security policy-making in critical regions is one of the main concerns of the research centers and academic institutes. security-building in the regions like the caucasus is important because the historical roots of conflict could be seen in the policies of various countries. whenever some manifestations of authoritarianism can be seen, some countries are in the state of cooperative action. how...

This study draws on the concept of Europeanisation, understood as the domestic impact of EU policies, to investigate the influence of EU cohesion on the sub-national policy actors in Poland. The implementation of the Structural Funds (SF) in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) is credited for diffusion of norms and practices improving the capacity of the administrative actors involve...

This paper makes a contribution to a much-neglected aspect of policy analysis: the practice of power in implementation. Practices of power are at the heart of every policy process, yet are rarely explicitly explored in the health policy literature. This paper provides a detailed study of micro-practices of power by those at the frontline of service delivery in the implementation of a national c...

In this article, I explore the South African 2003 National School Health Policy (NSHP) and the revised 2012 Integrated School Health Policy (ISHP). I examine whether the shortcomings in the development, content and implementation of the 2003 NSHP, and the context in which it was implemented, have been addressed adequately in the 2012 ISHP. The shortcomings include poorly structured relationship...

Policy formulation and adoption are poorly understood phases of the health policy process. We conducted a narrative synthesis of 28 articles on health policy in low- and middle-income countries to provide insight on what kinds of activities take place in these phases, the actors crafting policies and the institutions in which policy making occurs. The narrative synthesis involved an inductive p...

The system of mobility currently faces severe challenges. Particularly in cities, strategic interventions are made to support a transition towards sustainable mobility. Incumbent actors from the car industry are often invited to play a key role in such initiatives. The Stuttgart region is supported with public money to become a model region of sustainable mobility because it is base to key acto...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) involves global and national policy measures as well as effective action at the landscape scale across productive sectors. Multilevel governance (MLG) characterizes policy processes and regimes of cross-scale and cross-sector participation by multiple public and private actors for improved legitimacy and effectiveness of polic...

Background Evidence based policy-making has been promoted as a means of ensuring better outcomes but what counts as evidence in policy-making lies within a spectrum of expert knowledge through scientifically generated information. Different actors provide varying degrees of support for and use of different types of evidence in policy development. Since not all forms of evidence share an equal v...

Abstract This article examines changes in Japan’s policies related to climate change, focusing on three notable events that could have significantly altered decisions change: (a) the hosting of Third Conference Parties (COP3) United Nations Framework Convention Climate Change (UNFCCC) and adoption Kyoto Protocol December 1997, (b) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident March 2011, (c) P...