Meditative Reflections on Nils Christie’s "Words on Words" - through an African lens

Like so much else that comes from the pen of Nils Christie, his "Words on Words" that have inspired this special issue, and with which it begins, have, as they so often do, inspired us to engage in a meditative reflection on his words and their implications for our thinking and practice. We have sought, through these reflections on the wisdom of Christie’s words, to better understand the security governance practices we have been studying, developing and, sometimes, promoting

City of Cape Town Solar Water Heater By-law: Barriers to Implementation

The study of implementation has had tremendous importance for the study of policy. It opened up the black box of ‘after-a-formal-decision’ politics and demonstrated, among other things, that the political process continues all the way through to the final output of the policy process (Bardach 1977). It addressed the complexity of achieving policy goals, offered new insights into the importance of lower-level actors in policy, and attended to the effects that clients and extra-government groups had on the policy result (Schofield 2001). It became one of the most important sources for the development of new perspectives that tried to capture how policy processes cross the public-private divide, as evidenced by the new focus on governance (Rhodes 1997) or networks (Marin and Mayntz 1991). Implementation research has been particularly valuable in two somewhat contradictory ways

The First Stage of the History of Orthopaedics in Norway : the Therapy of " Self-correction "

En este artículo se investiga el primer estadio de la historia de la ortopedia en Noruega, que transcurre desde 1838 a 1880 y que se caracterizó por un peculiar método de reducción de las curvaturas de columna, la llamada terapia de «autocorrección». Se indagan, en particular, las posibles causas de la elevada estima que esta terapia ortopédica recibió en Noruega

The First Stage of the History of Orthopaedics in Norway : the Therapy of " Self-correction "

En este artículo se investiga el primer estadio de la historia de la ortopedia en Noruega, que transcurre desde 1838 a 1880 y que se caracterizó por un peculiar método de reducción de las curvaturas de columna, la llamada terapia de «autocorrección». Se indagan, en particular, las posibles causas de la elevada estima que esta terapia ortopédica recibió en Noruega

Competence Demands in the Rehabilitation Service, 1994

The dataset is derived from the research project "Competence Demands in the Rehabilitation Service, 1994", lead by Jan Froestad at the Jan Froestad, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, UiB. The objective of the project was to clarify how the rehabilitation service can develope its competences within profession-directed rehabilitation. The study directs the attention towards relationships between competence needs and real competence. Competence within the field of rehabilitation is understood in terms of the following three perspectives: - the context of which the rehabilitation guidance councellors work within - the formal qualifications of the guidance councellors - the guidance councellors understanding of their own work place

The First Stage of the History of Orthopaedics in Norway : the Therapy of " Self-correction "

En este artículo se investiga el primer estadio de la historia de la ortopedia en Noruega, que transcurre desde 1838 a 1880 y que se caracterizó por un peculiar método de reducción de las curvaturas de columna, la llamada terapia de «autocorrección». Se indagan, en particular, las posibles causas de la elevada estima que esta terapia ortopédica recibió en Noruega