More Specialization, More Coordination? Evidence From Local Public Service Delivery in Norway
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governments specialize their work by dividing tasks among organizational units. Because specialization creates a demand for coordination among tasks that are interdependent, governments are also expected to provide more coordination when specialization is higher.
Leif. E. Kårtvedt
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Accountability in the Delivery of Guaranteed Employment Through MGNREGA in Rural India
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use the uneven rollout of accountability measures to identify their impact on the provision of guaranteed employment in rural Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. A public information campaign combined with an NGO‐supported grievance mechanism resulted in treated households working over 10 additional days per year in the program. We find no
Tara Bedi, Lukas Kuld
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Impact of body mass index on aortic valve stenosis and its clinical outcomes in early adulthood: a long-term study of young men. [PDF]
Sci RepLindgren M +9 more
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Cognitive ability following exposure to parental mental disorders and other childhood adversities: a population-based cohort study of Danish males in late adolescence. [PDF]
Eur J PediatrPetersen TG +6 more
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Effects of military base closures on young adults
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how young adults respond to local labor market disruptions caused by military base closures in Sweden between 1998 and 2005. The results show substantial differences in responses between men and women, reflecting the sharp gender imbalance in military roles.
David Sandberg
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Cognitive Testing Practices for Basic Military Training in the Nordic Countries: A Scoping Review
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Nordic countries have a long tradition of using general mental ability (GMA) tests as part of their military conscription process, a practice that began in the mid‐20th century. These Nordic tests were developed with a dual purpose—to filter out individuals unfit for military service and to rank individuals' GMA for military roles—and they
Emelie Wahlkrantz, Jeanette Melin
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Subjective Memory Impairment in the General Adult Population: Associations With Early-Life Cognition, Concurrent Objective Memory, Dementia Risk Factors. [PDF]
Eur J NeurolHolmvik S +5 more
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Adorno's empiricism?: On intellectual and metaphysical experience
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Adorno's work contains pregnant references to the concepts of both “intellectual” and “metaphysical” experience. While the concept of metaphysical experience figures relatively prominently in the Adorno literature, intellectual experience has been largely neglected—indeed to the point that certain scholars have asserted that the two concepts ...
Tom Whyman
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