Should policy makers be intellectuals? This is what Prof. Gary Gutting asks in an interesting article he wrote for the International Herald Tribune. His point of departure is that in his Republic, the Greek philosopher Plato \’put forward the idea of a state ruled by intellectuals who combined comprehensive theoretical knowledge with the practical capacity […]
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Clay and Schaeffer’s book Room for Manoeuvre describes the policy and policy making as ‘as a chaos of purposes and accidents’. During the workshop facilitated by RAPID we often describe policy making as complex, multifactorial and non linear. The complexity of policy processes described in these two definition has two consequences for the influencing potential
An interesting How-To-Guide on the development of independent media as a key element of accountable governance reforms published by the World Bank. Here > Developing Independent Media as an Institution of Accountable Governance: A How-To Guide Media development seeks to support and promote a pluralistic, editorially independent and financially sustainable media sector. An independent media sector buttresses key governance goals
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Interesting article in SciDev.Net: Support Local Governance to get Research into Policy To see the research they fund in action, donors should work with good local governance, not informal networks, writes Justin O. Parkhurst. Here >
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The book by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama, Innovative Trends in Public Governance in Asia, has just been published by IOS Press. I have written, with three colleagues from Evidence Based Policy in Development Network (ebpdn) from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, one of the chapters (See book website) Governance Reforms in Three Southeast Asian
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The book by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama, Innovative Trends in Public Governance in Asia, has just been published by IOS Press. I have written, with three colleagues from Evidence Based Policy in Development Network (ebpdn) from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, one of the chapters (See book website) Governance Reforms in Three Southeast Asian
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1) Limit your work-in-progress and 2) Visualise your work; these are the two simple rules that are suggested in a very enjoyable book I recently read by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry entitled Personal Kanban: Mapping Work / Navigating Life. When I first came across the book, I found the second part of the
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What role does evidence play in policy-making processes here in the Philippines?’ ‘What are the tensions between research and policy processes?’ ‘How does research inform the implementation of policy guidelines and regulations?’ I am reviewing these questions in my notepad while sitting in the waiting room of the President of Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines. Read the
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