Pub Date : 2022-03-29DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2037005
Giulia Molinengo
ABSTRACT Why do exercises in collaborative governance often witness more impasse than advantage? This paper suggests putting power at center stage and focusing the analysis on the micro level. It is by looking at the daily ‘minutiae’ of collaboration, and at the dynamics (here called flows of power) that they set off, that we can gain insights into failures of collaborative arrangements. To enable a power-sensitive and process-oriented analysis of collaborative governance, the paper develops an analytical framework for the empirical exploration of collaborative governance at the micro level. The framework examines how design choices at the outset of collaboration are re-interpreted, challenged, and transformed by micro-dynamics taking place over the course of the arrangement. The article argues that a process-oriented investigation of how collaboration evolves and unfolds over time elucidates the subtleties of power, which may be overlooked if we only consider outcomes rather than the processes that engender these outcomes. The work is based on an abductive research approach and illustrates the analytical possibilities of the framework by zooming in on an exemplar of a collaborative arrangement for planning the route of a high-voltage electricity line in Germany.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2057344
B. Ackerly
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Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2054841
Peeter Vihma, S. Wolf
ABSTRACT Our analysis addresses innovation processes that shape public policy and the engagement of state and non-state actors in environmental management. Public sector organizations increasingly invest resources in collaborative temporary endeavors – i.e. projects – to explore new ideas and exploit the results. We analyze the environmental project portfolio of the European Commission LIFE program in Estonia for the period 2008-2018 from the viewpoint of interfaces between project teams and permanent organizations. Our analysis of project design, administration, and practices reveals that project interfaces structure opportunities for achieving technical and institutional change through temporary organizations. Adaptive strategies of actors inside projects and in the established organizational fields producse shifts in interfaces across the project life cycle. These shifts enable and constrain knowledge production and application.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-27DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2053178
John Boswell
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Pub Date : 2022-03-27DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2056068
Eun-Sung Kim, Ji-Bum Chung
ABSTRACT The Korean COVID-19 surveillance system generates public discourses on good citizenship regarding civic duty, human rights, and social equality by releasing the travel history information of COVID-19 patients to the public. Through digital ethnography, this article examines how good citizenship is constructed in three material contexts – things, places, and mobility – associated with COVID-19 patients’ movements. From the new materialist perspective, citizenship is an outcome of the socio-material assemblage of things, people, and institutions. We view travel history information as ‘actants’ that affect people’s behaviors, especially, mom cafés mothers’ conception of good citizenship. This citizenship involves materiality related to face masks and COVID-19, a sense of place in terms of crowded places, and the physical mobility of COVID-19 patients. The disclosure policy on travel history information plays a vital role in overweighing civic duty over human rights and social equality by decontextualizing the life of COVID-19 patients due to concerns over privacy infringement. This policy spawns a uniform citizenship that overlooks the economic and cultural differences among COVID-19 patients. Ultimately, irregular employees, sexual minorities, and delivery workers carry a greater burden in complying with the civic duties of the general population.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-20DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2052133
P. O’Keeffe, A. Papadopoulos
ABSTRACT This article explores discursive legitimation of intensified conditionality in Australian social security policy, by the association of responsible consumption with a revised construction of Australian identity. Discursive rationalization of the use of cashless debit cards to constrain consumption choices by citizens is situated in representations of Australian identity and social citizenship. Against growing empirical evidence of a lack of conclusive efficacy and emergent social harms, political rationalizations for the card’s introduction assert a normative Australian way of life that frames card users as ‘flawed consumers,’ lacking in the characteristics of imagined Australian citizenship. The compatibility of this imagined Australian identity with the values of market liberalism completes the substitution of market citizenship for its antecedent welfare state conception of citizenship based on rights. In this substitution, the idea of a right to social protection is subordinated to conditional support that promotes the sentiment that social welfare is ‘un-Australian.’
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Pub Date : 2022-03-20DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2053179
Sonia Bussu, A. Bua, Rikki Dean, Graham Smith
ABSTRACT This symposium examines the challenges and opportunities of recent efforts at embedding participatory governance. It draws together original research that engages theoretically and empirically with some fundamental questions: •What are the challenges of embedding participatory governance in policy-making? •What happens when social movements have opportunities to shape the institutionalization of PG processes? Can they reanimate the radical potential of citizen participation for social transformation? •How can the tensions between the different demands of lay citizens, organized civil society, political parties, and public officials be managed? In this introductory article, we provide a definition of embeddedness, outlining its spatial, temporal, and practices dimensions, in so doing distinguishing embeddedness from institutionalization, with which it has often been used interchangeably. Our aim is to delineate the breadth of the concept, drawing together its many uses into a systematic framework that can both guide future research and practical experimentation. In particular, our hope is to turn more attention to the informal practices that are essential for embedding. The contributions to the symposium shift attention from institutional design to embedding dynamics and how these work to open or close spaces for meaningful citizen input.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2044874
Gabriel Lévesque
ABSTRACT In the last decade, there has been a significant surge in cannabis legalization, with Uruguay (2013), Canada (2018) and 19 U.S. states (2012-2022) having developed recreational cannabis policies. A growing literature analyzes legalization from a policymaking or public health standpoint. Yet only few studies have explored its discursive component . This article contributes to filling this gap by developing conceptual tools for cannabis policy discourse analysis. I first examine the history of cannabis policy in North America and find two main discursive clusters, i.e., moral and epistemic discourse. I then discuss existing typologies of cannabis regulation models and select that of Beauchesne, which distinguishes between three models: prohibition 2.0, public health and harm reduction, and commercialization. At the intersection of discursive clusters and these regulation models, I identify six mutually exclusive frames of cannabis policy: moral panic, medical/health, reparations/vulnerabilities, harm reduction/risk mitigation, laissez-faire/liberalism, and illicit market/revenue.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-02DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2032233
Ruth Mireille Manga Edimo
ABSTRACT This text confronts the ‘democratic repairs’ framework and practical tools proposed by Carolyn Hendriks, Selen Ercan, and John Boswell in their book Mending Democracy to Global South democratic contexts using African cases.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2026236
Marcela Torres Wong
ABSTRACT This forum argues that the complex assemblages of infrastructures, and their reproduction in our everyday worlds, offer a privileged lens through which to explore the practices of much of what critical policy studies holds dear. It draws attention to processes of insertion that reproduce infrastructure in everyday lives, arguing that such processes cast new light on the work of the state, governance, and democratic struggles. It discerns three avenues as a means of exploring such infrastructural processes: first, an invitation to transcend the physical form and reflect on infrastructural temporalities; second on the transformation of spatial governance and policy through infrastructure; and third, a re-assessment in the relationship between infrastructures and the ‘modernist ideal’. Through these avenues, light can be shed on the often ‘hidden’ practices of policymaking. We conclude by calling for a dialogue across diverse disciplines, side-stepping embedded divides between academics-activists, cities-towns, and the global south-north.
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