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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Popular society increasingly questions preferences that drive many resource allocations and production decisions, with many groups actively seeking to alter those preferences to achieve changes to resource use. Agricultural and applied economists, who are already equipped with excellent technical skills to undertake consumer preference and ...
Brian E. Roe
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester +16 more
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Digital communication strategies of lobbies in the European Union
Frontiers in Political ScienceDigital technologies have made it easier for lobbies to reach a larger audience, generate support, and collect data to bolster their campaigns. At the same time, digital tools have contributed to increasing participation in lobbying activities, as ...
Emilia Smolak Lozano
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Lobbies and Technology Diffusion [PDF]
This paper explores whether lobbies slow down technology diffusion. To answer this question, we exploit the differential effect of various institutional attributes that should affect the costs of erecting barriers when the new technology has a ...
Bart Hobijn, Diego Comin
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When to go local, when to go edible: Trade, technology and food security [PDF]
, 2009 We develop a variation of the Grossman-Helpman Protection for Sale model, where organized groups, representing various sectors of the economy, influence government policy.
Koch, William L., Sadler, Thomas R.
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Economics of land‐based carbon mitigation
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Agricultural land holds tremendous potential to contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emission goals by providing low carbon renewable energy to displace fossil fuels and by serving as a sink for sequestering carbon in the soil with climate‐smart practices. This potential is, however, far from being realized.
Madhu Khanna
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Stabilising cereal prices? Adapting the response to the market [PDF]
, 2011 Should cereal prices be stabilised? With the Sahel food crisis of 2005, followed by soaring prices on international markets in 2008 and 2010, this is an increasingly pressing issue in national, regional and international policy debates, which address it ...
Galtier, Franck
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Structural problems without structural solutions? Youth leaders' perceptions of their community
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract As young people explore and reflect on the conditions of their neighborhoods and communities, they can forge a critical consciousness—merging their perspectives and analysis to direct both individual and collective actions. Photovoice is a methodological tool that allows participants to document their perspectives and analysis and discuss with
Linnea L. Hjelm +4 more
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Quaderns IEERESSENYA DE: Joan Ridao i Irene Araguàs Los lobbies. Presente y futuro de la regulación de los grupos de interés en España y en Europa Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2024, 202 p.
Damià del Clot i Trias
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DOES CENTRALISATION AFFECT THE NUMBER AND SIZE OF LOBBIES? [PDF]
Previous research has shown that if countries ”merge”, (i.e. move to centralized policy choices) the effect is to reduce lobbying. However empirical evidence suggests that this is not the case.
Redoano, Michela
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