Christopher M. WEIBLE & Paul CAIRNEY (Eds.), Practical Lessons from Policy Theories

Michael Keating, Paul Cairney and Eve Hepburn

This paper explores the policy transfer and learning process within the UK since 1999, examining the conditions in which transfer takes place among central and devolved governments. We distinguish among concurrent policies, policy competition, coercive transfer and policy learning. Policy transfer can be more or less coercive and constrained, while policy learning is voluntary. Mechanisms for t...

Richard Turkington and Christopher Watson (eds.): Renewing Europe’s housing

Renewing Europe’s Housing provides an extensive overview of contemporary housing renewal policies and practices in Europe during the last four decades. The subject is of high and still increasing importance. During the time covered by the book, housing and urban policies in most European countries shifted thoroughly. After half a century of unsurpassed mass housing construction and urban growth...

Kinetic Theories by Paul Nelson*

Medical student selection and society: Lessons we learned from so-ciological theories

The aim of this study was to show the interaction between the society, applicants and medical schools in terms of medical student selection. In this study, the trends to implement social factors in the selection process were highlighted. These social factors were explored through functionalism and conflict theories, each focusing on different categories of social factors. While functionalist th...

Lessons from a policy master.

On a warm, dark evening in early October, I had the privilege of finding myself in Pretoria, South Africa with a group of nurse colleagues from many southern African nations, listening as various leaders brought messages of greetings before we were to share dinner. The minister of health had fallen ill that day and was replaced at the last minute by her director general. The minister’s illness ...