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Towards Transformative Climate Governance: Capacities and Constraints for Local Government in Aotearoa New Zealand

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka, Anna L. Berka, Karen F. Hytten, Florentine D. van Noppen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Partisan Politics and Election Observation in Tanzania, 1995 -2020

Journal of African Politics
Previous research on election observation has assessed observer bias or examined the effect of local observers on the credibility of elections. This article examines how the interplay of foreign aid and domestic has shaped election observation practices
David J. Luheja, Philemon L. Sengati
doaj   +1 more source

“We Are Willing to Change, If…”: Potential Impacts of Citizens' Assemblies on the Willingness to Change for Sustainability in Rural East German Municipalities

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of the democratic and social‐ecological crises, deliberative minipublics such as citizens' assemblies are increasingly implemented and discussed by scholars as a means for sound decision‐making and to enhance public support for sustainability transformations.
Lea Findeis, Nicolas Jager
wiley   +1 more source

THE INFLUENCE OF THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONING OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2015
For one democratic society the elections are one of the most important phenomena. That is why the creation of the electoral system is one of the most important chains of the institutional engineering.
Marko Krtolica
doaj  

Security challenges and election administration in Nigeria’s fourth republic

Frontiers in Political Science
Achieving meaningful development and success in any government endeavour will remain elusive without a robust and well-planned security architecture.
Ebenezer Oluwole Oni, Olumuyiwa Temitope Faluyi, Leo Otimeyin Asumu, Adewale A. Olutola   +3 more
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Everything Changed, Yet Hunting Rights Did Not: Formulation of Wildlife Property Rights in Postsocialist Slovenia

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study uses the policy regime framework to examine how background conditions, institutions, and actor configurations shaped hunting rights within the forest–wildlife policy domain during Slovenia's postsocialist transformation. Drawing on media analysis, in‐depth interviews with policymakers, and legislative documents, it conducts a ...
Milan Šinko, Brina Malnar
wiley   +1 more source

Left Wanting and Left Unheard: A Dual Grievance Model of Populism Across Six European Countries

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study tests a dual grievance model of populism by examining whether relative deprivation and external political inefficacy are linked to two core dimensions of populist beliefs (people sovereignty and anti‐elitism) via aversive political emotions (anger, sadness and fear) and institutional distrust across six European countries (N = 5487).
Anna Cortijos‐Bernabeu, Matteo Cavallaro, Christian Staerklé   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Social Identity Threat Predicts Increases in Affective Polarisation Over Time, but Not Changes in Well‐Being

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affective polarisation, a growing hostility toward political outgroups, is a phenomenon rooted in social identity. Social identity threat—the expectation of experiencing some form of denigration based on a self‐relevant group identity—is thought to be a major driver of affective polarisation.
Brandon McMurtrie, Matt Williams, Michael Philipp, Anja Roemer, Ross Hebden   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Race‐Based Rejection Sensitivity and Intergroup Anxiety Across the Adult Lifespan: Examining Age, Cohort, and Period Effects Among Ethnic Majority and Minority Groups

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergroup interactions are often fraught with fear of rejection and intergroup anxiety—emotional reactions that undermine efforts to build inclusive societies. The current research investigates how race‐based rejection sensitivity and intergroup anxiety evolve across the adult lifespan.
Kumar Yogeeswaran, Maykel Verkuyten, Kieren J. Lilly, Jessica Gale, Danny Osborne, Fiona Kate Barlow, Chris G. Sibley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Networks and Policy Entrepreneurship in the EU: Explaining Structural Policy Change in Pharmaceutical Innovation Incentives and Health Technology Assessment

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy process research has excelled in explaining structural policy change within national settings, but extensions and applications to the EU level have long proven challenging for scholars. Given that the EU is currently experiencing its longest period of Treaty stability since the 1980s—having evolved into a sui generis political system ...
Vassilis Karokis‐Mavrikos
wiley   +1 more source