scholarly journals Control or influence? Conflict or solidarity? Understanding diversity in preferences for public participation in social policy decision making

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikki Dean
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Decision Making

Children's Participation in Social Policy: Inclusion, Chimera or Authenticity?

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Cockburn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Uk

This paper explores the recent plethora of commitments by government to include children in social policy decision making in the UK. The participation of children is located in the tensions between children perceived as competent and/or incompetent that underlies the ambiguities of children's participation. The paper examines the ways participation, power and empowerment can be used in the context of children. The paper looks at children’s civic engagement and suggests that the participation of children is difficult with the ways representative governments operate in a liberal democracy today, but ends with some suggested ways forward.

scholarly journals Union struggle and the crisis of industrial relations in Italy

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Pulignano
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Union Power ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
The Government

This paper argues that the Berlusconi government is seeking to replace the ‘social concertation’ arrangement between government and trade unions with ‘social dialogue’ in an effort to undermine trade union ‘power’. This endeavour by the government to impose a policy of ‘social dialogue’ would severely limit trade unions' influence in economic and social policy decision-making and leave Berlusconi free to introduce reforms favouring his friends in employer organisations. One likely outcome would be the deregulation of the Italian labour market strongly damaging workers' rights.

scholarly journals Orchestrating Forest Policy in Italy: Mission Impossible?

Forests ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Secco ◽  
Alessandro Paletto ◽  
Raoul Romano ◽  
Mauro Masiero ◽  
Davide Pettenella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
Local Levels ◽  
Institutional Fragmentation

In the Italian political and economic agenda the forest sector occupies a marginal role. The forest sector in Italy is characterized by a high institutional fragmentation and centralized decision-making processes dominated by Public Forest Administrations. Public participation in forest policy processes has been implemented since the 1990s at national, regional and local levels in several cases. However, today no significant changes have been observed in the overall governance of the forest sector and stakeholders’ involvement in Italian forest policy decision-making is still rather limited. The aims of this paper are to describe the state of forest-related participatory processes in Italy at various levels (national, regional and local) and identify which factors and actors hinder or support the establishment and implementation of participatory forest-related processes in the country. The forest-related participatory processes are analyzed adopting a qualitative-based approach and interpreting interactive, complex and non-linear participatory processes through the lens of panarchy theory.

scholarly journals Public Participation in South Africa’s Policy Decision-Making Process: The Mass and the Elite Choices

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Mokoko Piet Sebola
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Academic Discourses

Public participation in policy-making dominates most Development, Political Science and Public Administration academic discourses. The issue of concern is the extent to which governments are able to create structures that allow for public participation of citizens in matters affecting their political and developmental concerns. The success of any government administration is, therefore, measured on the basis of how the citizens participate and contribute to the process of deciding their own political and developmental direction. It is argued that the public participation approach that considers the interests, contributions and needs of citizens in policy decision-making processes is difficult in practice. This article investigates the processes of public participation in public policy-making in South Africa with respect to the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act 92 of 1996, the Abolition of Capital Punishment policy and the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006. This is done with a view to determine if public participation in policy decision-making is a reflection of the choices of the elite or the masses.

Modeling Foreign Policy Decision Making

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 136, 138
Author(s):  
RICHARD L. MERRITT
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Decision Making
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