scholarly journals Alcohol Policy Making at the Local Level

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingeborg Rossow ◽  
Bergljot Baklien
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Alcohol Policy

Use of research in local alcohol policy-making

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 192-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingeborg Rossow ◽  
Trygve Ugland ◽  
Bergljot Baklien
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Local Level ◽  
City Council ◽  
Alcohol Policy ◽  
Advocacy Coalitions ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health Safety ◽  
Temperance Movements

Purpose – On-premise trading hours are generally decided at the local level. The purpose of this paper is to identify relevant advocacy coalitions and to assess to what extent and how these coalitions used research in the alcohol policy-making process concerning changes in on-premise trading hours in Norway. Design/methodology/approach – Theory-driven content analyses were conducted, applying data from city council documents (24 Norwegian cities) and Norwegian newspaper articles and broadcast interviews (n=138) in 2011-2012. Findings – Two advocacy coalitions with conflicting views and values were identified. Both coalitions used research quite extensively – in the public debate and in the formal decision-making process – but in different ways. The restrictive coalition, favouring restricted trading hours and emphasising public health/safety, included the police and temperance movements and embraced research demonstrating the beneficial health/safety effects of restricting trading hours. The liberal coalition of conservative politicians and hospitality industry emphasised individual freedom and industry interests and promoted research demonstrating negative effects on hospitality industry turnover. This coalition also actively discredited the research demonstrating the beneficial health/safety effects of restricting trading hours. Originality/value – Little is known about how local alcohol policy-making processes are informed by research-based knowledge. This study is the first to analyse how advocacy coalitions use research to influence local alcohol policy-making.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Deliberative Democratic Initiatives at the Local Level: A Framework for Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 749-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ank Michels ◽  
Harmen Binnema
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
The Impact

Although deliberative reforms have been proposed to strengthen democracy, little is known about their impact on politics, public policies, and society. This article develops a framework to systematically assess this impact, differentiating between direct and indirect forms of impact. We apply this framework to two cases of deliberative citizens’ summits in the Netherlands. Our analysis reveals that these summits have a limited direct impact on local politics and policy making, but a relatively strong indirect impact on the local community. The article also discusses some conditions that mediate the impact of the forum.

Improving Sustainability of the Environment in a Changing Climate

2016 ◽  
pp. 327-346
Author(s):  
Albert Arhin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Weak Institutions ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Community

The mechanism of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation plus conservation, sustainable forest management and enhancement of carbon stocks is emerging as one of the current efforts and actions being developed by the international climate change community to mitigate climate change. This chapter highlights the potentials as well as the challenges of this mechanism to reduce forest loss and improve the health and sustainability of the environment. Main potentials include its resolve to make trees worth more standing than cut, the transfer of funds to support conservation efforts and a focus on delivering social benefits. The main challenges include the less attention on unclear tenure and benefit-sharing framework; weak institutions and the complex historical, political and structural interests which have allowed powerful groups to expropriate the forest resources and trade-offs that may arise during implementation. It then outlines four broad areas where researchers can make contributions in national and local level policy-making and interventions related to REDD+.

Policy-making at local level: an analysis of Turkish municipalities

2018 ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Ulaş Bayraktar
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Radical Transformation

Turkish local governments have undergone a radical transformation since the 1980s. Accompanied by a rhetoric of decentralising and democratising reforms, related legal changes have been criticised in the light of either nationalist or democratic, participatory concerns. At the heart of such important waves of legal reforms lay the municipalities as the main service provider in urban settings. This chapter presents a general overview of the state of policy analysis in Turkish municipalities. It argues that municipalities governed by very strong executives, prioritise populist services delivered through subcontracts and controlled weakly by political and civil actors and arbitrarily by the central government. The classical public policy cycle approach will inform the discussion.

Science and alcohol policy at the local level: a respectful partnership

Addiction ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 93 (10) ◽  
pp. 1467-1473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold D. Holder ◽  
Robert Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Alcohol Policy

scholarly journals The Dynamic Relationship between Immigrant Politics and Urban Policy Making: Protecting the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants in Boston and Amsterdam

2020 ◽  
pp. 107808742094460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil Christian van Eck
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Fields ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Citizenship Regimes ◽  
Immigrant Politics

With the advancement of comparative studies within the field of immigration and sociopolitical movements, scholars have attempted to understand how politico-institutional contexts influence the mobilization strategies of immigrant rights organizations at the local level. In this article, I make use of a field approach to explain how these organizations face different group-and issue-specific conditions regarding their involvement in local policy-making processes. Empirically, I examine the advocacy work of immigrant rights organizations in their aim to protect the rights of undocumented immigrants in Boston (USA) and Amsterdam (the Netherlands). By approaching power and resistance as relational phenomena, the results indicate that the intersection of distinct institutional and organizational mechanisms has differently impacted the local fields of immigrant politics. Taking different routes, in both cities immigrant rights organizations have found ways to constitute an affirmative institutional and discursive counterpower that challenges the national exclusionary citizenship regimes from the ground.

scholarly journals Do infrastructures impact on alcohol policy making?

Addiction ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia König ◽  
Lidia Segura
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Alcohol Policy
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