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Women's Economic Empowerment: Key Issues and Policy Options [PDF]
, 2009 The central argument of the paper is organised around the limits to markets as a means of overcoming ?durable inequalities' which reflect long-established power relations and the need for public action by states and civil society to address these ...
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Locking Out the Mother Corp: Nationalism and Popular Imaginings of Public Service Broadcasting in the Print News Media [PDF]
, 2007 Early promoters of public-service broadcasting (PSB) in Canada emphasized its democratic and nationalist merit. Of these twin pillars, only nationalism appears to still be standing.
Ferguson, Sue
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Swiss Political Science Review, 2014 AbstractThe aim of this paper is thus to further explore the relationship between involvement in voluntary associations at the community level and specific forms of political participation. We pose the following questions. Do voluntary associations contribute to specific forms of individual political participation in a consociational context?
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Herein, we propose a solar‐powered heavy metal trap (SPHT) for sludge disposal. The indoor experiments demonstrated that the sludge water content decreased from 90 % to 31 %, coupled with a decrease in heavy metal content to 6 % at most. Furthermore, the designed SPHT generated an initial potential of 0.10 V, and monitoring this hydrovoltaic potential ...
Yanlin Li +7 more
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Nicaraguan civil society caught in the pendulum's swing? Shifting roles from service delivery to lobbying and back [PDF]
Until the end of the 1990s, Nicaragua was marked with social conflict and internal political struggles. From 2000 until 2006 Nicaragua experienced a relatively democratic period, in which the country drafted Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) with
Cepinskas, Linus +2 more
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Mozambican Civil Society Within: Evaluation, Challenges, Opportunities and Action [PDF]
, 2007 The aim of this ambitious venture is to evaluate the main dimensions of civil society's exercise of citizenship: a) its organisational Structure, covering its free and voluntary involvement, participation and contribution to society; b) the socio ...
Albertina Mucavele +3 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A mechanically adaptive polyimide interface dynamically stabilizes single‐crystal cathodes in sulfide all‐solid‐state batteries. By integrating robust chemical coordination with viscoelastic compliance, this smart coating suppresses parasitic reactions and accommodates cyclic volume expansion.
Jiatao Wu +8 more
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2015 Participation of unincorporated associations in court and administrative proceedings is a tool of public participation which is a part of basic principles of performance of a democratic country and a civil society. By means of abiding by those principles
Piotr Korzeniowski
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DETERMINANTS OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN ORADEA [PDF]
The present paper is part of the research of the PhD thesis made by the author, having the title: Community Participation in Oradea, registered at the University of Oradea - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences.
SAVEANU TOMINA GABRIELA
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, 2001 Part I of this Commentary examines the conversational model of politics. I argue that the virtues Bennett finds in the conversational model exist only when, and to the extent that, participants in civil and political society can engage in undominated ...
Tushnet, Mark V.
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