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Can Online Participation Match In‐Person Democratic Engagement? Evidence From a Cross‐National Experiment

Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Democratic innovations increasingly take place online, yet little is known about how online citizen participation affects perceived legitimacy compared to in‐person formats. This study presents findings from a preregistered vignette experiment conducted in Spain and Switzerland.
Valeria Vuk
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Conflicts and Commonalities in Judicial Evaluation

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014
This article explores the proper role of judicial evaluation in relation to the various branches of government and a range of disciplines. Judicial evaluation is a practical, interpretive sphere of inquiry, based on dialogue and collaboration.
Richard Mohr, Francesco Contini
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Constructed value of information with iterative scoring and parametric uncertainty to identify management‐relevant research priorities for a declining raptor species

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Constructed value of information (CVoI) is an expert elicitation decision‐analytic tool used to prioritize sources of uncertainty based on their potential to improve decision outcomes if resolved. Despite increased application of CVoI, the robustness of CVoI prioritization of sources of uncertainty relative to differences in expert elicitation
Kristin P. Davis, Mitchell J. Eaton, Emily R. Bjerre, Hillary M. White, Clint W. Boal, Jennifer H. Herner‐Thogmartin, Orin J. Robinson, Abigail J. Lawson   +7 more
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Judicial Performance and Experiences of Judicial Work: Findings from socio-legal research by Sharyn Roach Anleu & Kathy Mack: Commentary

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014
This commentary examines the contribution in this edition by Roach Anleu & Mack, based on arguments that reducing judicial performance evaluation (ergo any professional performance) to that which is easily measurable removes the human aspect of that ...
Gar Yein Ng
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Methodologies for Measuring Judicial Performance: The Problem of Bias

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014
Concerns about gender and racial bias in the survey-based evaluations of judicial performance common in the United States have persisted for decades. Consistent with a large body of basic research in the psychological sciences, recent studies confirm ...
Jennifer Elek, David Rottman
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Las mujeres en la elite política de Baja California Sur, 1974-1994

Secuencia, 1998
Analisis y evaluación sabre la participación de las mujeres en la elite política definida coma los espacios de los poderes ejecutivo y judicial- siguiendo los criterios de acceso, permanencia y movilidad, para contribuir a la discusión sabre genera y ...
Blanca Olivia Peña Molina
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Evaluating synthetic substitutes to reduce illegal harvesting and support species recovery

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Providing synthetic substitutes is a widely promoted strategy to shift consumer demand away from wildlife products derived from threatened species. Yet, there is little evidence on whether product substitution prevents illegal or unsustainable harvesting and contributes to the recovery of threatened populations.
Aditya Shekhar Malgaonkar, Gareth Whittington‐Jones, Tristan Dickerson, Maswabi Lishandu, Sarah Davies, Zoe Woodgate, Xia Stevens, Choolwe Mulenga, Gift Mulenga, Mathew Phiri, Lucky Mulenga, Manyando Mukela, Gryton Kasamu, Willem A. Nieman, Gareth Mann, Abishek Harihar, Diogo Veríssimo, Rob Pickles   +17 more
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From Evaluation to Improvement: A Chief Justice’s Perspective

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014
At the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, concepts of judicial performance and evaluation are relatively new. Responding to modern expectations for increased judicial accountability for their performance, Victorian judges have engaged a number of ...
Marilyn Warren
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Improving the use of expert opinion in disease risk analysis for conservation translocations

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Conservation translocations are subject to considerable uncertainty and risk, of which disease is one of the most recognized. To address disease risks, several protocols for qualitative disease risk analysis (qDRA) exist and are used for responsible conservation translocation planning.
John G. Ewen, Stefano Canessa, Caitlin E. Andrews, Katie M. Beckmann, Irene Bueno, Deidre K. Fontenot, Caio Kenup, Suzanne Medina, Axel Moehrenschlager, Francesco Origgi, Bruce Rideout, Anthony W. Sainsbury, Thierry M. Work, Claudia Carraro   +13 more
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Uncovering correlates of decline and critical refuges for a threatened terrestrial mammal

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Globally, the geographic ranges of numerous species are contracting. Identifying spatiotemporal patterns of threat impact can illuminate why species decline in some parts of their range but persist in others. We developed a correlative approach to identify species’ response thresholds and locate ecological refuge areas associated with ...
Natalya M. Maitz, Michelle S. Ward, Jonathan R. Rhodes, Ben C. Scheele, Hugh P. Possingham, Diana O. Fisher   +5 more
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