Power Approaches to Policy-Making

Participatory approaches to environmental policy-making: the European Commission Climate Policy Process as a case study

The paper investigates the relevance of participatory approaches to environmental policy-making when sustainable development is taken as the encompassing normative basis for environmental governance. In the first section, we illustrate the frequent references to participatory approaches in environmental decision-making. We then look at environmental issue attributes as determinants of the probl...

Making Iranian Schools Smart: From Policy to Practice

Making Iranian Schools Smart: From Policy to Practice E. Talaa’ee, Ph.D. N. Ansaari M. Pahlavaan Z. Abootaalebi To assess both the essence and ways of operationalization of a recently adopted policy by the MOE with the aim of making Iranian schools smart, four such schools were purposefully selected, observed, and questioned. The collected data have been analyzed using th...

From Evidence - Based Policy - Making to Policy

The paper aims at addressing the problem of what makes specific aiding to decide within public policy making problem situations. Under such a perspective it analyses some basic concepts such as “public policy”, “deliberation”, “legitimation”, “accountability” and shows the necessity to expand the concept of rationality which is expected to be behind the acceptability of a public policy. We then...

Ingredients for Good Health Policy-Making: Incorporating Power and Politics into the Mix

Modern Approaches to Stabilization Policy

It is a great honour to be asked to give the Doug Purvis Memorial Address at this year’s annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association. As an undergraduate at McGill University in the late 1970s, I had the privilege of studying with a number of distinguished scholars, one of whom, Jack Weldon, had a particularly strong influence on me. Of the many lessons I learned from him, two are part...