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Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting: The Link Between Network Structure and Contract Design in Interlocal Collaboration Agreements

open access: yesPublic Administration, Volume 103, Issue 4, Page 1080-1096, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Local governments increasingly rely on contractual relationships with third parties for public service delivery, blending formal agreements with relational mechanisms to reduce risks and uncertainties. While most research on these contracts has focused on relationships between two parties, this work adopts a network perspective to analyze how ...
Raúl Gutiérrez‐Meave   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Future of AI in the GCC Post‐NPM Landscape: A Comparative Analysis of Kuwait and the UAE

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 6, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Comparative evidence of how two Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states translate artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions into post–New Public Management (post‐NPM) outcomes are scarce because most studies focus on Western democracies. To fill this gap, we examine constitutional, collective choice, and operational rules that shape AI uptake in ...
Mohammad Rashed Albous   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Above‐ground competition by Nephrolepis brownii inhibits tree seedling recruitment in a tropical restoration experiment

open access: yesJournal of Applied Ecology, Volume 62, Issue 8, Page 1968-1979, August 2025.
As Nephrolepis brownii primarily interferes through above‐ground competition, management of above‐ground tissues may mitigate its impact. However, additional research on the efficacy of this management strategy and potential allelopathic traits is needed.
Luis C. Beltrán   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutions, in time: Designing feedback pathways for shared infrastructure transitions

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 654-680, August 2025.
Abstract Electric utilities, challenged by a rapidly unfolding energy transition, use many informal institutions to bridge across technologies and sectors. Little is known, however, about how electric utility systems and other polycentric systems' institutions‐in‐use vary and evolve over time.
Matthew Grimley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the Resist–Accept–Direct framework for developing nature‐based solutions and societal adaptations to biological invasions

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 7, Page 1505-1520, July 2025.
Abstract Biological invasions threaten biodiversity and human well‐being, making invasive species management a global necessity. Despite substantial investments in engineering‐based management approaches, preventing invasions is becoming harder with rising species introductions.
Ninad Avinash Mungi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital medication and patients' right of autonomy in Spain

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 482-491, June 2025.
Abstract The progress the Internet has experienced in recent years has brought about huge changes and social transformation in all aspects of our lives. One such aspect greatly impacted has been our health, where we can talk about the existence of an ‘Internet of Medical Things’.
Salvador Pérez Álvarez
wiley   +1 more source

Disaster Insurance for Climate Loss and Damage: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities to Adoption in Malawi

open access: yesRisk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Disaster insurance is gaining prominence as a tool to address climate‐induced loss and damage in developing countries. Despite ongoing efforts to pilot disaster insurance in Malawi, adoption by households remains low. This study examines factors influencing the adoption of disaster insurance in Malawi, a country highly susceptible to climate ...
Stern Mwakalimi Kita
wiley   +1 more source

Design and management considerations for the Kenya–Tanzania marine transboundary conservation area

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2025.
Abstract Although transboundary conservation areas (TCAs) are critical tools for protecting ecosystems and ecological processes that transcend national jurisdictions, they are challenging to create due to the differences in governance contexts and capacity and power dynamics among countries.
Vera Horigue, Arthur Tuda, Joseph Maina
wiley   +1 more source

Plataformas de aprendizaje: ¿herramientas técnicas o psicológicas?

open access: yesLinhas Críticas, 2006
En el documento se abordan algunos principios de diseño instruccional vinculados con el constructivismo sociocultural y la cognición situada referidos al diseño de entornos de aprendizaje apoyados con tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC ...
Francisco Romero
doaj   +1 more source

Efecto traspaso de tasas de interés: análisis econométrico de los efectos de las decisiones de política monetaria en República Dominicana

open access: yesRevista Finanzas y Política Económica, 2012
El estudio de los mecanismos de transmisión de las decisiones de tasas de interés de los bancos centrales es esencial para el diseño e implementación de una política monetaria efectiva y eficiente.
Julio Gabriel Andújar Scheker
doaj   +3 more sources

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