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Implications for democracy of a networked bureaucratic world [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Dwight Waldo wrote nearly fifty years ago that democracy is very much more than the political context in which public administration is carried out. Public administration is now less hierarchical and insular and is increasingly networked.
O'Toole Jr, Laurence J.
core   +2 more sources

Hostile chambers, fragile coalitions: civility and renewable energy politics in the United States

open access: yesAcademia Green Energy
State legislatures play a pivotal role in shaping renewable energy and conservation policy in the United States, though effectiveness varies widely.
Brent S. Steel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rehearsing civility: Bridgebuilding in polarized America [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo
Over the last decade, ever-increasing polarization has exacerbated political divisions threatening both the civil sphere and democracy itself.
Campbell Emily B.
doaj   +1 more source

Acquiring Universal Values through a Particular Tradition: A Perspective on Judaism and Modern Pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Religious traditions can be sources of values and attitudes supporting the liberal polity in ways that political theorizing and conceptions of public reason often fail to recognize.
Jonathan, Jacobs
core   +1 more source

Liminal Civility and Its Discontents: The Unstable Relationship between Forms and Substance in Contemporary Accounts of Civility

open access: yesRedescriptions
Civility is a remarkably contested concept, and the contemporary theoretical accounts of civility as both a moral and political notion are widely divergent.
Andreas Beyer Gregersen
doaj   +1 more source

Passions and Society: Do we need a new Galateo?

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2020
In this paper I will try to define a possible way to respond to the increase of violent passions and violent reactions in our societies. It might well work in everyday life, but perhaps mostly at a political level.
Mirella Pasini
doaj   +1 more source

Practicing Civility in the Legal Writing Course: Helping Law Students Learn Professionalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This Article suggests some concrete ways to teach civility— one component of professionalism—to law students. Professionalism certainly includes much more than civility, incorporating the concepts of ethics, morals, public service, life-long learning ...
Sparrow, Sophie M.
core   +1 more source

Understanding bio‐based polymers: A study of origins, properties, biodegradation and their impact on health and the environment

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This review provides an overview of bio‐based polymer sources, their unique functional properties and their environmental impact, and addresses their role as sustainable alternatives. It discusses end‐of‐life options, including composting and anaerobic digestion for renewable energy.
Sabina Kolbl Repinc   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
A critique of recent discussions of the "virtue" of "civility.
Schmidt, James
core   +1 more source

Differential Item Functioning on the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 by Disease Subtype, Language, Sex, and Age Among People With Systemic Sclerosis: A Scleroderma Patient‐Centered Intervention Network Cohort Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Somatic items used in depression assessments can potentially overlap with symptoms related to physical illness, including systemic sclerosis (SSc). No studies have looked at whether somatic depression items may be influenced by diffuse versus limited SSc disease subtypes, which are associated with varying degrees of symptom presentation.
Sophie Hu   +110 more
wiley   +1 more source

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