This book investigates the increasing circulation and transfer of public policy ideas between the UK, US and Australia since the 1990s. It argues that the upsurge in policy transfer amongst and between these states can be explained by a structural and shared commitment between these states to a distinctive institutional ideology of policy-making. This ideology, it is claimed, is partly a product of the historical proximity of ‘Anglosphere’ states, and in recent years can be traced through ...

Policy studies assume the existence of baseline parameters – such as honest governments doing their best to create public value, publics responding in good faith, and both parties relying on a policy-making process that aligns with the public interest. In such circumstances, policy goals are expected to be produced through mechanisms in which the public can articulate its preferences and policy-makers are expected to listen to what has been said in determining their governments' courses of...

Banning them, securing us? explores the proscribing – or banning – of terrorist organisations within the United Kingdom across a period of twenty years. The process of banning specific organisations, Jarvis and Legrand argue, is as much a ritualistic performance of liberal democracy as it is a technique for increasing national security from the threat posed by terrorism. Characterised by a repetitive script, an established cast of characters and a predictable outcome, this ritual ...

Lors d'un week-end arrosé au Cap, un jeune et riche Afrikaner renverse en voiture une jeune Noire sans logis qui erre dans la rue. Ni lui ni ses amis ne préviennent les secours alors que la victime agonise. La mère du chauffeur, Margot Le Roux, femme puissante qui règne sur les mines du Northern Cape, décide de couvrir son fils. Pourquoi compromettre une carrière qui s'annonce brillante à cause d'une pauvresse ? Dans un pays où la corruption règne à tous les étages, tout le monde s'en fout...

Powers to outlaw or proscribe terrorist organisations have become cornerstones of global counter-terrorism regimes. In this comprehensive volume, an international group of leading scholars reflect on the array of proscription regimes found around the world, using a range of methodological, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives from Political Science, International Relations, Law, Sociology and Criminology. These perspectives consider how domestic political and legal institutions inters...

This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary theory, practice and themes in the study of national security.Part 1: Theories examines how national security has been conceptualised and formulated within the disciplines international relations, security studies and public policy.Part 2: Actors shifts the focus of the volume from these disciplinary concerns to consideration of how core actors in international affairs have conceptualised ...