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Between Compliance and Agency: A Comparative Study of University Institutional Research (IR) Units Under Government Accountability Pressures in Korea and Japan

open access: yesHigher Education Quarterly, Volume 80, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study explores how institutional research (IR) units in South Korea and Japan are shaped by the complex interaction between government accountability pressures and organisational agency. Based on a comparative qualitative study, we propose a framework comprising four types of organisational responses to accountability pressures ...
Jeong Youn Lee   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waking a Dormant Legal Resource: Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1359-1381, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) have become a central tool of the European Union's (EU) new industrial policy. IPCEIs derive their peculiar name from an exemption to the general prohibition on state aid that has existed since the Treaty of Rome but has only led to the creation of a stand‐alone policy instrument in 2014.
Timo Seidl, Henrique Lopes‐Valença
wiley   +1 more source

Agency, Interrupted: Does Organizational Restructuring Improve Managerial Gender Parity? Testing a Disruption Hypothesis

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 930-950, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Administrative restructuring is an organizational phenomenon suggested to improve under‐represented groups' managerial representation by disrupting networks and institutions. However, extant tests of a ‘disruption hypothesis’ are collectively inconclusive. We elaborate and test it with a qualitative‐to‐quantitative study of local health agency
Rebecca A. E. Kirley, Carlotta Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

The Integration of Social and Health Sectors in Scotland: An Analysis from the Prism of Different Public Policy Models. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Mark Access Health Policy
Correia de Matos R   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Solidarity in Welfare States During and After the Global Pandemic: A Theoretical Investigation

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 630-639, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Welfare state policies are based on cultural ideals of solidarity; however, the extent of solidarity provided by welfare state institutions has varied substantially, both historically and across nations and policy fields. This article aims to answer the following questions: How did solidarity as an institutional norm in welfare states change ...
Birgit Pfau‐Effinger   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 606-616, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Japan's social care reforms of the early 1970s led to a generous elderly care system but only modest and narrowly targeted support for children. Although child allowances and free medical care for the elderly were introduced almost simultaneously, they followed sharply divergent paths.
Ryotaro Takahashi
wiley   +1 more source

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