As the privatisation of public sector has grown rapidly in Sweden last decade, private companies have become an imperative part education. Private sell and deliver consultancy, hardware, software, services, etc. to schools municipalities. This study examines a growing rate activities from businesses working within sectors. It also consequences cooperation between actors. Findings show that mult...

Abstract This special section focuses on knowledge production peace by asking three inter-related questions: who produces peace, what is prioritized and how does it feed into policy practice. The articles of the provide a critical perspective actors, dynamics hierarchies in studies offer insights current biases may be addressed. contributes to research broader International Relations ways. Firs...

In his recent study, Gordon Shen analyses a pertinent question facing the global mental health research and practice community today; that of how and why mental health policy is or is not adopted by national governments. This study identifies becoming a World Health Organization (WHO) member nation, and being in regional proximity to countries which have adopted a mental health policy as suppor...

The upgrading of the European Commission and the European Parliament’s role in the EU policy-process from 1999 might have been expected to herald a shift away from the previous securityand control-orientation of asylum policy. No such shift occurred. This paper traces the continuity in EU asylum policy’s trajectory to the continuity in its ‘policy-image’: actors seeking to fashion institutional...

BACKGROUND Over the past half decade South Africa has been developing, implementing and redeveloping its Lay Health Worker (LHW) policies. Research during this period has highlighted challenges with LHW programme implementation. These challenges have included an increased burden of care for female LHWs. The aim of this study was to explore contemporary LHW policy development processes and the e...

E-mail has changed the policy process in state legislatures because political actors now have a new way to present their message to state legislators. What little research has been conducted on this topic examines e-mail communication generally and does not compare results by policy actor. Using an original survey of state legislators in eight states, we test for systematic effects of variables...

AIM Policymaking in Vietnam has traditionally been the preserve of the political elite, not open to the scrutiny of those outside the Communist Party. This paper aims to analyse Vietnam's HIV policy development in order to describe and understand the policy content, policy-making processes, actors and obstacles to policy implementation. METHODS Nine policy documents on HIV were analysed and 1...