scholarly journals Grounding with the People: Participatory Policy Making in the Context of Constitution Review in Ghana

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Kpessa ◽  
Raymond A. Atuguba
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
The People ◽  
Participatory Policy

Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Kreiner
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Northwest Africa ◽  
The People ◽  
Total Control ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Farming Policy

Early medieval communities were thinking seriously about their environments. They saw themselves as part of a complex and dynamic universe that was propelled by interconnected organisms and forces. In that system, even the smallest creatures or events could have far-reaching consequences. The big picture was tied to hyperlocal circumstances. The people who lived in the early medieval West (in what is now northwest Africa and Europe) brought these perspectives to bear on their farming, policy making, and philosophizing. And pigs were both a means and a motivation for doing this. They were a flexible species that could handle a diversity of ecologies. They illustrated the benefits of being adaptable. But they were also a constant reminder that humans had to adapt to their animals and landscapes: total control or assimilation was unthinkable. Pigs were nearly everywhere in the early medieval West, and they left their hoofprints on laws, politics, philosophy, religion, and even humans’ own sense of themselves.

Struggles to Locate Mobile People at the Centre of the Migration and Climate Change Nexus

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Sarah Louise Nash
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Nodal Point ◽  
The People

This chapter focuses on the second nodal point in the policy-making discourse on migration and climate change, which is the people who are at the centre of the phenomenon analysed in the previous chapter. People are also central to this discourse, for without people whose mobilities are in some way being affected, the abstract phenomenon of the migration and climate change nexus would remain as such, an abstract phenomenon. However, this is not to say that an easily identifiable community of affected people exists or that the lives of those people who are perceived as being affected by the nexus can be slotted into existing systems for understanding and classifying people on the move. One commonality shared by the people at the centre of the migration and climate change nexus is the exceptionality that is created around them. The basis of this exceptionality being identified as movement reveals a sedentary bias underlying the conceptualisation of the migration and climate change nexus.

scholarly journals Parliament and Foreign Policy-Making Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Mohammed Salman Tayie ◽  
Ibrahim Mohammad Dashti
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
The People ◽  
Democratic Systems

Objective: The study discusses the role of the parliament in foreign policy-making. The role of the parliament has increased over time in light of the complexities and intertwined interests among countries and the emergence of globalization phenomenon, which has dehumanized the nature and reality of international relations, the need to deepen cooperation among the parliamentarians of countries has increased and expanding it to various fields, and hence emerged the role of parliament in foreign policy-making, so that Public Diplomacy is a substitute for government diplomacy.Method: The study is based on the institutional approach, which is one of the oldest methods used in political analysis. It stems from the study of political institutions in terms of composition and competencies. The institutional approach in its origins is due to the traditional constitutional school in the study of political systems, which was confusing the concept of state and the political system, and the latter is seen as the system of government as defined by constitutional law, i.e. the set of rules and laws governing public authorities and defining their terms of reference and functions.Results: The study concluded that parliamentary diplomacy has become a substitute for the official diplomacy and contributes side by side to the exclusion of war crises and finding the pursuit peaceful diplomatic solutions. The Public Diplomacy is a tributary of support for official diplomacy if coordinated together and the value of Public Diplomacy increases as the goals and orientations of the country's foreign policy express the values and aspirations of the people truthfully.Conclusion: The study concluded that parliaments - especially in democratic systems - play an important role in the process of foreign policy-making, and that there are external and internal factors affecting the effectiveness of the role of parliament in foreign policy. The Kuwaiti parliamentary experience reflected this development of parliamentary diplomacy and its role in foreign policy-making.

scholarly journals Equitable and empowering participatory policy design strategies to accelerate just climate action

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isatis M. Cintron-Rodriguez ◽  
Haley A. Crim ◽  
Deb L. Morrison ◽  
Frank Niepold ◽  
Jen Kretser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Participatory Policy

Inter- and intra-country inequalities hamper adaptation and resilience capacity to climate change. Achieving a climate resilient future requires long-term visions, system-oriented approaches, cross-sector collaborations, and good climate governance, while centering on equity and justice in policy making. Central to these governance efforts is an informed and active society with concrete mechanisms to influence decision making. Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) provides the framework to attain climate policy coherence that integrates the capacities and needs of all members of society into ambitious and effective strategies. This paper proposes a novel approach to policy making, applied to the co-creation of a national climate empowerment plan for the United States that encompasses local participation, leadership, and consent. The approach is based on a combination of participatory backcasting and the Talanoa process structure and principles of multi-level, transdisciplinary, transparency and inclusive dialogues. The proposed approach is beneficial for the advancement of ambitious, practical, and flexible plans with broad-based buy-in from stakeholders ranging from policymakers to relevant actors to frontline and marginalized communities to institutions.

scholarly journals Impact of the Tourism Development on the Quality of Life of the People: A Case in Jaffna Municipal Area

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-83
Author(s):  
Visvanathan Kandeepan ◽  
Tharani Seevaratnam ◽  
Renuka Somasuntharam
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
The People ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: The impact of tourism development on the quality of life (Veenhoven. R., 2007) of the people in the Jaffna municipal area is studied.Design/Methodology/Approach: Closed-ended questionnaire/ Likert scale- for measuring the impact of the Tourism development as above. A questionnaire was distributed in the Jaffna municipal area. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were performed in this study. Findings: Descriptive analysis showed that there is a positive relationship between tourism development and quality of life. Correlation analysis ascertained it. Correlation analysis established that a significant positive correlation is present between the two, which was very strong. The correlation of tourism development was significant with the three sub-variables, namely, households’ income, entrepreneurial & employment opportunities, and culture. Regression analysis confirmed that tourism development had a significantly positive relationship and predicted the model satisfactorily to explain the impact of tourism development on the quality of life of people of the Jaffna municipal area.Practical implication:There is a great potential to enhance the quality of life through tourism development.Originality/ value: Improving the Quality of Life of the people through Tourism Development is explored. The specific findings are valuable in policy-making and planning tourism development projects.

Are Arbitrators (Judicial) Activists?

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Andrea K. Bjorklund
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Legal Standard ◽  
The People

Abstract When judges are described as activists they are usually accused of either intruding into policy making best left to the legislative branches of government or intruding into values or social mores – matters best left to democratic processes, i.e. to “the people”. For an arbitrator to be an activist she would need to go beyond her duly conferred quasi-judicial powers, and arbitrators – and in particular investment arbitrators – have been accused of doing just that. Though there is a fine line between what constitutes activity and what constitutes activism, I suggest that arbitrators are not generally “activists.” First, they wield authority conferred on them by the arbitral agreement and by other sources of arbitral power. Second, particularly when the applicable legal standard is vague, this conferral includes quite broad authority to define and develop the applicable law. Third, the lack of agreement among states about what certain obligations mean suggests that arbitral tribunals are not going beyond their authority; rather, the fault, if fault there is, lies in the language of the agreements themselves.

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