Undone Science: Charting Social Movement and Civil Society Challenges to Research Agenda Setting

This article tries to conceptually lay down the troubled relations between civil society and social movements within authoritarian regimes. This is done by, first, bringing clarity to the conceptual relationship between civil society and social movement and, then, applying it to the authoritarian context, still theoretically. Following the “hints” of the Eastern European intellectuals of the late 1970s and the 1980s and building on the appropriation of Durkheim’s differentiation between mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity, the article distinguishes two types of solidarity: associative solidarity and action and collective solidarity and action. Civil society is proposed to emerge on associative solidarities (and their actions), while social movements build on collective solidarities (and their actions). Furthermore, associative and collective actions are identified to be progressive and transgressive, respectively. Consequently, the proposed theoretical account is applied theoretically to the authoritarian context and several hypotheses are proposed on the relationship between civil society and pro-democracy movement within authoritarian regimes.

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The ‘drifting Generation’ without a Helmsman. Main obstacles in shaping the Relations between the Political Parties and the Youth in Poland

Slovak Journal of Political Sciences ◽

10.1515/sjps-2015-0015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 319-351

Author(s):

Radosław Marzęcki

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Political Parties ◽

Social Movement ◽

The Political ◽

Young Generation ◽

Eastern European ◽

Democratic Culture ◽

Efficient Communication ◽

Eastern European Countries ◽

Discourse Understanding

Abstract In the article the author presents data to identify the most important obstacles hindering efficient communication between political parties and Polish youth. The main assumptions accepted by the author are related to the belief that the Central and Eastern European countries are still trying to figure out ways of dealing with the key challenges related to transformation – the (re)creation of the civil society and a new, democratic culture of political discourse. Understanding that all social change is evolutionary and is a part of some social movement, the author assumes that the post-communist societies now face a chance to meaningfully accelerate this process. The chance is related to the young generation of citizens – often of the same age as the democracies themselves.

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An agenda-setting paper on data sharing platforms: euCanSHare workshop

Open Research Europe ◽

10.12688/openreseurope.13860.2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 80

Author(s):

Thijs Devriendt ◽

Clemens Ammann ◽

Folkert W. Asselbergs ◽

Alexander Bernier ◽

Rodrigo Costas ◽

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Keyword(s):

Data Sharing ◽

Data Storage ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Data Access ◽

Medical Data ◽

Future Research ◽

Future Research Agenda ◽

Optimal Functioning

Various data sharing platforms are being developed to enhance the sharing of cohort data by addressing the fragmented state of data storage and access systems. However, policy challenges in several domains remain unresolved. The euCanSHare workshop was organized to identify and discuss these challenges and to set the future research agenda. Concerns over the multiplicity and long-term sustainability of platforms, lack of resources, access of commercial parties to medical data, credit and recognition mechanisms in academia and the organization of data access committees are outlined. Within these areas, solutions need to be devised to ensure an optimal functioning of platforms.

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Ideologically Structured Action: An Enlarged Agenda for Social Movement Research

Mobilization An International Quarterly ◽

10.17813/maiq.5.1.h8ru112776715vq7 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 121

Author(s):

Mayer Zald

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Social Science ◽

Social Movement ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Electoral Competition ◽

Cognitive Components ◽

Open Research ◽

Research Agendas ◽

Bureaucratic Agencies ◽

Legislative Processes

The conceptual definitions we use in social science often need adjusting to allow scholars to hone in on issues that are obscured under other definitions and to open research agendas. Here it is argued that a focus upon social movements as ideologically structured action accomplishes two objectives. First, it allows us to incorporate cultural/cognitive components of action into our core definition. Second, it helps us to broaden our research agenda to include a deeper and fuller view of socialization to social movement ideology and to social movement-related action that takes place in a variety of institutional arenas, including electoral competition, legislative processes, bureaucratic agencies, and executive ojfces.

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Adaptive project management for the civil society sector: towards an academic research agenda

International Development Planning Review ◽

10.3828/idpr.2020.17 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

Lena Gutheil

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Project Management ◽

Adaptive Management ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Academic Research ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Civil Society Organisations ◽

Perceived Effects ◽

Management Approaches ◽

Definition Of

In order to react adequately to the complex, fast-changing and politicised environments in which development projects operate, donors have started adopting more adaptive project management approaches. Projects dealing with civil society actors in particular are said to benefit from adaptive management. As adaptive management largely depends on locally led and politically smart programming, it is presented as one avenue for addressing long-standing problems of civil society organisations, such as donor dependency, lack of legitimacy and accountability issues. However, the evidence base concerning the effects of adaptive management is scarce and rather anecdotal and an overarching definition of adaptive management has not been established. In order to work towards an academic research agenda for adaptive management, the article systematically reviews twenty-one case studies to generate insights into what donors and implementers consider as adaptive practices, their perceived effects, obstacles and derived recommendations. The article thus contributes to identifying which actors are driving the adaptive agenda, which practices are considered as adaptive, what we can learn from first pilot interventions and which research gaps can be derived from this analysis.

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Social Mobilization for Public Accountability

Recasting Public Administration in India ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199490356.003.0013 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 136-150

Author(s):

Kuldeep Mathur

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Social Movement ◽

Public Domain ◽

Social Mobilization ◽

Democratic Accountability ◽

Public Authorities ◽

The Public ◽

Adequate Information ◽

Right To Information ◽

The Right

This chapter examines administrative accountability through the democratic pillar of public transparency. One of the pillars of democratic accountability is the availability of adequate information in the public domain about the functioning government. It has taken a social movement for transparency in government to establish people’s right to information through the passage of the Right to Information Act in 2005. However, traditional administration has not reconciled to its demands and PPPs are kept out of its purview on the plea that they are not public authorities. The Lok Pal (ombudsman) Bill has been passed in response to another struggle of civil society.

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Revisiting the Memory of Solferino: Knowledge Production and the Laws of War

10.1093/oso/9780192847539.003.0015 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 256-275

Author(s):

Eyal Benvenisti ◽

Doreen Lustig

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

19Th Century ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

International Committee ◽

Red Cross ◽

Laws Of War ◽

History Of ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

First Time

During the course of the second half of the 19th century, the rules regulating the conduct of armies during hostilities were internationally codified for the first time. The conventional narrative attributes the codification of the laws of war to the campaign of civil society, especially that of the founders of the Red Cross—Henry Dunant and Gustav Moynier. In what follows, we problematize this narrative and trace the construction of this knowledge. We explore how the leading figures of the Red Cross, who were aware of the shortcomings of their project, were nonetheless invested in narrating its history as a history of success. Their struggle to control the narrative would eventually confer the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with considerable interpretive and agenda-setting authority in the realm of the laws of war. We dwell on the meaning of this conscious exercise in knowledge production and its normative ramifications.

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Building communities of trust: Challenges for disability

African Journal of Disability ◽

10.4102/ajod.v3i2.77 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexander M. Phiri

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Civil Society ◽

International Research ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Research Programme ◽

Development Research ◽

Research Partnerships ◽

People With Disability ◽

The Disabled ◽

Disability Research

This article asks questions about power and partnership in disability research in Africa. Research has been located too much in one type of organisation or another and not sufficiently in the interaction between a range of legitimate stakeholders. Across Africa and Europe, and government and civil society dialogues, the African development research agenda must be owned by Africans. Fully inclusive national and international research partnerships are crucial, but they must be driven from Africa. European constructions of and interventions concerning people with disability have often been inhumane, seeking to eliminate them from society. African cultures have also stigmatised people with disability. I call for a new African-driven research agenda that promotes the human rights of people with disability, and has people with disability not only participating in this research, but directing it. The Southern African Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD) Research Programme (SRP) is breaking new ground in this regard by allowing ‘the researched’ to become ‘the researcher’.

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The Research Agenda-Setting Project (RASP)

Geriatric Ophthalmology ◽

10.1007/978-1-4419-0014-2_14 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 105-107

Author(s):

David Steven Friedman ◽

Andrew G. Lee

Keyword(s):

Agenda Setting ◽

Research Agenda

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