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Votes Count: Legislative Action on Pre-K Fiscal Year 2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Provides an overview of changes in state legislatures' budgets for pre-K programs and discusses regional trends in progress toward providing pre-K education for all -- or the lack thereof.
Jennifer V. Doctors
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Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contained or represented? The varied consequences of reserved seats for emigrants in the legislatures of Ecuador and Colombia

open access: yesComparative Migration Studies, 2018
The legislatures of Colombia and Ecuador have reserved seats for their non-resident citizens (emigrants). This paper analyses the relationship between the formal, descriptive, and substantive dimensions of emigrant representation in their homeland ...
Pau Palop-García
doaj   +1 more source

Thomas Robert Malthus: The Economist [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
As Robert Heilbroner has so aptly observed, economics has produced a handful of men whose contributions to mankind have been more decisive for history than many acts of statesman who basked in brighter glory, often more profoundly disturbing then the ...
Briggs, Vernon M.
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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Advisor to Interparliamentary Networker: A Typology of Parliamentary Officials in EU Affairs

open access: yesPolitics and Governance
Parliamentary staff in European affairs is a relatively young field of study. However, a solid understanding of the role these staff members play is important for grasping the political capacity of parliaments.
Anna-Lena Högenauer, Christine Neuhold
doaj   +1 more source

The Paradox of Disconnected Coalitions [PDF]

open access: yes
COALITION FORMATION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; SINGLE-PEAKEDNESS; LEGISLATURES; MILITARY ALLIANCES.
Brams, S.J., Jones, M.A., Kilgour, D.M.
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal Origins and the Evolution of Institutions: Evidence from American State Courts [PDF]

open access: yes
Several important studies of institutions assume that the quality of institutions is persistent following some formative historic event. The assumption of institutional persistence, however, begs the question of how these institutions persisted.
Daniel Berkowitz, Karen Clay
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Legislative Underwrites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article introduces a widespread but virtually unacknowledged practice in Congress and state legislatures. Not only do legislatures override judicial decisions as part of an interbranch dialogue when they disagree with judicial rulings and doctrine ...
Brudney, James J., Leib, Ethan J.
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