1,275 results on '"epistemic community"'
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2. Freedom of thought.
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Chrisman, Matthew
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LIBERTY of conscience , *PUBLIC sphere , *THEORY of knowledge , *EXPERTISE , *LIBERTY - Abstract
This paper develops a novel conception of freedom of thought as the right to epistemic self‐realization. The recognition of this right is characterized here as a modally robust normative status that I think one has as a potential knower in an epistemic community. It is a status that one cannot enjoy without a specific form of institutionalized intellectual respect and support. To explain and defend this conception of freedom of thought, it is contrasted here with more traditionally "negative" conceptions of freedom of thought, in terms of not being interfered with. It is also contrasted here with a "positive" conception of freedom of thought derived from a recently prominent account of doxastic agency as grounded in the rational capacity to self‐determine one's own response to reasons. In both cases, the crux of the argument in this paper is that a conception of freedom of thought as a right to epistemic self‐realization makes better sense of why we fear the counter‐liberatory forces of propaganda and regulated thinking, and also why we hold out hope for the liberating potential of education and critical engagement with expertise in the public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Assessing the types of policy networks in policymaking: Empirical evidence from administrative reform in Italy.
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Capano, Giliberto, Erittu, Eleonora, Francisci, Giulio, and Natalini, Alessandro
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ADMINISTRATIVE reform ,POLICY sciences ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,HYPOTHESIS - Abstract
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- 2024
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4. Comments on Jeremy Fantl's The Limitations of the Open Mind.
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McCormick, Miriam Schleifer
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THOUGHT & thinking ,THEORY of knowledge ,PHILOSOPHY ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) - Abstract
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- 2024
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5. Le premier congrès international eugénique (Londres, 1912) : une communauté épistémique transnationale ?
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Marius Bruneau
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internationalism ,London ,Eugenics ,congress ,epistemic community ,field ,History (General) and history of Europe - Abstract
This article examines the issues surrounding the First International Eugenics Congress, held in London in July 1912. After outlining the origins of eugenics, it examines the way in which this gathering can be described, testing the concepts of 'epistemic community' and 'transnational field' from a threefold perspective: firstly, a history of the ideas expressed at the congress and its organisation on different scales; secondly, a social analysis of the congress participants; and thirdly, a reflection on the effects of the eugenics congress in the short, medium and long term. The thesis defended is that the concept of the 'epistemic community', suggested by various historians, does not apply well to the London congress, which was intellectually and socially fragmented, whereas the 'transnational field' seems to be a more fruitful approach.
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- 2024
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6. A Call for Rethinking International Arbitration: A TWAIL Perspective on Transnationality and Epistemic Community.
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Vesali Mahmoud, Mansour and Sheikhattar, Hosna
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INTERNATIONAL arbitration ,HEGEMONY ,CAPITALISM ,INTERNATIONAL law ,IMPERIALISM - Abstract
Despite the increasingly diversified discourses in international commercial arbitration, this device of socio-legal regulation remains a relatively under-theorized subject. In particular, far too little attention has been paid to analyzing international commercial arbitration through critical approaches such as Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). TWAIL is broadly understood as a methodological reorientation in international law by highlighting the historical links between the foundations of this field of law and the history of capitalism and imperialism as well as the colonial and Eurocentric legacies in the structure and operation of the current international legal regime. With this in mind, two fronts in international commercial arbitration invite a reexamination through a TWAIL perspective and by drawing on the concept of hegemony. One front is the transnational account of arbitration, and the other one is the epistemic community of arbitration. By examining these two notions through a narrative of hegemony of Western legal traditions, we posit that any effective attempt at redefining or reforming arbitral governance structure towards sustaining diversity requires a deeper understanding of historical and current world power structures and creating a vision for the prospect of dehegemonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. The Causes and Consequences of Loving International Organizations: A Reply to Jean D'Aspremont.
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Daugirdas, Kristina
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INTERNATIONAL agencies ,UNIVERSITY towns ,REFORMS ,SCHOLARS ,PROFESSIONAL employees - Abstract
In observing a pervasive love for international organizations and prompting readers to notice and to interrogate its causes and consequences, Jean d'Aspremont makes an important and urgent contribution. This essay raises doubts about some of the drivers of love that d'Aspremont identifies while acknowledging that the community of scholars and practitioners whose work focuses on international organizations does seem to share such an affection. D'Aspremont observes that we temper and confine our critcisms of international organizations, seeking reform and incremental change rather than radical disruption. He labels this particular kind of "criticability" of international organizations a driver of love for them. But it is better characterised as a consequence of love—and an important one, because it highlights questions we're not asking and possibilities we're not considering. As members of a professional community, we must continuously ask ourselves what we're assuming, what we're resisting, and what we're missing—and make sure that we constitute our professional community in a way that corrects for our individual blind spots instead of replicating them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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8. EPİSTEMİK CEMAAT: BİR BİLİM SOSYOLOJİSİ DENEMESİ.
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KOÇ, Turgay
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Copyright of Journal of Cultural Studies / Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi is the property of Journal of Cultural Studies / Kultur Arastirmalari Dergisi and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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9. After the epistemological turn: A framework for studying populism as a knowledge phenomenon.
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Nawrocki, Michał
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CONSPIRACY theories , *COGNITIVE bias , *DISCURSIVE practices - Abstract
The recent epistemological turn in populism studies has produced many valuable insights pertaining to populist knowledge practices, conspiracy theories, information bubbles, and cognitive biases. However, various elements of populist epistemology are still studied separately, and there are no common theoretical assumptions that would arrange them into a comprehensive epistemic theory of populism. Thus, apart from presenting a preliminary mapping of recent changes in the field, the article proposes a basic theoretical framework for an epistemic approach to studying populism by conceptualising populism as a set of epistemic interventions: discursive and non-discursive practices that construe the people as a political subject and result in the emergence of a populist epistemic community. The article discusses how the latter concept may help to link discursive, performative, communicative, and cognitive elements of populism, along with describing key features of populist epistemic communities and indicating possible directions for future research on populist epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. Mapping networks of critical policy studies.
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Boossabong, Piyapong
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CRITICAL discourse analysis ,DISCOURSE analysis ,COALITIONS ,ETHNOGRAPHIC informants ,CLIMATE change - Abstract
The emergence of critical policy studies networks is evident in the proliferation of network-building efforts. These coincide with the rise of epistemic communities and sub-communities through existing, active platforms and interactive exchanges. Based on participatory observations, content analysis, and discussions with key informants, this article seeks to map out the range of established networks that have been formed for critical and interpretive orientation in policy studies. The article unpacks the platforms, activities, and key focuses exhibited by these networks; and after that, analyzes both their common grounds and differences. Emerging with one another together, these networks encourage and produce critical and interpretive approaches, albeit with differing shades in how they approach knowledge. The significance of these networks will largely depend on which kinds, or shades, of knowledge become salient. There is a prospect of establishing connections among critical policy studies networks as they share among one another in developing these interconnections. The purpose of this article effort is to offer a map to inquirers in order to help them better orient themselves to their task, which is not simply further mapping, but also includes furthering the development of critical policy studies networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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11. Introduction
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Serwer, Daniel, Jørgensen, Knud Erik, Series Editor, Beier, J. Marshall, Series Editor, Lee-Koo, Katrina, Series Editor, and Serwer, Daniel
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- 2024
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12. Establishment of International Norms, 1922–40
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Serwer, Daniel, Jørgensen, Knud Erik, Series Editor, Beier, J. Marshall, Series Editor, Lee-Koo, Katrina, Series Editor, and Serwer, Daniel
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- 2024
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13. Research and Knowledge in Public Policy Making
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Dzisah, James, Kpessa-Whyte, Michael, Peters, B. Guy, Series Editor, Zittoun, Philippe, Series Editor, Kpessa-Whyte, Michael, editor, and Dzisah, James, editor
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14. Resource nationalism among Russian academics: A centre‐periphery pattern?
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Tinti, Alessandro, Basile, Linda, and Cilento, Marco
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NATIONALISM , *FOREIGN partnerships , *GAS industry , *ENERGY policy , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *NATIONALISM in literature - Abstract
Under Putin's tenure, the geopolitical representation of Russia as an 'energy superpower' has become a powerful mainstay for the restoration of a global status and a revanchist foreign policy. This article seeks to assess the extent to which such a nationalist narrative is prevalent among Russian academics in the oil and gas sector. Using a survey administered to research and teaching staff in selected industrial universities in 2021, we found partial confirmation of the relevance of centre‐periphery relations and that nationalist attitudes are aligned with a state‐centric approach. However, this perspective does not necessarily entail opposition to industry privatisation or foreign partnerships. These findings highlight the inadequacy of a simplistic privatisation/nationalisation dichotomy in capturing the hybrid nature of resource governance in petro‐states. Additionally, our study suggests that resource nationalism plays a role in shaping experts' support for the government's energy policy. These findings contribute to the literature on resource nationalism and suggest potential avenues for future research exploring the role of higher education institutions in shaping resource governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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15. Subjetividade, experiência e encontro de saberes.
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Lacomblez, Marianne
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SUBJECTIVITY , *COMPARATIVE studies , *PANORAMAS , *HEURISTIC - Abstract
We propose to systematize the reasons for our circumspection with regard to certain uses of the notion of "subjectivity", particularly in the analysis of the relationship with work activity. Although notoriously ambiguous, this notion, stemming from philosophy, has come to the fore in recent years, reactivating certain controversies. We analyze scientific productions that make use of this notion, particularly when it allows us to set out a "conceptualized panorama". Intervention models inspired by this approach are also reviewed, helping to clarify certain debates. Secondly, we discuss theoretical-methodological and intervention models that are part of an epistemic community founded on the conviction, emancipated from the notion of subjectivity, that advances in scientific disciplines defining work activity as their object of study, emerge from their encounter with experiential knowledge. The text insists on the heuristic character of comparative analyses. It also calls for vigilance in the face of the often-indiscriminate use of the notion of subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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16. I am not the info desk for Islam and Arabs: the racialization of Islam and boundaries of citizenship.
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Karimi, Zeinab
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ISLAM , *RACIALIZATION , *CITIZENSHIP , *ARABS , *MUSLIMS - Abstract
By bridging the discussions on critical race and critical citizenship studies, this paper asks how the racialization of Islam shapes the lived citizenship of minorities in the Finnish context. The study focuses on a group of Finnish citizens and residents who have backgrounds in southwest Asia. The 26 people in this group were asked questions about their lived experiences of citizenship and the role of religion in their experiences. The results indicate that regardless of the participants' religious identifications as Muslims or non-Muslims, their belonging was challenged through the mechanism of racialized gaze that framed them as strangers who do not fit into the epistemic community of whiteness. The study introduces the terms selective secularism and labour of explaining to reflect upon the mechanism through which the racialized gaze operates in everyday encounters. At times, some research participants resisted and contested the racialized gaze. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production: towards a reflexive practice.
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Cristiano, Fabio, Kurowska, Xymena, Stevens, Tim, Hurel, Louise Marie, Fouad, Noran Shafik, Cavelty, Myriam Dunn, Broeders, Dennis, Liebetrau, Tobias, and Shires, James
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INTERNET security ,REFLEXIVITY ,PRACTICAL politics ,NEGOTIATION ,ACADEMIA ,INTERNET forums - Abstract
How does a reflexive scholarly practice matter for producing useful cybersecurity knowledge and policy? We argue that staking relevance without engaging in reflexivity diminishes the usefulness of knowledge produced both in academia and in policy. To advance a reflexive research agenda in cybersecurity, this forum offers a collective interrogation of the liminal positionality of the cybersecurity scholar. We examine the politics of 'the making of' cybersecurity expertise as knowledge practitioners who are located across and in between the diverse and overlapping fields of academia, diplomacy and policy. Cybersecurity expertise, and the practices of the cybersecurity epistemic community more broadly, rely heavily on the perceived applicability and actionability of knowledge outputs, on the practical dependency on policy practitioners regarding access, and thus on the continuous negotiation of hierarchies of knowledge. Participants in this forum reflect on their research practice of negotiating such dilemmas. Collectively, we draw on these contributions to identify obstacles and opportunities towards realising a reflexive research practice in cybersecurity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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18. Wider den Tunnelblick! Kritik als Chance und ihre Bedeutung für Legitimität und Professionalität der Polizei
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Heidemann, Dirk, Wehe, Dieter, editor, and Siller, Helmut, editor
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- 2023
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19. Open Education as Social Movement? Between Evidence-Based Research and Activism
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Kalz, Marco, Xiao, Junhong, Section editor, Zawacki-Richter, Olaf, editor, and Jung, Insung, editor
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- 2023
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20. Who Governs? Actors in China’s International IP Engagement
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Cheng, Wenting, Cowan, Dave, Series Editor, Genn, Dame Hazel, Editorial Board Member, Haines, Fiona, Editorial Board Member, Kritzer, Herbert, Editorial Board Member, Mulcahy, Linda, Editorial Board Member, Hunter, Rosemary, Editorial Board Member, Stychin, Carl, Editorial Board Member, Valverde, Mariana, Editorial Board Member, Wheeler, Sally, Editorial Board Member, Raj, Senthorun, Editorial Board Member, and Cheng, Wenting
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- 2023
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21. Nordic Public Information: An Epistemic Community of Experiences and Ideas in the 1970s
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Norén, Fredrik, Norén, Fredrik, editor, Stjernholm, Emil, editor, and Thomson, C. Claire, editor
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- 2023
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22. Sex Education in China: Actors and dynamics of China’s policies and practices
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Qian Qin and Jiali Zhang
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sex education ,China ,public health ,international organizations ,epistemic community ,public policy ,Education (General) ,L7-991 - Abstract
AbstractLimited Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) knowledge among China’s youth is a considerable challenge that impacts not only China but also the global progression towards sustainable development goals. This study aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of China’s sex education policy, its evolution in recent years, and the role played by domestic and international actors in the policy-making process. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies were employed to investigate the current state and historical progression of China’s sex education policy. The findings reveal a significant correlation between the government’s emphasis on sex education and several key indicators, including the incidence of abortion, the level of gender equality, and the development of the education system. The study also identifies several roadblocks hampering the comprehensive development of sex education in China, and recommends the establishment of a dedicated cross-ministerial institution to enhance collaboration and guide the development of comprehensive sex education in China.
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- 2023
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23. The Effectiveness of Science Diplomacy between Adversarial States: Insights from US–Cuban and US–Iranian Science Collaborations.
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Rüland, Anna-Lena
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COOPERATIVE research ,DIPLOMACY ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,IRAN-United States relations ,MARINE resources conservation ,IRANIANS - Abstract
Summary: The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Royal Society's science diplomacy taxonomy has received much criticism. Some argue that there is a lack of empirical evidence to underpin the taxonomy's three science diplomacy dimensions. This particularly applies to the third dimension, science for diplomacy, and its effectiveness. Others criticise the taxonomy for painting the picture of compliant scientists who would discard their academic ideals to support foreign policy objectives. Against the backdrop of these two points of criticism, this study investigates if scientists are willing to support political objectives through science collaborations. It also examines under which conditions science for diplomacy is effective. Using the epistemic community approach, expert interviews and a case study, the study argues that science for diplomacy is effective if it is promoted by a close-knit epistemic community and shows that scientists oppose the instrumentalisation of scientific collaboration for political purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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24. The Global Biogeography Initiative.
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Dawson, Michael N, Gillespie, Rosemary, Robin, V. V., Tolley, Krystal A., and Vasconcelos, Thais
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BIOGEOGRAPHY , *HIGH-income countries , *SCIENTIFIC knowledge , *PHILOSOPHY of science , *PHYSICAL geography - Published
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25. The Third Space, mimics and ambivalence of HRM in the Global South: a postcolonial reading
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Jayawardena, Dhammika
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- 2023
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26. Competing institutional logics and power dynamics in Islamic financial reporting standardisation projects
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Abras, Ahmad and Jayasinghe, Kelum
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- 2023
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27. EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES AND SERVICE DELIVERY CHOICES IN SPANISH MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIONS
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Miquel SALVADOR and Clara RIBA
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epistemic community ,local government ,service delivery ,outsourcing ,Cities. Urban geography ,GF125 ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 - Abstract
This article contributes to the debate on the use of alternative formulas for public service provision with arguments related to epistemic communities’ influence. Drawing on the literature on models of local public service delivery, the role of internal epistemic communities is discussed and tested through the consideration of two different communities related to specific municipal areas such as personal and urban services. The results demonstrate that the association of urban services’ epistemic communities with alternative formulas for direct provision to deliver services is greater than in the case of personal services’ epistemic community. Those findings contribute to the academic debate not only with arguments and evidence that reinforces the role of variables included in previous research but also by introducing the role of epistemic communities in determining some policy options (as the use of local public-service delivery formulas).
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- 2022
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28. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine: The causes of the war, security studies and the formation of an epistemic community in Poland.
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Pawłuszko, Tomasz
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NATIONAL security ,RUSSIA-Ukraine relations ,CONFLICT management ,EPISTEMICS - Abstract
Russia's aggression against Ukraine has led to an increased interest in knowledge about warfare. The public debate about this war has become a test for the expertise skills of numerous scholars and government analysts. Within a few months, a new epistemic community emerged, which began to create a security discourse around the problems of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The article tries to explain the key terms used in this discourse and to indicate what classical texts in the field of international relations say about the causes and course of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In order to compare theory with practice, the author analysed several hundred expert publications on the war and conducted a total of several dozen interviews and surveys in 2022 in the Polish expert community. This text is therefore based on both a theoretical analysis and an insight into the reasoning of the epistemic community of experts educated in the field of security studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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29. Professional political pollsters as a liberal democratic epistemic community: Revisiting transformations of Indonesian political pollsters in the last decade of the Soeharto and post-Soeharto eras.
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Ahmad, Nyarwi and Eriyanto, Eriyanto
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COMMUNITIES ,POST-apartheid era ,POLITICAL consultants ,POLITICAL campaigns ,PROFESSIONAL employees - Abstract
This article proposes the notion of the professional political pollster as a liberal democratic epistemic community. It examines transformations of Indonesian political pollster organisations in the last decade of the Soeharto era and in the post-Soeharto era. The findings extracted from the academic and mainstream media reports and the in-depth interview data collected from seven political pollsters associated with prominent Indonesian polling organisations are as follows. In the last decade of the Soeharto era, professional political pollsters visibly evolved but played less significant roles in Indonesian politics. As the Soeharto regime collapsed, they gradually had more substantial roles in Indonesian electoral politics and took shape as a robust and convergent liberal democratic epistemic community. After Indonesia's 2004 presidential election, most of them not only turned into political consultants but also engaged in a pollster war. This made them take shape as not only a fragile but also a divergent liberal democratic epistemic community. A set of recommendations is proposed to tackle this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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30. Individual and Institutional Dimensions of Epistemic Injustice in Swiss Legal Education: Remarks and Ways Forward
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Sofia Balzaretti and Stephanie Deig
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switzerland ,legal knowledge ,legal education ,epistemic injustice ,forms of silencing ,institutional dimensions ,legal education system ,lawyers ,epistemic community ,feminist critical theory ,critical legal methodology ,epistemic capacities ,injustice ,active ignorance ,fius ,cognitio ,legal gender studies ,Law - Abstract
In Switzerland, institutions through which legal knowledge and education are produced have systemi-cally enabled epistemic injustice through forms of silencing and the cultivation of active ignorance along individual and institutional dimensions. As such, we argue that an important form of intervention in the legal education system, which would not only provide instruments to address epistemic injustice, but also better equip lawyers as individuals and as members of a collective, epistemic community, is feminist critical theory. Providing access and engagement with critical legal methodology, throughout legal studies, is integral to the development of epistemic capacities. It would help prevent formation of insensitivities to experiences of injustice and interrupt the perpetuation of silencing and cultivation of active ignorance along individual and institutional dimensions.
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- 2022
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31. Ideas behind transformative innovation policy: Economists confronting missions and sustainability transition in Finland.
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Ahokas, Jussi, Järvensivu, Paavo, and Toivanen, Tero
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SOCIAL influence ,SUSTAINABILITY ,SCHOLARS - Abstract
• We examine economists as an epistemic community influencing policy. • We analyze the limits of economists' ideas on transformative innovation policy. • The epistemic landscape, formed in key part by economists, conditions the progress of transformative innovation policy. • The findings suggest that sustainability scholars should acknowledge the limits of economists' thinking. The ideas that experts share and draw on shape policies across various spatial and temporal contexts. In this study, we use document analysis and expert interviews to examine the views and beliefs of one important group of experts, economists, on mission-oriented innovation policy and sustainability transition in Finland. As a result, we outline the epistemic landscape that for its part conditions the progress of transformative innovation policy in Finland. While sustainability scholars have been intrigued by the promises of mission-oriented thinking, our findings suggest that they should acknowledge the epistemic limits of communities of economists regarding missions and transformative innovation policy as political vehicles to advance sustainability transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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32. Building Legitimacy in the Absence of the State: Reflections on the Facebook Oversight Board.
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PRICE, MONROE E. and PRICE, JOSHUA M.
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SOCIAL media ,LEGITIMACY of governments ,BURNISHING ,INTERNET content moderation - Abstract
Meta created a Facebook Oversight Board to burnish or attempt to burnish the legitimacy of its social media platforms. The Oversight Board can compensate for regulatory failure, particularly deficits occasioned by the absence of explicit direct government supervision. These deficits are usually marked by significant public criticism of platforms for their perceived failure to moderate content adequately. In a global context in which the interplay between formal regulation and platform-initiated efforts to moderate content becomes ever more intense and heated, innovations, like the work of the Board, can be enlightening. We look at aspects of the Board's creation to identify steps thought to manufacture legitimacy. In this case and others, the platform in conversation with stakeholders yields additional opportunities for review of decisions to take down or retain material and to allow additional perspectives on policy issues. In the process of review, we identify ways that platforms generate attributes of legitimacy, enhance strategic narratives, and develop an epistemic community—all with the goal of increasing legitimacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
33. Formación de una comunidad epistémica en torno al enfoque de Global Value Chains como nuevo instrumento de desarrollo en el siglo XXI.
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Facundo Trevignani, Manuel
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GLOBAL value chains ,INTERNATIONAL agencies ,RESEARCH personnel - Abstract
Copyright of Papeles de Europa is the property of Universidad Complutense de Madrid and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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34. CENGİZ BEKTAŞ'IN OZAN-MİMAR OLARAK PERSONA İNŞASI.
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UÇMAN ALTINIŞIK, Işıl
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Copyright of METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture / Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi is the property of METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
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35. Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia.
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NON-state actors (International relations) , *COMPARATIVE method , *SUSTAINABILITY , *STATE power , *ORGANIZATIONAL legitimacy - Abstract
This article challenges the prevailing discourse on regional environmental governance in East Asia, emphasizing the risk of co‐optation among scholars and other experts through state authority in the transboundary co‐production of knowledge and action. By collecting first‐hand materials through the participatory observation of related events, organizing workshops, and conducting interviews, the research identified 15 transboundary cooperative networks in various fields of environmental sustainability issues and the involvement of 25 nonstate actors, including academics and practitioners. Using a comparative ethnographic approach for interpreting a nuanced sense of their experiences at the backstage of transboundary co‐production, the study found several strategies for boundary management to maintain credibility and legitimacy and to remain involved in transboundary co‐production with broad partners, including public and private actors. The nonstate actors have to be careful to engage in transboundary co‐production without eliminating any existing legitimacy of regional governance. In this sense, nonstate actors employ an ad‐hoc strategy of boundary management in determining a contingent situation surrounding the legitimacy of their initiatives and themselves and maintain their credibility to avoid co‐optation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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36. The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education.
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Park, Byung-Yeol, Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca, Campbell, Todd, Cooke, Hannah, Arnold, Chester, Volin, John C., Chrysochoou, Maria, and Diplock, Peter C.
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SUSTAINABILITY , *HIGHER education , *ENVIRONMENTAL education , *EPISTEMICS , *EDUCATION research - Abstract
High Leverage Practices (HLPs), as a core set of teaching practices, represent important instructional priorities and provide instructional guidance for students' engagement in practice-based instruction. The goals of this research were to 1) understand how an epistemic community (the people designing and leading courses and programs) viewed the HLP creation process, 2) understand the processes through which the epistemic community actually engaged in the refinement of the HLPS, and 3) identify and present the HLPs created. Data collected across the 2019-2020 academic year included interviews with seven instructors and seven students and four observations of the integration team meetings. First, thematic analysis revealed that the epistemic community members considered the process of creating and refining HLPs central to improving the quality of their instruction. Second, the processes through which the community engaged in HLP refinement included connecting experience and feedback with educational research, identifying the purpose of instructional strategies, sharing practices for instruction, and creating a model for course expansion. Third, the HLPs produced included: 1) eliciting students' initial ideas, 2) informing approaches to problems, and 3) developing informed solutions to address community environmental challenges. This work informs in the literature, especially in applied STEM education, about HLP creation in the context of an epistemic community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. In the absence of global antitrust law: looking to “bricks and mortar” institutions and agency networks
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Lucey, Mary Catherine
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38. Rechtsgeschichte als Geschichte von Normativitätswissen?
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Thomas Duve
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legal history ,history of knowledge ,epistemic community ,legal historiography ,Law ,Political science - Abstract
The article proposes that legal history can fruitfully be understood as the history of the production of normative knowledge. Such a perspective builds on a long tradition of legal historical research on the formation of norms, ideas, doctrines and institutions. For the last two centuries, however, the main focus of legal historical research, especially in the German tradition, was directed towards what has been called »the law of jurists« (Juristenrecht). Legal historians were interested, first and foremost, in the formation of the modern Western legal system as a product of the work of jurists. The production of normative knowledge by other epistemic communities and communities of practice received far less attention, nor did legal historians integrate praxeological aspects into their research. Looking at legal history as a continuous process of the translation – and thus the production – of normative knowledge can provide an analytical framework that helps overcome these constraints. It offers the possibility of integrating different pistemic communities and communities of practice into its analysis and is able to incorporate the study of practices, materiality and other longneglected aspects of norm production. Not least, it serves as a method for a truly global legal history. The results of such a legal history might be less suggestive and fascinating than the big legal historical narratives of rationalization, professionalization and the formation of Western law that have inspired legal historians from the northern hemisphere during the 20th century. It can, however, offer a more complex picture of the past and provides us with the intellectual tools for a better understanding of norm production in the 21st century.
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39. Long tail metaphysics: The epistemic crisis and intellectual freedom.
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Hartman-Caverly, Sarah
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INTELLECTUAL freedom ,VIRTUE epistemology ,VIRTUES ,METAPHYSICS ,FREEDOM of expression ,INFORMATION & communication technologies ,CRISES - Abstract
In reaction to the epistemic crisis, efforts to restrict free expression and access to information have not only failed to preserve the truth, but sometimes also suppressed it. Libraries' commitment to intellectual freedom creates unique opportunities to deliver alternative solutions. By renewing the emphasis on intellectual freedom in core library functions like collections, education, and programming, libraries can provide the epistemic resources that patrons need amidst a broader context of distrust, manipulation, and censorship. This essay examines the epistemic crisis in the USA in light of intellectual freedom and the IFLA Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom. Organized into three parts, this piece explores plurality as normative in the human condition, considers the impact of information and communications technology on free expression and the legitimacy of information institutions, and reconciles the emerging tensions by applying concepts from virtue epistemology to intellectual freedom. The essay concludes with considerations for library practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. Epistemic community in transboundary river regime: a case study in the Mekong River Commission regarding mainstream hydropower development.
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Luu, Tang, van Slobbe, Erik, Timmerman, Jos, Ho, Loc Huu, Dung, Tran Duc, and Quang, Chau Nguyen Xuan
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COMMUNITIES ,WATER power ,TRANSBOUNDARY waters ,WATERSHEDS ,WATER management ,FRAGMENTED landscapes - Abstract
Despite the importance of transboundary water management, cooperation mechanisms are limited, especially in the case of Mekong River basin where environmental and social aspects are threatened by recent anthropogenic pressures like hydropower development. Existing transboundary mechanism such as the Mekong River Commission (MRC) is challenged to facilitate the cooperation between riparian states. An epistemic community (EC) is considered to effectively influence international governance and is studied as part of transboundary river regimes. The existence of an MRC EC is part of that regime but understanding about its characteristics is yet limited. This research aims to fill in the gap by unraveling the main features of the EC in relation to hydropower development. We analyze shared causal beliefs and policy goals that developed in the EC framework of Haas applying literature review and semi-structured interviews of experts. Results show that the community experts share causal beliefs and policy goals only to a limited extent while disagreeing on many aspects. It resembles a "disciplined" or "professional" group rather than an EC. This suggests that the knowledge factor has not gained proper influence and attention in the region, resulting in incoherent policy advice leading to policymakers developing policies based on incomplete and fragmented knowledge. The role of the MRC in the decision-making process could become more relevant if it would facilitate the development of an EC. Bringing key stakeholders including policymakers and experts into a platform where policy goals and causal beliefs are facilitated to reach possible consensus is recommended. Narrowing the science-policy gap while acknowledging differences in interests and policy objectives is crucial to reach a sustainable transboundary management of the Mekong River given its rapid development, especially on hydropower. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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41. Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism.
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Espino, Giuliano
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EPISTEMICS , *INSTITUTIONALISM (Religion) , *INTERNATIONAL organization , *INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
This article aims to help the literature on global governance and international professionalism move beyond a myopic focus on epistemic communities by unpacking the underutilized term epistemic coalition. Epistemic coalitions are an international nonstate actor that employ a broadened notion of expertise to incorporate business and political advocates alongside technical experts. I differentiate epistemic coalitions from epistemic communities by synthesizing the international relations, organizational theory, and public policy literatures. These organizations differ in the breadth of their policy agendas, dynamics of internal cohesion, and capabilities to engage in global policy transfer. However, I note that it is still unclear how epistemic coalitions coordinate member action along different professions and what are the conditions under which epistemic coalitions' membership balances will be viewed by national elites as professionally legitimate. I then examine the role of the International Olympic Committee in US steroid policy to induce two preliminary hypotheses that can potentially address these gaps. First, epistemic coalitions use a foundational narrative to coordinate action among professions. Second, perceptions of equitable membership balance stem from an ideational congruence between national and international elites. I conclude with how these hypotheses can be tested in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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42. Development of science and policy related to acid deposition in East Asia over 30 years.
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Akimoto, Hajime, Sato, Keiichi, Sase, Hiroyuki, Dong, Yao, Hu, Min, Duan, Lei, Sunwoo, Young, Suzuki, Katsunori, and Tang, Xiaoyan
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ACID deposition , *FISH declines , *EMISSIONS (Air pollution) , *POLICY sciences , *FOREST declines , *CLIMATE change mitigation , *FOREST soils - Abstract
Scientific and public interest in acid deposition and its ecological impacts have increased throughout 1990s in East Asia (Northeast and Southeast Asia). After being established in 2001, the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET) celebrates the 20th anniversary in 2021, and is now being expanded in scope reflecting the shifting social concern from acid deposition to broader air quality and climate change in recent years. This paper reviews the past 30 years of development of scientific research and policy related to acid deposition in East Asia. Since the onset of the twenty-first century, East Asia has had the highest SO2 and NOx emissions in the world by continents, with substantial economic developmental inequality among countries. An overview of studies on sulfur and nitrogen deposition, the acidification of inland water and forest soil, and forest decline reveal that although limited acidification of inland water and forest soils have been documented, no decline in the populations of fish and other aquatic biota has been reported in East Asia. After a review of policy-oriented modeling studies on source receptor relationships and the critical loads of sulfur and nitrogen in East Asia, the history of EANET and its success and challenges are discussed. Finally, the importance of epistemic communities as the interface between science and policy in the region is discussed. Regional governance and cooperation are essential for reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, especially short-lived climate pollutants and atmospheric pollutants to realize the co-benefits of global climate change mitigation and improved air quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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43. 21. Yüzyılda Uluslararası Uzay Rejiminin İnsanlığın Ortak Mirası Temelinde Yeniden İnşası
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Senem Atvur and Aybüke İnan Şimşek
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space regime ,common heritage of(hu)mankind ,constructivism ,epistemic community ,governance. ,uzay rejimi ,i̇nsanlığın ortak mirası ,i̇nşacılık ,epistemik topluluk ,yönetişim. ,Political science ,Political science (General) ,JA1-92 - Abstract
1957 yılında SSCB’nin Sputnik I adlı uyduyu Dünya yörüngesine başarılı bir şekilde fırlatmasıyla başladığı kabul edilen “Uzay Çağı” ile birlikte devletlerin uzaydaki egemenlikleri ve uzayın nasıl kullanılacağına ilişkin tartışmalar başlamıştır. Bu süreçte Birleşmiş Milletler girişimiyle uzay hukuku oluşturulmaya çalışılmış fakat imzalanan Uzay Antlaşması ve Ay Anlaşması da uzayın statüsüne ve uzayın insanlığın ortak mirası olup olmadığına netlik kazandıramamıştır. Bunun yanında son yıllarda hız kazanan Mars’ın kolonileştirilmesi gibi faaliyetlerle birlikte uzaydaki hukuki belirsizlik daha da tartışmalı hale gelmiştir. Uzay faaliyetlerinin çok aktörlü bir yapıya bürünmesi ile birlikte günümüzde yeni bir uluslararası uzay rejimine ihtiyaç artmıştır. Bu çalışma ise uluslararası uzay rejiminin insanlığın ortak mirası çerçevesinde neden yeniden inşa edilmesinin gerekliliğini tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu normatif tartışma, Uluslararası İlişkilerin İnşacı Teorisi bağlamında ulusötesi yaklaşım ve epistemik toplulukların rolü ile derinleştirilecektir.
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44. Exponential Growth and New Agendas – a Comprehensive Review of the Arctic Conference Sphere
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Beate Steinveg
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arctic governance ,conferences ,international cooperation ,policy-science interplay ,regime complex ,epistemic community ,Law - Abstract
The Arctic region has attracted the interest of Arctic and non-Arctic states, as well as non-state actors, for decades. Corresponding with the growing attraction towards the region, the number of conferences attending to Arctic issues has expanded. This article provides an historical mapping of the Arctic conference sphere, and demonstrates how the establishment of Arctic conferences has both paralleled central events in Arctic affairs and can be linked to important international developments. Firstly, there is a notable peak conforming with the “second state change” in 2005, brought about by developments opening the Arctic to global concerns: the impacts of climate change and the spread of the socio-economic effects from globalization to the Arctic. Secondly, the expanding number of conferences around 2013 can be seen in relation to the growing interest in the region from non-Arctic states. As such, this article builds the argument for conferences as a central element within the Arctic governance architecture, creating linkages among units in the regime complex. The article devotes particular attention towards the two largest international conferences on Arctic issues – Arctic Frontiers and Arctic Circle Assembly – to illustrate how the necessity for hybrid policy-science-business conferences arose from a more complex governance system, and challenges requiring cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary, and international collaboration.
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45. Scientific Communities. A History of Theories and Concepts
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Arnold, Markus, Stadler, Friedrich, Series Editor, Bouveresse, Jacques, Series Editor, Carrier, Martin, Series Editor, Cartwright, Nancy, Series Editor, Creath, Richard, Series Editor, Ferrari, Massimo, Series Editor, Friedman, Michael, Series Editor, Galavotti, Maria Carla, Series Editor, Galison, Peter, Series Editor, Hacohen, Malachi, Series Editor, Hegselmann, Rainer, Series Editor, Heidelberger, Michael, Series Editor, Howard, Don, Series Editor, Hoyningen-Huene, Paul, Series Editor, Jabloner, Clemens, Series Editor, Kox, Anne J., Series Editor, Kusch, Martin, Series Editor, Lennox, James G., Series Editor, Mormann, Thomas, Series Editor, Morscher, Edgar, Series Editor, Mulligan, Kevin, Series Editor, Nemeth, Elisabeth, Series Editor, Nida-Rümelin, Julian, Series Editor, Niiniluoto, Ilkka, Series Editor, Pfersmann, Otto, Series Editor, Rédei, Miklós, Series Editor, Richardson, Alan, Series Editor, Schurz, Gerhard, Series Editor, Sluga, Hans, Series Editor, Sober, Elliott, Series Editor, Soulez, Antonia, Series Editor, Spohn, Wolfgang, Series Editor, Stöltzner, Michael, Series Editor, Uebel, Thomas E., Series Editor, Wagner, Pierre, Series Editor, Waters, C. Kenneth, Series Editor, Wolters, Gereon, Series Editor, Zeilinger, Anton, Series Editor, Essler, Wilhelm K., Series Editor, Holton, Gerald, Series Editor, Janik, Allan S., Series Editor, Kamlah, Andreas, Series Editor, Köhler, Eckehart, Series Editor, Manninen, Juha, Series Editor, Oeser, Erhard, Series Editor, Schuster, Peter, Series Editor, Šebestík, Jan, Series Editor, Sigmund, Karl, Series Editor, Thiel, Christian, Series Editor, Weingartner, Paul, Series Editor, Woleński, Jan, Series Editor, Stoppelkamp, Bastian, Series Editor, Fisette, Denis, editor, and Fréchette, Guillaume, editor
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46. Expertise, Epistemes and the Construction of a Suspect Community
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Hendricks, Mohamed Natheem, Abdelkader, Deina, Series Editor, Adiong, Nassef Manabilang, Series Editor, Mauriello, Raffaele, Series Editor, and Hendricks, Mohamed Natheem
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47. Conclusions
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Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia and Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia
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48. The Epistemic Community and International Organizations in the Diffusion of CCTs
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Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia and Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia
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49. An International Epistemic Community for Policy Coherence for Development and the Emergence of Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs
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Zeigermann, Ulrike and Zeigermann, Ulrike
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50. Evidentiary vacuum, epistemic communities and rare disease policymaking in India: an evolutionary policy perspective.
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Yadav, Shyamjeet Maniram and Bhaduri, Saradindu
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RARE diseases ,POLICY sciences ,EVOLUTIONARY economics - Abstract
There are divergent views among scholars and policymakers about the nature of permissible evidence for policymaking. It is often not feasible to construct a policy system exclusively based on objective research findings, particularly for rare diseases where conventionally accepted evidence remains a rarity. Evolutionary theories in such cases offer an overarching framework to represent the various heterodox understandings of what constitutes evidence and how evidence-based policies can be formulated under knowledge uncertainty. We conduct an empirical investigation of India's rare disease policymaking endeavour in evolutionary perspective. The existing rare diseases policy architecture in India, in our view, reflects a 'rationalistic' framework. It intends to act only on 'hard evidence' to make, what may be called, an optimum decision, rather than initiating a 'good enough' policy decision based on existing (limited, soft) evidence and improving it incrementally through learning and trial-and-error. Our findings suggest that in the presence of 'evidentiary vacuum' and knowledge uncertainty, broadening the contours of epistemic communities, to include 'lived experiences' of the 'lay'-stakeholders, can be effective in formulating an adaptive policy framework, which would 'learn' to better fit with the dynamic environment through inclusive deliberations, and trial-and-error. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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