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These effects can be expected to play out dynamically. This thematic issue invites contributions that study the impact of Brexit within a specific policy domain, such as:. In recent decades, power and control over food has become highly concentrated. Large, profit-oriented multinationals make critical decisions about how food is produced, traded and marketed. While some consider this a prerequisite for global food security, others see it at the expense of people's livelihoods, justice and sustainability.
Food democracy is a multi-faceted political concept that critically points to the limited opportunities for consumers, citizens and civil society to participate in the food system. It envisions food as a place of democratic process: The promise of food democracy goes beyond securing food supply and emphasises values such as participation, autonomy, justice and sustainability. Beyond the democratisation of food systems, food democracy is concerned with the problematisation and transformation of established views and practices of democratic governance per se.
With the general intention of broadening and updating existing perspectives of food democracy, this thematic issue aims to shed light on the complex relationship between food and democracy in different governance contexts countries, political systems and levels local, national, global. The contributions are based on questions such as: How does food challenge and transform established ideas and practices of democracy?
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What are the prospects and limits of a democratization of food systems? Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's editorial policies and send an abstract to the Editorial Office by 15 November This incident is emblematic of two key developments setting the scene for this proposed special issue.
First, through the Lisbon Treaty, we have seen the empowerment of the European Parliament EP , whose consent is now required for the vast majority of EU international agreements. Trade is one example, but we also find similar tendencies in the realm of finance, security and immigration. In other words, the amount of contestation and attention given to a particular issue seems to have an effect on parliamentary activity.
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This issue seeks to assess how politicisation affects the role parliaments play within the system of European Union EU governance. In particular we aim to answer the over-arching question whether this has an impact on how they are able to influence policy-making and hold the EU executives to account. Furthermore, we raise the question whether and how these potential developments affect the role of parliaments as arenas for the shaping and communicating different political interests. This thematic issue will study the phenomenon of politicisation across different policy fields and within different types of legislatures by including regional, national parliaments and the European Parliament EP.
This will enable us not only to broaden our empirical insights but also contribute to the conceptual debate on politicisation. Trade-Offs in the Political Realm: It is often not possible to accomplish all beneficial political goals at the same time. Achieving the benefit of one political goal comes necessarily at the expense of another political goal challenging the linear view of the more the better. Even though it is possible to balance these different objectives in a compromise, the idea of seeking a maximum benefit is then abandoned. Scholars acknowledge this relationship in various political areas: Given the ubiquity and relevance of trade-offs in the political realm, the understanding of the phenomenon of trade-offs remains undertheorized and especially empirically thin revealing a significant research gap.
Additionally, often the conceptual meaning of a trade-off is unclear: This thematic issue of Politics and Governance sheds light on this research deficit by providing a holistic but also an integrative view on trade-offs in the political realm for the first time. On the one hand, we want to bring together researchers of trade-offs from the different political areas to promote a fruitful exchange which overcomes the current isolation of the approaches.
On the other hand, contributions that deal with a trade-off in a political area should consider the following guiding questions:. We welcome articles using Large-N quantitative analysis, small-N studies using qualitative and quantitative analysis and single-country studies using quantitative and qualitative analysis. The power of ideas. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: The quality of democracy.
Journal of Democracy , 15 4 , 20— A new political system model: European Journal of Political Research , 57 2 , Freedom and security, liberty and equality, individual and collective claims. European perceptions, European perspectives pp. Changing values and political styles among Western publics. Human rights and democracy: The precarious triumph of ideals. Core criteria for democracy: Is responsiveness part of the inner circle?
Democracy, democratization, and development pp. Elections and electoral systems. The performance of democracies. Political institutions and public policies. Dilemmas for a democratic society: Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's editorial policies here and send an abstract to the Editorial Office by 15 January Secular critics of religion often see religion as a cause of social and political conflict or indeed the cause of such conflict.
In global terms religion appears to be a driving force behind much political conflict. Another approach suggests that religion has a narrow and particularistic world view that is incompatible with globalization and the spread of cosmopolitanism. These are basically forms of political conflict, but religion is also associated with social conflicts.
Conservative religions have opposed LGBT identities, voting for example against same-sex marriage and legal recognition of diversity. Perhaps the idea of religion as a cause of political and social conflict is too simplistic. Much of the conflict was political and economic. In modern times, can we disentangle nationalism, class and religion?
These issues suggest a number of basic research questions: Is religion a cause of political conflict or an effect? Can there be any general conclusion to such large questions or do we need to look historically and sociologically at specific examples? Or do we need to rephrase the question and develop better arguments? Are there viable solutions to religious conflict through the law freedom of religion or social policies multiculturalism?
The thematic issue welcomes submissions that address these research questions at both theoretical and methodological levels. In addition, we encourage case studies of specific conflicts. The thematic issue will aspire to be interdisciplinary with both humanities and social science contributions. The recent rise of populist parties and candidates in Western democracies has baffled many observers.
Whether they further the interests of those whom they claim to represent can be put to question as can their contribution to the overcoming of social grievances and political deficits. The distribution of political knowledge and sophistication is however quite uneven in the citizenry and associated with education and other correlates of social stratification. As a result, those who are socially disadvantaged may find it relatively difficult to voice their complaints and bring about government redress.
The expansion of mass media and the internet does not appear to have helped in this regard. Instead, while in earlier times the problem was to obtain relevant information, nowadays the challenge is to process the vast amount of information that can be accessed, to distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant, and the accurate from the misleading. Given the way populist parties and candidates convey their messages, it appears that the politically least aware and least sophisticated citizens should be the most receptive ones for them.
Political sophistication or political awareness on the other hand is not the same as political enlightenment. Politically sophisticated and aware citizens are often likely to use their skills to either filter out information that is discordant with their predispositions, preconceptions, or even prejudices, or to be selective in their recall of facts and factoids in order to bolster their opinions in political discussion.
For these reasons, submissions are particularly invited for the special issue that. Beyond that, we also invite contributions that address all relevant topics related to political knowledge, the processing of political information, their relation with political inequality, and how political inequality interacts with populism.
China, the United States, and the Published Thematic Issues Published issues are available here. Upcoming Issues Vol 6, Issue 3: Towards a Clean Energy Transition? Vol 7, Issue 1: Aid Impact and Effectiveness Vol 7, Issue 3: Vol 7, Issue 4: Is Religion a Cause, an Effect or Neither? We welcome paper submissions on a range of methodological and thematic topics, including, but not exclusively, on the following topics: Governance of Big Data: Including legal and political dimensions of big data; Big Data in the Policymaking Process: This theme encompasses the whole policymaking process, from agenda-setting to evaluation, but has particular emphasis on the implications for policy formulation and implementation; Big Data and Public Service Delivery: Looking at applications of big data and public service delivery in building smart cities and various domains; E-Participation and the role of big data: Looking at new forms of engagement by citizens through the use of data.
As we already have a set of contributions, we are particularly interested in proposals of empirical, theoretical or policy-oriented papers, which relate to: We welcome contributions that investigate: Labour Politics of the European Union Editor: Suggested research themes and questions include, but are not limited to: Aid Impact and Effectiveness Editors: Representative Claims in Global Perspective Editors: This thematic issue invites contributions that study the impact of Brexit within a specific policy domain, such as: New Perspectives on Food Democracy Editors: On the other hand, contributions that deal with a trade-off in a political area should consider the following guiding questions: What are the specific trade-offs in the political area that the article analyses?
How can we identify them? This thoroughly comprehensive look at policymaking at the state level concludes that nonpartisan policy analysis institutions can play an important role—as long as they remain scrupulously nonpartisan. Boychuk, Karen Mossberger, and Mark C. Rom, Series Editors Reviews "Hird has produced a book of great merit and insight.
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Expertise and the Use of Policy Analysis 3. Policy Analysis in the State 4. Explaining Variation in Policy Research Organizations 5. Legislators and Policy Analysis 6. The Politics of Policy Analysis Appendix: Summary of Survey Responses References Index.