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Activists - protecting rainforests, demanding increased childcare,
developing local community housing, campaigning for AIDS funding or
protecting consumers - are as much part of the political landscape
as the media, parliament, peak industry groups, political parties
or trade unions. This collection explores the idea of policy
activism and its relationship to the processes that not only set
but implement and deliver the policy agenda. Policy activists
operate both inside and outside government. They include
community-based organisers, activist bureaucrats, service providers
and professionals. Policy activism has been barely explored in
existing literature. This collection puts the idea on the map. It
is an innovative contribution to the literature, using case studies
across a broad range of policy areas. 'This volume opens the window
on an aspect of the policy process that rarely receives attention
from students of politics or policy anywhere across the globe. The
framework presented and the cases included in these pages provide a
glimpse of the workings of a complex democracy, describing a range
of actors responding creatively to the dynamics of social,
political and economic change. It is fascinating to see how policy
functions and social values appear to be more important to these
processes than the formal structures of the government in which
they are placed.' - Beryl A. Radin, Professor of Public
Administration and Policy, State University of New York at Albany
This collection of essays in political sociology and public policy
contests some of the fundamental features of the contemporary State
as it is manifested in Australia. It explores themes such as the
development of the complex interventionist State, characterised by
the proliferation of its activities to encompass virtually every
feature of its subjects' daily lives and functioning as a central
site of struggle over the distribution of social, economic,
political and cultural resources. It also examines the impact of
the so-called new social movements - the women's movement, the
various multiracial and multicultural movements, and the
environmental movement - which make new claims on the
democratisation of the distribution of resources, and investigates
the impact on the State of the pressure for economic
'restructuring' arising from the new terms of competition within a
global economy in recession. In tracing the links between these
themes, Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats makes a major
contribution to a critical tradition of writing and analysis in
public administration.
Activists - protecting rainforests, demanding increased childcare,
developing local community housing, campaigning for AIDS funding or
protecting consumers - are as much part of the political landscape
as the media, parliament, peak industry groups, political parties
or trade unions. This collection explores the idea of policy
activism and its relationship to the processes that not only set
but implement and deliver the policy agenda.Policy activists
operate both inside and outside government. They include
community-based organisers, activist bureaucrats, service providers
and professionals.Policy activism has been barely explored in
existing literature. This collection puts the idea on the map. It
is an innovative contribution to the literature, using case studies
across a broad range of policy areas.'This volume opens the window
on an aspect of the policy process that rarely receives attention
from students of politics or policy anywhere across the globe. The
framework presented and the cases included in these pages provide a
glimpse of the workings of a complex democracy, describing a range
of actors responding creatively to the dynamics of social,
political and economic change. It is fascinating to see how policy
functions and social values appear to be more important to these
processes than the formal structures of the government in which
they are placed.' - Beryl A. Radin, Professor of Public
Administration and Policy, State University of New York at Albany
A challenging reassessment of the concepts and institutions of
modern liberal democracy in the light of postmodern theory and the
politics of difference.
In "Postmodern Revisionings of the Political", Anna Yeatman
examines the implications of postmodernist theory for the
institutions of liberal and social democracy. In this study, she
rethinks the role of modern emancipatory values, such as equality,
in the context of postmodern politics of difference. Yeatman
discusses the relation of a politics of difference to existing
traditions of modern citizenship. While she affirms modern
democratic achievements, she argues that our concept of democracy
must be informed by postmodern critical theory. She explores the
relationship between these two sets of concepts in terms of the
politics of knowledge, the university and in the modern body
politic.
Some of the fundamental features of the contemporary state are
contested in this collection of essays which are concerned with
Australian political sociology and public policy. Among the themes
explored are the development of the complex interventionist state,
characterized by the proliferation of its activities to encompass
virtually every feature of its subjects' everyday lives and
functioning as a central site of struggle over the distribution of
social, economic, political and cultural resources; and the impact
of the so-called new social movements - the women's movement, the
various multiracial and multicultural movements, and the
environmentalist movement - which make new claims on the
democratization of the distribution of resources; the impact on the
state of the pressure for economic "restructuring", arising from
the new terms of competition within a global economy in recession.
This book is intended for students and researchers in political and
theoretical sociology, and public policy.
The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human
rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the
idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and
philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any
consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show
through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with
the politics of human rights.
This collection of essays by established scholars explores the
juncture of action and appearance in the political thought of
Hannah Arendt. "Action and Appearance" is a collection of essays
that look into the crucial and complex link between action and
appearance in Hannah Arendt's political thought. Contributed by
respected scholars, the essays articulate around the following
themes: the emergence of political action when questioning the
nature of law, subjectivity and individuality; the relationship
between ethics and politics; the nexus of (co-)appearance, thinking
and truth; and, Arendt's writing as action and appearance. For
Arendt, action is a worldly, public phenomenon that requires the
presence of others to have any effect. Therefore, to act is more
than to decide as it is also to appear. Much has been said about
Arendt's theory of action, but little attention has been paid to
her approach to appearance as is done in this volume. "Action and
Appearance" explores both Arendt's familiar texts and previously
unpublished or recently rediscovered texts to challenge the
established readings of her work. Adding to established debates, it
will be a unique resource to anyone interested in Hannah Arendt,
political thought, political theory, and political philosophy.
State, Security, and Subject Formation addresses the question of
how to secure the conditions for a civil and peaceful life
together. It brings together leading scholars to examine democracy
from two approaches: peaceful coexistence and the secular state as
public authority and the necessity of division between communities
of faith that allows for a state that defends the values of the
community. This book aims to understand the rationality that
informs both approaches, interpreting the subjectivities within
each.
To do so, the interdisciplinary, scholarly essays examine 17th
century political thought and how it is caught up in debate about
the relationship between faith and the state at a time when
religious wars are endemic and profoundly destructive. They also
provide an in-depth discussion of contemporary 21st and 20th
century approaches to the question of security and the issue of
subjective capacity for peaceful co-existence.
Civil Order and Politics is the outcome of an intensive
cross-disciplinary cooperation and, as such, not only demonstrates
the richness of relevant themes and issues, but also brings to the
fore challenges and problems associated with civil practice and
theorizing of politics. Through its thematic juxtaposition of
state, security, and subjectivity within the framework of civil
order and politics, the book fills a gap in the contemporary
political literature that will be of interest to anyone studying
and researching these issues.
This collection presents a critical dialogue on managerialist forms
of government between philosophy, political thought, organisational
and management theory. The volume brings together essays that are
concerned with technologies of government that are articulated as
different iterations of managerialism. The hallmark of
managerialist discourse is value, considered as a quantifiable
abstraction, where the intention is to always 'add value'. The
central question addressed here by a team of international expert
authors from across a range of disciplines is this: in what ways
has this abstraction of value impacted on the substantive work and
ethical integrity of government and the public sector, and, more
broadly, of the professions (including that of management itself)?
Has it displaced this work, or simply recast it? The volume
addresses audiences in social sciences, philosophy, management,
business, and organisational studies.
The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human
rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the
idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and
philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any
consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and Birmingham show
through this collection of works a space fora vital engagement with
the politics of human rights.
State, Security, and Subject Formation addresses the question of
how to secure the conditions for a civil and peaceful life
together. It brings together leading scholars to examine democracy
from two approaches: peaceful coexistence and the secular state as
public authority and the necessity of division between communities
of faith that allows for a state that defends the values of the
community. This book aims to understand the rationality that
informs both approaches, interpreting the subjectivities within
each. To do so, the interdisciplinary, scholarly essays examine
17th century political thought and how it is caught up in debate
about the relationship between faith and the state at a time when
religious wars are endemic and profoundly destructive. They also
provide an in-depth discussion of contemporary 21st and 20th
century approaches to the question of security and the issue of
subjective capacity for peaceful co-existence. Civil Order and
Politics is the outcome of an intensive cross-disciplinary
cooperation and, as such, not only demonstrates the richness of
relevant themes and issues, but also brings to the fore challenges
and problems associated with civil practice and theorizing of
politics. Through its thematic juxtaposition of state, security,
and subjectivity within the framework of civil order and politics,
the book fills a gap in the contemporary political literature that
will be of interest to anyone studying and researching these
issues.
This collection presents a critical dialogue on managerialist forms
of government between philosophy, political thought, organisational
and management theory. The volume brings together essays that are
concerned with technologies of government that are articulated as
different iterations of managerialism. The hallmark of
managerialist discourse is value, considered as a quantifiable
abstraction, where the intention is to always 'add value'. The
central question addressed here by a team of international expert
authors from across a range of disciplines is this: in what ways
has this abstraction of value impacted on the substantive work and
ethical integrity of government and the public sector, and, more
broadly, of the professions (including that of management itself)?
Has it displaced this work, or simply recast it? The volume
addresses audiences in social sciences, philosophy, management,
business, and organisational studies.
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