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European CountrysidePublic elementary schools in rural municipalities represent key institutional amenities for the communities they serve, and their administrations are part of the broader municipal political structure.
Kučerová Silvie R. +3 more
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Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
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The Erosion of Constitutionalism via Constitutional Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Slovakia
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2023 Slovak general election resulted in an illiberal coalition keen to transform the political regime following its Hungarian neighbour's post‐2010 example. Using the Slovak case, this article shows the key role of political party leaders’ constitutional entrepreneurship in the erosion of constitutionalism. Constitutional entrepreneurship
Darina Malová, Max Steuer
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Who gets a mammogram amongst European women aged 50-69 years and why are there such large differences across European countries? [PDF]
On the basis of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement (SHARE), we analyse the determinants of who engages in mammography screening focusing on European women aged 50-69 years.
Wübker, Ansgar
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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore +2 more
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Climate Negotiations Under Scrutiny: Are UNFCCC COPs Up To the Challenge?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) plays a crucial role in global efforts to tackle the climate crisis. At annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs) and intersessional meetings, the international community gathers to advance climate policy and action.
Franziska Petri, Jan Karlas
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.We used pattern recognition software to correct misidentifications in a 15‐year photographic database of the last, vulnerable West African giraffe population in Niger. After revealing substantial methodological errors that had inflated population estimates by nearly 19%, we corrected individual encounter histories and applied capture‐mark‐recapture ...
Mara Vukelić +8 more
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.We assess the effect of sanitation felling performed in 2022 in North‐Eastern Italy on bark beetle damage that occurred in 2023 across eight spruce forest types, as evaluated using multispectral satellite imagery. Bark beetle damage was reduced only at very high or very low sanitation felling rates.
Aurora Bozzini +5 more
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Small towns as centres of rural micro-regions
European Countryside, 2009 Vaishar Antonín, Zapletalová Jana
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