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European Identity and the Euro in Kosovo

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can nationalist leaders stand for political independence and monetary sovereignty while embracing the use of a supra‐national currency? At first sight, unilateral euroisation—the de facto adoption of the euro instead of a national currency—seems inconsistent with the goals of nationalism and independence.
Nicola Nones
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating public opinion towards robots: a mixed-method approach

open access: yesPaladyn, 2019
The article presents the results of some research conducted in Italy on the perception of robots. The study was carried out as part of a project arranged by the School of Robotics (Scuola di Robotica) in 2017/2018 and involved around 700 Italian citizens
Operto Stefania
doaj   +1 more source

Validade e confiabilidade das medidas de confiança interpessoal: o barômetro das Américas

open access: yesDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2011
Using an innovative databank, this article conducts validity and reliability tests for various measures of the concept of interpersonal trust. The Brazilian round of the Americas Barometer 2008 included different measures of the interpersonal trust ...
Lucio Rennó
doaj   +1 more source

Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the European Union

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine whether and how public participation in policymaking contributes towards fostering stakeholder support for policy proposals formulated in the bureaucratic arena. We explain how key markers of procedural fairness describing both the participation process and policymakers' presentations of it during the decision justification stage co‐
Adriana Bunea, Idunn Nørbech
wiley   +1 more source

Health literacy in Europe: comparative results of the European health literacy survey (HLS-EU)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Public Health, 2015
Background: Health literacy concerns the capacities of people to meet the complex demands of health in modern society. In spite of the growing attention for the concept among European health policymakers, researchers and practitioners, information about ...
K. Sørensen   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on unequal responsiveness has shown that policies tend to align more closely with the preferences of high‐income citizens than low‐income citizens. Using comparative data on opinions and policies, we suggest that this inequality primarily results from status quo bias; asymmetric blocking power drives unequal congruence rather than ...
Mikael Persson, Anders Sundell
wiley   +1 more source

Special Eurobarometer 513, Climate Change

open access: yes, 2021
26,669 interviews15 / 03 > 14 / 04 / 2021 More information can be found at:https://ec.europa.eu/clima/citizens/support_e Just over one in ten respondents in Cyprus believe that climate change is the single most serious problem facing the world (11%, compared with the EU average of 18%).
European Commission, Republic of Cyprus
openaire   +3 more sources

Signs of universality in the structure of culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Understanding the dynamics of opinions, preferences and of culture as whole requires more use of empirical data than has been done so far. It is clear that an important role in driving this dynamics is played by social influence, which is the essential ...
Băbeanu, Alexandru-Ionuţ   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

On the Design of a European Health Union: Public Preferences, Trust, and Experience With the Covid‐19 Crisis

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During and following the Covid‐19 pandemic, the European Union (EU) is taking first steps toward a European Health Union (EHU). There is no set definition of what an EHU is, but in this paper, we explore the popular support for different designs of an EHU, including a pillar in which healthcare policy competences are shared between the EU and ...
R. Beetsma, F. Nicoli
wiley   +1 more source

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