Policy Design and Social Construction amid Mass Protests
Studies on mass protests primarily examine the process, consequences and implications of protests from such angles as resource mobilization, political structure and opportunity, as well as policy frameworks, with little attention paid to the guiding role that related government policy have in dealing with mass protests. This paper analyzes the basic characters of government policies, further explains the basic logic behind their design, and takes the response to the Wukan incident as a typical case for confirmatory analysis. The study find that policy elements such as policy purpose, target groups, policy tools and executive bodies have remarkable underlying assumptions about effectiveness. If some assumptions fail to occur, policy failure is likely to appear. Therefore, in face of varying circumstances, it is recommended that policy design attach importance to elements about social construction, and adopt an open, interactive model which involves protesters in policy design.
Conectando problemas, soluções e expectativas: mapeando a literatura sobre análise do desenho de políticas públicas
Resumo: O artigo explora e sistematiza a literatura sobre policy design com o objetivo de fornecer um mapa desse subcampo da policy analysis, identificando os temas que recebem mais e menos atenção e debatendo conceitos e perspectivas. Ao final, delineamos uma agenda de pesquisa. Efetuamos uma revisão semissistemática de 74 documentos selecionados por meio da técnica snowball sampling. Verificamos que o conceito de desenho abarca os elementos: problemas, objetivos, instrumentos, grupos afetados e resultados, que devem exibir conexão lógica - cada qual movimentando um conjunto de recursos analíticos voltados à compreensão do funcionamento das políticas e da produção de resultados sociais. Uma agenda de pesquisa nacional poderia abordar, por exemplo, processos de transferência de desenhos entre governos e a influência dos órgãos de controle nas preferências por determinados tipos de desenhos.
The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism
* Introduction: The Arab Spring: The End of Postcoloniality * 1. Decentering the World: How the Arab Spring Unfolded * 2. Towards Liberation Geography * 3. A New Language of Revolt * 4. Discovering a New World * 5. From the Green Movement to the Jasmine Revolutions * 6. The center cannot hold * 7. The End of Postcolonialism * 8. Race, Gender, and Class in Transnational Revolutions * 9. Libya: The Crucible * 10. Delayed Defiance * Conclusion. The People Demand the Overthrow of the Regime