Department of Government and International Relations
The University of Sydney
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Dr Betsi Beem

 

BA: FIU; MA, PhD University of Washington

 
  Phone 9351 6599
  FAX 9351 3624
  Location Room 296, H04 Merewether Building

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Dr. Beem’s interests include the intersection science and international and domestic policy and politics. She examines the ways in which science, or other forms of expert knowledge, gain authority in political decision making, while also attending to agenda setting dynamics. The interaction of issue frames, decision venues, and advocacy groups that transcends national borders in environmental policy making is of particular interest.

Dr. Beem’s research focuses on marine policy areas and she has done extensive work on the roles of science and policy learning in the development of fisheries policies for the management of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. Her current research projects include evaluating the dynamics of change that led to the re-zoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park; examining implementation of the World Heritage Convention in advanced democracies and how policy instruments create new domestic political institutions that may provide opportunities or constraints to national and international advocacy groups; and a comparison of marine protection policies in the US and Australia.

She teaches Policy Analysis, International Public Management, International Organizations, and US Politics.

Research Interests

 
  • International relations
  • Policy and Administration

Publications

 

2008

Publication/s

Beem B, Thompson D, Treleaven L, Kamvounias P, and Hill E 2007 ‘Integrating graduate attributes with assessment criteria in Business Education using an online assessment system’ Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 5(1)

Conference Paper/s

Beem B 2008 “Bureaucratic Expertise, International Advocacy, and Policy entrepreneurs: Re-Zoning the Great Barrier Reef” The Coastal Society's 21st Biennial Conference. Redondo Beach, CA. June 29 - July 2, 2008.

Beem B 2008 “Bureaucratic autonomy, international networks, and issue framing: Re-Zoning the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park” 2008 Australasian Political Science Association Annual Conference. Brisbane, Qld. July 6-9, 2008.

Beem B and Mikler J 2008 “Regulating the Digital Commons: US and UK Approaches to On‐Line Gambling” Presented at the 49th Annual Research Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco. March 26-29.

2007

Publication/s

Beem B 2007 “Co-Management from the Top?: The Roles of Policy Entrepreneurs and Distributive Conflict in Developing Co-Management Arrangements” Marine Policy 31(4)

Conference Paper/s

Beem B 2007 “Leaders in thinking, laggards in attention?: Rezoning the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.” Presented at the Annual Research Meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington DC, November 8-10.

Beem B2007 “Framing science: the roles of consensus, capacity and cognition in re-zoning the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park” Coastal Zone 2007, Portland, Oregon. July 22 to 26, 2007.

Journal Article/s

Beem B 2007 'Co-Management from the Top?: The roles of policy entrepreneurs and distributive conflict in developing co-management arrangements', Marine Policy, vol.31:4, pp. 540-49.

Beem B 2007 forthcoming 'Institutions, Evidence and Persuasion in Chesapeake Bay', Global Environment Politics.

2006

Journal Article/s

Beem B 2006 'Mutating Science: the Politics of Biotechnology', Australian Review of Public Affairs, vol.7:2.

Beem B 2006 'Planning to Learn: Blue Crab Policymaking in the Chesapeake Bay', Coastal Management, vol.34:2.

Conference Paper/s

Beem B 2006 'Counting Crabs: Institutions, Evidence and Persuasion in the Chesapeake Bay Charting a New Course:Shaping Solutions for the Coasts',Twentieth International Conference of the Coastal Society, St Petersburg, Florida.

Beem B 2006 'Top Down Co-Management',International Association for the Study of Common Property Biennial Conference, Ubud, Indonesia.

2005

Journal Article/s

May P, Jones B, Beem B, Neff-Sharum E and Pogue M 2005 'Policy Coherence and Component-Driven Policymaking: Arctic Policy in Canada and the United States', Policy Studies Journal, vol.33:1, pp. 37-63.

May P, Jones B, Beem B, Neff-Sharum E and Pogue M 2005 'Regional Policy Agglomeration: Arctic Policy in Canada and the United States', Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, vol.7:2, pp. 121-136.

Conference Paper/s

Beem B 2005 ' Getting to Co-Management: A Policy learning approach',Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

2004

Conference Proceeding/s

Beem B 2004 'Political Consequences of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Arctic Science Relating to Climate Change', Fifth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska,May 19-23, 2004.

Beem B 2004 'Institutions and Policy Learning for Blue Crab Fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay', American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois,September 2-5, 2004.

Beem B 2004 'Planning to Learn: Blue Crab Policymaking in the Chesapeake Bay', Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management,, Atlanta, Georgia,October 28-30, 2004.

2003

Conference Proceeding/s

Beem B 2003 'Fisheries Policy Learning: The Interplay of Information, Actors, and Venues', People and the Sea II, Amsterdam, Netherlands,September 4-6, 2003.

1997

Conference Paper/s

Beem B 1997 'Political Contestations of Shrimp Farming in Belize',Latin American Studies Conference Guadalajara, Mexico.