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In: IRCP research series volume 51
In: International studies in human rights 105
In: World Bank working paper no. 189
Human resources for health are a priority to improve health outcomes in Africa. In order to strengthen policies based on evidence, a better understanding is needed of health worker choice and behaviour. This book tries to help fill that gap. Relying on unique survey data, it analyses the career preferences of future health workers in Rwanda, focusing on their sector preference, their willingness to work in a rural area, likelihood to migrate abroad, and readiness to work in a high HIV prevalence environment. The findings show that health workers are not as uniform as is often thought, and can
In: European data protection law review: EdpL, Volume 7, Issue 3, p. 423-428
ISSN: 2364-284X
In: International union rights: journal of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, p. 28-29
ISSN: 2308-5142
In: Social & environmental accountability journal, Volume 39, Issue 1, p. 75-75
ISSN: 2156-2245
In: International journal of testing: IJT ; official journal of the International Test Commission, Volume 17, Issue 3, p. 269-276
ISSN: 1532-7574
In: International union rights: journal of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 6-7
ISSN: 2308-5142
In: International union rights: journal of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 6
ISSN: 2308-5142
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 63, Issue s1, p. 2-17
ISSN: 1467-9248
This article develops an assessment of the shift from government to governance from the perspective of the concept of democratic representation developed by the French political theorist Claude Lefort. It is argued that this shift does not primarily entail a change of actors, norms or decision-making processes, but that it should rather be understood more fundamentally as a symbolic mutation. In governance regimes, a novel representation of power and society comes into being which transforms the basic symbolic configuration of society. Focusing especially on forms of global governance, the article investigates how this mutation provides society with a new image of itself, and how it affects the democratic nature of current society. Adapted from the source document.
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Volume 63, Issue 1_suppl, p. 2-17
ISSN: 1467-9248
This article develops an assessment of the shift from government to governance from the perspective of the concept of democratic representation developed by the French political theorist Claude Lefort. It is argued that this shift does not primarily entail a change of actors, norms or decision-making processes, but that it should rather be understood more fundamentally as a symbolic mutation. In governance regimes, a novel representation of power and society comes into being which transforms the basic symbolic configuration of society. Focusing especially on forms of global governance, the article investigates how this mutation provides society with a new image of itself, and how it affects the democratic nature of current society.
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Volume 122, Issue 1, p. 3-17
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
Several authors have recently stressed the constitutive and ubiquitous nature of representation, which, as a result, can no longer be conceived as a relation between pre-existing entities. This has important consequences for democratic representation, traditionally thought in terms of authorization, accountability or representativity. This article argues that Jacques Rancière's political philosophy makes a fruitful contribution to the necessary rethinking of democratic representation. Although Rancière never systematically developed a theory of representation, this concept is shown to constitute a red thread throughout his political writings. His main contribution consists in shifting the focus from the relation between representative and represented to the relation between the distribution of the sensible as a space of representability and its disruption or contestation. This makes it possible to recast a critique of representative government, and to reconceive of democratic representation, which is about making the contingent equality underlying each order visible.