"Bad actors" are a problem, but the deeper problem is the context that gives "bad actors" power.
What we are witnessing now is the emergence of a new social contract, in which individuals give the state (and, frequently, other actors) power over information in exchange for security and the conveniences of living in the modern world.
Mr. Hiltermann said that Iraq was "not falling apart into two or three parts; the country risks total collapse, with local actors — power brokers and militia leaders and sheiks — running areas limited in size with totally shifting boundaries, and with Shia often at odds with other Shia and Sunni at odds with other Sunni".
Lack of a preventive disease management culture, limited recognition of interdependencies among activities of actors, power inequalities, and top-down and linear approaches in information and knowledge sharing are identified as key structural problems that are underrated by the actors.
We examine the performance of water user associations (WUAs) and the role of actors, power relations, socio-institutional dynamics, and context in supplying water to poor urban and peri-urban neighborhoods of Malawi's two major cities.
The PAA starts from the assumption that policies and polity, such as the ones guiding the energy sector, can be described as a policy subsystem in which specific patterns of behaviours of actors, power relations and divisions of resources as well as rules of the game and discourses are - throughout the years - institutionalized into a specific arrangement.
However, the fact remains that it is, and always remains, in the actors' power to choose what they will or will not do at every performance.
Equally important is the appreciation of the various forms of actors' power and how such power shapes the policy agenda, development process, and content.
These would have added value to and provided more insights into the making of inferences of some of the actors' power, commitment, position, and other variables.
The aim of this study was to explore how actors' power as well as contextual factors shaped the MC policy development process in Uganda.
Health policy analysis, especially the analysis of actors' power and process is important in understanding why a policy succeeds or fails [ 1].
