Public Policy Actors And The Knowledge-Based Social Order

2011 ◽  
pp. 193-220
Author(s):  
Michael W. Kpessa
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Knowledge Based

The Development of Ijma'

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-187
Author(s):  
Muhammad Y. Faruqi
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Sociopolitical Development ◽  
Normative Basis ◽  
In The Beginning

In the beginning, ijma' (consensus) was more a pragmatic necessity thanan explicit Shari'ah principle. It was first applied to public policy considerationsand was used to settle some crucial questions that had arisen (we will discussthe issue of khilafah separately, where we can see how the Companions attemptedto settle this issue). The event of the Thaqifah of Banu Sa'idah was a great testfor the ummah's social order and alerted the leaders to potential future crises.The Companions therefore gave immediate attention to the succession issue,and sincere people realized that the ummah needed a sociopolitical doctrine thatwould support its desired sociopolitical development and keep it united. Amongthe khulafa 'al rashidun, particularly Abu Bakr and ' Umar, great emphasis wasplaced on the principle of shura, which was, in fact, a means to realize ijma '.The development of ijma ' was an opportune and proper approach to preservethe ummah's unity and integrity. As the Companions were greatly concernedabout the establishment of the khilafah by means of ijma', 'Umar rejected allattempts to use other methods.'Although the fuqaha' (jurists) refer to the Qur'anic ayat and the ahadith asa normative basis for ijma', precedents are found in the practice the khulafa 'al rashidun and the Companions, who made agreed-upon decisions in manysocial and religious matters. The jurists are unanimous in agreeing that theCompanions' ijma' is a complete and definite source of law, and some recognizeit to the exclusion of all other source. The classical jurist al Khatib al Baghdadi ...

Push Comes to Shove

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Stephen Skowronek ◽  
John A. Dearborn ◽  
Desmond King
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
The State ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Deep State ◽  
Good Government

This chapter introduces the main themes of the book. It situates the concepts of the Deep State and the unitary executive in the politics of the Trump presidency. When President Trump employed the term “Deep State,” he envisioned a duly elected leader hindered in the pursuit of his political priorities by an entrenched officialdom and their extensive support networks arrayed. Americans are predisposed to be wary of the state, and the specter of a Deep State is a national nightmare. President Trump invoked this image to strengthen the case for an executive branch unified and hierarchically controlled by the president. But for defenders of steady management, the presence of trained public servants is a necessary means to implementing knowledge-based public policy, guarding against hasty and arbitrary impositions, and ensuring that checks and balances work. The Deep State and the unitary executive are phantom twins, symptoms of two different conceptions of good government in contemporary America.

Advice for practical application

2018 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
Peter Knoepfel
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Resource Analysis ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Public Action

This chapter provides advice on the practical application of the concepts relating to public action resources presented in the book. It proposes experience-based units for measuring each of the ten resources (and related indicators), a way of identifying the resource portfolios of public policy actors (mainly capable of demonstrating the differences between the resource portfolio at the disposal of each one of the three actors) and a standardized way of documenting resource exchanges. Finally, the chapter locates public action resource analysis within the context of comprehensive policy analysis studies based on a seven-point checklist.

scholarly journals Flanders Ahead, Wallonia Behind (But Catching Up): Reconstructing Communities Through Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy Making

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Michiel Van Oudheusden ◽  
Nathan Charlier ◽  
Pierre Delvenne
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Science Technology And Innovation

Drawing on a documentary analysis of two socioeconomic policy programs, one Flemish (“Vlaanderen in Actie”), the other Walloon (“Marshall Plans”), and a discourse analysis of how these programs are received in one Flemish and one Francophone quality newspaper, this article illustrates how Flanders and Wallonia both seek to become top-performing knowledge-based economies (KBEs). The article discerns a number of discursive repertoires, such as “Catching up,” which policy actors draw on to legitimize or question the transformation of Flanders and Wallonia into KBEs. The “Catching up” repertoire places Flanders resolutely ahead of Wallonia in the global race toward knowledge, excellence, and growth, but suggests that Wallonia may, in due course, overtake Flanders as a top competitive region. Given the expectations and fears that “Catching up” evokes among Flemish and Walloon policy actors, the repertoire serves these actors as a flexible discursive resource to make sense of, and shape, their collective futures and their regional identities. The article’s findings underline the simultaneity of, and the interplay between, globalizing forces and particularizing tendencies, as Flanders and Wallonia develop with a global KBE in region-specific ways.

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