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Are you curious about deliberative processes and how municipalities can engage all citizens in fair, inclusive decision-making? This long-term training course is a unique opportunity for residents of South-East Europe to dive into the principles of deliberative democracy. You will also gain the skills to share your knowledge and collaborate with local authorities. Don't miss this chance to learn how to foster more inclusive and participatory decision-making in your community! #deliberativedemocracy #deliberative #citizenassembly #citizen #participation #training

It is good to see the return of accountable government after the gap of a few years. In this NEET case, mainstream media seems to have found its voice again (thanks to the threat of losing their audiences to voices in social media). The media's job is to raise these issues and force governments to order investigations and take remedial action. In recent years, the subservient mainstream media has failed to highlight many major allegations on issues of great public importance. Many of these allegations remain uninvestigated. Hopefully, this will change now.

To progress, it's essential to pause and reflect on the past. Explore our annual report of 2023, featuring a tailored skills program for researchers, now integrated into the PhD schooling curriculum and extended to other faculties, alongside the remarkable establishment of our Nederlandse Vereniging van Rechtswinkels, boasting over 50 members nationwide and receiving recognition from the Minister of Legal Aid and Parliament. #legalinnovation #justice

🌱The future is #public, we know this. But how we're gonna take #publicservices back in-house? Discover strategies to reclaim public services with EPSU & PSI - Public Services International e-learning tool on #remunicipalisation. 🔹Overcome opposition 🔸Navigate legal challenges 🔹Build a #tradeunion vision 🔸Launch a de-privatisation campaign Click here for country examples, communication tools and roadmaps👇🏾

Hunh. A few takeaways: 1. Gilead- building doesn't stop at the border 2. governance is a material issue in all shared decision making contexts, as in Canadian federalism 3. federal/provincial/territorial as well as FNI relationships are not corner of desk files (esp in looming austerity when people might be tempted to think 'oooo, easy FTE cuts') 4. learning remains one of the top contested ideological battlegrounds...enduring for as long as humanity has uttered meaningfully...keep going, tou lovely learning function! https://lnkd.in/e9VnR5GH

Namaskar! I am glad to inform you that the Ninth issue (Oct. - December 2024) of Policy Samvad has been published. A unique initiative in the domain of public policy. There are articles written by scholars from different fields of the country, Current News analysis, policy updates, Know the Bills, Parliamentary updates and many more segments in this issue. Hope it will be useful for your study.

Recent publication "Studying policy transfer and policy learning in border regions. A proposition for interdisciplinary dialogue and a research agenda" by Stefanie Thurm, Peter Ulrich and Georg Wenzelburger in Taylor & Francis Group Journal #Regional & #Federal Studies: https://lnkd.in/eSXZTm2b Summary: In recent years, research on cross-border cooperation has proliferated, also receiving increased attention from political science. Nevertheless, important insights from the literatures on policy learning and transfer have not been systematically introduced into this field of study so far. In this article, we address this shortcoming by offering an analytical framework for analysing policy learning and transfer in (cross-)border regions, thereby focusing on processes that may help us better capture the evolution and dynamics of cross-border regions. We conceptually discern between four different types, namely policy learning in cross-border regions, horizontal transfer in cross-border regions, horizontal transfer between cross-border regions and vertical transfer between the European or the national and the (cross-)border level. For each case, we discuss potential drivers and give empirical examples to illustrate the conceptual model.

I am very happy to let you know that I will act as co-supervisor (together with Prof. Julien Jeandesboz) of the Ph.D. thesis of Sanae Youbi 🎓 Sanae has just been recruited as Research and Teaching Assistant at SciencePo ULB. In addition to her teaching duties, Sanae will pursue a Ph.D. project on the politics of knowledge and the epistemic regime involved in enacting EU policies related to mobilities linked with environmental change. Here are some of her research questions: What are the dynamics and implications of the epistemic regime involved in shaping the conceptualisation and framing of mobilities induced by anthropic ecological transformations as a public policy object? How does the epistemic regime influence the construction and representation of mobilities resulting from anthropic ecological transformations as a target for public policy formulation? How do policymakers influence what is researched, and how do they integrate the results of these research projects into their policymaking? Don't hesitate to connect with her if you want to follow her work on these important questions👇 https://lnkd.in/evXi3kRA

Recently, I've conducted interesting research focusing on fundamental rights pertaining to Article 10 of the Federal Constitution's right to freedom of expression. The question of the day is whether the right to information is guaranteed within Article 10 of the FC itself. Several Indian and UK cases have shown that the right to information, or freedom of information, is a guaranteed right within their respective constitutions. Whether written or unwritten, India implemented the Right to Information Act 2005, and the UK enacted the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In a few cases, such as Central Public Information Officer v Subhash Chandra Agarwal (an Indian case) and the case of Dransfield v Information Commissioner (2015) WLR 5316, the constitutional right to information was recognized. Freedom of expression and opinion in Article 10 of the ECHR has been recognized to consist of the freedom and right to information, as seen in the Hungarian case of Magyar Helsinki Bizottsag v Hungary. In Malaysia, however, the court took a different approach to the right to information. In the recent Court of Appeal case of Haris Fatilah B Mohd Ibrahim v Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya Malaysia [2017] MLJU 45, the current learned Chief Justice of Malaysia, Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, ruled against recognizing such a right to information within Article 10 of the Federal Constitution based on two main reasons, as seen in para 44: The cited cases by the appellant's learned counsel were not binding precedents as they were Indian and Canadian cases respectively. Unlike Canada and India, there is no act or statute similar to the Right to Information in India and no relevant section similar to section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights legislated by the Parliament of Malaysia. The case has yet to be overruled or distinguished. As such, it is clear that Malaysia doesn't have a right to information to date. However, given the recent development of law, there is a possibility that Freedom or Right to Information could soon be recognized as a fundamental right guaranteed in the Federal Constitution. The Deputy Law Minister has recently mentioned that the Freedom of Information Bill will soon be tabled in Parliament by the end of this year. If it becomes an act in the future, the persuasiveness to include the right to information in the Federal Constitution could increase. Feel free to share your thoughts!!!

The WCIM Legislation comes into effect in WA on the 1st of July 2024. Watch the presentation on NIBA Learning on Demand to learn more: https://ow.ly/5bi130sEGGz