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THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS IN HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2012
One of the main concerns of democratic states and intergovernmental or supranational international organisations is referring to the respect of human rights.
RAMONA-GABRIELA PARASCHIV
doaj  

Models of market integration in Central Asia – comparative performance [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper considers the problem of the integration of markets in Central Asia as a main factor of economic modernization. It first identifies the potential channels of reduction of transaction costs barriers between countries (“models of integration ...
Libman, Alexander
core   +1 more source

Toward a Framework for Understanding Localization in Its Institutional Context: A Systems Perspective for Incorporating Local Values

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy and Human Rights in the European-Asian Dialogue: A Clash of Cooperation Cultures? [PDF]

open access: yes
Whereas the European Union (EU) favors a formal, binding, output-oriented, and to some extent supranational approach to cooperation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is based on informal, non-binding, process-oriented intergovernmental ...
Howard Loewen
core  

Wrestling with MUDs To Pin Down the Truth About Special Districts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Federal, state, and local governments encourage and empower special districts--board-run, special purpose local government units that are administratively and fiscally independent from general purpose local governments.
Galvan, Sara C.
core   +1 more source

Do Policy Capacities Matter for Federal Policy Design? Evidence From the Implementation of Three Social Policies in Brazil

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together the literature on policy design, policy capacity and policy making in multilevel systems, this paper argues that the effectiveness of policy design in federal countries depends, ceteris paribus, on the adequacy of federal and local policy capacities.
Giliberto Capano   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The European Public(s) and its Problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
I present three versions –Grimm, Offe and Streeck—of a general argument that is often used to establish that the EU-institutions meets a legitimacy-disabling condition, the so called “no demos” argument (II), embedding them in the context of the ...
Mueller, Axel
core  

Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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