ABSTRACT China's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice.
Linjun Xie, Mengqi Shao, Gaohan Deng
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Heat stress and social dialogue in Spain. [PDF]
Salas-Nicás S, Laabbas-El-Guennouni M.
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Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance
ABSTRACT Why do formally similar polycentric governance arrangements differ in their governance performance, and how do institutional configurations of enabling conditions account for these differences? [Correction added on 07 July 2026, after first online publication: The preceding sentence has been updated.] This article examines variation in ...
Kirsten Hegsvold
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Market strategies used by private hospital providers to consolidate and increase power; a systematic scoping review and evaluative synthesis. [PDF]
Shore T +4 more
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Steering Industrial Decarbonisation: Explaining OECD Policy Variation
ABSTRACT The ongoing rise in CO2 emissions driven by energy‐intensive industries highlights the urgent need for targeted policy interventions, with national strategies playing a crucial role in the low‐carbon transition. However, the factors that shape the ambition of industrial decarbonisation policies remain poorly understood.
Ebba Minas
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Safeguarding the right to collective bargaining in the face of precarious self-employment - Gaps in Protection in Austria and Germany and obligations under European law. [PDF]
Pupeter F, Lukas K, Bertazolli C.
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ABSTRACT In this article, we explore how stakeholders navigate potential collaborative partnerships in complex social‐ecological systems. Building from literature on social‐ecological fit, collaborative governance, and resource dependence, we evaluate the degree to which (1) collaborative gaps (i.e., instances where stakeholders manage the same issue(s)
Harrison Fried +2 more
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Empowering women entrepreneurs: The impact of integrated medical insurance system in China. [PDF]
Liu L, Zong X.
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
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Protecting working people from heat stress: from numerical simulations and physiology to collective bargaining and legislation. [PDF]
Salas S, D Flouris A, Tokizawa K.
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