Translation, assemblage and beyond

Clarke, John Mason; Bainton, Dave; Lendvai, Noémi; Stubbs, Paul

doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447313366.003.0002

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“…This article presents a conceptualisation of policy translation as an inherently interminable multi-stage and multi-level process. This perspective expands upon previous claims identifying (1) the translation process as less linear, more multi-dimensional, polyvocal and messy than diffusion and policy transfer literatures admit (Kingfisher 2013) and (2) its outcomes as impossible to wholly prescribe from the starting point (Clarke et al , 2015: 16). We additionally demonstrate the fragility of translation's institutionalisation, which rests upon an ever-changing configuration of networks drawn from within and outside the bureaucracy.…”

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confidence: 61%

Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience: Lessons from Israel's Attempted Institutionalisation of Workfare

Helman

Maron

2018

J. Soc. Pol.

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The translation perspective explores the travel of policy ideas, programmes and practices across international boundaries, focusing on the process through which interpretative agents introduce and adjust borrowed policy items to a new policy context. Current research emphasises the significance of local networks’ support for translation's efficacy. However, we know little about how such networks are maintained and stabilized over time or how changing configurations and capacities may affect translation's prospects. This paper explores the case of Israel's attempted institutionalisation of workfare – an enduring international policy fashion – from 1998 to the present day. We follow the stabilization and destabilization of the local translation network across different levels and sites of policy design and implementation, analysing emerging conflicts and agreements at each site. We use the metaphor ‘episodes of translation’ to explore translation's value as a concept accounting for local policy change. In order for translation-led policy change to maintain legitimacy and actualisation in contested domains, ongoing engagement of existing and emerging policy actors is essential. This case demonstrates how when networks become destabilized, translation-led policy change may come to a halt.

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Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience: Lessons from Israel's Attempted Institutionalisation of Workfare

Helman

Maron

2018

J. Soc. Pol.

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“…Within a neo-liberal corporate bias operating on a transnational scale, 58 direct government regulation has been de-emphasized in favor of government setting regulatory goals and delegating the actual regulatory functions to industry. This may influence the nature of the relationships between various key players in pharmaceutical regulation and the regulatory pathways taken.…”

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Regulating Information or Allowing Deception? Pharmaceutical Sales Visits in Canada, France, and the United States

Habibi¹,

Guénette²,

Lexchin³

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J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Diverse legal and regulatory measures are used internationally to control the information provided during pharmaceutical sales visits. Little is known about the comparative effectiveness of these measures however. We analyzed the perceptions of regulators, pharmaceutical industry officials, health professionals, and consumer respondents concerning these approaches in Canada, France, and the United States using an empirical realist interests-based approach. Interviews focused on the aims and effectiveness of regulation, barriers and enablers to regulation and suggestions for improvement. An alignment was found in North America regulator and industry respondents' satisfaction with the status quo and their view that further intervention is unfeasible and unnecessary. Health professionals generally expressed a lack of confidence in the impact of regulations on sales visit information while consumer advocates voiced their disappointment in both regulators and health professionals for their failure to counteract the influence of pharmaceutical marketing. Regulator and industry respondents in France differed from their North American counterparts in their willingness to increase and diversify the scope of regulatory interventions. As the first international comparison of regulatory experiences in this sector, the findings highlight the universal need for more focused and inclusive discussions among groups about how to tailor regulations to achieve public health goals.

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“…Translation describes the spread and adaptation of ideas of organization that are ‘travelling’ the globe. It is not seen as a linear transfer of content, but as the creation of meaning dependent on actors in a new context (Clarke et al, 2015). In this article, the translation of an evaluation idea, in this case the evaluation approach ongoing evaluation, builds on four principles (c.f.…”

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Made in Sweden: The translation of a European evaluation approach

Nordesjö

2018

Evaluation

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To understand how evaluation approaches change between contexts, they need to be studied in relation to their social, cultural, organizational and political contexts. The aim of the article is to describe and analyse how the European Union evaluation approach, ongoing evaluation, was translated in Swedish public administration. A case study shows how institutional entrepreneurs promote their evaluation norms of participatory evaluation and attach evaluation to a less dominant governance logic in the Swedish evaluation field. This raises questions about the role of the evaluator, evaluation terminology, and the unclear and weak borders of the evaluation field where evaluation approaches can be launched and translated with relative ease.

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Translation, assemblage and beyond

Cited by 22 publications

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Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience: Lessons from Israel's Attempted Institutionalisation of Workfare

Episodes of Translation and Network Resilience: Lessons from Israel's Attempted Institutionalisation of Workfare

Regulating Information or Allowing Deception? Pharmaceutical Sales Visits in Canada, France, and the United States

Made in Sweden: The translation of a European evaluation approach

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