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Research Students (Public Policy and Administration)
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Simon Bastow
Supervisor: Professor Patrick Dunleavy
|Contact: s.j.bastow@lse.ac.uk|
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Sonia Bussu
Governing with the Citizens: New Mechanisms for Participation in Italy: The geography of administrative and political responsibilities in Europe has rapidly changed over the past twenty years, and local administrations have had to learn how to exert their new authority and respond to a pluralisation of local needs, whilst often being confronted with a rationalisation of public resources. New models of governance aim to engage larger sectors of the population through participatory and deliberative mechanisms, as a way of coordinating local interests to increase the territory's capacity to produce collective goods. The tension between representative and participatory democracy has different implications at the local level, since local voters are perceived to be more competent on local issues. Furthermore, institutional designs that foster strong executives at the local level, as chosen by many European countries, have strengthened the relationship between local administrators and the citizens. This thesis compares the experience of participatory governance of four medium-sized Italian cities all characterised by very different socio-political and economic contexts: Trento in the northern region of Trentino-Alto Adige, Prato in Tuscany, Lecce in the southern region of Puglia, and Sassari in the island of Sardinia. All cities have implemented strategic planning, which entails a collective vision of the territory's social and economic future, elaborated with the involvement of local civil society through deliberative forums. The objective is to explain the impact of strategic planning on the local polity. The focus is on local context to understand the effect of endogenous (i.e. pre-existing associational density and the degree of strength and autonomy of the local leadership) and exogenous factors (i.e. institutional constraints and opportunities at higher jurisdictional levels). Local Government, Urban planning, Citizen Participation, Deliberative Democracy
Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Hopkin| & Professor Edward Page
|Contact: s.bussu@lse.ac.uk|
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Mauricio Dussauge-Laguna
Cross-National Policy Learning and Administrative Reforms: The Rise of Performance-Based Policies in Chile and Mexico: The research project focuses on the development of Performance-Based Policies (PBP) (e.g. targets and performance management systems; performance-budgeting; performance audits; and performance evaluations) in Chile and Mexico. The study looks at how and why these administrative reforms have been implemented during the past 20 years. It pays particular attention to cross-national policy learning processes, including those related to how national bureaucrats learn from international PBP practices; and how international organizations participate in the diffusion of PBP ideas, and the transfer of specific programs. Policy learning; policy transfer and diffusion; administrative reforms; performance management; comparative public administration; Latin America; Chile; Mexico
Supervisor: Professor Edward Page
|Contact: m.i.dussauge-laguna@lse.ac.uk|
Personal Website: http://mdussauge.googlepages.com|
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Jose Javier Olivas-Osuna
Civilian Control of the Military in Portugal and Spain: A Policy Instruments Approach: Portugal and Spain are two neighbouring countries sharing many economic, cultural and geopolitical features that in the twentieth century have experienced similar and parallel processes of political transformations. Nevertheless a closer look to the evolution of civil-military relations elicit quite different pictures in each of them. During the periods of Salazar's and Franco's authoritarian rule and the transitions into democracy that followed them quite different schemes of military subordination to civilian rule could be observed. This research sheds light to this empirical puzzle by exploring two questions: Did Portuguese and Spanish governments used different combinations of tools to maintain the military subordinated?, and why such choices diverged or converged? This thesis compares the control policies used to maintain the military subordinated during Portuguese and Spanish authoritarian and transitional periods. It focuses on the tools of control employed by the governments. It shows that authoritarian as well as transitional and democratic governments adopted different control styles vis-à-vis the military in Portugal and Spain. The contribution of this thesis is threefold. First, it contributes to the understanding of civil-military relations and control tools through the historical analysis of the twentieth century in Portugal and Spain. Second, it provides explanations about the events and contextual that constrained and stimulated tool choices. Third, the adaptation of a public policy comparative framework, Hood's (1983) typology for the study of tools of government, provides a new angle to the sub-field of civil-military relations bridging the gap with main stream political science. Civil Military Relations, Comparative Historical Analysis, Spanish Politics, Transitions, Estado Novo, Francoism, New Institutionalism, Public Policy, Policy Instruments.
Supervisor: Dr Martin Lodge
|Contact: j.j.olivas-osuna@lse.ac.uk|
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Maja Rasmussen
Supervisor: Professor Edward Page
|Contact: m.k.rasmussen@lse.ac.uk|
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Laura Robbins-Wright
The Contribution of Refugee Resettlement Towards Human Rights as a Global Public Good and Responsibility Sharing in the European Union. In 2010, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees advised that over 800,000 refugees will require resettlement in the long-term. My research examines how complementary forms of refugee resettlement contribute to the provision of human rights as a global public good from which all can benefit, and how the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees program can be applied as a responsibility sharing model for asylum seekers in the European Union. My study considers: why there is a persistent global undersupply in refugee protection; how human rights constitutes a global public good; how complementary forms of refugee resettlement act as a mechanism for providing this good; the determinants of refugee resettlement policy in Canada and how these compare to the determinants of asylum policy in the European Union; and, how the private sponsorship model can be effectively applied in individual Member States. My objective is to expand the application and understanding of global public goods theory, to facilitate responsibility sharing in the European Union, and most of all, to develop a pragmatic and durable policy solution for persons in need of resettlement. asylum and immigration; Canada; European Union; public goods theory; public policy; refugees; resettlement; responsibility sharing
Supervisor: Dr Eiko Thielemann|
Contact: l.i.robbins-wright@lse.ac.uk|
Personal Website: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/robbinsw/|
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