Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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The Hegemony of far-Right Populism, Project 2025, and the Dangers Ahead for Science and Public Health. [PDF]
Piroddi C +5 more
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Populism and policy capacity: Evidence from an opposition municipality in Istanbul
Abstract Despite achievements in its conceptual rigor, policy capacity still represents a relatively depoliticized concept that fails to sufficiently consider the ways in which politics plays a role in its creation, mobilization, or decay. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of populism on policy capacity, the ...
Ebru Ertugal, Faik Gür, İnan Sevinç
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RWI-GEO-VOTE: Small-scale data of the 2017 German federal election. [PDF]
Fremerey M, Hörnig L, Schaffner S.
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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines
ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
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Can role model women in politics help married women reduce suicides? Evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Brazil. [PDF]
Arvate GG +4 more
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ABSTRACT Bringing together the literature on policy design, policy capacity and policy making in multilevel systems, this paper argues that the effectiveness of policy design in federal countries depends, ceteris paribus, on the adequacy of federal and local policy capacities.
Giliberto Capano +1 more
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How the U.S. presidential election impacts global health: governance, funding, and beyond. [PDF]
Liu Y, Hall BJ, Ren M.
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Contesting Regulatory Capacity: Exploring Doctrines in the Regulatory State
ABSTRACT The contemporary literature on regulation and development has emphasised the importance of low discretion devices for achieving desired policy objectives. At the same time, there has been a growing recognition that state capacity in general, and regulatory capacity more specifically, are essential for achieving development goals in a world of ...
Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Martin Lodge
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Theorising the politics of famine: Bangladesh in 1974. [PDF]
Hossain N.
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