1st Edition
National Policy-Making Domestication of Global Trends
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction by Pertti Alasuutari and Ali Qadir Part I: Cross-national Comparisons 2. Interdependent Decision-Making in Practice: Justification of New Legislation in Six Countries by Pertti Alasuutari 3. Unholy Alliances: Competitiveness as a Domestic Power Strategy by Anu Kantola 4. The Sociogenesis of the Nation-State in European Social Policy by Stefan Bernhard 5. Global Trends in European Regional Development: The EU Cohesion Policy and the Case of Region-Building in Poland by Sebatian M. Büttner 6. The Role of PISA Publicity in Forming National Education Policy: The Case of the Finnish Curriculum Reform by Marjaana Rautalin Part II: Domestic Field Battles and Naturalization 7. Local Politics of Global Models’ Domestication: The Struggle over Central Bank Independence in Israel by Daniel Maman and Zeev Rosenhek 8. Global "Diffusion", Banal Nationalism, and the Politics of Policy Legitimation: A Genealogical Study of "Zest for Living" in Japanese Education Policy Discourse by Keita Takayama 9. Culture and History in the Domestication of Global Trends of Higher Education in Pakistan by Ali Qadir 10. Converging the National with Stakeholder Interests: Establishing a national Bioethics Committee in Finland by Jukka Syväterä and Pertti Alasuutari 11. Cleansing our Hands of the "Dirty War": The Colombian Domestication of Human Rights by Selina Gallo-Cruz
Biography
Pertti Alasuutari is Academy Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland.
Ali Qadir is a researcher in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland.
