World Political Science

ISSN: 2363-4782

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Volume 15 Issue 2

October 2019

Publicly Available December 6, 2019

Research Articles

December 6, 2019

A Danish Poverty Line? Poverty Judgements by Students of Social Work, Pedagogy and Health Services

Merete Monrad, Morten Ejrnæs, Tine Fuglsang

Page range: 127-147

Abstract

When is a family poor? We examine what factors are emphasized when people judge whether a family is poor or not. The article is based on a factorial survey with 356 respondents who study social work, nursing, nursery teaching, nutrition and health. Based on theories of poverty, we study what aspects of a family’s life situation are accentuated when people judge whether the family is poor or not. The respondents primarily emphasize income in their poverty judgements. Some deprivations also enter into the judgements, while the duration of deprivations, gender and labor market participation have no or minimal significance for the judgements.

October 11, 2019

The National Strategy for Inner Areas: Innovation, Policy Transfer and Post-Earthquake Reconstruction

Brunetta Baldi

Page range: 149-176

Abstract

This article analyses the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (NSIA) as a new policy for local development only partially linked to the European cohesion policy. It focuses on its innovative contents (vision, governance and methodology), and mainly on the transfer of innovation to lower levels of government and between local administrations. As an empirical study of policy transfer and policy innovation in a system of multilevel governance it shows an unexpected transfer of the NSIA methodology to another policy field: that of post-earthquake reconstruction in Central Italy. The article concludes by applying the typology of policy transfer developed in its first part to the analysis of the case-study as a whole.

October 30, 2019

“Listen, Marxist!”: On the Forgotten Past of Self-Management and the Contemporary Orgasms of History

Žiga Vodovnik

Page range: 177-194

Abstract

In this article, we argue that self-management should not be understood only as an economic project, but rather as a political form based on the transformation of the core principles of modern capitalist societies. We start from the supposition that self-management does not imply an economic, but primarily a political recomposition of society, which is why it is necessary to draw attention to the economic reductionism in the discussions on self-management. The purpose of this article is three-fold: first, we recover the original meaning of self-management, its forgotten, anarchist (pre)history, and elaborate on the anarchist theory of organisation that has dynamised the idea/practice of self-management throughout history. Second, we analyse Yugoslav self-management through the categories and concepts of Praxis philosophy, which leads us to the conclusion that the Yugoslav model of self-management was above all a non-political form that remained in the framework of liberal democratic theory. Finally, we explore the global mass assembly movement Occupy, building on the recent academic attention devoted to the notion of non-state spaces. We analyse the encampments and occupied squares as self-managed exilic spaces in which protesters (in)voluntarily escaped from both state regulation and capitalist accumulation.

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Online ISSN: 2363-4782
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: May 20, 2015
Last published: October 1, 2019
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year

SCImago Journal Rank	0.275
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.617

World Political Science

Frontmatter

A Danish Poverty Line? Poverty Judgements by Students of Social Work, Pedagogy and Health Services

Abstract

The National Strategy for Inner Areas: Innovation, Policy Transfer and Post-Earthquake Reconstruction

Abstract

“Listen, Marxist!”: On the Forgotten Past of Self-Management and the Contemporary Orgasms of History

Abstract