Politics Of Partnership Research Articles

US-Mexico Relations in an Age of Uncertainty

This essay reviews the following works: A Tale of Two Eagles: The US-Mexico Bilateral Defense Relationship Post Cold War. By Craig A. Deare. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Pp. vii + 436. $45.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781442269446. The U.S.-Mexican Border Today: Conflict and Cooperation in Historical Perspective. By Paul Ganster with David E. Lorey. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Pp. vii + 296. $29.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781442231115. American Crossings: Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere. Edited by Maiah Jaskoski, Arturo C. Sotomayor, and Harold A. Trinkunas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. vii + 238. $39.95 paperback. ISBN:9781421418308. Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead. By Shannon K. O’Neil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 239. $27.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780199898336. Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience. Edited by William Paul Simmons and Carol Mueller. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 312. $27.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780812246285. Mexico and United States: The Politics of Partnership. Edited by Peter H. Smith and Andrew Selee. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013. Pp. vii + 243. $23.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781588268938.

The Politics of Partnership: A case study of civil society participation in local governance in Indonesia

연구목적: 본 연구는 시민사회 참여에 대한 원조기관들의 비정치적 접근이 인도네시아의 참여적 거버넌스 개혁에 미친 영향을 살펴보는 것을 목적으로 한다. 연구의 중요성: 본연구는 인도네시아 지역 엘리트들이 ‘참여’와 ‘파트너십’이라는 주류개발 어젠다를 어떻게 선택적으로 수용하는지를 고찰함으로써 시민사회 참여에 대한 원조기관들의 비정치적 접근이 갖는 한계를 지적하고자한다. 연구방법론: 세계은행의 거버넌스 개혁 프로그램(Initiatives for Local Governance Reform)에 참여한 지역 중 참여적 거버넌스 부분에서 높은 평가를 받았던 두 지역을 선정해 사례연구를 진행하였으며, 심층 인터뷰 등의 질적 연구방법론을 활용하였다. 연구결과: 두 지역의 지방정부는 신자유주의가 옹호하는 시민단체 참여의 비정치적, 기능적 측면에 주목하면서 시민단체 활동에 대한 과거의 적대적인 태도를 버리고 시민단체와의 파트너십을 강화하였다. 정부-시민단체 간 파트너십 구축은 시민단체들의 공공정책 참여를 촉진하였으나, 정부가 시민단체의 참여를 각 단체의 성격에 따라 선택적으로 수용혹은 배제하는 수단이 되거나 자율적인 풀뿌리 운동(grassroots-based) 단체를 정부의 파트너로 포섭하는데 활용되기도 하였다. 결론 및 시사점: 지방 관료들은 파트너십이라는 명목 하에 시민단체의 참여를 선택적으로 수용함으로써 시민사회의 참여 확대가 기존 권력 구도에 영향을 주지 않도록 관리하는 모습을 보였다. 본 연구는 인도네시아 지역 엘리트들이 참여 담론을 어떻게 자신들의 이해관계에 맞게 선택적으로 수용하는지를 조명함으로써 급진적 성격이 희석된 ‘참여’ 아젠다의 한계를 지적한다.Objectives: This paper aims to explore how donors’ functionalist approach to civil society participation, largely influenced by neoliberalism, has affected participatory governance reform in Indonesia. Originality: By highlighting the parallel between donors and Indonesian elites in their functionalist use of CSOs, the paper examines how ruling elites in post-authoritarian countries capitalize on neoliberal narratives of participation for their own ends. Methods: This paper builds upon a case study of two local districts in Indonesia that participated in the World Bank’s local governance reform program. The research mainly employed qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews conducted by the author. Results: The research found that neoliberal narratives of civil society participation has changed local elites’perspectives on CSOs. Recognizing CSOs not as threats but as partners for carrying out government programs, the government has increasingly built partnership with local CSOs. The government’s favorable attitudes to CSOs improved their involvement in public policy-making, but the scope of their activities was likely to be limited to boundaries defined by the government. Conclusions and Implication: By limiting the role of CSOs to that of the government’s partners, local elites managed the mode of collective participation so that the increased participation of CSOs would not pose a great threat to existing power relations. Local elites’ manipulation of participatory rhetoric suggests that participation should be re-located in a radical context.

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Peter H. Smith and Andrew Selee, eds., Mexico and the United States: The Politics of Partnership. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2013. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 243 pp.; hardcover $55, paperback $22.

Peter H. Smith and Andrew Selee, eds., Mexico and the United States: The Politics of Partnership. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2013. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 243 pp.; hardcover $55, paperback $22.

Mexico and the United States: the politics of partnership

Mexico and the United States: the politics of partnership

Book Review: The Politics of Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Nonprofit-Business Partnerships, by Stuart C. Mendel

Book Review: The Politics of Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Nonprofit-Business Partnerships, by Stuart C. Mendel

Afro-Continentalism: Pan-Africanism in Post-Settlement South Africa’s Foreign Policy

In his book In the Twilight of the Revolution (2009), which is also the subject of this review article, Kwandiwe Kondlo argues inter alia that: ‘. . . the Africanist orientation of the PAC [Pan-Africanist Congress] was appropriated in the policies of [South Africa’s] . . . new democratic government(s), especially during the period of former President Thabo Mbeki’ (2009: 282). This author critically examines Kondlo’s assertion in the context of South Africa’s post-apartheid period and argues that successive South African governments played pivotal roles in helping to shape Africa’s evolving inter-state system through diplomacy and the politics of partnership. In that regard, he argues that South Africa’s aim is to promote Continentalism (agreements or policies that favour regionalization or regional co-operation between states, or deep and regulated forms of regional co-operation between nations within a continent), a new post-Cold War foreign policy paradigm on the continent, which will assist in the consolidation of the idea of a union of African states that dawned with the birth of the African Union (AU), created to replace the Organization of Africa Unity (OAU). He insists that, in the context of Kondlo’s assertion, African Continentalism, as opposed to Pan-Africanism, which advocates the amalgamation of existing independent African states into a bloc, represents a process that encourages African states to band together to create new norms, principles, institutions, and political structures, and agree to live by such structures and in harmony with each other. To buttress his argument, the author examines Thabo Mbeki’s African Renaissance project as the corollary of African Continentalism on which South Africa’s Africa policy was anchored during and after his presidency.

What underlies the shift to a modality of partnership in educational development cooperation?

This paper situates the philosophy and politics of partnership in educational development cooperation in the context of wider epistemological and axiological shifts in contemporary social theory. Partnerships in development cooperation are also considered in the light of the alleged failure of international development assistance, a claim that has received much attention with the publication of, among others, William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good (2006) and of Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa (2008). Partnership as a development strategy offers one response to these claims, but if shared development objectives and policies, shared ownership, shared decisions about where aid is targeted, shared rights, shared responsibilities, and shared implementation strategies still leave the education development community facing challenges as big as ever, it might be time, the paper concludes, to consider whether the concept of partnership has not been expanded too far as a modality in development cooperation.

Perpetuating the ‘lack of evidence’ discourse in sport for development: Privileged voices, unheard stories and subjugated knowledge

Through an examination of the power relations embedded in the international movement of sport for development, we consider the dominant ‘lack of evidence’ discourse, which calls for more rigorous, scientific proof to validate the sport for development field. We argue that the lack of co-creation of knowledges, the politics of partnerships, and donor-driven priorities have subjugated sport for development practitioners’ knowledge, and therefore fueled this lack of evidence discourse. Acknowledging and privileging the contributions that typically female, young, black African sport for development grassroots practitioners’ knowledges make to the field will concomitantly result in a more robust evidence base and challenge the lack of evidence discourse.

A Primer on the Politics of Partnership between Education and Regulation

Too often there is a separation between education and regulation, as functions appear different, yet are truly complementary. Described is an exemplar of a successful education-regulation partnership that advanced the development of an innovation, the dedicated education unit. The work of building relationships, communication, mutual need and goal setting, and trust building are described in the context of innovation within a regulatory environment that can lead to empowerment and change.

The Politics of Partnership

The prevailing discourse on local governance is that local authorities are subordinate both to central government and to a plethora of local partners. While Manchester City Council (MCC) remains subordinate to central government, its status enables it to exert influence over the urban domain within its boundaries and to act as an intermediate organization between its local partners and the core executive in Whitehall. This reflects the influence that MCC has been able to maintain over the process of urban regeneration within its territory despite the other structures involved, and the creation of the Urban Regeneration Company (URC) of New East Manchester (NEM). MCC may possess singular characteristics but its political style of `community leadership' need not be unique. While the local state has ceded some of its activities to other agencies in this time of multi-level governance it still enjoys a powerful overarching control that can be characterized as metagovernance.

The International Institute for Environment and Development: Notes on a small office

Organisations thrive on personality andlead ership. Academic analysis sometimes does not give sufficient attention to the role of individual people in policy making. Yet, the headof a non governmental organisation can be just as influential as the chief executive of a major corporation, or a minister, in establishing a ‘personality style’ for the institution. In this column, Simon Batterbury, shows that the International Institute for Environment andDevelopment (IIED) has been blessedby distinguishedandhigh profile founders and campaigners from its inception. This is why it is so influential andtransformational. In the modern day politics of partnership, forum, think tanks and focus groups, the role of the individual personality can become less distinct. This delightful historical assessment of IIED’s achievements since 1972 speaks volumes for the well networkedorganisations of unforgettable people. Long may they continue to remain distinctive! Finally, this is the very last editorial we shall write in this series. It began in 1994, so we have coveredmuch in our institutional odyssey. It has been fun to create and sustain a column that has attractedso many d ifferent concepts andauthors. In the process, we have learned a lot about how institutions emerge andevolve. We also have enjoyedsharing with you our ed itorial observations.

The Politics of Partnership in Tropical Public Health: Researching Tuberculosis Control in India

In today’s globalizing world the nature of relationships between the North and South is changing to account for the closing gap in capacity to carry out research of international standard. The development of a lexicon sophisticated enough to address adequately these changing relationships, however, lags behind and is not supported by the current recourse to the jargon of ‘partnership’. In this paper we explore the difficulties of negotiating a productive path through the dynamics of power and control that characterize international research collaborations. We call attention to this issue through recounting the story of the development of two quite different, but related, international research relationships in which we have been involved. We suggest that there is an important difference between those aspects of the relationship that respond to institutional needs and agendas and those aspects that relate more directly to the human relationships upon which the work in the field actually depends. We set out this difference in a tentative framework, where the relationship between researchers is labelled ‘partnership’ and the institutional relationship ‘collaboration’. It is hoped that, by its inclusion in a journal on social policy, this paper may also stimulate discussion on the extent to which these issues are particular to international relationships or are, indeed, generalizable to national‐level partnerships and collaborations within the UK and Europe.

The Politics of Partnership? Innovation in Employment Relations in the Scottish Spirits Industry

Perspectives that emphasize links between workplace innovation and broader HR policies, particularly of a ‘mutual gains’ nature, have become increasingly influential. This paper analyses the links and tensions between workplace change and industrial relations systems in the context of attempts to create a shop‐floor politics of partnership during a period of corporate restructuring in two spirits companies. We argue that interface tensions between the employment relationship, the labour process and organizational governance are inextricably linked to the outcomes of partnership initiatives. While there are positive outcomes to more integrated approaches to partnership, a range of industrial relations issues, notably the ambivalent position of shop‐stewards, remains problematic.

The Politics of Partnership

In the production of a dominant ideology for local economic policy, concepts of partnership currently play a key role. However, conceptualizations of partnership which inform the policy process are often weakened by a failure to recognize the unequal power relations between social partners, as well as by implicit assumptions of the existence of a range of partners available to be drawn into the local development process. This article explores current dominant notions of partnership and forms of economic governance and the role of international organizations in promoting particular ideologies of partnership. Through analysis of recent experiences in Portugal, this article examines how in practice the development of partnerships has been heavily constrained by the underdeveloped nature of local social partners, plus the unequal power relations between local and central state organizations and other locally based institutions. It is argued that policies promoting partnership must recognize these inequalities between partners and show awareness of the need to build up local institutional capacities for promoting economic development. Such policies are required in order to construct a politics of partnership embedded in democratic and participative processes of local development and to avoid the domination of the local development process by restricted local and national interests.

Unravelling the Process of 'Partnership' in Urban Regeneration Policy

In the UK, there is a political consensus that a multi-sectoral partnership approach is essential to achieve urban regeneration. As a term, however, 'partnership' is overused, ambiguous and politicised. The Conservative government has inscribed 'partnership' with a complex political agenda. It is not clear whether the politics of partnership are still dominated by a Thatcherite agenda of privatising and centralising urban policy or whether a new, more democratic era has been entered. The paper explores how the stakeholders in the central government-led Scottish Urban Partnerships conceive of the nature of their interrelationships within this political context. It also presents a conceptualisation of partnership processes which extends and refines the framework put forward by Mackintosh (1992). The paper concludes that the Urban Partnerships are essentially limited applications of the potential of the partnership approach.

Canada and the United States: The Politics of Partnership.

Good fences make good neighbours, it is said. Has the 49th parallel been a good fence? Historian Robert Bothwell, with characteristic wit and insight, explores the natures of Canada's relations over the past two hundred years with its closest naighbour.The United States has always played a huge part in Canadian life; aside from proximity, the similarities in economic structures and political instituions reinforce the importance of the relationship. But as Bothwell points out, other forces have significantly shaped Canada-US affairs; most notable are Canadian concerns with national and cultural identity. Ultimately, he argues, the key factor in the evolving relationship between the two countries has been the Canadian struggle to accommodate nationalist movements while maintaining a sense of community with its neighbour.

Canada and the United States: The Politics of Partnership.

Journal Article Canada and the United States: The Politics of Partnership. By Robert Bothwell. (New York: Twayne, 1992. xii + 190 pp. Cloth, $27.95, ISBN 0-8057-7914-0. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8057-9213-9.) Get access John C. Kendall John C. Kendall California State University, Fresno, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Page 258, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079747 Published: 01 June 1993

Canada and the United States: the politics of partnership

Canada and the United States: the politics of partnership

The Politics of Partnership

In 1971 Chief Judge David Bazelon of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia marked the arrival of new era in the long and fruitful of administrative agencies and reviewing by ordering recalcitrant administrators to initiate proceedings to ban the pesticide DDT.' A dissenting judge grumbled that the court was undertaking to manage the Department of Agriculture.2 D.C. Circuit soon had many bureaucrats grumbling as well. All the court's talk about and collaboration could not hide the fact that this court and many others were overruling agency decisions at an accelerating rate, were criticizing administrators for acting arbitrarily, parochially, and sloppily, and were demanding compliance with complex new rule-making procedures. With partners like this, who needs enemies? Yet over a decade later it clear that judicial rhetoric about a court-agency partnership more than just a clever disguise for judicial usurpation of administrative authority. While a few agencies-most notably the Federal Communications Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission-continued to fight with the courts for years, most adapted to the courts' requirements and have even applauded their efforts. The effect of such detailed factual review by the courts on the portion of the agency subject to it, wrote one Environmental Protection Agency attorney after careful investigation, is entirely beneficial.3 Similar sentiments are frequently expressed by lawyers in other agencies as well.4