽

1980 ◽

Author(s):

Eleanor Jamieson-Clark

Keyword(s):

Interest Group ◽

Policy Making ◽

Group Participation ◽

Policy Making Process

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The Dual Executive

10.11126/stanford/9780804799973.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Michelle Belco ◽

Brandon Rottinghaus

Keyword(s):

Policy Making ◽

Political System ◽

Government Support ◽

The Political ◽

Government Function ◽

Dual Roles ◽

System P ◽

Policy Making Process

The president serves dual roles in the political system: one who “commands” by pursuing his or her agenda using unilateral orders and one who “administers” and who works to continue proper government function, often with the support of Congress. In a reassessment of the literature on unilateral power, this book considers the president’s dual roles during the stages of the policy-making process. Although presidents may appear to act “first and alone,” the reality is often much different. Presidents act in response to their own concerns, as well as assisting Congress on priorities and the need to maintain harmonic government function. The authors find support for both the model of an aggressive president who uses unilateral orders to push his or her agenda, head off unfavorable congressional legislation, and selectively implement legislation, and they find support for a unifying president who is willing to share management of government, support Congressional legislative efforts, and faithfully implement legislation. At the same time, presidents self-check their actions based on the ability of Congress to act to overturn their orders, through a shared sense of responsibility to keep government moving and out of respect for the constitutional balance. The shared nature of unilateral orders does not preclude an active president, as presidents remain strong, central actors in the political system.

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