The public’s preferred level of involvement in local policy-making [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 We investigated what people consider the optimal level of citizen involvement in local policy decision-making. This is an important question to answer, given that civil servants and politicians are increasingly confronted with the pressure to add a ...
Tessa Haesevoets +4 more
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New CLGF Four-Year Grant to Help Local Government Service Delivery and Boost CLGF’s Research Capacity [PDF]
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2012 The UK Department for International Development (UK AID) has agreed £4.5 million funding for a four-year CLGF programme to improve governance and service delivery at local level in several areas of the Commonwealth including Africa and Asia from 2012-16.
Lucy Slack, Susan Rhodes
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Applying the One Health approach to study the policy and institutional determinants to control and prevent zoonoses in a low-resource setting [PDF]
Health Research Policy and SystemsBackground Zoonoses – diseases transmitted between animals and people – disproportionally affect low-resource countries (LRCs). The complex nature of zoonoses adds substantial barriers to implementing multisectoral policies to address them.
Lisset Dumet +7 more
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Making Food-Systems Policy for Local Interests and Common Good
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 The unjust distribution of poor health outcomes produced via current United States food systems indicates the need for inclusive and innovative policymaking at the local level.
Colene J. Lind, Monica L. Reeves
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The impact of Electoral Rules on Political Particularism.
Italian Political Science, 2022 Candidate-centered electoral systems make it more convenient for politicians to cultivate a personal reputation. In order to cultivate personal followings, candidates provide goods and services to narrow segments of society in exchange for votes ...
Silvia Decadri
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Factors affecting the role of local councils in local policy-making [PDF]
Review of Economics and Political Science, 2019 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the relevance and impact of a number of factors on the role of local councils in local policy-making in Erbil province/Iraq.
Rushdi Aziz Abdullah
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Making Network Governance Work in Forest Land-Use Policy in the Local Government
SAGE Open, 2023 Focusing on Indonesia’s Riau Province, this study examines the complexities of managing networks for forest governance, and how local governments should adopt and enforce policies in network settings based on multi-stakeholder participation.
Sataporn Roengtam +2 more
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Public Participation in the Process of Local Public Health Policy, Using Policy Network Analysis [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2014 Objectives: To assess the current public participation in-local health policy and its implications through the analysis of policy networks in health center programs.
Yukyung Park +4 more
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Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, 2022 This study focuses on the characteristics and institutions of the Xi Jinping regime’s policy-making on Taiwan affairs and compares them to those of the Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao regimes.
Fukuda Madoka
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Use and value of systematic reviews in English local authority public health: a qualitative study
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Responsibility for public health in England transferred from the National Health Service to local authorities in 2013, representing a different decision-making environment.
Emily South, Theo Lorenc
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