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Crisis of the social and emergence of sociality in the new scenarios of identity. The San Francisco district of Bilbao

Papeles del CEIC: International Journal on Collective Identity Research, 2008
The San Francisco district in Bilbao (Spain) is undergoing a deep process of urban transformation in which there is a convergence of different dynamics —economic (property speculation), social (appearance of associations and social movements) and ...
Beatriz Cavia, Gabriel Gatti, Iñaki Martínez de Albéniz, Andrés G. Seguel   +3 more
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Rethinking Reproductive Governance: What Can Public Administration on the Island of Ireland Learn From Abortion Accompaniment?

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The recent decriminalization of abortion marked a crucial step toward improved reproductive care on the island of Ireland. However, this has not translated into fully accessible abortion provision—barriers, including inaccessible services, persist, leaving gaps that public administration has not formally addressed. In response, informal actors,
Anna Theresa Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source

The Moral Limits of Market-Based Mechanisms: An Application to the International Maritime Sector. [PDF]

J Bus Ethics, 2022
Monios J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Strategic Use of Ad Hoc Commissions for Blame Avoidance: Evidence From Chile

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ad hoc commissions are well known in policymaking, yet their strategic deployment during crises remains less understood. This study examines how governments rely on expert commissions to manage blame and political risk in response to critical events.
Carla Cisternas
wiley   +1 more source

Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the “quiet” politics of the pre‐2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become “noisy”. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them?
Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft
wiley   +1 more source

Due Diligence Legislation and the Politics of Implementation: The Case of the German Supply Chain Law

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the implementation of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence regulations as a politically formative process. Integrating insights from global value chain (GVC) research with the assumptions of legal struggles and legal endogeneity, the article analyses how administrative practice shapes the meaning and ...
Christian Scheper
wiley   +1 more source

The Depoliticisation and 'ASEANisation' of Counter-Terrorism Policies in South-East Asia: A Weak Trigger for a Fragmented Version of Human Security

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2010
This article applies a modified version of the theoretical approach of the Copenhagen School to demonstrate that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has since 2001 reacted in a twofold way to the complex political obstacles to closer ...
Alfred Gerstl
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Improving the politics of biotechnological innovations in food security and other sustainable development goals. [PDF]

Transgenic Res, 2021
Raybould A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Privatisation versus Competition: Changing Enterprise Behavior in Russia [PDF]

We investigate whether competitive forces and privatization have yet begun to play an efficiency-enhancing role in Russia. We also explore the economic effects of harder bidget constraints on enterprise behaviour.
J Earle, S Estrin
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