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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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Scientific Data, 2023 Despite the fundamental importance of American local governments for service provision in areas like education and public health, local policy-making remains difficult and expensive to study at scale due to a lack of centralized data.
Soubhik Barari, Tyler Simko
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Arts councils, policy-making and “the local” [PDF]
Cultural Trends, 2019 In the British Isles, national policies for the arts are primarily viewed as the responsibility of arts councils with statutory duties to distribute state funding that meet the requirements of both ’arms-length’ principles and national strategic frameworks.
Durrer, Victoria +2 more
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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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Policy Expansion in Local Government Environmental Policy Making [PDF]
Public Administration Review, 2018 AbstractRelatively little is known about when, why, and how some jurisdictions “double down” on policy priorities, rapidly adopting multiple measures tackling the same issue. Rapid policy expansion can emerge in fast‐evolving, uncertain, and contested policy arenas in which pressures for policy making are not satisfied, and even may be strengthened, by
Gwen Arnold, Le Anh Nguyen Long
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Involving local fishing communities in policy making: Addressing Illegal fishing in Indonesia
Marine Policy, 2019 Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing has been identified by the UN as one of the seven major threats to global maritime security; it causes loss of economic revenue, severe environmental damage, and far-reaching livelihood implications for coastal communities.
Chapsos, Ioannis +2 more
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Mainstreaming indigenous and local communities’ connections with nature for policy decision-making
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 Exclusion of Indigenous and local communities' connections to the rest-of-nature is a typical problem in policy-decision making. This paper highlights the key attributes of these connections and suggests evaluation pathways to mainstream them into policy
Kamaljit K. Sangha +2 more
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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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The Evaluation of Local Policy Making in Europe
Evaluation, 1999 Two recent evaluation studies undertaken for the European Commission, related to the LEADER Community Initiative implemented throughout the 1 990s, have provided the basis for the issues discussed in this article. This programme was set up to encourage pilot experiences in the promotion of rural development in the problem areas of Europe, by ...
E. Saraceno
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Vertical Governance, National Regulation and Autonomy of Local Policy Making
, 2015 This chapter introduces a categorization of the 11 European countries according to their general vertical governance structures between national, regional and local levels in welfare policy making. It investigates the extent to which, and how, local policies and service provision are regulated and controlled from the national state level, and how much ...
Caillaud, Pascal, Kuronen, Marjo
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