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National Policy-Making : Domestication of Global Trends.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136177590
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.6
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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 reform -- PART 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 Finland -- 11 Cleansing our hands of the "dirty war": the Colombian domestication of human rights -- Index.
Summary: National Policy-Making investigates the way in which social change takes place at a global scale. The volume brings together well-researched case studies of policy-making from across the world in a distinctive approach that bridges the local and global.
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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 reform -- PART 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 Finland -- 11 Cleansing our hands of the "dirty war": the Colombian domestication of human rights -- Index.

National Policy-Making investigates the way in which social change takes place at a global scale. The volume brings together well-researched case studies of policy-making from across the world in a distinctive approach that bridges the local and global.

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