Innovating innovation policy: the emergence of ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’

Within the policy structures of the European Union (EU), the concept of ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ (RRI) appears to have a very specific emergence point, via a workshop for invited experts hosted by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation in May 2011. Through a textual analysis of EU documents, this paper will explore the processes through which RRI has been incorporated into Horizon 2020 as a policy framework for the European Research Area which promises that technological innovation will be shaped towards social goods. It concludes by discussing some of the tensions between RRI and policies emanating from other EU institutions, highlighting areas which may impede RRI's progress towards its goals

The Politics of Environmental Dispute Resolution

Also PCMA Working Paper #17.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51148/1/380.pd

Partners No More: Relational Transformation and the Turn to Litigation in Two Conservationist Organizations

The rise in litigation against administrative bodies by environmental and other political interest groups worldwide has been explained predominantly through the liberalization of standing doctrines. Under this explanation, termed here the floodgate model, restrictive standing rules have dammed the flow of suits that groups were otherwise ready and eager to pursue. I examine this hypothesis by analyzing processes of institutional transformation in two conservationist organizations: the Sierra Club in the United States and the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI). Rather than an eagerness to embrace newly available litigation opportunities, as the floodgate model would predict, the groups\u27 history reveals a gradual process of transformation marked by internal, largely intergenerational divisions between those who abhorred conflict with state institutions and those who saw such conflict as not only appropriate but necessary to the mission of the group. Furthermore, in contrast to the pluralist interactions that the floodgate model imagines, both groups\u27 relations with pertinent agencies in earlier eras better accorded with the partnership-based corporatist paradigm. Sociolegal research has long indicated the importance of relational distance to the transformation of interpersonal disputes. I argue that, at the group level as well, the presence or absence of a (national) partnership-centered relationship determines propensities to bring political issues to court. As such, well beyond change in groups\u27 legal capacity and resources, current increases in levels of political litigation suggest more fundamental transformations in the structure and meaning of relations between citizen groups and the state

Transisi menuju demokrasi : tinjauan berbagai perspektif/ Edit.: Guillermo O Donnell

xvii, 280 hal.: ilus; 20 c

Transisi menuju demokrasi : kasus Eropa Selatan/ Edit.: Guillermo O Donnell

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Transisi menuju demokrasi : kasus Eropa Selatan/ Edit.: Guillermo O Donnell

xvi, 304 hal.: ilus.; 23 cm

Transisi menuju demokrasi : tinjauan berbagai perspektif/ Edit.: Guillermo O Donnell

xvii, 280 hal.: ilus; 20 c

Transisi menuju demokrasi : rangkaian kemungkinan dan ketidakpastian/ Edit.: Guillermo O Donnell

xvi, 117 hal.: ilus; 20 c

Transisi menuju demokrasi : rangkaian kemungkinan dan ketidakpastian/ Edit.: Guillermo O Donnell

xvi, 117 hal.: ilus; 20 c