Nuclear waste disposal in the USA is a difficult policy issue infused with science, technology, and politics. This issue provides an example of the co-production of scientific knowledge and politics through public policy. The proponents of a repository site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, argue that their decision to go ahead with the site is based on ‘sound science’, but the science they use to uph...

Background: HIV/AIDS control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. The aim of this study was to determine how HIV/AIDS control was initiated among policy makers’ agenda setting in Iran.   Methods: A qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using Kingdon’s framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy...

This paper explores the meaning and role of emerging insights from the sciences of complexity in the study of politics and public policy. Considerable attention is devoted to the relevance of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) to understanding important phenomena in politics and the realm of public policy. While traditional approaches to the study of these areas are not without merit, an understand...

this paper is aimed to review the concepts of legitimacy and its relation to effectiveness of clergy in iran . combination of religion and politics could increase interventionism in public policy and increase expectations for welfare interventionism. this phenomena could link spiritual legitimacy of clergy to its effectiveness. somewhat vast interpretation of “ the unity of religion and politic...

this study attempts to explore the development and evolution of mackinder's geopolitical thinking in global politics of british empire and its influence thereafter. this research paper examines the characteristics of geopolitical perspective of britain, through halford mackinder's heartland theory during the three periods of the early twentieth century to the present time. in this reg...

Diane E. Meier, M.D. (Moderator): I have been in Washington, D.C. since October 2009, to begin a health policy fellowship. I will be actually living in D.C. for a year. Right now, I am interviewing for placements, either in a member’s office or on one of the committees of jurisdiction for health care, like the House Committee on Ways and Means or the Senate HELP or Finance Committees. I am also...