scholarly journals ВОЂЕЊЕ УРБАНЕ ПОЛИТИКЕ У ПРАВЦУ РАЗВОЈА И БЛАГОСТАЊА ГРАЂАНА – ЛЕКЦИЈЕ ИЗ СКАНДИНАВИЈЕ

TEME ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 719
Author(s):  
Snežana Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Complex Activity ◽  
Transitional Country ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Way

This article analyses the way of managing urban policy in Scandinavian countries, as an example for Serbia. By analyzing urban policy as complex activity, because it demands contextual approach, democratic governmental capacities, good management with capacities to tail services according to the needs of citizens in their community, we could understand cities as stimulators of development and creators of welfare. This analysis tries to identify how Serbia, as transitional country can learn lessons from Scandinavian countries, to modernize management, democratize political system (decentralization and strengthening local government capacities), as well as to decrease corruption and misuses in public affairs.In methodological sense this article includes analysis of the system, the way of creation and steering urban policy in Scandinavian countries with affirmation of knowledge (evidence based public policy) and professionalism. Case study of Copenhagen city and experiences from other cities from this region, will procure in view of potential benefits of such an approach. On this basis comparison is made with similar processes in Serbia, which give us possibility to identify necessary corrections in our system.Some of the results of this paper are better knowledge of Serbian system weaknesses (especially in way of managing cities), loss of benefits which democratic and decentralized society enables, modern management, creation of policies on evidence, and creative searching for solution.One can conclude that reform changes, which turn out to be impossible for implementation in our society, do not demand great material investments, but demand the changing of values, priorities and model of behavior.

scholarly journals The visual politics of success and solidarity a case study of Chris Niedenthal's photography from The People's Republic of Poland 1978-1982

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Laszcuk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Political System ◽  
Time Magazine ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Visual Politics ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Way

This thesis focuses on photographs from the Black Star Collection by photojournalist Chris Niedenthal, who did freelance assignments in Poland for Newsweek, Time Magazine, and Der Spiegel during the 1970s and 1980s. By looking closely at Niedenthal’s work, this thesis explores how these photographs respond to and engage with the rising tension in the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) between the years 1978 -1982. The purpose of this investigation is to study the techniques Niedenthal devised to photograph Poland during a volatile time. Through a comparative analysis of selected images from the Black Star Collection, this thesis considers two phases of Niedenthal’s work in Poland, and examines both the way Chris Niedenthal’s photography attempts to negotiate the restrictions imposed by a totalitarian political system that sought to control its self-image, and how his approach to photography adapted to the rise of the Solidarity Trade Union and imposition of Martial Law in Poland.

scholarly journals The visual politics of success and solidarity a case study of Chris Niedenthal's photography from The People's Republic of Poland 1978-1982

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Laszcuk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Political System ◽  
Time Magazine ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Visual Politics ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Way

This thesis focuses on photographs from the Black Star Collection by photojournalist Chris Niedenthal, who did freelance assignments in Poland for Newsweek, Time Magazine, and Der Spiegel during the 1970s and 1980s. By looking closely at Niedenthal’s work, this thesis explores how these photographs respond to and engage with the rising tension in the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) between the years 1978 -1982. The purpose of this investigation is to study the techniques Niedenthal devised to photograph Poland during a volatile time. Through a comparative analysis of selected images from the Black Star Collection, this thesis considers two phases of Niedenthal’s work in Poland, and examines both the way Chris Niedenthal’s photography attempts to negotiate the restrictions imposed by a totalitarian political system that sought to control its self-image, and how his approach to photography adapted to the rise of the Solidarity Trade Union and imposition of Martial Law in Poland.

The Perilous Road from Evidence to Policy: Five Journeys Compared

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNETTE BOAZ ◽  
RAY PAWSON
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Peer Education ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Evidence Based Policy

Comprehensive reviews of the available research are generally considered to be the cornerstone of contemporary efforts to establish ‘evidence-based policy’. This article provides an examination of the potential of this stratagem, using the case study of ‘mentoring’ programmes. Mentoring initiatives (and allied schemes such as ‘coaching’, ‘counselling’, ‘peer education’ and so on) are to be found in every corner of public policy. Researchers have been no less energetic, producing a huge body of evidence on the process and outcomes of such interventions. Reviewers, accordingly, have plenty to get their teeth into and, by now, there are numerous reports offering review-based advice on the benefits of mentoring. The article asks whether the sum total of these efforts, as represented by five contemporary reviews, is a useful tool for guiding policy and practice. Our analysis is a cause for some pessimism. We note a propensity for delivering unequivocal policy verdicts on the basis of ambiguous evidence. Even more disconcertingly, the five reviews head off on different judgemental tangents, one set of recommendations appearing to gainsay the next. The article refrains from recommending the ejection of evidence baby and policy bathwater but suggests that much closer attention needs to be paid to the explanatory scope of systematic reviews.

Our Athenian Yesterdays

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The Way

Part One (“Losing Athens in Translation”) begins by introducing the case study, surveying “democratic Athens,” the consensus modern account of the “way of life” (politeia) which the Athenians called demokratia. This account is a conventional historicist construct, one that forces non-modern experiences to comply with a standard modern template of social being. It thus objectifies the polis as a disenchanted, functionally differentiated terrain inhabited by natural, pre-social individuals. Here, experience is neatly compartmentalized into discrete “orders,” “realms” or “fields,” such as the material and the ideational, the natural and the cultural, sacred and secular, public and private, the political, the social, the economic, and the religious. Athenian demokratia is duly historicized as “democracy,” as a specialist political system which bore a family resemblance to the liberal, egalitarian governments of our own time. And order in Athens is then assumed to radiate out from this male-dominated political system over all other societal fields and realms. As the following chapters will show, there are significant problems with this “democratic Athens” account.

scholarly journals Beyond local (in)capacity: analyzing the implementation of a federally induced urban policy in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (b) ◽  
pp. 116-143
Author(s):  
Fernanda Lima-Silva ◽  
Maria Rita Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Policy Capacity ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Slum Upgrading ◽  
Policy Program

The article analyzes the capacity production of a Brazilian urban policy (Program of Acceleration of Growth - Slum Upgrading, PAC-UAP), whose implementation flaws are commonly associated with municipal governments shortcomings, even though its interventions involve a multiplicity of actors. Three analytical and empirical aspects are considered: (i) the need to expand knowledge on state capacity in policies implemented by a network of actors; (ii) the relevance of the debate of policy capacity, which refers to the ability of reaching the expected results in a specific public policy; (iii) and the demand to explore federally induced public policies in federations marked by heterogeneous subnational entities. Methodologically, the work develops a case study, complemented by documental analysis and interviews with key stakeholders. The research corroborates studies that emphasize that municipal problems affected the production capacity of PAC-UAP, particularly the lack of adequate human and financial resources. On the other hand, this study innovates when considering that the municipality is, in fact, the node of a network of actors, whose (in)capacity also affects the implementation. Therefore, it might not be possible to attribute only to the municipality the (in)success of this program. The article also reinforces the importance of incorporating organizational and systemic dimensions as explanatory elements, whose challenges can be potentiated when a program design is not adequate to the intrinsic characteristics of a certain public policy.

scholarly journals Romania: university and politics in the 1980s. Case study: the University of Bucharest, the 1980s

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-369
Author(s):  
Mirela Rotaru
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
University Life ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

The presentation I am submitting to your attention focuses on how the University of Bucharest operated during the 1980’s, a very difficult period for Romania.  As to be expected,  the University of Bucharest, like the entire Romanian education system, took the full blow of communist experimental policies, reflecting quite accurately the general developments of the political system in Romania in the 1980s. The structure of Bucharest University, the curriculum, acceptance of the students via admission exams as well as the process of assignment of graduates from University of Bucharest to production units in the 1980’s, are aspects of university life which were all affected by profound changes during the period subject to the research, leading to a   genuine phenomenon in the Romanian society. The way these changes were reflected in the cultural mindset and the traumas generated by them are all points of interest addressed in my presentation.

scholarly journals Beyond local (in)capacity: analyzing the implementation of a federally induced urban policy in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 116-143
Author(s):  
Fernanda Lima-Silva ◽  
Maria Rita Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Policy Capacity ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Slum Upgrading ◽  
Policy Program

The article analyzes the capacity production of a Brazilian urban policy (Program of Acceleration of Growth - Slum Upgrading, PAC-UAP), whose implementation flaws are commonly associated with municipal governments shortcomings, even though its interventions involve a multiplicity of actors. Three analytical and empirical aspects are considered: (i) the need to expand knowledge on state capacity in policies implemented by a network of actors; (ii) the relevance of the debate of policy capacity, which refers to the ability of reaching the expected results in a specific public policy; (iii) and the demand to explore federally induced public policies in federations marked by heterogeneous subnational entities. Methodologically, the work develops a case study, complemented by documental analysis and interviews with key stakeholders. The research corroborates studies that emphasize that municipal problems affected the production capacity of PAC-UAP, particularly the lack of adequate human and financial resources. On the other hand, this study innovates when considering that the municipality is, in fact, the node of a network of actors, whose (in)capacity also affects the implementation. Therefore, it might not be possible to attribute only to the municipality the (in)success of this program. The article also reinforces the importance of incorporating organizational and systemic dimensions as explanatory elements, whose challenges can be potentiated when a program design is not adequate to the intrinsic characteristics of a certain public policy.

scholarly journals KEBIJAKAN KEPEMIMPINAN WALIKOTA SURABAYA DALAM MENGAMBIL KEPUTUSAN DI BIDANG EKONOMI YANG BERBASIS MAQASHID SYARIAH

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
Dara Wira Kartika ◽  
R. Moh. Qudsi Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Domain Analysis ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Leadership Policy ◽  
The Way

This study aims to analyze the Surabaya Mayor's leadership policy in making decisions related to the economy and viewed from the perspective of maqashid sharia, namely in fulfilling the basic needs of religion, soul, mind, lineage and wealth. This study uses qualitative methods with a case study approach. The method used in this study is domain analysis to look at the mayor's policies in Surabaya with the fulfillment in the economy seen from the side of the Surabaya city budget. The results of this study are that when viewed from the written budget data it is not balanced between the fulfillment of maqashid sharia. But, judging from the way the mayor of Surabaya in making policies was in accordance with maqashid sharia.Keywords: Public Policy, The Mayor's Leadership in Surabaya, Mayor of Surabaya, Maqashid Sharia

Misophonia: An Evidence-Based Case Report

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-690
Author(s):  
C. S. Vanaja ◽  
Miriam Soni Abigail
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Case History ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Management Option ◽  
Pure Tone Audiogram

Purpose Misophonia is a sound tolerance disorder condition in certain sounds that trigger intense emotional or physiological responses. While some persons may experience misophonia, a few patients suffer from misophonia. However, there is a dearth of literature on audiological assessment and management of persons with misophonia. The purpose of this report is to discuss the assessment of misophonia and highlight the management option that helped a patient with misophonia. Method A case study of a 26-year-old woman with the complaint of decreased tolerance to specific sounds affecting quality of life is reported. Audiological assessment differentiated misophonia from hyperacusis. Management included retraining counseling as well as desensitization and habituation therapy based on the principles described by P. J. Jastreboff and Jastreboff (2014). A misophonia questionnaire was administered at regular intervals to monitor the effectiveness of therapy. Results A detailed case history and audiological evaluations including pure-tone audiogram and Johnson Hyperacusis Index revealed the presence of misophonia. The patient benefitted from intervention, and the scores of the misophonia questionnaire indicated a decrease in the severity of the problem. Conclusions It is important to differentially diagnose misophonia and hyperacusis in persons with sound tolerance disorders. Retraining counseling as well as desensitization and habituation therapy can help patients who suffer from misophonia.

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