Beyond Consensus

Author : Richard D. Margerum
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262297721

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Beyond Consensus by Richard D. Margerum Pdf

An examination of how to move from consensus to implementation using collaborative approaches to natural resource management, urban planning, and environmental policy. Collaborative approaches are increasingly common across a range of governance and policy areas. Single-issue, single-organization solutions often prove ineffective for complex, contentious, and diffuse problems. Collaborative efforts allow cross-jurisdictional governance and policy, involving groups that may operate on different decision-making levels. In Beyond Consensus, Richard Margerum examines the full range of collaborative enterprises in natural resource management, urban planning, and environmental policy. He explains the pros and cons of collaborative approaches, develops methods to test their effectiveness, and identifies ways to improve their implementation and results. Drawing on extensive case studies of collaborations in the United States and Australia, Margerum shows that collaboration is not just about developing a strategy but also about creating and sustaining arrangements that can support collaborative implementation. Margerum outlines a typology of collaborative efforts and a typology of networks to support implementation. He uses these typologies to explain the factors that are likely to make collaborations successful and examines the implications for participants. The rich case studies in Beyond Consensus—which range from watershed management to transportation planning, and include both successes and failures—offer lessons in collaboration that make the book ideal for classroom use. It is also designed to help practitioners evaluate and improve collaborative efforts at any phase. The book's theoretical framework provides scholars with a means to assess the effectiveness of collaborations and explain their ability to achieve results.

Author : Barry Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Group decision-making
ISBN : 0875743072

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Beyond Consensus by Barry Morley Pdf

Author : Ben Fine,Costas Lapavitsas,Jonathan Pincus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000950205

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Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century by Ben Fine,Costas Lapavitsas,Jonathan Pincus Pdf

This excellent book, newly available in paperback, addresses the growing dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal post-Washington consensus. The concern of the contributors in writing this collection was that this consensus has established itself as a new orthodoxy, more powerful and widespread than its predecessor. This broad-ranging critique explains that without a much broader political economy the consensus is unlikely to provide a coherent framework for successful development policies. Development Policy in the 21st Century is unique in its depth and assesses the postures of the new consensus topic by topic, whilst posing strong alternatives. It will improve and stimulate the reader's understanding of this important area, and is required reading for any student, academic or interested reader that wishes to understand one of the most important issues in international economics.

Author : Panos Kapotas,Vassilis P. Tzevelekos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108473323

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Building Consensus on European Consensus by Panos Kapotas,Vassilis P. Tzevelekos Pdf

Presents a critical evaluation of a controversial interpretative tool the ECtHR uses to answer morally/politically sensitive human rights questions.

Author : Emanuela Saporito
Publisher : Springer
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319308296

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Consensus Building Versus Irreconcilable Conflicts by Emanuela Saporito Pdf

This book aims to identify ways of overcoming the limitations of the communicative tradition in understanding participatory spatial planning. Three conceptual models that offer different perspectives on public and civic participation in complex urban planning processes are presented and reviewed: the consensual model, which conceives of planning as a collective decision-making practice geared toward consensus building and conflict resolution; the conflictual model, which views planning as a social mobilization practice addressed at empowerment of marginalized groups; and the trading zone model, which reframes collaborative planning as a coordination activity with respect to practical proposals in the presence of unstable and conflicting rationalities and values. The controversial story of the Integrated Intervention Program “PII Isola Lunetta” in Milan is examined through the interpretative lenses of these models, with detailed interpretation of how each model performs in the field. The book concludes by offering critical reflections on the reframing of participatory spatial planning, highlighting the value of trading zones/trading languages and boundary objects as tools for understanding and addressing collaborative practices in complex and conflictual urban planning processes.

Author : Dimitri Almeida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415693745

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The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties by Dimitri Almeida Pdf

Introduction: political parties and the politicization of Europe -- Approaches to the study of party responses to European integration -- An acquired taste for Europe: social democratic parties and European Integration -- Between reluctant Europeanism and hard Euroscepticism: radical left parties and European integration -- Separate ways: liberal parties and European integration -- Diluted Europeanism: Christian democratic parties and European integration -- Europeanized Eurosceptics? radical right parties and European integration -- Conclusion.

Author : Bernard Matolino
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781920033361

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Consensus as Democracy in Africa by Bernard Matolino Pdf

Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.

Author : K. Bayertz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401108607

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The Concept of Moral Consensus by K. Bayertz Pdf

The demand for consensus arises due to its absence. For each opinion held there will be another to counter it, and for each approach to problem solving an alternative will be suggested. Focusing on the bioethical problems surrounding new technical interventions in human reproduction, 15 authors try to examine the meaning, importance and feasibility of consensus. The very different perspectives from the philosophers, physicians, lawyers, theologians, politicians and sociologists contributing to this topic reflect on the difficulties and complexity of moral decision making, offer views on the problem of why decision making does not take place more harmoniously and asks if there can be any hope of a solution in a world where the discipline of contemporary ethics is characterised by a vast diversity - or chaos - of heterogenous theories and concurring approaches. This book is intended for philosophers, physicians, ethicists and everyone involved in moral decision making, to shape his or her understanding of this process and to help him or her to reflect on the concept of consensus.

Author : Robert Mason,Iwan Morgan
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065274

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The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered by Robert Mason,Iwan Morgan Pdf

When first published in 1976, Godfrey Hodgson’s America in Our Time won immediate recognition as a major interpretive study of the postwar era. In The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered, leading scholars—including Hodgson himself—confront his long-standing theory that a “liberal consensus” shaped the United States after World War II. These essays offer new insights into the era and diverging opinions on one of the most influential interpretations of mid-twentieth-century U.S. history.

Author : John Pendlebury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134533305

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Conservation in the Age of Consensus by John Pendlebury Pdf

This new text on the subject of conservation in the built environment provides a unique holistic view on the understanding of the practice of conservation connecting it with wider societal and political forces. UK practice is used as a means, along with international examples, for bringing together a real understanding of practice with a social science analysis of the issues. The author introduces ideas about the meanings and values attached to historic environments and how that translates into public policies of conservation.

Author : William H. E. Day,F. R. McMorris
Publisher : SIAM
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0898717507

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Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics by William H. E. Day,F. R. McMorris Pdf

Provides a unique comprehensive review of axiomatic consensus theory in biomathematics as it has developed over the past 30 years.

Author : Brian F. Havel
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041123893

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Beyond Open Skies by Brian F. Havel Pdf

'Beyond Open Skies' offers a systematic comparative analysis of the legal and policy dimensions of airline deregulation by federal fiat in the United States and by supranational collaboration in the European Union. The book draws upon a variety of sources, including very recent developments in U.S. and EC international aviation law, policy, and diplomacy, to propose a genuine multilateral air transport system. It examines the potential of the 'open skies' initiative, in the aftermath of the new U.S./EC air transport agreement, to inspire a genuine globalization of the world's air transport industry in such crucial aspects as the following: cabotage; ownership and citizenship requirements; route selection; airline identity; capacity; pricing regimes; competition and public aid; regulatory harmonization; labor laws; provisions for charter and/or cargo transportation; fair operation of and access to computer reservations systems; authorization of code-sharing arrangements; alliances and antitrust immunity; and dispute resolution.

Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271018615

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Beyond the Welfare State? by Christopher Pierson Pdf

First published in 1991, Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, which draws on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive and sophisticated guide to the condition of the welfare state in a time of rapid and sometimes bewildering change. The opening chapters offer a scholarly but accessible review of competing interpretations of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation, based on the most recent empirical research, gives full weight to feminist, ecological, and "anti-racist" critiques and also develops a clear account of globalization and its contested impact upon existing welfare regimes. The book constructs a distinctive history of the international growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive account of recent developments from "crisis" to "structural adjustment." The final chapters bring the story right up to date with an assessment of the important changes effected in the 1990s and the prospects for welfare states in the new millennium.

Author : Donna E. West,Myrdene Anderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319459202

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Consensus on Peirce’s Concept of Habit by Donna E. West,Myrdene Anderson Pdf

This book constitutes the first treatment of C. S. Peirce’s unique concept of habit. Habit animated the pragmatists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, who picked up the baton from classical scholars, principally Aristotle. Most prominent among the pragmatists thereafter is Charles Sanders Peirce. In our vernacular, habit connotes a pattern of conduct. Nonetheless, Peirce’s concept transcends application to mere regularity or to human conduct; it extends into natural and social phenomena, making cohesive inner and outer worlds. Chapters in this anthology define and amplify Peircean habit; as such, they highlight the dialectic between doubt and belief. Doubt destabilizes habit, leaving open the possibility for new beliefs in the form of habit-change; and without habit-change, the regularity would fall short of habit – conforming to automatic/mechanistic systems. This treatment of habit showcases how, through human agency, innovative regularities of behavior and thought advance the process of making the unconscious conscious. The latter materializes when affordances (invariant habits of physical phenomena) form the basis for modifications in action schemas and modes of reasoning. Further, the book charts how indexical signs in language and action are pivotal in establishing attentional patterns; and how these habits accommodate novel orientations within event templates. It is intended for those interested in Peirce’s metaphysic or semiotic, including both senior scholars and students of philosophy and religion, psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Author : Andrew M. McGinnis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567655806

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The Son of God Beyond the Flesh by Andrew M. McGinnis Pdf

The so-called extra Calvinisticum-the doctrine that the incarnate Son of God continued to exist beyond the flesh-was not invented by John Calvin or Reformed theologians. If this is true, as is almost universally acknowledged today, then why do scholars continue to fixate almost exclusively on Calvin when they discuss this doctrine? The answer to the “why” of this scholarly trend, however, is not as important as correcting the trend. This volume expands our vision of the historical functions and christological significance of this doctrine by expounding its uses in Cyril of Alexandria, Thomas Aquinas, Zacharias Ursinus, and in theologians from the Reformation to the present. Despite its relative obscurity, the doctrine that came to be known as the “Calvinist extra” is a possession of the church catholic and a feature of Christology that ought to be carefully appropriated in contemporary reflection on the Incarnation.