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Title National policy-making : domestication of global trends / edited by Pertti Alasuutari and Ali Qadir
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 209 pages .)
Series Routledge advances in sociology ; 117
Routledge advances in sociology ; 117.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART I Cross-national comparisons; 2 Interdependent decision-making in practice: justification of new legislation in six nation-states; 3 Unholy alliances: competitiveness as a domestic power strategy; 4 The sociogenesis of the nation-state in European social policy; 5 Global trends in European regional development: EU Cohesion Policy and the case of region-building in Poland
6 The role of PISA publicity in forming national education policy: the case of Finnish curriculum reformPART II Domestic field battles and naturalization; 7 The local politics of domesticating global models: the struggle over central bank independence in Israel; 8 Global "diffusion," banal nationalism, and the politics of policy legitimation: a genealogical study of "zest for living" in Japanese education policy discourse; 9 Culture and history in the domestication of global trends of higher education in Pakistan
10 Converging national with stakeholder interests: establishing a national bioethics committee in Finland11 Cleansing our hands of the "dirty war": the Colombian domestication of human rights; Index
Summary "Notions of social change are often divided into local versus international. But what actually happens at the national level--where policies are ultimately made and implemented--when policymaking is interdependent worldwide? How do policymakers take into account the prior choices of other countries? Far more research is needed on the process of interdependent decision-making in the world polity. National Policy-Making: Domestication of Global Trends offers a unique set of hybrid cases which straddle these disciplinary and conceptual divides. The volume brings together well-researched case studies of policy-making from across the world, which speak to practical issues but also challenge current theories of global influence in local policies. Distancing itself from approaches which conceive narrowly of policy transfer as a 'one-way street' from powerful nations to weaker ones, this book argues instead for an understanding of national decision-making processes that emphasise cross-national comparisons and domestic field battles around the introduction of worldwide models. The case studies in this collection show how national policies appear to be synchronised globally, yet are developed with distinct 'national' flavours. Presenting new theoretical ideas and empirical cases, this book is aimed globally at scholars of political science, international relations, comparative public policy, and sociology"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Policy sciences -- Cross-cultural studies
Decision making -- Cross-cultural studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Decision making
Policy sciences
Globalisierung
Innenpolitik
Internationaler Vergleich
Politische Entscheidung
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Alasuutari, Pertti
Qadir, Ali
ISBN 1136177582
9781136177583
9780203082157
020308215X
9781136177590
1136177590
1306184487
9781306184489