Publics Politics And Power

Author : Janet Newman,John Clarke
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857026941

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Publics, Politics and Power by Janet Newman,John Clarke Pdf

Very stimulating and intellectually exciting. In fact, I think it is one of the best books I have read for a long time. - Professor Carsten Greve, International centre for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School Publicness appears to be in decline or retreat in the face of markets, consumerism and individualism. Yet questions of public participation, public governance and the reform of public services are at the top of the political agenda in many countries. Publics, Politics and Power offers an innovative analysis of the changing fortunes of publicness. The book " Explores the emergence of new forms, sites and practices of publicness and the implications for public services. " Examines the remaking of the public in the context of new formations of the nation, where issues of migration, diversity and faith challenge traditional forms of solidarity and citizenship. " Traces the emergence of hybrid organizational forms and new strategies for governing publics and public services. " Assesses some of the ways in which the public domain is being recast around notions of civil society, community, and populist participatory politics. Chapters include vignettes illustrating the book′s core concepts, making this a useful teaching resource and valuable reading for students of public management, public and social policy, sociology and cultural studies, and for those working in public services. Janet Newman is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University, and Director of the Publics Research Programme within the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance. John Clarke is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University. His research has centred on conflicts over the future of welfare states, public services and citizenship in the UK and elsewhere.

Author : Mark A. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226764658

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American Business and Political Power by Mark A. Smith Pdf

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing. This surprising conclusion holds because the types of issues that lead businesses to band together—such as tax rates, air pollution, and product liability—also receive the most media attention. The ensuing debates give citizens the information they need to hold their representatives accountable and make elections a choice between contrasting policy programs. Rather than succumbing to corporate America, Smith argues, representatives paradoxically become more responsive to their constituents when facing a united corporate front. Corporations gain the most influence over legislation when they work with organizations such as think tanks to shape Americans' beliefs about what government should and should not do.

Author : Tara Dawson McGuinness,Hana Schank
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691216645

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Power to the Public by Tara Dawson McGuinness,Hana Schank Pdf

“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”—Barack Obama A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first century As the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges of our time—from pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new approach—public interest technology—that has the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world solve problems. Through inspiring stories about successful projects ranging from a texting service for teenagers in crisis to a streamlined foster care system, the authors show how public interest technology can make the delivery of services to the public more effective and efficient. At its heart, public interest technology means putting users at the center of the policymaking process, using data and metrics in a smart way, and running small experiments and pilot programs before scaling up. And while this approach may well involve the innovative use of digital technology, technology alone is no panacea—and some of the best solutions may even be decidedly low-tech. Clear-eyed yet profoundly optimistic, Power to the Public presents a powerful blueprint for how government and nonprofits can help solve society’s most serious problems.

Author : Patrick Bernhagen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134058006

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The Political Power of Business by Patrick Bernhagen Pdf

Investigates to what extent business can get what it wants politically as firms and trade associations have a better understanding of the likely effects of policy than politicians and because their decisions partly determine these effects.

Author : Jeremy Richardson,Berthold Rittberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:949249105

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Ideas, Political Power, and Public Policy by Jeremy Richardson,Berthold Rittberger Pdf

Author : John A. Hird
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589013913

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Power, Knowledge, and Politics by John A. Hird Pdf

If knowledge is power, then John Hird has opened the doors for anyone interested in public policymaking and policy analysis on the state level. A beginning question might be: does politics put gasoline or sugar in the tank? More specifically, in a highly partisan political environment, is nonpartisan expertise useful to policymaking? Do policy analysts play a meaningful role in decision making? Does policy expertise promote democratic decision making? Does it vest power in an unelected and unaccountable elite, or does it become co-opted by political actors and circumstances? Is it used to make substantive changes or just for window-dressing? In a unique comparative focus on state policy, Power, Knowledge, and Politics dissects the nature of the policy institutions that policymakers establish and analyzes the connection between policy research and how it is actually used in decision making. Hird probes the effects of politics and political institutions—parties, state political culture and dynamics, legislative and gubernatorial staffing, partisan think tanks, interest groups—on the nature and conduct of nonpartisan policy analysis. Through a comparative examination of institutions and testing theories of the use of policy analysis, Hird draws conclusions that are more useful than those derived from single cases. Hird examines nonpartisan policy research organizations established by and operating in U.S. state legislatures—one of the most intense of political environments—to determine whether and how nonpartisan policy research can survive in that harsh climate. By first detailing how nonpartisan policy analysis organizations came to be and what they do, and then determining what state legislators want from them, he presents a rigorous statistical analysis of those agencies in all 50 states and from a survey of 800 state legislators. This thoroughly comprehensive look at policymaking at the state level concludes that nonpartisan policy analysis institutions can play an important role—as long as they remain scrupulously nonpartisan.

Author : Robert B. Reich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 0674695909

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The Power of Public Ideas by Robert B. Reich Pdf

Author : Lisa Wedeen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226877921

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Peripheral Visions by Lisa Wedeen Pdf

The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and the ordinary activities of everyday life. Yemenis, for example, regularly gather to chew qat, a leafy drug similar to caffeine, as they engage in wide-ranging and sometimes influential public discussions of even the most divisive political and social issues. These lively debates exemplify Wedeen’s contention that democratic, national, and pious solidarities work as ongoing, performative practices that enact and reproduce a citizenry’s shared points of reference. Ultimately, her skillful evocations of such practices shift attention away from a narrow focus on government institutions and electoral competition and toward the substantive experience of participatory politics.

Author : Nathan Rambukkana
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Information technology
ISBN : 1433128985

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Hashtag Publics by Nathan Rambukkana Pdf

This collection investigates the publics of the hashtag. Taking cues from critical public sphere theory, contributors are interested in publics that break beyond the mainstream - in other publics. They are interested in the kinds of publics that do politics in a way that is rough and emergent, flawed and messy, and ones in which new forms of collective power are being forged on the fly and in the shadow of loftier mainstream spheres. Hashtags are deictic, indexical - yet what they point to is themselves, their own dual role in ongoing discourse. Focusing on hashtags used for topics from Ferguson, Missouri, to Australian politics, from online quilting communities to labour protests, from feminist outrage to drag pop culture, this collection follows hashtag publics as they trend beyond Twitter into other spaces of social networking such as Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr as well as other media spaces such as television, print, and graffiti.

Author : Daniel DiSalvo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199990740

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Government Against Itself by Daniel DiSalvo Pdf

"Daniel DiSalvo contends that the power of public sector unions is too often inimical to the public interest"--

Author : Patricia Mooney Nickel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317253327

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Public Sociology and Civil Society by Patricia Mooney Nickel Pdf

During the past ten years the terms public sociology, civil society, and governance have been used with increasing frequency to describe a wide array of political and social practices. Nickel provides a critical clarification of the concepts of civil society and governance, moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. With her unique international background in the practice of public service and social policy Nickel is able to provide a nuanced explanation of how civil society and governance are interrelated and the implications for the organisation of knowledge and public life. The book is framed in three parts. Part one explores the emergence of public sociology as an ideal, as well as the broader public turn in the social sciences. Part two explores the changing relationship between government and civil society, including non-profit organisations. Part three draws these two themes together in an exploration of the politics of practice and relations of power.

Author : Judith Butler,Jurgen Habermas,Charles Taylor,Cornel West
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231527255

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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere by Judith Butler,Jurgen Habermas,Charles Taylor,Cornel West Pdf

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does or should religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural and political criticism, while Jürgen Habermas, best known for his seminal conception of the public sphere, thinks through the ambiguous legacy of the concept of "the political" in contemporary theory. Charles Taylor argues for a radical redefinition of secularism, and Cornel West defends civil disobedience and emancipatory theology. Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen detail the immense contribution of these philosophers to contemporary social and political theory, and an afterword by Craig Calhoun places these attempts to reconceive the significance of both religion and the secular in the context of contemporary national and international politics.

Author : Susan K. Sell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052152539X

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Private Power, Public Law by Susan K. Sell Pdf

Analysis of the power of multinational corporations in moulding international law on intellectual property rights.

Author : Mireille Lalancette,Vincent Raynauld,Erin Crandall
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774861182

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What’s Trending in Canadian Politics? by Mireille Lalancette,Vincent Raynauld,Erin Crandall Pdf

What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What’s Trending in Canadian Politics? examines political communication and democratic governance in a digital age. Exploring the effects of conventional and emerging political communication practices in Canada, contributors investigate the uses of digital media for political communication, grassroots-driven protest, public behaviour prediction, and relationships between members of civil society and the political establishment. Original and timely, this interdisciplinary volume lays robust theoretical and methodological foundations for the study of transformative trends in Canadian political communication.

Author : Sandy Brian Hager
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520284661

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Public Debt, Inequality, and Power by Sandy Brian Hager Pdf

Introduction : public debt, inequality and power -- The spectacle of a highly centralized public debt -- The bondholding class resurgent -- Fiscal conflict : past and present -- Bonding domestic and foreign owners -- Who rules the debt state? -- Conclusion : informing democratic debate -- Appendix : accounting for the public debt