scholarly journals Active Policy Learning for Robot Planning and Exploration under Uncertainty

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Martinez-Cantin ◽  
N. de Freitas ◽  
A. Doucet ◽  
J. Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Policy Learning ◽  
Active Policy

Evaluating Cross-Country Policy Learning in Public Administration: The Case of Qatar-Singapore Partnership in Regional Training Centre for Public Administration (RTCPA)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Evren Tok ◽  
Duygu Sever
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
Cross Country

This study investigates the case of Qatar Singapore Regional Training Center for Public Administration.As a tool for this process of policy transfer, the article further evaluates the case of Singapore- Qatar Asia-Middle East Dialogue (AMED) Regional Training Centre for Public Administration (RTCPA) in Doha, Qatar, as a mechanism to foster this policy transferThe study suggests that this evaluation would be a fruitful example in revealing the strengths and weakness of such initiatives and can offer a scheme for insights regarding effective tools of policy learning.

Introduction to ideas of development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Toye
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Student Demands ◽  
Active Policy

The 2008 financial crisis has sparked student demands to rewrite the economics curriculum, giving more space to economic history and the history of economic thought. This can be done within a survey of the main narratives of socioeconomic development. Pre-18th-century discussions of improvement were narratives of linear social progress, however. Once the moderns triumphed over the ancients, the term ‘development’ became common in English. The alternative ‘civilization’ proved to be too ambiguous and too controversial. The development concept bifurcated into ‘organic and constructive versions’, the first with passive (evolutionary) and the latter with active (policy) implications. All development narratives stem from one or the other of these two strands.

Logics for Action and Conventional Wisdom

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Stark
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Learning Function

This chapter examines the logics for action that inquiry actors bring into a lesson-learning episode. Logics for action is a term that describes the knowledge-related preferences that actors use in inquiries to make decisions. Analysis of the logics in these cases leads to three specific arguments. First, that political logics for action do not compromise inquiries in the ways which inquiry research currently suggests. Second, that public-managerial logics are essential to inquiry success in terms of policy learning. Finally, that legal-judicial logics need not necessarily lead to blaming and adversarial proceedings, which derail the lesson-learning function. These three arguments once again suggest that we need to rethink much of the conventional wisdom surrounding inquiries.

scholarly journals The Making of a Marian Geography of Grace for Greek Catholics in the Polish Crownlands of the 17th–18th Centuries

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 446
Author(s):  
Dieter Stern
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Marian Devotion ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Active Policy ◽  
Mass Events

This article explores the ways in which the newly founded and highly contested Christian confession of the Greek Catholics or Uniates employed strategies of mass mobilization to establish and maintain their position within a contested confessional terrain. The Greek Catholic clerics, above all monks of the Basilian order fostered an active policy of acquiring, founding and promoting Marian places of grace in order to create and invigorate a sense of belonging among their flock. The article argues that folk ideological notions concerning the spatial and physical conditions for the working of miracles were seized upon by the Greek Catholic faithful to establish a mental map of grace of their own. Especially, the Basilian order took particular care to organize mass events (annual pilgrimages, coronation celebrations for miraculous images) and promote Marian devotion through miracle reports and icon songs in an attempt to define what it means to be a Greek Catholic in terms of sacred territoriality.

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