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AbstractPublic and stakeholder consultation is increasingly important in the policy process, both in the UK and elsewhere. Social scientists have considered consultation primarily in terms of how it relates to decision‐making – either as a means of involving a wider constituency of actors in the decision‐making process, or as a means of legitimizing the decisions taken by policymakers. This article shows that consultation can also serve a rather different role in relation to policy: as, in effect, the first stage in policy implementation. Based on direct observation of a stakeholder consultation on Scottish mental health policy that took place during late 2007 and early 2008, it draws on elements of social movement theory to show how that consultation served as a means of enrolling, orienting and mobilizing stakeholders to implement a largely pre‐existing set of policy aims.

"This book examines the emergence and development of the 2009 Green Movement in Iran. The approach emphasizes the context and the local and historical specificities in which mass oppositional movements arise, develop and conduct their operations. Meanwhile, it foregrounds an account of multiple modernities that work to transcend modernist assumptions. The volume describes and analyzes the power modalities-disciplinary, biopolitical, and sovereign-employed by the Islamic Republic to governmentalize the masses. Bearing a triangular methodology, the book consists six semi-structured interviews with authorities and activists who participated in the pivotal events of that period; discourse analysis focusing on the Iranian constitution and the relevant government policy documents and speeches; and archival analysis. These provide the historical background, perspectives and insights required to analyze and explicate the conditions responsible for the emergence of the Green Movement and grasp how collective action was enabled and organized. Marking a particular historical phase in the development of a home-grown democracy in post-revolutionary Iran, the Green Movement is transforming the country's political landscape. This book is a key resource to students and scholars interested in comparative politics, Iranian studies and the Middle East"--

published_or_final_version ; Politics and Public Administration ; Master ; Master of Philosophy

In this essay I make a recount of the social mobilization of women in Panama, throughout the decades of XX century XXI century, in which groups organized by them, as they have manifested in favor of and against those joint and structural events that have allowed changes to the legal and normative framework of our Nation-State. I present some background that places women in the search for the construction of a democratic, participatory and egalitarian Panamanian society that establishes equal opportunities as the most just aspiration of humanity ; En este ensayo hago un recuento de la movilización social de las mujeres en Panamá, a lo largo de las décadas del siglo XX al siglo XXI; en las que grupos organizados por ellas se han manifestado en favor y en contra de esos eventos coyunturales y estructurales que han permitido los cambios al marco jurídico y normativo de nuestro Estado-Nación. Presento algunos antecedentes que ubican a la mujer en la búsqueda por la construcción de una sociedad panameña democrática, participativa e igualitaria que establece la igualdad de oportunidades como la aspiración más justa de la humanidad.

A Granger-causality test is used to examine whether social mobilization causes political instability. This test allows serious problems encountered in correlation-based analyses to be overcome. Time-series data from seven African countries are used. The empirical results (which vary by country) generally suggest that there is usually a feedback relationship between social mobilization and political instability.

This report has as its objective to undertake an analysis of the development process as it has evolved in Peru over the two year period 1968-1970, to examine some of the basic problems contained in this process, to interpret the direction in which it goes and to suggest a position towards it. Within this context, I shall especially focus on the function of social mobilization in development and its relationship to three major reforms the Military Government has introduced. This report is the result of my work at the National Community Development Office and the National Planning Institute. A more detailed (project) analysis of the National Comrnunity Development Programme and of the Government's Development policy, in particular the Agrarian Reform, can be found in three previous reports.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, political polarization has emerged as a significant threat that inhibits coordinated action of central and local institutions reducing the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Yet, it is not well-understood to what extent polarization can affect grass-roots, voluntary social mobilization targeted at mitigating the pandemic spread. Here, we propose a polarized mobilization model amidst the pandemic for demonstrating the differential responses to COVID-19 as mediated by the USA's political landscape. We use a novel dataset and models from time-critical social mobilization competitions, voting records, and a high-resolution county-wise friendship network. Our simulations show that a higher degree of polarization impedes the overall spread of mobilization and leads to a highly-heterogeneous impact among states. Our hypothetical compliance campaign to mitigate COVID-19 spread predicts grass-roots mitigation strategies' success before the dates of actual lockdowns in identically polarized states with more than three times of success rate than oppositely polarized states. Finally, we analyze the coupling of social mobilization leading to unrest and the growth of COVID-19 infections. These findings highlight social mobilization as both a collective precautionary measure and a potential threat to countermeasures, together with a warning message that the emerging polarization can be a significant hurdle of NPIs relying on coordinated action.