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PRINSIP SEKRETARIAT PANITIA PEMILIHAN KECAMATAN PADA PEMILIHAN BUPATI AGAM TAHUN 2015

open access: yes, 2019
This Research of district election committee secretariat as work principle in the regent and vice-regent election of Agam 2015. District Election Committee (DEC) Secretariat for the Agam Regent and Vice-Regent Election 2015 was appointed by the current ...
Aprinal, Fery   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Everything Changed, Yet Hunting Rights Did Not: Formulation of Wildlife Property Rights in Postsocialist Slovenia

open access: yesEnvironmental 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

Agenda brasileira: parâmetros de análise de modelos de governança eleitoral: o caso brasileiro e de outros países

open access: yes, 2022
A análise comparativa de modelos de governança eleitoral passa, necessariamente, pelo estabelecimento de parâmetros, critérios e conceitos que servirão de fundamento para essa análise.
Pontes, Robertos Carlos Martins
core  

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

open access: yesEuropean 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ensuring Electoral Integrity: A Comprehensive Study of the Legal Framework and Independence of Zambia's Electoral Management Body

open access: yesAfrican Quarterly Social Science Review
This study investigates the importance of Electoral Management Body (EMB) independence in ensuring the integrity of democratic elections. The study adopted the case study research design and a mixed methods approach. Drawing on the ontological and epistemological perspectives, the study applied the positivist and interpretive paradigms.
Kryticous Patrick Nshindano   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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

open access: yesEuropean 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

Election Management Bodies in Southern Africa

open access: yes, 2017
Over the past two decades, Southern African countries have entrenched the use of elections as the only means and medium for electing governments and representative institutions in governance. Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) are central to the delivery and quality of elections.
openaire   +2 more sources

Learning From and Through Evaluation: An Examination of Practice

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we provide an analysis across the foregoing practice‐based case exemplars to understand antecedent conditions and influences, learning‐oriented evaluation strategies, estimates of strategy success or potential success, and factors that either enable or hinder the extent to which learning from and through evaluation occurs. The
J. Bradley Cousins, Jill Chouinard
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing electoral administration systems in new democracies [PDF]

open access: yes
The difficulty of holding fair elections continues to be a critical problem in many newly democratized countries. The core of the problem is the electoral administration's lack of political autonomy and capability to regulate fraud.
Asaba, Yuki, Kawanaka, Takeshi
core  

The Learning Function of Evaluation: A Conceptual Framing

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we set out a conceptual overview of what we call learning in the evaluation ecosystem to depict the interplay between external influences, organizational and community factors, and learning levers (e.g. capacity building, systems thinking).
Jill Anne Chouinard, J. Bradley Cousins
wiley   +1 more source

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