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Foundations of Political Science
"Foundations of Political Science" delves into the intricate realms of politics, governance, ideologies, and global dynamics. This comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts seeking a deeper understanding of political science. We begin with a solid foundation in political theory, elucidating key concepts such as sovereignty, democracy, authoritarianism, and political ideologies like liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and communism. We introduce diverse forms of government, from democracies to theocracies, exploring each system's nuances and societal implications. Moving forward, we navigate global politics, addressing globalization, international ...
Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health
This open access book bridges the divide between political science and public health, whilst simultaneously embracing the complexities and differences of both. Although public health is inherently political, the tools and insights of political science are often ignored in public health scholarship. Bringing together academics and researchers working at the intersection of both, the book demonstrates how integrating these fields can help reconcile the roles of politics and scientific evidence in policymaking. It also highlights the key conceptual, methodological and substantive implications for bridging this divide, and charts a path forward for a movement towards political science with public health. It will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in public health, political science, public policy, and the role of scientific evidence in policymaking.
Regional Comparisons in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies
Volume Three of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis, contains chapters concerned with "Regional Comparisons and Policy Analysis" – one of the most prevailing approaches in comparative public policy. Through the prism of inter-jurisdiction comparisons of similarities and variations, they address comparisons in specific policy sectors, governance or institutional constructs, and political regimes. The foci are, nevertheless, on those comparisons between countries or regions, which help to lesson-draw by identifying and understanding the variation in policy analysis and policy making that exists within or across regions. One benefit of regional comparisons is that it often allows stud...
Translating Nations
This book critically examines the ways in which translation studies can offer a conceptual framework for understanding and researching international affairs, drawing on examples from China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The volume encourages new conceptualisations of our understanding of culture and communication through the lens of translation, re-envisioning translation beyond the scope of the global circulation of cultural products. Tian explores the case study of the Belt and Road Initiative to show how nation branding and soft power can be understood through a translational lens if we rethink of translation as the means by which cultures communicate and build relationships with each othe...
Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta
The Mississippi Delta consistently ranks as having some of the worst health outcomes in the United States. Even with this stark reality, researcher David K. Jones (1981–2021) found "ripples of hope." For four years, Jones turned to residents and local leaders to learn firsthand the intricate connections between race, place, and health in the region. Using an innovative mix of photovoice, policy, and social science research, Jones weaves their insights with data analysis to show how local, state, and national policies and structures, whether or not intentional, constrain or expand daily choices that affect health. Blaming individuals for poor health choices isn't the remedy. Jones describes...
Healthy Cities
This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health creating a contemporary concept of urban governance—a democratically-informed process that embraces values like equity. Models, critiques, and global examples illustrate institutional change, community input, targeted assessment, and other means of addressing longstanding sources of urban health challenges. In these ambitious pages, healthy cities are rooted firmly in the worldwide movement towar...
Brazil and China in Knowledge and Policy Transfer
This book examines knowledge and policy transfer from the perspectives of Brazil and China. It assesses how these two nations have emerged as providers of ideas and models that contribute to the global offer of public policies. With a variety of case studies in areas such as health, food security and infrastructure, the volume offers new insights into the distinct levels through which knowledge and policy transfers take place, including the local, regional, national and supranational. It develops a multidimensional framework of analysis that considers the agents, objects, and mechanisms for knowledge and policy transfer, as well as the structures and timings within which they operate. Unlike previous studies on policy transfer – which largely focus on North-North and North-South learning processes – this book offers an innovative approach to this area of study. By reflecting on the experiences of these two rising powers, it provides fresh insights on the future of knowledge and policy transfer as global power dynamics shift. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to students and scholars of policy transfer, development studies, international relations and public policy.
The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood
Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the means of violence. While areas of limited statehood can be found everywhere - not just in the global South -, they are neither ungoverned nor ungovernable. Rather, a variety of actors maintain public order and safety, as well as provide public goods and services. While external state 'governors' and their interventions in the global South have received special scholarly attention, various non-state ...
La santé publique
Dans la mise à jour de la déclaration d’Helsinki, en 2014, l’Organisation mondiale de la santé reconnaissait que les décisions prises par les gouvernements dans tous les secteurs de la vie collective pouvaient avoir une incidence, positive ou négative, sur la santé des individus et des populations. Cette reconnaissance présente un défi de taille pour les organismes de santé publique qui, dans leur devoir de protection et de promotion de la santé, doivent influencer les élus. Comment s’exerce ce rôle d’influence sur les autorités ? Et, surtout, comment mieux le jouer ? Des médecins et des experts reconnus en science politique et en éthique présentent dans cet ouvrage treize cas d’interventions des directions de santé publique du Québec. Tout en montrant à quel point l’acceptabilité sociale est un enjeu crucial, ils proposent des cadres de référence et tirent des leçons pour de futures interventions. Rares sont les ouvrages qui décrivent concrètement les pratiques de prévention qui consistent à mener des opérations visant à influencer les organisations et les décideurs.
