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Assessing Climate Change Disclosure and Its Governance Drivers: Insights From the European Utilities Sector

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to enhance academic understanding of the factors influencing the disclosure practices of climate change among European utility companies, specifically in the context of their sustainability reporting. The primary objective is to explore, through a multi‐theoretical framework, the governance drivers that significantly affect the
Cristina Boţa‐Avram   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Fairness in the Eye of the Beholder? An Impartial Spectator Analysis of Justice [PDF]

open access: yes
A popular sentiment is that fairness is inexorably subjective and incapable of being determined by objective standards. This study, on the other hand, seeks to establish evidence on unbiased justice and to propose and demonstrate a general approach for ...
Konow, James
core   +1 more source

Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Ranks states' business climates based on income, population growth, and employment and outlook based on current tax policies; analyzes their fiscal conditions; reviews 2010 fiscal reform initiatives; and recommends policies to spur economic ...
Arthur B. Laffer   +2 more
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Shared Waters, Shared Responsibility: Solving Collective Action Problems in an Upstream‐Downstream Setting

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The governance of shared water systems requires collaboration across diverse stakeholders. In this study we advance the theoretical understanding of asymmetric collective action problems (CAPs) by reassessing the role of third‐party interventions and emphasizing the strategic importance of policy brokers and institutional venues.
Anna Bendz, Simon Matti, Patrik Öhberg
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an integrated ethical review process: an animal-centered research framework for the refinement of research procedures

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science
The involvement of animals in research procedures that can harm them and to which they are deemed unable to consent raises fundamental ethical dilemmas.
Eleonora Nannoni, Clara Mancini
doaj   +1 more source

Does Nationality Influence Neutrality? The Ethical Standards and Expectations of International Mediators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This Comment examines how a mediator’s nationality can influence the mediating parties’ and communities’ perceptions of his neutrality and how cultural differences play a role in the ethical expectations of a cross-cultural mediator. Part I discusses the
Katsoris, Melissa
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Policymakers' Perceptions of the Use of Deliberative Mini‐Publics to Support Sustainability Policies

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deliberative mini‐publics (DMPs) have emerged as a novel method to deepen public participation in complex and contentious policy decisions, such as those related to sustainability transformations. Despite an increasing interest in applying DMPs in environmental governance, little is known about policymakers' expectations regarding their ...
Heli Saarikoski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do they mean us? An American view of UK media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Veteran US journalist Howard Weaver writing on the editor’s blog for the American McClatchy newspaper group has posted about the Polis debate on impartiality.
Beckett, Charlie
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Do Institutions Make Street‐Level Bureaucrats Prosocial? Agent‐Based Evidence Shows That New Public Management Does Not

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
wiley   +1 more source

The Economic Effects of Judicial Accountability. Some Preliminary Insights. [PDF]

open access: yes
Judicial independence is not only a necessary condition for the impartiality of judges, it can also endanger it: judges that are independent could have incentives to remain uninformed, become lazy or even corrupt.
Stefan Voigt
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