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.

scholarly journals Missing in Analysis: Women in Foreign Policy–Making

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-141
Author(s):  
Karen E Smith
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Policy Decision Making

Abstract Foreign policy analysis (FPA) opens the “black box” of the state and provides explanations of how and why foreign policy decisions are made, which puts individuals and groups (from committees to ministries) at the center of analysis. Yet the sex of the decision-maker and the gendered nature of the decision-making process have generally been left out of the picture. FPA has not addressed questions regarding the influence of women in foreign policy decision-making processes or the effects of gender norms on decision-making; indeed, FPA appears to be almost entirely gender-free. This article argues that “gendering” FPA is long overdue and that incorporating gender into FPA frameworks can provide a richer and more nuanced picture of foreign policy–making.

scholarly journals Legitimacy from Decision-Making Influence and Outcome Favourability: Results from General Population Survey Experiments

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 146-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sveinung Arnesen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
Micro Foundations

Democracies are typically considered more legitimate than other types of regimes because they allow the citizens to participate in the policy decision-making process. Others argue that the policy output matters most, and citizen influence plays a lesser role. This study presents two survey experiments on the micro foundations of these two sources of political legitimacy, thus contributing to an emerging literature that experimentally investigates the effects of democratic procedures in small-scale settings. Respondents who saw the decision going in their favour found the decision much more acceptable than the respondents who preferred another outcome. Conversely, decision-making influence generally did not serve as a legitimising factor among the respondents. This result supports the argument that citizens prefer a stealth democracy where they are minimally involved in democratic decision-making processes.

Foreign Policy Decision-Making

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica D. Blankshain
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
The Us ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Policy Decision Making

The study of foreign policy decision-making seeks to understand how states formulate and enact foreign policy. It views foreign policy as a series of decisions made by particular actors using specific decision-making processes. The origins of this focus on decision-making are generally traced to the 1950s and 1960s, with the literature increasing in complexity and diversity of approaches in more recent decades. Foreign policy decision-making is situated within foreign policy analysis (a subfield of international relations subfield), which applies theories and methods from an array of disciplines—political science, public administration, economics, psychology, sociology—to understand how states make foreign policy, and how these policies translate into geopolitical outcomes. The literature on foreign policy decision-making is often subdivided based on assumptions about the process by which actors make foreign policy decisions—primarily falling into rational and nonrational decision-making; about who is assumed to make the decision—states, individuals, groups, or organizations; and about the influences believed to be most important in affecting those decisions—international factors, domestic political factors, interpersonal dynamics, etc. While much of the literature focuses on foreign policy decision-making in the United States, there have been attempts to apply models developed in the US context to other states, as well as to generate generalizable theories about foreign policy decision-making that apply to certain types of states.

scholarly journals Cancer patients’ organisation participation in heath policy decision-making: a snapshot/cluster analysis of the EU-28 countries

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. e018896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyriakos Souliotis ◽  
Lily-Evangelia Peppou ◽  
Chara Tzavara ◽  
Eirini Agapidaki ◽  
Dimitrios Varvaras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Patient Involvement ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Health Policy Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
The Eu

ObjectivesEven though patient involvement in health policy decision-making is well documented, studies evaluating the degree and impact of this participation are scarce. This is even more conspicuous in the case of cancer. There is evidence showing that patients with the same type of cancer and at the same stage of the disease will receive different treatments in different countries. Therefore, it is crucial to assess the degree of patient participation in health policy decision-making across Europe, as it may result in health inequalities across countries. In a response to this research call, the present study aimed to provide a snapshot of cancer patients’ organisation (CPO) participation in health policy processes in European Union (EU)-28 countries.SettingCPOs from the EU-28 countries.ParticipantsPrimary and secondary outcome measures: information about participants’ sociodemographic characteristics and their involvement in their CPO was collected as well as data about the CPO. A 17-item index containing questions about the type and impact of participation in various facets of health policy decision-making was used to assess the degree of CPOs participation in health policy decision-making processes and its impact.

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