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oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/319
2018-12-12T07:20:29Z
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Politics and Governance
Vol 3, No 4 (2015): Mass Atrocity Prevention (Part II); 68-71
Is R2P a Fully-Fledged International Norm?
Ralph, Jason; POLIS, University of Leeds, UK, and POLSIS, University of Queensland, Australia
Souter, James; POLIS, University of Leeds, UK
2015-11-26 11:12:27
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asylum; atrocity; R2P; special responsibility to protect; Syria
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This commentary examines whether R2P is a fully-fledged norm. As a normative aspiration R2P is almost universally accepted. However as a standard of behaviour that states implement as a matter of course R2P is far from fully-fledged. By examining state responses to refugee crises in Syria it is argued that powerful states are failing in their special responsibility to protect.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1162
2018-12-12T07:20:33Z
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2018-12-12T07:20:33Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 5, No 3 (2017): EU Institutional Politics of Secrecy and Transparency in Foreign Affairs; 91-93
EU Institutional Politics of Secrecy and Transparency in Foreign Affairs: A Commentary
O'Reilly, Emily; European Ombudsman, France
2017-09-25 09:19:43
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1162
access to information; diplomacy; EU foreign affairs; EU institutions; negotiations; secrecy; transparency
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International diplomacy has long been regarded as the domain of an elite hand-picked few, instructed and groomed in something considered an art form. Both the secrecy and the pomp have their rational place. Political interventions from regime change through to more standard economic and social challenges cue both subtle and dramatic shifts in relationships and alignments and diplomats must rightly handle such situations with great delicacy. Premature or too much public disclosure about diplomatic exchanges could risk undermining the mutual trust and confidence on which the conduct of international relations and negotiations depends. The question of course concerns the determination of what constitutes ‘premature’ or ‘too much’ and who decides the point at which public access can or should occur. We have certainly seen a trend towards greater transparency in foreign affairs in recent times, but this will always remain one of the most sensitive areas for national governments and international organisations. Contributors to this publication pose important questions about transparency in the context of foreign affairs at EU level. The question ‘How much is enough?’ is particularly pertinent. I welcome the exploration of topics of secrecy and transparency in this thematic issue and look forward to further contributions as the theory and practice of the ideas put forward are developed.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1747
2020-09-09T03:24:11Z
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2020-09-09T03:24:11Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 7, No 1 (2019): EU Energy Policy: Towards a Clean Energy Transition?; 165-169
What to Expect from the 2020 Gas Package
Olczak, Maria; Florence School of Regulation, Italy
Piebalgs, Andris; Florence School of Regulation, Italy
2019-03-28 08:38:12
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
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carbon capture use and storage; decarbonisation; energy; energy supply; European Union; gas; power-to-gas; renewable gas; sector coupling
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Gas is considered an important part of the European Union’s (EU) energy mix. Making up a quarter of the energy consumed in the EU, it is widely used by both households and industry. Gas supports the penetration of intermittent renewable electricity and is considered the cleanest of the fossil fuels but its combustion emits a considerable amount of greenhouse gases. In the fight against climate change, the EU has committed itself to the near-complete decarbonisation of the energy sector well before 2050. This will have a significant impact on the gas sector, especially in the EU, which has significant gas transportation and storage assets. This commentary examines two potential pathways that could enable the gas sector to contribute to the EU’s decarbonisation efforts while continuing to play a substantial role in the EU’s energy supply. The pathways include gas and electricity sector coupling and the substantial increase of renewable gas production. Those options, which are not mutually exclusive, provide an opportunity for the gas sector to thrive in a decarbonised energy future. In some cases, it could require changes in the EU’s gas legislation announced by the European Commission to be proposed in 2020.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/666
2018-12-12T07:20:31Z
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2018-12-12T07:20:31Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 4, No 3 (2016): Climate Governance and the Paris Agreement; 219-223
The Paris Climate Agreement and the Three Largest Emitters: China, the United States, and the European Union
Schreurs, Miranda A.; Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2016-09-08 03:07:47
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/666
China; climate change; European Union; leadership; Paris; United States
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The Paris Agreement would not have come into being had China, the United States (US), and the European Union (EU), which together contribute more than half of all global greenhouse gas emissions, not signaled their intent to take major steps to reduce their domestic emissions. The EU has been at the forefront of global climate change measures for years having issued binding domestic emission reduction targets for 2020 and 2030. For many years, China refused to announce a target date for when it might begin reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, and the US Congress blocked action on climate change. In the lead up to the Paris climate negotiations, however, there were major shifts in China’s and the US’s climate positions. This commentary examines the climate policies of the three largest emitters and the factors motivating the positions they took in the Paris negotiations. Given that the commitments made in Paris are most likely insufficient to keep global temperature from rising 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, the commentary also considers what the likelihood is that these three major economies will strengthen their emission reduction targets in the near future.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1169
2018-12-12T07:20:34Z
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2018-12-12T07:20:34Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 6, No 1 (2018): Co-Producing Urban Governance for Social Innovation; 199-202
Governance Lessons from Urban Informality
Sarmiento, Hugo; Department of Urban Planning, University of California, USA
Tilly, Chris; Department of Urban Planning, University of California, USA
2018-04-03 04:44:25
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1169
bottom-up; counter-planning; governance; informal economy; informality; radicalism; social movements; top-down; urban planning
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We locate this issue’s papers on a spectrum of radicalism. We then examine that spectrum, and the governance mechanisms described, through the lens of a significant arena of urban counter-planning: the urban informal economy. Drawing on our own research on self-organization by informal workers and settlers, as well as broader literatures, we suggest useful lessons for reinventing urban governance.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2991
2021-01-29T10:15:35Z
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Politics and Governance
Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Quantifying Higher Education: Governing Universities and Academics by Numbers; 68-71
Governance by Numbers: A Panopticon Reversed?
Hamann, Julian; Leibniz Center for Science and Society, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
2020-04-09 04:28:59
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discipline; dispositif; Foucault; numerocracy; panopticon; power; quantification; surveillance
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This commentary is concerned with a specific form of power and discipline that is exerted through governance by numbers. Because of its many parallels to classical Foucauldian panopticism, governance based on numbers can be coined ‘numerocratic panopticism.’ Yet, going beyond similarities between classical and numerocratic panopticism, the commentary suggests three features specific to numerocratic panopticism that actually reverse characteristic traits of classical panopticism: In contrast to classical panopticism, numerocratic panopticism is multi-centered, non-spatial and open-purpose. Research on governance by numbers can benefit from a heuristic of panopticism if it considers both similarities and differences between classical and numerocratic panopticism.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/823
2018-12-12T07:20:31Z
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2018-12-12T07:20:31Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 4, No 4 (2016): Disaster Policies and Governance: Promoting Community Resilience; 117-120
Conceptualizing Resilience
Birkland, Thomas A.; School of Public and International Affairs, North Carolina State University, USA
2016-12-28 02:58:28
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community; disasters; governance; resilience; sustainability
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This commentary provides an overview of the idea of resilience, and acknowledges the challenges of defining and applying the idea in practice. The article summarizes a way of looking at resilience called a “resilience delta”, that takes into account both the shock done to a community by a disaster and the capacity of that community to rebound from that shock to return to its prior functionality. I show how different features of the community can create resilience, and consider how the developed and developing world addresses resilience. I also consider the role of focusing events in gaining attention to events and promoting change. I note that, while focusing events are considered by many in the disaster studies field to be major drivers of policy change in the United States disaster policy, most disasters have little effect on the overall doctrine of shared responsibilities between the national and subnational governments.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1498
2019-07-02T04:47:59Z
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2019-07-02T04:47:59Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Authoritarianism in the 21st Century; 87-89
Authoritarian Politics: Trends and Debates
Frantz, Erica; Department of Political Science, Michigan State University, USA
2018-06-22 04:04:58
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1498
authoritarian politics; authoritarian regimes; autocracies; dictatorships
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In the past two decades, the field of authoritarian politics has grown substantially. This commentary surveys the major findings in the field, how it is has evolved, and key debates that have emerged in response.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4134
2021-04-05T08:40:43Z
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Politics and Governance
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Access or Excess? Redefining the Boundaries of Transparency in the EU’s Decision-Making; 292-295
EU Transparency as ‘Documents’: Still Fit for Purpose?
Hillebrandt, Maarten; Eric Castrén Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland
2021-03-31 03:46:59
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access to documents; administrative circumvention; document base; European Union; record keeping; transparency
In this thematic issue, the question whether EU decision making might be characterised by an excess of transparency stands central. This contribution addresses an issue that precedes such questions of quantity: that of transparency’s qualities, i.e., its specific shape. From an early point in time, transparency in the EU has been equated with the narrow and legalistic notion of ‘access to documents.’ Although since then, transparency has become associated with a wider range of practices, the Union has not managed to shake off the concept’s association with bureaucracy, opacity, and complexity. This remains the case, in spite of the fact that administrations and decision-makers across the world increasingly utilise the possibilities of technological innovation to communicate more directly with their electorates. In this changing communicative context, this commentary considers whether EU transparency as access to documents is still fit for purpose. It does so by exploring access policy from the vantage point of legal developments, administrative practices, political dynamics, and technological innovations. The commentary concludes that while improvements are needed, the access to documents concept endures. However, access to documents needs to be complemented by constructive (rather than predatory) public justification and contestation, to remain viable.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/920
2018-12-12T07:20:32Z
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2018-12-12T07:20:32Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 5, No 2 (2017): Multidisciplinary Studies in Politics and Governance; 1-3
Brexit and Devolution in the United Kingdom
Keating, Michael; School of Social Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK
2017-03-22 10:20:54
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Brexit; devolution; Europe; United Kingdom
Economic and Social Research Council
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Devolution in the United Kingdom is deeply connected to United Kingdom membership of the European Union, which provides an external support system for the internal settlement. Exit from the European Union destabilizes the internal settlement and raises a series of major constitutional issues.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1474
2019-07-02T04:47:59Z
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Vol 6, No 2 (2018): Authoritarianism in the 21st Century; 120-123
Authoritarian Norms in a Changing International System
Ambrosio, Thomas; Department of Criminal Justice and Political Science, North Dakota State University, USA
2018-06-22 04:05:00
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1474
authoritarianism; China; democracy; diffusion; Russia
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The normative structure of the international system is changing, driven by the logics of effectiveness and appropriateness. Whereas the balance between democracy and autocracy had clearly favored the former, this appears to no longer be the case. Not only are authoritarian methods spreading because they have been found to be successful, but democracy’s very legitimacy has been eroded from self-doubt and as a consequence of rising and increasingly confident authoritarian great powers. This commentary provides an overview of these trends.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/311
2018-12-12T07:20:29Z
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2018-12-12T07:20:29Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 3, No 3 (2015): Mass Atrocity Prevention (Part I); 98-100
Moving Upstream and Going Local: The Responsibility to Protect Ten Years Later
Moix, Bridget; School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, USA
2015-10-27 14:31:35
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/311
atrocity prevention; civilian protection; genocide; genocide prevention; mass atrocities; responsibility to protect; R2P
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Ten years ago the international community pledged to protect civilians from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by endorsing the responsibility to protect (R2P) doctrine. Yet today, horrific violence against civilians continues in places like Syria, Iraq, and South Sudan. This article examines some of the progress and gaps in the international community’s efforts to better protect civilians against mass violence over the past decade. It proposes two emerging directions for advancing the R2P agenda in the coming years: 1) greater focus on upstream prevention, and 2) increased support for locally-led peacebuilding and prevention actors and capacities.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/4249
2021-04-05T08:40:43Z
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Politics and Governance
Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Access or Excess? Redefining the Boundaries of Transparency in the EU’s Decision-Making; 296-299
Return to De Capitani: The EU Legislative Process between Transparency and Effectiveness
Rebasti, Emanuele; Legal Service, Council of the European Union, Belgium
2021-03-31 03:46:59
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4249
4 column tables; De Capitani; decision-making effectiveness; European Union; law-making; legislative transparency; Regulation 1049/2001; trilogues
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Three years after the judgment of the General Court in the De Capitani case, we assess whether the findings of the Court have settled for good the debate between transparency and effectiveness in EU law-making or rather opened new reflections on legislative transparency in the EU.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/941
2018-12-12T07:20:32Z
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2018-12-12T07:20:32Z
Politics and Governance
Vol 5, No 3 (2017): EU Institutional Politics of Secrecy and Transparency in Foreign Affairs; 87-90
The Puzzle of Transparency Reforms in the Council of the EU
Naurin, Daniel; PluriCourts, University of Oslo, Norway
2017-09-25 09:17:42
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url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/941
democratic deficit; European Union; intergovernmental negotiations; legitimacy; transparency
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I argue that the transparency reforms that have been implemented in the Council of the EU in the last decades are unlikely to change the perception of the Council as a non-transparent institution. My argument is based on three distinctions: the distinction between transparency (availability of information) and publicity (spread and reception of information); between transparency in process and transparency in rationale; and between plenary and committee decision-making arenas in legislatures. While national parliaments tend to have all these features, the Council of the EU only has two (transparency in process and committee decision-making). As a consequence, publishing ever more documents and detailed minutes of committee meetings is unlikely to strengthen the descriptive legitimacy of the Council. Furthermore, I argue that the democratic transparency problem is the reverse of what is most often argued: It is not the lack of transparency that causes a democratic deficit, but the (perceived) lack of a democratic infrastructure that makes more serious transparency reforms unthinkable to government representatives.
oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1757
2019-07-02T04:48:02Z
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Politics and Governance
Vol 6, No 4 (2018): Big Data Applications in Governance and Policy; 39-47
Cloud Computing in Singapore: Key Drivers and Recommendations for a Smart Nation
Ng, Reuben; Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2018-11-21 04:10:27
All manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).Authors retain the copyrights of their published works and allow others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are free to use, reuse and share their articles without any embargo period, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original venue of publication. This freedom includes, for example, posting the article in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book.Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to, during, and after the submission process and publication of the article.
url:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1757
big data; cloud computing; public management; psychomics; public policy; Singapore; smart city
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Cloud computing adoption enables big data applications in governance and policy. Singapore’s adoption of cloud computing is propelled by five key drivers: (1) public demand for and satisfaction with e-government services; (2) focus on whole-of-government policies and practices; (3) restructuring of technology agencies to integrate strategy and implementation; (4) building the Smart Nation Platform; (5) purpose-driven cloud applications especially in healthcare. This commentary also provides recommendations to propel big data applications in public policy and management: (a) technologically, embrace cloud analytics, and explore “fog computing”—an emerging technology that enables on-site data sense-making before transmission to the cloud; (b) promote regulatory sandboxes to experiment with policies that proactively manage novel technologies and business models that may radically change society; (c) on the collaboration front, establish unconventional partnerships to co-innovate on challenges like the skills-gap—an example is the unprecedented partnership led by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy with the government, private sector and unions.