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Is Deliberation Neutral? Patterns of Attitude Change During “The Deliberative Polls™”

Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2010
Though deliberative theory has a bias toward rigorous argument and democratic social relations, it presumes that an ideal discursive process otherwise has a neutral stance with respect to particular ideologies and cultural values.
Chiara Bacci, John Gastil, Michael Dollinger   +2 more
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An inclusive and diverse governance structure of the strategy for patient-oriented research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance

FACETS, 2022
The Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance is a research initiative in Canada whose mission is to promote the synthesis, dissemination, and integration of research results into health care and public health decision-making and ...
Carole Lunny, Wasifa Zarin, Sabrina Chaudhry, Sonia M. Thomas, Annie LeBlanc, Sophie Desroches, Tanya Horsley, Heather Colquhoun, Priscille-Nice Sanon, Minnie Downey, Zahra Goodarzi, Nancy N. Baxter, Kelly English, Elliot PausJenssen, Shanon McQuitty, Linda Wilhelm, Annette McKinnon, Alison M. Hoens, Linda C. Li, Fiona Clement, Janet A. Curran, Ahmed M. Abou-Setta, Christina Godfrey, David Moher, Pertice Moffitt, Jennifer Walker, Janet Jull, Cheryl Koehn, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Sharon E. Straus, Andrea C. Tricco   +30 more
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The potential impact of reforms to the essential parameters of the council tax [PDF]

, 2006
Council Tax was introduced in Britain in 1993 and represents a unique international property tax. There is a growing belief that it is time to reform the number and structure of council tax bands but such views have a minimal empirical base. This paper
Beaumont M. S., Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, Council of Europe, Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions, Halifax Bank of Scotland, Halifax Bank of Scotland, Hills J., House of Commons Select Committee on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Jones C., Jones C., Kenway P., Loughlin J., McGreal S., Muellbauer J., National Assembly for Wales, New Policy Institute, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Plimmer F., Plimmer F., Plimmer F., Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Scottish Executive   +22 more
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Elected Mayors: Leading Locally? [PDF]

, 2014
The directly elected executive mayor was introduced to England a decade ago. Drawing inspiration from European and American experience, the elected mayor appealed to both New Labour and Conservative commentators in offering a solution to perceived ...
[DoE] Department of the Environment, [DoE] Department of the Environment, Bains Committee, Borraz O., Conservative Party, Copus C., Copus C., Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Fenwick J., Fenwick J., Foote-Wood C., Heseltine M., Howard Elcock, John Fenwick, Jones G.W., Leach S., Leach S., Marsh A., Maud Committee, Morgan D., Sims S., Todd N., Westcott M., Widdicombe Report   +24 more
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The Overseas Experience of Audit Committee and Audit Fees: Empirical Evidence from China

Complexity, 2021
The complexity of audit committee experience, including the overseas experience, has an important impact on corporate governance. In this paper, we study the impact of the overseas experiences of the members of audit committee on audit fees.
Chengai Li, Lin Pan, Meilan Chen
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Understanding European cross-border cooperation: a framework for analysis [PDF]

, 2012
European integration has had a dual impact on border regions. On the one hand, borders were physically dismantled across most of the EU’s internal territory.
Aron R., Bufon M., Caramelo S., Committee of the Regions, Halás M., Harguindéguy J.-B., Heddebaut O., Kramsch O., Langer J., Luis De Sousa, Pasi P., Reitel B., Rokkan S., Scott J.W., Sidaway J.D., van der Velde M.   +15 more
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A Quarter-Century Activity of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union

Barometr Regionalny, 2019
The Committee of the Regions was established on the basis of the Maastricht Treaty of 7 February 1992, and began operating in March 1994. It consists of representatives of regional and local authorities who have obtained electoral mandates from the ...
Anna Przyborowska-Klimczak
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Assessing the competitiveness of Kazakhstan regions: creating an index [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Today there is no single universally accepted method for assessing the competitiveness of the country’s regions. For this reason, the research created a methodology for assessing competitiveness at the regional level for Kazakhstan.
Zhidebekkyzy Aknur, Sagiyeva Rimma, Temerbulatova Zhansaya   +2 more
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The Committee of the Regions: A Springboard for the Citizens

Baltic Journal of European studies, 2013
This study focuses on the relation between the Committee of the Regions (CoR), an advisory institution of the European Union defined as the political assembly of holders of a regional or local electoral mandate serving the cause of European integration ...
Jiménez Javier Mendoza
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Regional reports for the subnational monitoring of measles elimination in Italy and the identification of local barriers to the attainment of the elimination goal [PDF]

, 2018
Although most countries in the WHO European Region were verified in 2017 as having interrupted endemic measles transmission, nine countries were still endemic. Among these, Italy accounted for the second highest number of measles cases reported in Europe
Adamo, Giovanna, Baccolini, Valentina, Bella, Antonino, De Soccio, Pasquale, Iannazzo, Stefania, Magurano, Fabio, Marzuillo, Carolina, Prencipe, Grazia Pia, Sturabotti, Giulia, Villari, Paolo   +9 more
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