Book Review: Rajesh Chakrabarti and Kaushiki Sanyal. 2017. Shaping Policy in India: Alliance, Advocacy, Activism

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Advocacy and Competition Policy

Ambivalence, alliance, and advocacy: misunderstood dualities in psychiatry and law.

Law and psychiatry operate through differing models of reasoning, understanding, even of reality. I For the clinician first encountering the legal system, the fundamental concept of the law perhaps most difficult to grasp is the nature of the adversary process. Whether such a first encounter occurs during a commitment proceeding on a manifestly psychotic patient, in the preliminaries or disposi...

Shaping Policy Change in Population Health: Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideas, and Institutions

Political realities and institutional structures are often ignored when gathering evidence to influence population health policies. If these policies are to be successful, social science literature on policy change should be integrated into the population health approach. In this contribution, drawing on the work of John W. Kingdon and related scholarship, we set out to examine how key componen...

Civil Society and the Shaping of Communication-Information Policy: Four Decades of Advocacy

This article initiates exploratory empirical research on how civil society collective action has reacted to and affected communication–information policy (CIP), a policy domain that has been reshaped by technological and industrial change. It reviews the relevant theory on social movements, citizens groups, and interest groups from political science. Data are gathered on two dimensions of the r...