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095618
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2010.
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There is now significant policy and academic interest in the governance of science and technology for sustainable development. In recent years this has come to include a growing emphasis on issues of public understanding of science and innovative processes of deliberative and inclusive policy-making around controversial technologies such as nuclear power and agricultural biotechnology. Concern with such issues coincides with rising levels of interest in deliberative democracy and its relationship to the structures and processes of global governance. This article connects these two areas through a critical examination of 'global' deliberations about agricultural biotechnology and its risks and benefits. It draws on an extensive survey concerned with the diverse ways in which a range of governments are interpreting and implementing their commitments under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety regarding public participation and consultation in order to assess the potential to create forms of deliberation through these means. The article explores both the limitations of public deliberation within global governance institutions as well as of projects whose aim is to impose participation from above through international law by advocating model approaches and policy 'tool kits' that are insensitive to vast differences between countries in terms of capacity, resources and political culture.
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118674
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2012.
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Despite recent policy changes, governmental monitoring and control of grassroots NGOs remain pervasive and effective to a large extent in China. The enforcement of control over NGOs is complicated by at least three layers of factors: First, multiple agencies are involved in NGO control without a centralised norm. Second, government-NGO interactions vary across cases and are deeply rooted in local political contexts. Last, but not least, since the NGO community at its origin is highly diverse, NGOs' responses to various types of governmental control differ, which in turn triggers further complications. The main findings of this research are based on interviews with 60 NGO staff, as well as with civil affairs officials in Shanghai and Shenzhen from January 2011 to May 2012.
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Migration in one form or another has always been a part of human existence, but the politics that surround migration have shifted over time. The institutional actors involved in regulating the flow of migrants have increased in number and become more diverse. They are located not only within the state but also at sub‐ and supra‐state levels. There is also greater awareness of the various fields of policy that directly or indirectly interact with migration. Therefore, the issues engaging policymakers go well beyond controlling people's exit from one country and entry into another. They require bilateral and multilateral cooperation. Yet the world is still made up of single states continuing to assert their sovereignty over territorial borders and population movement, and the importance of migration governance in a transnational context is at an all‐time high. What processes shape the structure and the predominant patterns of migration between countries and what do these imply for the migration possibilities that confront different populations?
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