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COVID, 2023 We provide policy lessons for governments across Latin America by drawing on an original dataset of daily national and subnational non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic for eight Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia,
Michael M. Touchton +14 more
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Public Participation in New Local Governance Spaces: The Case for Community Development in Local Strategic Partnerships [PDF]
, 2014 Research into public participation in local decision-making has increased over the past forty years, reflecting increased interest in the subject from academic, policy and practitioner perspectives.
Purcell, Martin
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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2015 The past decade has seen a dynamic and contradictory treatment of difference in French policy-making, both nationally and locally. However, the means by which local difference orientated policies redefine the national is understudied.
Joseph Downing
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District heating in the UK:A Technological Innovation Systems analysis [PDF]
, 2012 District heating infrastructure could contribute to the UK's energy policy goals of decarbonisation, renewable energy deployment, tackling fuel poverty and ensuring energy security.
Hawkey, David
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Alcohol Policy Making at the Local Level [PDF]
Contemporary Drug Problems, 2014 Several effective alcohol policy measures take place at the local level, yet little is known about local policy-making processes. In Norway, on-premise closing hours are much debated, and they were subject to a liberalization wave in 2004 and a restriction wave around 2008. This study addresses the processes that underlie the changes in closing hours.
Rossow, Ingeborg, Baklien, Bergljot
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Regional Decision-Making in Oregon’s Area Commissions on Transportation
Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs, 2022 Long after other areas of Oregon had already done so, the local agencies in the Portland region served by the Oregon Department of Transportation decided to form a regional Area Commission on Transportation.
Cole P. Grisham
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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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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2020 Background Policy is one of the levers for initiating structural change to foster the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA). To this end, policy-makers have to deal with complex ecosystems embedded in specific contexts.
A. Noël Racine +5 more
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Evidence for Informing Health Policy Development in Low- Income Countries (LICS): Perspectives of Policy Actors in Uganda [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 Background Although there is a general agreement on the benefits of evidence informed health policy development given resource constraints especially in Low-Income Countries (LICs), the definition of what evidence is, and what evidence is suitable to ...
Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Rhona Mijumbi
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IDEAS project - Data Informed Platform for Health feasibility study in Uttar Pradesh [PDF]
, 2013 The IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice. This data collection contains topic guides and other research tools used to assess the feasibility of introducing
Bhattacharyya, Sanghita +2 more
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