Search results for "Legitimation"
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New modes of policy legitimation in education: (Mis)using comparative data to effectuate assessment reform
2017
Identifying three modes of policy legitimation in education, illustrated by shifts in Swedish educational assessment and grading policies over the past decades, the paper demonstrates significant trends with regard to national governments’ policymaking and borrowing. We observe a shift away from collaboracy – defined as policy legitimation located in partnerships and networks of stakeholders, researchers and other experts – towards more use of supranational agencies (called agency), such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Union and associated networks, as well as the use of individual consultants and private enterprises (called consultancy) to legiti…
An Avenue to Social Equilibrium
2021
The purpose of the second part of the third part of the book is to show how the theory translates into reality. That is why the most important factors studied in the first and second parts of the book are concluded in this chapter. The first part of the chapter is addressed to examine the personal characteristics and motivation of the social entrepreneur, that is, it is focused on the micro approach. The second part is addressed to analyze the institutional context, that is, it comprehends the macro approach. Based on this, the chapter shows the stages followed by social entrepreneurs to shift the context. The legitimation process is the base of this shift.
RECENSIONE A DILETTA TEGA, LA CORTE NEL CONTESTO. PERCORSI DI RI-ACCENTRAMENTO DELLA GIUSTIZIA COSTITUZIONALE IN ITALIA, BOLOGNA, 2020
2020
After a short outline of the content of the book, the Autor focus on the issue of procedural rules concerning the excercise of functions constitutionally given to the Italian Constiutional Court defending the position of a natural flexibility of those rules due to the peculiar position of the Constitutional Court in the system of constitutional powers and the need of constantly re-legitimate its role.
Urban Development and Cultural Policy “White Elephants”: Barcelona and Valencia
2015
AbstractThe importance of culture in defining new models of local development has been increasingly emphasized. However, less attention has been paid to the influence of local development models on local cultural policy. This article will focus on analysing two cities that have used culture as a central element in their economic and urban development. In both cases, they have followed different strategies but the two have finally finished generating two “white elephants”: the Universal Forum of Cultures in the case of Barcelona and the City of Arts and Sciences in the case of Valencia. From a comparison of the two cases, the paper analyses the causes of this urban phenomenon, which combines…
Competing economies of worth in a multiagency music and reconciliation partnership: The Sri Lanka Norway Music Cooperation (2009-2018)
2020
The Sri Lanka Norway Music Cooperation (2009–2018) was launched to ‘stimulate the performing arts in Sri Lanka, thus contributing to the peace and reconciliation process’ in the aftermath of almost three decades of civil war between the Tamil minority and Sinhala majority populations of the island. Funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the project had many local and international stakeholders, from artists and civil society organisations, to government institutions, to a general public eager for enrichment through arts and culture. But despite high engagement and financial investment, the achievements of the SLNMC were generally unremarkable and short-term. This article argue…
Care facilities for Germans in Thailand and Poland: making old age care abroad legitimate
2019
This article looks at old age care facilities abroad that target people who live in Germany. Such facilities have been established in Southeast Asia (mainly Thailand) and in Eastern Europe (mainly Poland). Given that they challenge central guiding orientations for old age care in Germany, considerable criticisms are levelled at them, and their use is viewed with distinct scepticism. Nevertheless, some of these facilities succeed in sustaining considerable demand from Germany over quite a few years. In this article, we therefore ask what strategies and arguments they use to make them a legitimate option for people in Germany and to be established on the German market. Based on two case studi…
The Power of Affiliation: Dynastic Blood, Artificial Kinship and Legitimation Strategies. The Case of the Della Rovere Dukes of Urbino*
2021
After the Montefeltro dynasty’s demise in 1508, the Della Rovere family assumed power in the geo-strategically and culturally important Duchy of Urbino. The first dynasty of papal nephews able to p...
Pañoletas y polainas. Dinámicas de la moda en la Cuba soviética
2015
Resumen: El texto explora el rol de las dinamicas de la moda en la consolidacion del socialismo de estado de tipo sovietico en Cuba. Se afirma que la moda participo de dinamicas de dominacion, legitimacion y control en los anos 1960s y 1970s. Se sostiene que el regimen cubano promovio significados denotativos de la cultura material que conectaron de manera directa valores politicos y estilos de la moda, y se ofrecen ejemplos que acercan el estudio de este pais a los estudios contemporaneos de la cultura material en Europa del Este y la URSS. Palabras claves: cultura material, moda, significados denotativos, socialismo, Cuba Abstract: The text explores the role that fashion dynamics played i…
Viajeros étnicos, gestos exóticos y encuentros esporádicos: los tours mayas en Los Altos de Chiapas
2018
Este trabajo reflexiona sobre la interacción turista/anfitrión en los tours étnicos promovidos en la región Altos Tsotsil-Tseltal Chiapas, México. Las agencias turísticas promueven diferentes encuentros de los turistas con la población indígena donde se espera que los primeros cumplan con sus expectativas sobre el Otro exótico y los segundos se acoplen a los imaginarios que corren sobre sí mismos. Aquí, al contrario, interesa analizar un espacio turístico en constante construcción con la observación de tres lugares de protagonismo indígena: un mercado indígena en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, una iglesia en San Juan Chamula y una casa de tejedoras en Zinacantán, donde los roles sociales del v…
Democratic Meta-Deliberation: Towards Reflective Institutional Design
2014
Theories of deliberative democracy are popular for their promise that in a deliberative polity, democracy can realise both participatory politics and rational policies. However, they are also confronted with the allegation that by qualifying essentially non-democratic practices as deliberative, they inadvertently (or not) become accomplices in the trend towards post-democratic governance. A central example of such a development is the rise of non-majoritarian bodies to which governments delegate decision making, thereby de-politicising conflicts and turning democratic discourses into technocratic ones. This article adopts a systemic perspective on deliberative democracy, asking whether non-…