And do the reasons why have connections to policy decisions that the Administration might make, regarding, for example, immigration?
And they have way deeper, longer-standing connections to policy makers".
Some networks produced reports on stakeholder analysis (e.g. AIRNET, NoMiracle, INTARESE) but all projects had difficulties in establishing stable connections to policy makers.
Collectively we have connections to policy and practice in the health sector at the three levels of the Australian government (federal, state and local), and in the planning sector at state and local government level.
Researchers of the two projects with high capacity building impact, Tai Chi and Mental Health First Aid, consistently stated that projects helped them to build their own research capacity and partnership networks, enabling them to build enduring connections to policy and practitioner networks from which a body of research emerged.
These include, for instance, the system's connection to climate policy targets, the role of other support schemes and the definition of what green electricity technologies should be included.
Previous models of stigma however have had little connection to disability policy or clinical practice [ 2].
Major new legislation is relatively rare (compared with regulations) and develops from a combination of awareness of a problem and connection to a policy solution.
But the book's other essays -- on performance in late-19th-century Central Europe as a political statement, on Mahler's Jewishness, on gender issues and Ms. Painter's own discussion of the mass public gestures in Mahler's big works (especially the "Symphony of a Thousand") and their connection to socialist cultural policy -- are all worth reading.
Traditional leadership--the ability to sell a vision with some connection to political and policy realities--might make the difference, but is missing from the dominant contenders.
