Suchergebnisse

Cet ouvrage traite de la sécurité en Europe au début du XXIe siècle, mettant l'accent sur les évolutions après l'adoption et la mise en oeuvre du Traité de Lisbonne. Il serait banal de dire que l'Europe est présentement à la croisée des chemins. Cependant, à l'heure où sont écrites ces lignes, c'est exactement ce qu'il faut souligner. La crise financière s'est transformée en crise économique pour ensuite devenir une crise des finances publiques avec des effets partout sur le continent et qui se feront sentir encore pour de nombreuses années. Cette crise déchire l'Europe et menace l'Union

Purpose
– This exploratory article aims to define foresight and consider its use in public management. Impediments to foresight best practices are also discussed.


Design/methodology/approach
– The research is based on the literature, including both primary and secondary sources. Canada serves as a case study to discuss foresight practices.


Findings
– Foresight has the potential to be useful from a governance perspective. Foresight practices, however, are limited by the need to overcome departmental boundaries, political impediments and, arguably, governments' abating policy capacity.


Research limitations/implications
– The purpose of this article is to introduce foresight limiting to an extent the depth of the analysis. Canada is neither a foresight leader nor at the bottom of the list. Conclusions drawn from this case are, despite differing political and administrative contexts, representative of problems faced by many governments in using foresight.


Originality/value
– The field of public management has paid little attention to foresight, though governments do make use of this instrument. This article is one of the first to consider foresight, not from the perspective of the futures field, but from that of the discipline of public management.

Policy reversals represent a particular type of policy change. Reversals refer specifically to instances when a policy is adopted or discontinued despite previously adopted positions. In cases of reversals, decision makers have reassessed their core values usually because of substantive events in the policy parameter. Although reversals represent a stark redirection, they could not take place without prior institutionalization in the field. We use Title III of the Patriot Act, which deals among other things with money laundering and terrorist financing, to illustrate our point.