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Electoral Systems, Ethnic Heterogeneity and Party System Fragmentation

British Journal of Political Science, 2015
David Lublin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) New Data from 165 Countries and Six Decades. [PDF]

Sci Data
Umpierrez de Reguero S, Wegschaider K, Bauböck R.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source

A cross-sectional study on hypertension and diabetes care cascade and prevalence of noncommunicable diseases risk factors in Tamil Nadu: rationale and methods. [PDF]

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Ramalingam A, Chadwick J, Kriina M, Neelavanan MD, Govindan A, R D, Venkatasamy V, Devasagayam E, Joseph S, Madhusoodanan S, Kangusamy B, Ramaswamy S, Govindasamy E, I K, Paparaju AK, D C, Kumar D, Rajasekar D, Duraisamy A, Subramaniam S, Viswanathan V, K K, Selvam JM, S ST, S V, Thamburaj AA, Palanaiandi SK, Kaur P, Murekhar M.   +28 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Electoral Accountability and Local Government Efficiency: Quasi-Experimental Avidence From the Italian Health Care Sector Reforms [PDF]

This paper evaluates the effect of two policy changes on the efficiency of Italian regional governments in the provision of health care services: first a change in the electoral system; second a process of fiscal decentralisation.
Francesco Porcelli
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Winning Legitimacy and Dodging Blame: How Government Communication Shapes Media Sentiments and Responsibility Attribution in Consensus Democracies

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governments' discursive credit‐claiming and blame‐deflection strategies shape perceived policy legitimacy in times of crisis? Despite the importance of legitimacy in conflictual times, systematic analyses of officeholders' credit‐claiming and blame‐deflection strategies and their effect on perceived legitimacy are still rare.
Céline Honegger
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary dynamics on a regular networked structured and unstructured multi‐population

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract In this paper, we study collective decision‐making in a multi‐population framework, where groups of individuals represent whole populations that interact by means of a regular network. Each group consists of a number of players and every player can choose between two options.
Wouter Baar, Leonardo Stella, Dario Bauso   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of factors impacting electoral integrity in Africa between 2006-2023 - Examining the association between free and fair election and rule of law. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ikoko MO, Latif D.
europepmc   +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