scholarly journals Le laboratoire d’idées ad hoc et le développement de partenariats communautaires dans les services de santé

2015 ◽  
pp. 17-41
Author(s):  
Roger Parent
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Services De Santé ◽  
Soins De Santé ◽  
Résolution De Problèmes

Cet article fait état d’une recension des écrits effectuée pour le Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS) autour du phénomène des laboratoires d’idées ou think tanks. Cette recension visait à identifier la forme de laboratoire d’idées en mesure de favoriser la prestation de soins de santé linguistiquement et culturellement appropriés dans les communautés d’expression française du Canada. Les écrits recensés font état de l’évolution du think tank classique vers des communautés de recherche axées sur un virage pragmatique qui redéfinit le savoir universitaire en fonction des besoins des usagers. Les pratiques transformatrices liées à cette démocratisation du savoir innovent en raison de leurs approches systémiques et organisationnelles envers la résolution de problèmes culturels.

Case study 2

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewan Ferlie ◽  
Sue Dopson ◽  
Chris Bennett ◽  
Michael D. Fischer ◽  
Jean Ledger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Key Stakeholders

This chapter analyses the role of think tanks in generating a distinctive mode of policy knowledge, pragmatically orientated to inform and shape issues of importance to civil society. Drawing on political science literature, we argue that think tanks exploit niche areas of expertise and influence to actively mobilize policy analyses and recommendations across diverse stakeholders. Through our exploratory mapping of think tanks, geographically concentrated within London, we characterize their influence as significantly boosting knowledge intensity across the regional ecosystem. In particular, we study the empirical case of one London-based think tank which powerfully mobilized policy knowledge through its formal and informal networks to build influential expert consensus amongst key stakeholders. We conclude that such organizations act as key knowledge producers and mobilizers, with significant potential to influence policy discourses and implementation.

Think Tanks and Foreign Policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuti Bhatnagar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Policy Frames ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
The Media ◽  
Intellectual Elites

The role of think tanks as policy actors has developed over time and created significant global scholarship. Widely understood as non-state policy actors, think tanks established either with or without the support of government have evolved in various political contexts with varied characteristics. They are avenues for the discussion of new policy ideas as well as used for the consolidation of existing understandings of global and national political issues. As ideational actors think tanks interact with policy frameworks at different levels, either in the framing stage or at the stage of consensus building towards certain policies. Intellectual elites at think tanks allow for the introduction of think tank ideas into the policy frames as well as the creation of public opinion towards foreign policy decisions. Think tank deliberations involve an interaction with policymakers, academic experts, business and social actors, as well as the media to disseminate ideas. Institutionally, think tanks in a wide variety of political contexts play a critical role in the making of foreign policy and bring closer attention to processes of state–society interactions in different political environments.

Montfort fermé : jamais? Le discours nationalitaire de SOS Montfort dans les journaux franco-ontariens

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 319-346
Author(s):  
Serge Miville
Keyword(s):  
Services De Santé ◽  
Soins De Santé ◽  
Ontario Francais

Cet article cherche à comprendre l’impact des stratégies discursives utilisées par SOS Montfort dans l’espace médiatique franco-ontarien durant la crise entourant la fermeture de l’hôpital Montfort entre 1997 et 2002. En analysant les principaux journaux régionaux de langue française de la province, l’auteur évalue la capacité mobilisatrice du discours nationalitaire que génèrent les défenseurs de l’hôpital à travers le prisme des régionalismes en Ontario français. Alors que SOS Montfort tente de faire de la fermeture de l’hôpital une crise provinciale et nationale, les Franco-Ontariens d’autres régions doivent, de leur côté, composer avec la réelle possibilité de perdre l’accès à des soins de santé en français en raison du processus de rationalisation des services de santé à l’échelle de la province. Si SOS Montfort a réussi à faire de la fermeture de Montfort une crise importante en Ontario français en puisant dans l’imaginaire référentiel franco-ontarien, son incapacité d’inclure les enjeux d’ordre régionaux dans son discours a limité sa force de frappe à l’extérieur d’Ottawa où l’hôpital n’offre aucun service.

Cadre d'évaluation du rendement des systèmes de prestation de services de santé intégrée

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra G. Leggat ◽  
Peggy Leatt
Keyword(s):  
Services De Santé ◽  
Système De Santé ◽  
Soins De Santé

Des exigences concurrentielles de ressources financières au sein du système de santé obligent les pourvoyeurs de soins de santé à assurer l'utilisation la plus efficace possible de ces ressources. Les résultats provenant des États-Unis, du Royaume-Uni et d'autres juridictions suggèrent que les systèmes de prestation de services de santé intégrée (SPI) peuvent être une façon rentable de satisfaire aux besoins en soins d'une population. Cet article présente un cadre à utiliser lors de la surveillance et de l'évaluation du rendement d'un système de prestation intégrée. L'élaboration d'un cadre d'évaluation utilisé de façon cohérente pour les systèmes de prestation intégrée offrira au gouvernement, aux conseils de direction et aux autres évaluateurs un outil d'évaluation efficace qui leur permettra de mieux comprendre l'impact du SPI sur le système de santé. De l'information sera aussi disponible pour permettre l'amélioration constante du rendement au sein du système.

scholarly journals Authority signaling: How relational interactions between journalists and politicians create primary definers in UK broadcast news

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 896-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chadwick ◽  
Declan McDowell-Naylor ◽  
Amy P Smith ◽  
Ellen Watts
Keyword(s):  
Think Tanks ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Sociology Of News ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Relational Interactions

How journalists construct the authority of their sources is an essential part of how news comes to have power in politics and how political actors legitimize their roles to publics. Focusing on economic policy reporting and a dataset of 133 hours of mainstream broadcast news from the 5-week 2015 UK general election campaign, we theorize and empirically illustrate how the construction of expert source authority works. To build our theory, we integrate four strands of thought: an important, though in recent years neglected, tradition in the sociology of news concerned with ‘primary definers’; the underdeveloped literature on expert think tanks and media; recent work in journalism studies advocating a relational approach to authority; and elements from the discursive psychology approach to the construction of facticity in interactive settings. Our central contribution is a new perspective on source authority: the identification of behaviors that are key to how the interactions between journalists and elite political actors actively construct the elevated authoritative status of expert sources. We call these behaviors authority signaling. We show how authority signaling works to legitimize the power of the United Kingdom’s most important policy think tank and discuss the implications of this process.

scholarly journals RESEARCH ON THE PROMOTION OF CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THINK TANKS IN LOCAL NEWLY BUILT UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITIES—TAKING THE BRAND STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT THINK TANK OF SHANDONG WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY AS AN EXAMPLE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHI-GUO HUANG ◽  
PEI-BIAO LIU
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Brand Strategy ◽  
Women's College ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Existing Problems

The think tank of universities is an important carrier for scientific research, social service and talent training. At present, the construction of the think tank in local newly-built undergraduate universities is increasingly intensified, but its related functions have not been fully developed and played yet. Taking the brand strategy and development think tank of Shandong Women’s College as an example, this paper investigates and analyzes the current situation, existing problems and causes of its construction and development, and then proposes corresponding countermeasures, the purpose is to provide guidance for the sustainable and healthy development and growth of the think tank. At the same time, it can provide reference for the construction and development of the think tank in similar newly-built undergraduate universities.

Think tanks y la diplomacia académica de la Fundación Ford en Argentina (1975-1983)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (24) ◽  
pp. 48-72
Author(s):  
Peter Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Think Tanks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
La Red

Este artículo analiza desde una perspectiva socio-histórica el papel que jugó la Fundación Ford en la promoción, financiación y exportación del modelo think tank a la Argentina entre los años 1975 y 1983, examinando en particular la relación que existió entre la Fundación y los investigadores de dos centros académicos argentinos fundados en 1975: el Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES) y el Centro de Investigaciones Sociales sobre el Estado y la Administración (CISEA). A través de un análisis de la red de centros académicos privados hilada y financiada por la Fundación Ford en Argentina durante estos años, propone examinar el papel de los oficiales de la Fundación como "diplomáticos académicos" para la internacionalización de las ciencias políticas argentinas y como agentes exportadores del modelo think tank al país. Asimismo, interpreta y analiza las repercusiones de las acciones de diplomacia académica y de la financiación de la Fundación en la adquisición del papel de think tanks por parte de los centros de estudios CEDES y CISEA durante la reconstrucción del Estado democrático argentino.

Thinks tanks and their role in policy making in ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Chris McInerney
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Broad Variety

This chapter reviews the role of think tanks in policy making. Like most modern democracies, Ireland relies on a range of sources to influence the choices and designs of public policy. Apart from political and administrative influences, a broad variety of civil society, academic and private sector actors seek to access, influence, advise, inform and sometimes embarrass those in power. The chapter focuses on ‘think tanks’, defining them, reviewing international experience, examining different types and considering the complex issue of assessing think tank influence. It maps out Ireland’s limited think tank landscape and examines recent developments. Think tanks’ influence on Irish policymaking is assessed across a number of indicators.

Genesis of a Social Space: Think Tanks in Belarus 1992–1995

2020 ◽  
pp. 088832542093779
Author(s):  
Maria Bigday
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Science And Politics

This article belongs to the special cluster, “Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe”, guest-edited by Katarzyna Jezierska and Serena Giusti. The article looks at think tanks through the prism of a specific social space whose emergence is ascribable to both transnational processes and local social structures. Four processes are identified as shaping the institutionalization of the first think tanks in Belarus, founded as a tool for the “desovietization” of science and “democratization” of politics in the early 1990s: (1) the destabilization of relations between science and politics spurred by the Soviet perestroika beginning in 1986; (2) the autonomization of national elites and a political field in Belarus following the collapse of the Soviet Union; (3) the transformation of the labor market, including the crisis of state-supported research and academia, which ejected a large number of well-educated professionals; and (4) the intensification of transnational exchanges and the legitimization of references to Western practices. To systematically analyze these processes, a model consisting of the following four dimensions is proposed: configuration of relations between science and politics, position of the think tank space in the field of power, professional logics of career or competition, and transnational diffusion of resources and their local appropriation.

scholarly journals Introduction: Travelling from West to East: Think Tank Model Adaptation to Central and Eastern Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 088832542094683
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jezierska ◽  
Serena Giusti
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

This article is part of the special section “Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe” guest-edited by Katarzyna Jezierska and Serena Giusti. This is an introduction to the Special Section on Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe. Apart from this introduction, the Section includes four articles, which explore the nature and conditions of think tanks operating in Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Poland. Think tanks are usually understood as institutions claiming autonomy whose main aim is to influence policy making based on the social analysis they produce. The most apparent blind spot in extant think tank research is its predominant focus on the English-speaking world. We argue that by focusing on think tanks in non-Western contexts, we can better understand think tanks. When studying the diffusion of the organizational form of think tanks to new contexts, it is not enough to maintain the “sender” perspective (the formulation of the institutional characteristics of think tanks in the contexts in which they first emerged). We need to complement or even modify that perspective by also taking into account the “receiver” perspective. In other words, internationally circulated ideas and institutional patterns are always interpreted and translated in local “receiving” contexts, which coproduce, reformulate, and readjust the blueprint. Our focus in this Section is therefore on the translation and local adaptation of the think tank institution in the context of Central and Eastern Europe, a region that has undergone deep changes in a relatively short period.

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