an article by Michael Wayne Kearney (University of Missouri, USA) published in New Media & Society Volume 21 Issue 6 (June 2019)
Abstract
The growing influence of social media in an era of media fragmentation has amplified concerns of political polarization. Yet relatively few studies have analyzed polarization in user networks over time.
This study therefore examines change in network polarization on Twitter during a highly contested general election.
Using Twitter’s REST API, user networks of 3000 randomly selected followers of well-known partisan and entertainment-oriented accounts were recorded 17 times in the 7 months leading up to the 2016 general election.
Results suggest that partisan users form highly partisan networks on Twitter, while moderate, or less engaged, users continue to mostly avoid politics.
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Thursday, 27 June 2019
Monday, 10 June 2019
Change or stability in the structure of interest group networks? Evidence from Scottish Public Policy Consultations
an article by Robert Ackland and Darren R. Halpin (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) published in Journal of Public Policy Volume 39 Issue 2 (June 2019)
Abstract
Scholars have hotly debated the structure of group engagement in policymaking. Two aspects of this conversation are examined here.
First, some claim that the “explosion” of organised interests brings with it increasing fragmentation but also policy “balkanisation”. Others suggest increasing fragmentation, but with overlap between subsectors.
A second area of this debate concerns the existence and number of “central” or “core” groups.
Although existing studies show that, in aggregate, there is no more policy specialisation among United Kingdom organised interests, we do not know whether this means that there are fewer or more central groups.
In this article, we utilise public policy consultations in Scotland over a continuous 25-year period, and the tools of network analysis, to examine the above propositions.
We find that the expanding system of policy consultation is not associated with more balkanisation or with a decline of central policy actors that span policy communities.
Abstract
Scholars have hotly debated the structure of group engagement in policymaking. Two aspects of this conversation are examined here.
First, some claim that the “explosion” of organised interests brings with it increasing fragmentation but also policy “balkanisation”. Others suggest increasing fragmentation, but with overlap between subsectors.
A second area of this debate concerns the existence and number of “central” or “core” groups.
Although existing studies show that, in aggregate, there is no more policy specialisation among United Kingdom organised interests, we do not know whether this means that there are fewer or more central groups.
In this article, we utilise public policy consultations in Scotland over a continuous 25-year period, and the tools of network analysis, to examine the above propositions.
We find that the expanding system of policy consultation is not associated with more balkanisation or with a decline of central policy actors that span policy communities.
Saturday, 3 March 2018
The dynamics of inter-firm networks and firm growth
a column by Daisuke Fujii, Yukiko Saito and Tatsuro Senga for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Firms develop inter-firm networks throughout their lifecycles, continually adding and dropping trading partners. This column examines the role that the dynamics of these networks play in firm growth. The findings point to the importance of searching for potential trading partners and learning match-specific productivity for younger firms. Surviving older firms, in contrast, tend to enjoy a stable set of customers and suppliers to keep their operations.
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Firms develop inter-firm networks throughout their lifecycles, continually adding and dropping trading partners. This column examines the role that the dynamics of these networks play in firm growth. The findings point to the importance of searching for potential trading partners and learning match-specific productivity for younger firms. Surviving older firms, in contrast, tend to enjoy a stable set of customers and suppliers to keep their operations.
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Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Centrifugal schooling: third sector policy networks and the reassembling of curriculum policy in England
an article by Ben Williamson (University of Exeter, UK) published in Journal of Education Policy Volume 27 Issue 6 (November 2012)
Abstract
This article examines changes in curriculum policy in secondary education in England.
It is concerned with recent curriculum policy and reform, and the proliferation of non-government actors in curriculum policy creation.
It examines the emergence of a loose alliance of third sector organisations and their involvement in a series of alternative ‘curriculum experiments’.
The third sector curriculum policy network revolves around a policy vision of decentralisation constituted by public-private partnership, media-friendliness, social enterprise and an ‘open source’ or network-based organisational logic. It assembles a policy ideal of ‘centrifugal schooling’ which links together ideas about ‘networked governance’ with ‘flexible’ learning and ‘entrepreneurial’ curricula.
The article traces and discusses some of the inter-organisational relations, materials and discourses of the third sector network of alternative curriculum policy developments, and provides a case study of a prototypical third sector curriculum programme. It examines the organisational relations and practices by which the project was produced and the conditions leading to its failure.
Abstract
This article examines changes in curriculum policy in secondary education in England.
It is concerned with recent curriculum policy and reform, and the proliferation of non-government actors in curriculum policy creation.
It examines the emergence of a loose alliance of third sector organisations and their involvement in a series of alternative ‘curriculum experiments’.
The third sector curriculum policy network revolves around a policy vision of decentralisation constituted by public-private partnership, media-friendliness, social enterprise and an ‘open source’ or network-based organisational logic. It assembles a policy ideal of ‘centrifugal schooling’ which links together ideas about ‘networked governance’ with ‘flexible’ learning and ‘entrepreneurial’ curricula.
The article traces and discusses some of the inter-organisational relations, materials and discourses of the third sector network of alternative curriculum policy developments, and provides a case study of a prototypical third sector curriculum programme. It examines the organisational relations and practices by which the project was produced and the conditions leading to its failure.
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