The contemporary world
a. new norm emerges and a norm entrepreneur advocates it; b
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- 3. Policy Gaps
| a. new norm emerges and a norm entrepreneur advocates it;
b. enough actors agree on an emerging norm to create tipping point, or norm cascade; c. actors internalize the new norm so that it becomes taken for granted and norm conforming behavior becomes routine, requiring no further justification. The United Nations provides an organizational platform for advocacy in the first stage as well as the preferred forum for cascade in the second and for seeking affirmation, reaffirmation, and hopefully compliance in the third and final. As a Universal Organization, the United Nations serves as a forum for seeking normative consensus on how to deal with global problems in the best possible way. Within the United Nations universal norms and approaches are emerging for policies on environmental protection, avoidance of mass hysteria, combating terrorism and protection of human rights among many others. Actors play a vital role in establishing a universal norm. The civic society, non governmental organizations or com mitted citizens can be the main source in filling up normative gaps thus, the Third UN, who can affect change when they work with and through the two United Nations (First UN-member states; Second UN-secretariats).
Weiss and Thakur (2010) defined policy as an interlinked set of governing principles and goals and the agreed programs of action to implement those principles and achieve those goals. Download 0.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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