scholarly journals The co-production of a "relevant" expertise – administrative and scientific cooperation in the French water policies elaboration and implementation since the 1990s

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1165-1174 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Deroubaix
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Political Communities

Abstract. This paper aims at understanding the social and political uses of the principle of integrated management and its possible impacts on the elaboration and implementation processes of public policies in the French water management sector. The academic and political innovations developed by scientists and agents of the administration these last 25 years are analysed, using some of the theoretical tools developed by the science studies and public policy analysis. We first focus on the construction of intellectual public policy communities such as the GIP Hydro systems, at the origin of large interdisciplinary research programs in the 1990s. A common cognitive framework is clearly built during this period on the good governance of the aquatic ecosystems and on the corresponding needs and practices of research. The second part of the paper focuses on the possibilities to build political communities and more or less integrated expertises in the decision making processes concerning various issues related to water management. Eutrophication and its inscription on the French political agenda is a very significant case for analysing the difficulty to build such a political community. On the contrary, when there is an opportunity for policy evaluation, which was the case concerning the management of wetlands in France or the implementation of compulsory flows on the French rivers, these communities can emerge. However, the type of integrated expertise and management proposed in these cases of policy evaluations much depends on their methodological choices.

scholarly journals The co-production of a "relevant" expertise – administrative and scientific cooperation in the French water policies elaboration and implementation

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 3771-3792 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Deroubaix
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Political Communities

Abstract. This paper aims at understanding the social and political uses of the principle of integrated management and its possible impacts on the elaboration and implementation processes of public policies in the French water management field. The academic and political innovations developed by scientists and agents of the administration these last 25 years are analysed, using some of the theoretical tools developed by the science studies and public policy analysis. We first focus on the construction of intellectual public policy communities such as the GIP Hydro systems, at the origin of large interdisciplinary research programs in the 1990s. A common cognitive framework is clearly built during this period on the good governance of the aquatic ecosystems and on the corresponding needs and practices of research. The second part of the paper focuses on the possibilities to build political communities and more or less integrated expertises in the decision making processes concerning various issues related to water management. Eutrophication and its inscription on the French political agenda is a very significant case for analysing the difficulty to build such a political community. On the contrary, when there is an opportunity for policy evaluation, which was the case concerning the management of wetlands in France or the implementation of compulsory flows on the French rivers, these communities can emerge. However, the type of integrated expertise and management proposed in these cases of policy evaluations much depends on their methodological choices.

scholarly journals Water Resources Management Policy in Algeria: Strategies and Means

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (07) ◽  
pp. 09-24
Author(s):  
Bousmaha Ahmed ◽  
Boulkaibet Aissa
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
State Water ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sound Management

In Algeria, the issue of water management is of great importance and represent a major contest in the context of a chronic shortage of rainfall from global warming. The catastrophic situation of water resources in Algeria during the years 2000 and 2001 was mainly due to drought that has prompted the government to give priority to this vital field. After a diagnosis of the situation of water resources, Algeria has adopted effective institutional, legal and technical arrangements for the sound management of water resources in order to overcome the inconsistencies that have profoundly influenced during antecedent decades. However, the expected results are not yet satisfactory and the state water resources remains negative. In this context, it is necessary to adopt new practices and efficient ways of management "sustainable" our water heritage in the context of a policy of good governance of water resources must go through a dialogue between the different actors and integrated management of all economic and all planning activities.

Born Digital? Digitization and the Birth of the Moroccan National Archives

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Nora El Qadim
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Archival Institution ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Set Up

Abstract:This article examines the digitization policy of Archives du Maroc (AdM), Morocco’s national archival institution, which was set up in 2011 and opened in 2013. Given its recent creation, the AdM lead us to question the particularity of digitization in archiving policies when included from the start rather than retroactively. Through an analysis of the creation and development of AdM as a public policy connected to national efforts at transparency and “good governance,” I argue that digitization has served as a way of performing modernity through technology and international standards, thus reinforcing the legitimacy of a nascent institution.

Community Building within a Festival Frame: Working-Class Celebrations in Germany, 1918–1933

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHIAS WARSTAT
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Cultural Performances ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theatrical Strategies

The concept of festival can help to understand the framework within which political community building took place in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and the methods employed in doing so. Political communities were established within different kinds of cultural performances such as gatherings, demonstrations, party conventions, and – most frequently – political celebrations, which obtained a festival-like structure. Referring to examples from the labour movement, this article examines different techniques of creating communities and discusses the impact of theatrical strategies and certain types of theatre in this crucial field of modern politics.

scholarly journals Aniversarios con luces y sombras: Constitución española, integración europea y ‘defectos estructurales’ de la UE // Anniversaries with Mixed Feelings: the Spanish Constitution, European Integration, and the «Genetic Defects» of the EU (1957-2017 and 1978-2018).

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (100) ◽  
pp. 1139
Author(s):  
Antonio Carlos Pereira Menaut
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Democratic Deficit ◽  
Constitutional Rule ◽  
Spanish Constitution ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Structural Failures ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Resumen:En conjunto puede decirse que tanto la UE como la Constitución española de 1978 han sido grandes éxitos que ahora celebran sus aniversarios, pero ambas tienen problemas que deben ser resueltos. En el caso de la UE, parece haber un puñado de defectos estructurales difíciles de eliminar y que dificultan mucho solucionar el déficit democrático y la plena constitucionalización de la Unión. Los mismos defectos estructurales plantean la cuestión de hasta dónde puede llegar la integración europea, manteniendo, al mismo tiempo, la integridad constitucional española, o al menos no amenazándola. Nos inclinamos por abandonar el método funcionalista, pasar a un tipo de gobierno plenamente político y constitucional, y encaminarnos hacia un federalismo pluralista, más bien dual y del tipo del americano.Summary:I. By way of an introduction. II. Some points to start with. III. On federalism, once again. IV. Has european constitutionalism some structural failures? A. Constitutionalism and the functionalist method. B. The impact of the insufficient EU democracy on Spanish constitutionalism. C. Is the EU a pluralistic, multilevel political community composed of smaller, yet real, political communities? D. Globalisation, European constitutionalism, and Spanish constitutionalism. V. How much European integration is the Spanish constitution apt to admit of?Abstract:On the whole, one may safely say that both the EU and the 1978 Spanish Constitution have been runaway successes that are now about celebrating their anniversaries, yet both have problems that should be addressed to. In the case of the EU, there seems to exist a handful of structural failures that are not easy to remove and make very difficult to cope with the democratic deficit and the full constitutionalising of the Union. The same inbuilt failures pose the question of how far may European integration go while at the same time maintaining, or not menacing, the integrity of the Spanish Constitution. Our leanings go towards abandoning the functionalist method, embracing a fully political, constitutional rule, and making for a pluralistic, rather dual, American-like, kind of federalism.

scholarly journals ‘You dribble faster than Messi and jump higher than Jordan’: The art of complimenting and praising in political discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohar Kampf ◽  
Roni Danziger
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Communities

Abstract Communicating admiration and appreciation in public discourse are two important tasks for political actors who wish to secure relationships and advance models for civic behavior. Our goal in this study is to understand how political actors signal their desire to please addressees and advance political sociability by way of manifesting positive judgment towards others. On the basis of 241 utterances praising and complimenting others’ words and deeds, we identify the topics, patterns, and functions of these speech acts and the processes and struggles they evoke in Israeli public discourse. We conclude by discussing the role of positive evaluations in demarcating the boundaries of proper conduct in political communities and the ways the distinctive logic of politics is integrated with specific cultural speaking styles in influencing how members of the Israeli political community signal their appreciation and affect for other members’ skills, performances, and personalities.

scholarly journals Sixty years of the National Food Program in Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosana Maria NOGUEIRA ◽  
Bruna BARONE ◽  
Thiara Teixeira de BARROS ◽  
Kátia Regina Leoni Silva Lima de Queiroz GUIMARÃES ◽  
Nilo Sérgio Sabbião RODRIGUES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
School Food ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Social Actors

School meals were introduced in the Brazilian political agenda by a group of scholars known as nutrition scientists' in the 1940s. In 1955, the Campanha de Merenda Escolar, the first official school food program, was stablished, and sixty years after its inception, school food in Brazil stands as a decentralised public policy, providing services to students enrolled in public schools, which involve the Brazilian federal government, twentyseven federative units, and their 5,570 municipalities. Throughout its history, school food has gone through many stages that reflect the social transformations in Brazil: from a campaign to implement school food focused on the problem of malnutrition and the ways to solve it, to the creation of a universal public policy relying on social participation and interface between other modern, democratic, and sustainable policies, establishing a strategy for promoting food and nutrition security, development, and social protection. In this article, the School Food Program is analyzed from the perspective of four basic structures that support it as public policy: the formal structure, consisting of legal milestones that regulated the program; substantive structure, referring to the public and private social actors involved; material structure, regarding the way in which Brazil sponsors the program; and finally, the symbolic structure, consisting of knowledge, values, interests, and rules that legitimatize the policy.

Giving for Social Change: Foundations, Public Policy, and the American Political Agenda.

Social Forces ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
Susan A. Ostrander ◽  
Althea K. Nagai ◽  
Robert Lerner ◽  
Stanley Rothman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Political Agenda

FORMATION OF THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM IN THE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION SPHERE

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-216
Author(s):  
Valerii Bakumenko ◽  
Oleksiy Krasnorutskyy ◽  
Anatolii Hatsko
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Administration Reform

The modernization of the management system and the knowledge management model is needed in the context of the public administration reform, taking into account the concept of decentralization and Good Governance. That is why the article focuses on the author’s approach to substantiating the formation of a modern knowledge system in public management and administration in Ukraine. It is proved that the approach to the knowledge system formation should be based on the identification of the needs of public administration objects. The need to comply with the necessary diversity law for a management subject of public entity regarding its knowledge of the entity has been identified. The content of the principle «from general to specific» for the objects of public administration is considered. The formation structure of the basic knowledge system in the public sphere is presented, which unites a number of blocks. The first block deals with the system of basic knowledge of public management and administration. The second block deals with the idea of a public authorities system at different levels. The third block concerns the formation of basic knowledge about public service. The fourth block concerns the formation of a basic knowledge system about current trends in the development of domestic public administration. The fifth block deals with the knowledge about the development and implementation of public policy and implementation of public administration. The sixth block deals with the consideration of public administration as a deliberate activity to establish internal procedures and processes in public administration to ensure their smooth functioning. The seventh block concerns the knowledge system for ensuring social stability. The eighth block is a glossary of basic terms and the ninth is a bibliography. The proposed approach is the scientific substantiation of the development of educational and professional programs of the basic textbook and standards for the specialty 281 – «Public Management and Administration». Keywords: knowledge, public administration, the necessary diversity law, public policy, public service, public authorities, public stability.

United Nations Constitutional Assistance

2020 ◽  
pp. 371-396
Author(s):  
Vijayashri Sripati
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Free Markets ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Territorial Status

This chapter draws on the purposive analysis from the previous chapter to consider how UNCA with, and without its child, UN Territorial Administration (ITA) serves to implement certain areas of international law and public policy. It considers how the Constitution and its four ends (e.g., free markets; good governance; women’s rights) fit within the UN Charter framework. The Constitution which underpins the territorial state and confers territorial status, became in 1993, the UN’s core conflict-prevention tool. Moreover, from 1993 onwards, UNCA operated without plenary ITA in sovereign states. Given this, UNCA’s role covers four areas: (1) Right to self-determination (external and internal dimensions); (2) Conflict-Prevention; and (3) achieving public policy ends (e.g., ‘saving failed states’ and achieving good internal governance); and (4) the promotion of international policy in the area of peace and security, including peacemaking, peacebuilding, and peacekeeping. This Chapter underscores the Security Council’s key role in mandating UNCA and establishes UNCA’s salience vis-à-vis ITA. It concludes that UNCA amounts to the UN’s most intrusive form of intervention.

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