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Do Government Interventions Improve Local Public Service Performance? Evidence From a Synthetic Control Approach

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments in many democratic countries have the mandate to require local authorities to address failures in the management and performance of the public services that they provide. Such policies often involve the takeover of authorities to implement improvements assumed to result in organizational turnaround.
Rhys Andrews
wiley   +1 more source

Subjective costs and benefits of online self-help group participation: findings from qualitative research with family caregivers for individuals of Turkish descent living with dementia in Germany. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Dement
Bird R   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An international survey of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy recipients

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to address the paucity of studies of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) patients. Methods A total of 1144 people responded to an online survey. Results The respondents included 286 relatives and friends of ECT recipients, from 22 countries.
Christopher Harrop   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The scarce political and social psychological research on the Kurdish–Turkish context primarily addresses intergroup relations and general perceptions of the conflict. Conversely, Kurds' experiences of and beliefs about collective victimization in this context have not been examined much to date.
Helin Ünal, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
wiley   +1 more source

From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap.
Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of an innovative family-centred care and prevention intervention for children with overweight and obesity: a mixed-methods study protocol of the randomised controlled fruehstArt study in Germany. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Open
Hagemeier A   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the “quiet” politics of the pre‐2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become “noisy”. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them?
Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft
wiley   +1 more source

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