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View article: Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy
Problem structuring, wrong-problem problems and metagovernance as the strategic management of intractable positions: The case of the EU GM Crop Regulatory Framework controversy Open
Analyses of ‘wicked problems’ often lead to recommendations for collaborative governance as a metagovernance solution. The case of deadlocked European Union genetically modified crop authorization processes offers a good example. However, …
View article: Netherlands Report. Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022
Netherlands Report. Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022 Open
The years 2020-2021 were the last of the Rutte III government that came to power in March 2017. This was an uneasy four-party coalition between centerright parties (the conservative-liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) a…
View article: Civil Society Associations’ Efforts to Influence Post-Uprisings Governmental Policymaking in Three Arab States: A Regimes-Triad Approach
Civil Society Associations’ Efforts to Influence Post-Uprisings Governmental Policymaking in Three Arab States: A Regimes-Triad Approach Open
This article sets out to test an all too frequently undisputed assumption: contested politics and policy process theories or frameworks from the West, particularly the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF…
View article: Policy, governing and politicality
Policy, governing and politicality Open
This Forum contribution takes a critical look at 'policy', 'policymaking' and 'governing' as key concepts in policy studies. I briefly peruse the historical etymology of 'policy' to unearth root meanings that, jointly, make up the 'signatu…
View article: Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems
Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems Open
This article is an attempt to bridge the divide between academics and practitioners. Informed by both design theory and the reality of policy work, its focus is on ‘problems’. From a practitioners’ perspective, policy design is both an int…
View article: Ptychography with a Virtually Enlarged Illumination.
Ptychography with a Virtually Enlarged Illumination. Open
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View article: Problematizing ‘wickedness’: a critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice
Problematizing ‘wickedness’: a critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice Open
The concept of ‘wicked problems’ is a major current in the fields of policy analysis and planning. However, the basis of the concept has been insufficiently examined. This re-examination of its conceptual basis explains the origins of the …
View article: Rules-of-thumb for problem-structuring policy design
Rules-of-thumb for problem-structuring policy design Open
This article provides practitioners with rules-of-thumb for policy design as both problem finding and problem solving. From their perspective, policy design is an inevitable moving back and forth between thinking out (“puzzling”) and fight…
View article: Older Operators Often Run Small Family Farms, Particularly Retirement and Low-Sales Farms
Older Operators Often Run Small Family Farms, Particularly Retirement and Low-Sales Farms Open
A notable characteristic of principal farm operators, the person most responsible for running the farm, is their relatively advanced age. In 2016, 36 percent of principal farm operators were at least 65 years old, compared with only 14 per…
View article: Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture
Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture Open
Agricultural production has shifted to much larger farming operations over the last three decades, even as the number of very small farms grows. Consolidation of acreage and production has been persistent, widespread, and pronounced in cro…
View article: Examining Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture
Examining Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture Open
Agricultural production has shifted to larger farms over the last three decades. Technology has been the primary driver of this shift, which has been large and widespread across crop and livestock commodities. Despite the shift to larger o…
View article: Ptychographic analysis of the photorefractive effect in LiNbO_3:Fe
Ptychographic analysis of the photorefractive effect in LiNbO_3:Fe Open
We present light induced refractive index changes in iron doped lithium niobate detected with a novel microscopy technique called ptychography. This method determines the change of the refractive index together with the intensity distribut…
View article: Tensions in Rural Water Governance: The Elusive Functioning of Rural Water Points in Tanzania
Tensions in Rural Water Governance: The Elusive Functioning of Rural Water Points in Tanzania Open
Public water services are still failing rural Tanzanians. Emboldened by advances in information communication technologies, the Ministry of Water has been developing computing, financial and administrative technologies to update and visual…
View article: Tales of accountability: a Q-method study of discourses amongst Tanzanian members of parliament
Tales of accountability: a Q-method study of discourses amongst Tanzanian members of parliament Open
The hallmark of accountability in a democracy centres on the way the elected parliament holds the executive to account. If the parliament does not perform its oversight role effectively, lower authorities would have fewer incentives to do …
View article: Evolutionary‐Optimized Photonic Network Structure in White Beetle Wing Scales
Evolutionary‐Optimized Photonic Network Structure in White Beetle Wing Scales Open
Most studies of structural color in nature concern periodic arrays, which through the interference of light create color. The “color” white however relies on the multiple scattering of light within a randomly structured medium, which rando…
View article: Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems
Heuristics for practitioners of policy design: Rules-of-thumb for structuring unstructured problems Open
This article is an attempt to bridge the divide between academics and practitioners. Informed by both design theory and the reality of policy work, its focus is on ‘problems’. From a practitioners’ perspective, policy design is both an int…
View article: Dutch Elections: More than Populism's Next Test
Dutch Elections: More than Populism's Next Test Open
Contrary to predictions about a populist victory in the upcoming parliamentary election in the Netherlands, the Dutch may, in fact, be a bellwether inspiring citizens in Europe to engage again in serious national debates on core issues of …
View article: Focusing hard x rays beyond the critical angle of total reflection by adiabatically focusing lenses
Focusing hard x rays beyond the critical angle of total reflection by adiabatically focusing lenses Open
In response to the conjecture that the numerical aperture of x-ray optics is fundamentally limited by the critical angle of total reflection [Bergemann et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 204801 (2003)], the concept of adiabatically focusing refr…
View article: America’s Diverse Family Farms: 2017 Edition
America’s Diverse Family Farms: 2017 Edition Open
This report provides an overview of U.S. farms, including the latest statistics on production, financial performance, and farm household characteristics by farm size categories. Among the findings are that 99 percent of U.S. farms are fami…
View article: The Evolving Distribution of Payments From Commodity, Conservation, and Federal Crop Insurance Programs
The Evolving Distribution of Payments From Commodity, Conservation, and Federal Crop Insurance Programs Open
Agricultural policies—through Federal commodity, conservation, and crop insurance programs—aim to mitigate the financial risks faced by farmers and the environmental risks posed by agricultural production. The programs also provide support…
View article: <i>In Situ</i> Ptychography of Heterogeneous Catalysts using Hard X-Rays: High Resolution Imaging at Ambient Pressure and Elevated Temperature
<i>In Situ</i> Ptychography of Heterogeneous Catalysts using Hard X-Rays: High Resolution Imaging at Ambient Pressure and Elevated Temperature Open
A new closed cell is presented for in situ X-ray ptychography which allows studies under gas flow and at elevated temperature. In order to gain complementary information by transmission and scanning electron microscopy, the cell makes use …