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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2006 The present study has as its aim to describe the daily work of a psychosocial care center and to aprehend how the users cared by such service experience the offered therapeutic process. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with eleven users of the
Sandra Regina Rosolen Soares +1 more
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Societies, 2023 The right to live in the community is fundamental and is directly related to the possibility of independent living for persons with disabilities, a central principle of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ratified by ...
Ina Dimitrova, Galina Goncharova
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Deinstitutionalization – quo vadis Austria? [PDF]
While some countries are already in the phase of post-deinstitutionalization, Austria is still on its way out of traditional institutional forms of housing.
Wegscheider, Angela, Schaur, Melanie
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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Environmental Deinstitutionalization in Russia
, 2009 Since the early 1990s a steadily growing social science literature has emerged on environmental reform. One of the core claims of the environmental reform school-of-thought is that environmental considerations and interests become institutionalized in ...
Mol, A.P.J., Arthur P.J. Mol
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Young People’s Perceptions of Preparedness for Leaving Care: A Mixed Methods Study
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An increasing number of young adults in Ghana begin adulthood from residential care. Many face challenges after leaving care, partly because they are unprepared for independent adult life. This study examines the level of preparedness and the factors influencing it among young people in residential care in Ghana.
Kwabena Frimpong‐Manso, Yvonne Norman
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the paradox of seeking local solutions in rural development when conflicts result from structural transformations of the agrarian economy driven by national political choices. Since the 1990s, participatory approaches inspired by neo‐institutionalist theories of local governance have encouraged development actors to view ...
Toni‐Giovanni Pegurri
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Decarcerating disability ::deinstitutionalization and prison abolition /
, 2021 "Politics of (En)closure: Deinstitutionalization, Disability, and Prison Abolition argues that a complex understanding of disability is fundamental to an understanding of decarceration.
Ben-Moshe, Liat,
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Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria, 2007 OBJETIVO: Realizar uma revisão de estudos sobre programa de tratamento assertivo na comunidade (PACT) e case management para verificar se os resultados demonstram desfechos mais favoráveis quando tais modelos são implementados na rede comunitária de ...
Louise de França Machado +3 more
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