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Analysis of Corruption Prevention Forms and Policies in Goods and Services Procurement: E-Procurement as a Solution

open access: yesIndonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Sharia Economics
Procurement of Goods and Services (PBJ) is a crucial component of governance that supports transparency, sustainable development, and poverty alleviation.
Deta Helisa Nova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Two Edge Knife of Decentralization

open access: yesJSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 2011
A centralistic government model has become a trend in a number of developing countries, in which the ideosycretic aspect becomes pivotal key in the policy making. The situation constitutes authoritarianism, cronyism, and corruption. To break the impasse,
Ahmad Khoirul Umam
doaj   +1 more source

Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 108-122, March 2026.
Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the events of late 2020, when a vote of no confidence against the Marape government was mooted but eventually failed to materialise, it adopts a practice theory ...
Kerryn Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Crisi del clientelismo di partito e piccole rappresentanze territoriali

open access: yesQuaderni di Sociologia, 2018
Due to the crisis in the traditional party model, political compositions have drastically reduced their organizational structures and their social rooting on a local level.
Luciano Brancaccio
doaj   +1 more source

ronies, Rents, and Import Licenses: Non-tariff Trade Controls throughout Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) in Mexico

open access: yesRevista Tiempo & Economía, 2020
This paper fills a gap in the literature about Import-substituting Industrialization (ISI) by analyzing non-tariff trade controls, mainly import licenses, with a focus on Mexico, a case that has not been studied in detail.
Alejandro Castañeda
doaj   +1 more source

Haunted Care: Engaging Health Hauntology to Understand Health Citizenship in Evolving Welfare States

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper applies a hauntological framework to explore how health citizenship in the UK is shaped by the spectral presence of neoliberal policies, particularly through increased use of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Anna Horton
wiley   +1 more source

The contradiction of entrepreneurship through affirmative action

open access: yesThe Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2009
Malaysia’s affirmative action, introduced as the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1971 to redress Malay economic setbacks, failed in its objective of acquiring for the Malay public companies the 30 percent equity of Malaysian public companies by 1991.
Anthony Shome
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating Neoliberal Pressures and Patriarchal Legacies: The Lasting Impact of Feudal–Patriarchal Work Relations in Polish Artistic Universities

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 379-398, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the persistence and transformation of patriarchal–feudal structures in Polish art universities in the context of post‐1989 higher education (HE) reforms. Drawing on 22 in‐depth interviews with socially engaged academic staff (18 women and four men) across 11 Polish artistic institutions, the study explores how ...
Marta Kosińska, Karolina Sikorska
wiley   +1 more source

DISCRIMINATING ALTRUISMS

open access: yesZygon, 1982
Reliable Darwinian theory shows that pure altruism cannot persist and expand over time. All higher organisms show inheritable patterns of caring and discrimination.
doaj   +2 more sources

Social development in Costa Rica. The social gap; a matter of economic, political and social definition

open access: yesRevista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2017
To simultaneously achieve development and equity results from human beings’ generation of capabilities on equal terms; you cannot speak of social development when few receive the utility of the joint effort of many.
Fernando Montero Cordero
doaj   +1 more source

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