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AbstractThe agricultural policy agenda has been broadened with farm policy issues now interlinking with other policy domains (food safety, energy supplies, environmental protection, development aid, etc.). New actors promoting values which sometimes conflict, or which are not always easily reconcilable, with those previously guiding agricultural policy have entered the broader agricultural and food policy domain. The studies of various new policy issues inter-linking with the agricultural policy domain included in this special issue show that value conflicts are addressed in different ways and thus result in inter-institutional coordination and conflict unfolding differently. Studies of inter-institutional policy making in the agricultural policy sector have the potential to contribute to theoretical developments in public policy analysis in much the same way as agricultural policy studies did in the past.

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International audience ; This detour through art aims at demonstrating the performative function of contemporary walls and barriers, designed to impose a geopolitical vision through landscape changes. The text assesses the link between art and borders by formulating the hypothesis that a "border art" (art on the border, art born from the border, art against the border, etc.) is emerging. It tries to understand how the closing up of a border not only reactivates cultural production on an international border, but also transforms the latter's meaning. On the USA / Mexico border for instance, the building up of the security fence sin 2006 seems to have been accompanied by a strong artistic upsurge. This can be nuanced by analyzing the changes of the nature of artistic production, with more mobile works, marked by a strong presence of videos and performances, as is the fixity imposed by the line inferred a fluid creative answer. ; Ce "détour" par l'art vise à démontrer la fonction performative des murs et barrières contemporains, destinés à imposer un discours géopolitique dans le paysage. Le texte se confronte avec le lien art-frontières en posant l'hypothèse de l'émergence d'un " art de la frontière " (dont l'expression anglaise border art rend mieux compte de l'ambivalence entre lieu et causalité : art sur la frontière, art né de la frontière, contre la frontière, etc.). Il cherche à comprendre comment la fermeture d'une frontière non seulement réactive la production culturelle sur la frontière internationale, mais en transforme également le sens. Sur la frontière USA / Mexique par exemple, il semble que, depuis 2006, l'érection de la barrière de sécurité ait été accompagnée d'une recrudescence artistique. Celle-ci peut être nuancée par une évolution de la nature de la production artistique, avec plus d'œuvres mobiles marquées notamment par la vidéo, et la performance, comme ci la fixité imposée par la ligne inférait une réponse créative fluide.

International audience ; This detour through art aims at demonstrating the performative function of contemporary walls and barriers, designed to impose a geopolitical vision through landscape changes. The text assesses the link between art and borders by formulating the hypothesis that a "border art" (art on the border, art born from the border, art against the border, etc.) is emerging. It tries to understand how the closing up of a border not only reactivates cultural production on an international border, but also transforms the latter's meaning. On the USA / Mexico border for instance, the building up of the security fence sin 2006 seems to have been accompanied by a strong artistic upsurge. This can be nuanced by analyzing the changes of the nature of artistic production, with more mobile works, marked by a strong presence of videos and performances, as is the fixity imposed by the line inferred a fluid creative answer. ; Ce "détour" par l'art vise à démontrer la fonction performative des murs et barrières contemporains, destinés à imposer un discours géopolitique dans le paysage. Le texte se confronte avec le lien art-frontières en posant l'hypothèse de l'émergence d'un " art de la frontière " (dont l'expression anglaise border art rend mieux compte de l'ambivalence entre lieu et causalité : art sur la frontière, art né de la frontière, contre la frontière, etc.). Il cherche à comprendre comment la fermeture d'une frontière non seulement réactive la production culturelle sur la frontière internationale, mais en transforme également le sens. Sur la frontière USA / Mexique par exemple, il semble que, depuis 2006, l'érection de la barrière de sécurité ait été accompagnée d'une recrudescence artistique. Celle-ci peut être nuancée par une évolution de la nature de la production artistique, avec plus d'œuvres mobiles marquées notamment par la vidéo, et la performance, comme ci la fixité imposée par la ligne inférait une réponse créative fluide.

The fields of political science and public administration are said to be drifting apart. This article argues that a focus on executive politics – the politics of the executive and of the execution of policies – offers a key avenue to maintain a useful conversation that focuses on perennial questions that are shared across research traditions. This conversation should concentrate on the 'administrative factor' in political life and the 'political factor' in administrative life. This article develops this argument in three steps. First, it defines the field of executive politics. Second, it considers the rationale why a focus on executive politics is pertinent at this particular time. Third, it discusses the challenges that a turn towards executive politics faces. This article concludes by considering the position of British public administration in the field of executive politics.

International aid to the Palestinian Authority is conditioned in part on democratization and good governance. However, since Hamas's victory in the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council elections and its takeover of the Gaza Strip, aid agencies have supported the international boycott of the Hamas government. This article argues that aid agencies, by operating in Gaza while boycotting its government, subvert their mandates and serve the political interests of donors and the PA rather than the humanitarian and development needs of Gazans. As a consequence, assistance has, inadvertently and unintentionally, increased Gazans' dependence on humanitarian aid, impeded economic development, and enabled Israel to maintain its occupation and the blockade of Gaza.