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Social Choice and Popular Control [PDF]

, 2015
In democracies citizens are supposed to have some control over the general direction of policy. According to a pretheoretical interpretation of this idea, the people have control if elections and other democratic institutions compel officials to do what ...
Ingham, Sean
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Resultados operacionales de la Policía Nacional, 2010

Revista Criminalidad, 2011
Este documento presenta la descripción estadística de los logros operativos de la Policía Nacional en el año 2010, los cuales se ajustan a las estrategias gubernamentales e institucionales encaminadas al despliegue efectivo de acciones preventivas ...
Ervyn Norza-Céspedes, Gloria Patricia Espino-Duque   +1 more
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Attention control comparisons with SLT for people with aphasia following stroke: methodological concerns raised following a systematic review [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: Attention control comparisons in trials of stroke rehabilitation require care to minimize the risk of comparison choice bias. We compared the similarities and differences in SLT and social support control interventions for people with aphasia.
Brady, Marian C., Campbell, Pauline, Elders, Andrew, Enderby, Pam, Godwin, Jon, Kelly, Helen   +5 more
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Detecting formal and informal interests in forest governance

MethodsX, 2022
To reveal the interests of actors in forest governance, this paper proposes a power-based interest identification (PII) approach. Based on the assumption of intentional action, the benefits that actors derive from policy impacts are the result of ...
Jiacheng Zhao, Max Krott, Jinlong Liu, Lukas Giessen, Jiayun Dong   +4 more
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Known in the nursing home: development and evaluation of a digital person-centered artistic photo-activity intervention to promote social interaction between residents with dementia, and their formal and informal carers

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background To address the lack of social interaction and meaningful activities for persons with dementia (PWD) in nursing homes an artistic Photo-Activity was designed.
Josephine Rose Orejana Tan, Petra Boersma, Teake P. Ettema, Laurence Aëgerter, Robbert Gobbens, Max L. Stek, Rose-Marie Dröes   +6 more
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Managing Cartels: how Cartel Participants Create Stability in the Absence of law [PDF]

, 2016
Firms enter cartels (e.g. price-fixing; bid-rigging) in order to control market uncertainties and gain collusive profits, but face challenges in controlling the cartel itself.
Jaspers, J.D.
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Must Realists Be Pessimists About Democracy? Responding to Epistemic and Oligarchic Challenges [PDF]

, 2021
In this paper we show how a realistic normative democratic theory can work within the constraints set by the most pessimistic empirical results about voting behaviour and elite capture of the policy process.
Arlen, Gordon, Rossi, Enzo
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MOTIVATIONS, IMPORTANCE, CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN HEALTH

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2019
Purpose: To understand the motivations, importance, challenges and perspectives for acting as local health counselors in the Unified Health System.Method: A qualitative and descriptive study of the exploratory type conducted with 15 local health ...
Carlos Junglos, Felipa Rafaela Amadigi, Rosani Ramos Machado, Jacks Sorato   +3 more
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Choice in the context of informal care-giving [PDF]

, 2007
Extending choice and control for social care service users is a central feature of current English policies. However, these have comparatively little to say about choice in relation to the informal carers of relatives, friends or older people who are ...
Allen I., Appleby J., Arksey H., Audit Commission, Bell J., Cabinet Office, Carers National Association, Caring Costs Alliance, Clarke J., Commission for Social Care Inspection, Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Dowding K., Ellis K., Giddens A., Hadley R., Hasler F., Hirsch C.H., Howard M., Joshi H., Kagan C., Klein R., Larkin J.P., Lent A., Levin E., Macgregor G., Mayo E., McLaughlin E., Minichiello V., Mooney A., Morris J., Morris J., Myers F., Needham C., Nolan M., Parker G., Parker G., Parry J., Penrod J., Pickard L., Pickard L., Princess Royal Trust for Carers, Qureshi H., Royal Commission on Long Term Care, Schwartz B., Scottish Executive, Scourfield P., Seddon D., Seddon D., Shakespeare T., Tilse C., Twigg J., Twigg J., Twigg J., Vernon A., Welsh Assembly Government   +57 more
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Social Support and Personal Agency in At-Risk Mothers [PDF]

Psychosocial Intervention, 2011
This study investigated: a) mothers´ use and satisfaction with informal and formal supports in at-risk psychosocial contexts, and b) the relationships between satisfaction with help and the mothers´ perception of their role (personal agency). Self-report
María José Rodrigo, Sonia Byrne
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