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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What is the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting the design of public administrative reform? We present a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of policy entrepreneurs on public administrative reform. We start by proposing a typology of the various policy entrepreneurs active in the administrative reform arena.
Nissim Cohen
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Commercial Television as a Blind Spot in Emerging Media Systems: Romania and Bulgaria’s Cases
Media and CommunicationThis study explores TV in Romania and Bulgaria, both considered “emerging” media systems in post-communist studies (Sparks, 1995). It uses Hallin and Mancini’s (2004) framework to analyze the central aspects regarding the configuration of commercial TV ...
Mădălina Bălășescu +2 more
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, 2009 The media: an introduction, is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, journalism, film studies, the sociology of the media, popular culture and other related ...
Albertazzi, Daniele +2 more
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Communal farming, climate change adaptation and the media in Zimbabwe
Jàmbá, 2016 Climate change is destroying Zimbabwean communal farmers’ agricultural activities – a source of living for most people. As communal farmers struggle to adapt, the media is expected to assume a fundamental theoretical role of educating and informing them ...
Mthokozisi P. Ndhlovu, Thabani Mpofu
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Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This descriptive case study examined how undergraduate pre‐service teachers (PSTs) enrolled in a digital literacies course evaluated online information as part of a module digital project. PSTs were tasked with assessing peer‐selected online texts using multiple strategies in an unrestricted web environment.
Wen Wen, Yiting Han
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International Journal of CommunicationContemporary politics has been filled with increasing political disagreements beyond opinion contestation essential for democratic competition.
Alena Kluknavská, Alena Macková
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What Is Grounded Theory Good For? [PDF]
, 2018 Grounded theory (GT) made its appearance in the social sciences in 1967 with publication of Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss’s The Discovery of Grounded Theory.
Brennen, Bonnie +3 more
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The “Zhang Xuefeng Effect”: Information Intervention and the College Admission Problem in China
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Information regarding the quality of colleges and labor‐market prospects of majors plays an important role in parents' and students' school‐choice decisions, particularly when these decisions are crucially relevant to the students' long‐run career choices and life earnings.
Yutong Huo, Yun Wang
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A Perspective of Multi‐Reflecting TOF MS
Mass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry (TOF MS) excels in rapid and high‐sensitivity analysis, making it a cornerstone of analytical chemistry. But as sample complexity explodes in omics studies, so does the need for higher resolving power to ensure accurate results.
A. N. Verenchikov +3 more
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