In light of the larger contextual picture increased geostrategic rivalry with China, this article focuses on question whether transatlantic cooperation responses towards challenge China can possibly be coherent at all. How we explain actions (or lack thereof) between actors across Atlantic in their foreign policy China? The central idea then is to from a coherence angle, providing us perspectiv...

Objective: Many studies have suggested that there is a relationship between coherence and cognitive processes. This study aims at investigating this hypothesis through assessing the relationship between cognitive variables and coherence in the discourse of two groups of Persian-speaking younger and older adults. Methods: In order to evaluate our participants' cognitive capabilities, we recrui...

In 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) brought an end to the long reign of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). However, despite high expectations, this politically transformative event has not unleashed significant policy change in Japan. We highlight five electoral factors that have acted as important constraints on policy change under DPJ rule. First, majoritarian electoral rules have l...

BACKGROUND The GRADE-CERQual (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation-Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) approach has been developed by the GRADE working group. The approach has been developed to support the use of findings from qualitative evidence syntheses in decision-making, including guideline development and policy formulation. CERQual i...

Policy mixes are needed to overcome the different barriers hindering sustainability transitions. This creates need for policy coherence. coherence studies in transitions literature dominated by European cases, limiting their generalizability. article analyzes related biogas systems and issues, and, how that influences production use Brazil. We identified within between sectors over time, showin...

• Experts consider bioeconomy and agro-food policy to be consistent or synergistic. show mixed confidence levels of the knowledge-base supporting assessment. Considerable disagreement exists in expert Escaping ‘silo’ policies will mean must adapt uncertainty. The European Union (EU) envisions a shift towards address challenges such as reducing dependence on non-renewable resources, managing nat...

background negotiations surrounding the trans-pacific partnership (tpp) trade and investment agreement have recently concluded. although trade and investment agreements, part of a broader shift to global economic integration, have been argued to be vital to improved economic growth, health, and general welfare, these agreements have increasingly come under scrutiny for their direct and indirect...

How science and policy interact has been a major research focus in the International Relations (IR) tradition, using the epistemic community (EC) concept, as well as in the alternative perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Should science be autonomous and as apolitical as possible in order to ‘speak truth to power’, as suggested by EC or should the inevitable entanglement of scie...

Many replication mechanisms for large scale distributed systems exist, but they require a designer to compromise a system’s replication policy (e.g., by requiring full replication of all data to all nodes), consistency policy (e.g., by supporting per-object coherence but not multiobject consistency), or topology policy (e.g., by assuming a hierarchical organization of nodes.) In this paper, we ...

Background and purpose: National forest programs have been promoted by the international forest policy sphere as a preferred form of policy process by which the sustainable forest management should be reached on national level. As such, it has received a lot of attention in the international legislation and has been important part of the forest policy dialogue. This paper examines the national ...