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ItemRethinking Systems: Configurations of Politics and Policy in Contemporary Governance(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2010-09-01)New governance patterns in Western democracies pose challenges to political analysis. Key here is the relationship of politics and policy. This article examines how this relationship is changing in terms of a communication systems shift. From this perspective, the adequacy of current frameworks of political analysis is called into question. The article applies this critical review to the rise of policy-politics modes of behavior as distinct from older politics-policy forms. This contrast draws attention to the emergent qualities of interactive policy processes and asks how open generative modes of organization operate in fluid conditions while nonetheless exercising political authority.
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ItemAustralia's trade policy dilemmas(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008-06-01)
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ItemListening, learning, steering: new governance, communication and interactive policy formation(POLICY PRESS, 2008-01-01)Western political systems have undergone significant shifts in recent decades. In the era of post-war mass democracy governments governed and political communication informed. Now, however, governance includes non-government as well as government actors, and a communications dynamic pervades the entire political system. This article examines the integration of governance and communication, conceptualising the interactive strategies associated with new governance patterns in communications terms. The core argument is that the emergence of recursive forms of communication and knowledge production are indicative of systemic imperatives at work that are producing novel patterns of social coordination and policy formation.
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ItemPreferential trade agreements as instruments of foreign policy: an Australia-Japan free trade agreement and its implications for the Asia Pacific region(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008-01-01)
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ItemFrom cosmopolitan nationalism to cosmopolitan democracy(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2007-10-01)This article offers both a critique and reconstruction of cosmopolitan democracy. It argues that cosmopolitan democracy promotes an excessively individualist account of political life and a functionalist approach to political community that are likely to undermine the kinds of national communities and citizens that are most likely to mobilise against global injustices. It argues that the alleviation of global injustices depends on the rescuing and reframing, rather than weakening, of national identities so that they take on a more cosmopolitan character. Cosmopolitan democracy is dependent upon cosmopolitan nationalism, based on a commitment to common liberty and justice at home and abroad.
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ItemA green public sphere in the WTO?: The Amicus curiae interventions in the transatlantic biotech dispute(SAGE Publications, 2007-09-01)The WTO's decision-making model of executive multilateralism has been widely criticized for its lack of accountability to civil society. However, through the mechanism of the amicus curiae brief, nongovernment organizations and other civil society actors have found a way of directly `inserting' the public interest concerns of civil society into the dispute resolution arm of the WTO, which has proved to be more amenable to `critical public reason' than the trade negotiation arm. This article critically explores both the text and context of the amicus briefs submitted in the transatlantic biotech dispute and highlights their role in generating a green cosmopolitan public sphere that seeks more reflexive modernization and facilitates horizontal forms of regime accountability. Cosmopolitan public spheres are conceptualized as specialized, intermediary structures, with multiple strategic and communicative functions, that mediate between supra-national governance structures and regional and domestic civil societies.
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ItemAmbushed: The Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration's climate policy and the erosion of legitimacy(Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature), 2007-03-01)The Kyoto Protocol has been ratified by 164 states and is now fully operational. However, the Bush administration's repudiation of the Protocol combined with the weakness of the targets raise a confronting question for students of legitimacy: is it possible for a regime to be legitimate but ineffective in solving the problem it is designed to address? I argue that effectiveness is an important component of the Protocol's legitimacy but that the parties have been reluctant to make an issue of effectiveness during the early phase of the Protocol's operation. However, the legitimacy of the Protocol is likely to wane, and the chronic international legitimacy crisis of the Bush administration's climate change policy is likely to become acute, as a result of poor performance. I conclude by suggesting what might constitute significant and timely adaptation that might resolve the US's chronic legitimacy crisis and the Protocol's waning legitimacy.
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ItemThe proto-politics of reconciliation: Lefort and the aporia of forgiveness in Arendt and Derrida(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2006-12-01)
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ItemGovernance and competition: The role of non-profit organisations in the delivery of public services(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2003-03-01)
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