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More Specialization, More Coordination? Evidence From Local Public Service Delivery in Norway

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments specialize their work by dividing tasks among organizational units. Because specialization creates a demand for coordination among tasks that are interdependent, governments are also expected to provide more coordination when specialization is higher.
Leif. E. Kårtvedt
wiley   +1 more source

The Emergence of Consciousness. [PDF]

Acta Paediatr
Changeux JP.
europepmc   +1 more source

Collective Corporate Power and the International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The importance of international shipping in economic development, as well as its intersection with international security, environmental protection and other fields of global governance, has encouraged much interest in the rule‐making processes that govern the sector.
Alex Gould
wiley   +1 more source

The Rational Design of Space Agreements: How Bilateralism Shapes Powerful States' Design Preferences

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global governance of outer space relies heavily on international agreements, yet the institutional forms of these agreements remain underexplored. This article introduces a new dataset on various design features of 952 space agreements, offering the first large‐N overview of institutional design in space governance.
Jean‐Frédéric Morin, Philippe Evoy, Cynthia Couette   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reframing Colonial Korea's Forests Through Protection Forests: The Forests of Joseon (1938). [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Park S, Pae JH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Metaphysical dependence and the subset relation between powers

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What is the relation between the token powers of higher‐level occurrences and the token powers of more basic physical occurrences? In related but somewhat different ways, Sydney Shoemaker and Jessica Wilson argue that the former are a proper subset of the latter, and that this can provide a viable account of higher‐level causation within a ...
Kevin Morris
wiley   +1 more source

Family Policy: A Critical Overview of 60 Years of Scholarship

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article critically reviews research and scholarship on family policy over the last 60 years focusing on theoretical and methodological developments within the European welfare state context. The first part of the analysis reveals a field that is diverse and vibrant, although it may be more accurately characterised as a set of sub‐fields ...
Mary Daly
wiley   +1 more source

A cybernetic framework for synthetic biological intelligence in the era of neural tissue engineering. [PDF]

Npj Unconv Comput
Sellar ÉP, Rouleau N.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Lack of an Effective Mechanism to Sanction Teachers With Low Performance as a Problem of the Educational System: The Perspective of School Management in Romania

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The study investigates the perspectives of school management representatives concerning the need for effective mechanisms to reward high‐performing teachers or impose sanctions on those with low performance. Data collected in Romania through a cross‐sectional survey conducted in 2025 among more than 500 members of the teaching staff who ...
Alin Croitoru, Felicia Morândău, Daniel Mara, Daniel Hunyadi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Observing ideologies. A systems-theoretical approach. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Klement K.
europepmc   +1 more source