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Use of research in local alcohol policy-making

Drugs and Alcohol Today, 2015
Purpose – On-premise trading hours are generally decided at the local level. The purpose of this paper is to identify relevant advocacy coalitions and to assess to what extent and how these coalitions used research in the alcohol policy-making process concerning changes in on-premise trading hours in Norway.
Ingeborg Rossow, Trygve Ugland
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Policy making at the local level

2023
Chapter 17: In this chapter, we contrast rational and relational approaches to policy-making in local and urban governance. A rational approach to policy-making is premised on fairness, consistency, evidence, and transparency, but may have resulted in unintended consequences of neglecting human relationships.
Catherine Durose, Beth Perry, Liz Richardson   +2 more
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Local Policy-Making

1999
This chapter is concerned with policy-making in local authorities and housing associations. In terms of an interest in policy-making the key feature shared by councils and associations is that each is made up of two quite distinct groups: both have unpaid committee members who carry formal responsibility for policy decisions, and salaried officials ...
Peter Malpass, Alan Murie
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Policy-Making Environments and Locales

2020
This chapter explains the policy environment and how media and communications policy is made at various levels (global, regional, national, provincial and local) and that the processes and policy tools available in each differ. It presents a model of institutional influences on policy making and how state structures and administrative agencies affect ...
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Policy-making at local level: an analysis of Turkish municipalities

2018
Turkish local governments have undergone a radical transformation since the 1980s. Accompanied by a rhetoric of decentralising and democratising reforms, related legal changes have been criticised in the light of either nationalist or democratic, participatory concerns. At the heart of such important waves of legal reforms lay the municipalities as the
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Local Rural Policy Making and Governance

2008
This chapter explores the local rural policy-making process and the changing structures of rural governance, in the context of integrated rural development policy. It is based on the experience of the concurrent implementation of the LEADER+ Community Initiative and an Integrated Rural Development Programme (emanating from Article 33 of the Rural ...
Pavlos Karanikolas, Konstantinos Sfoundouris, Giannis Kovanis   +2 more
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Policy‐making in central and local government compared

Local Government Studies, 1982
(1982). Policy‐making in central and local government compared. Local Government Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 73-79.
G. W. Jones, J. D. Stewart
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The Narratives of a Researcher with Disability as Interventions in Local Disability Policy-making

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2022
This study examined the role of the narratives of a researcher in a residents' meeting on municipal disability policy. The research focuses on sessions from 2013 to 2019 of a local meeting spanning approximately 20 years in Yao City, Osaka, western Japan.
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Citizen Participation in Local Policy Making: Design and Democracy

International Journal of Public Administration, 2012
Embedding democratic innovations that increase and deepen citizen participation in decision making has become a common policy of local governments in many countries. This article focuses on the role of the design of these innovations and seeks to establish the effects of their design on democracy.
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Expert knowledge use and deliberation in local policy making

Policy Sciences, 2013
This article analyzes the extent to which public administrators make use of expert knowledge (i.e., research or evaluation reports) when they prepare policy advice, and the extent to which politicians deliberate on the information provided to them by the administrators. The study is based on original, quantitative data from local politics in Sweden. We
Martin Lundin, PerOla Öberg
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