Making Sense, Making Do: Local District Implementation of a New State Induction Policy
Connecticut’s Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) program is in its early stages of implementation. This study examined how local school districts implemented TEAM and identified factors that affected implementation.
Chad D. Ellis
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Making Policy Without Parameters: Obtaining Data on the Nonprofit Sector in a Local Community
This study began with an effort to obtain data on the economic contribution of the nonprofit sector in a large, metropolitan community to inform policy-makers.
Roudebush Margaret M. +1 more
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Territorial Governance and Area Image
The image of a region or a city is an emerging topic in most debates about economic development strategies at the local and national level. Local and national policies of innovation which form an essential part of modern policies of local development are
Nicola Bellini
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Online engagement from the grassroots: Reflecting on over a decade of ePetitioning experience in Europe and the UK [PDF]
The official published verison of this chapter can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2012 SpringerExtensive debate on Internet and formal politics has concentrated on whether authorities should focus their efforts on high-volume activities ...
Elliman, T, Panagiotopoulos, P
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Involving local fishing communities in policy making: Addressing Illegal fishing in Indonesia
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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A Q‐Learning Algorithm to Solve the Two‐Player Zero‐Sum Game Problem for Nonlinear Systems
A Q‐learning algorithm to solve the two‐player zero‐sum game problem for nonlinear systems. ABSTRACT This paper deals with the two‐player zero‐sum game problem, which is a bounded L2$$ {L}_2 $$‐gain robust control problem. Finding an analytical solution to the complex Hamilton‐Jacobi‐Issacs (HJI) equation is a challenging task.
Afreen Islam +2 more
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When Asylum Policies Go Local: the Case of Socially Useful Works for Asylum-Seekers.
The local sphere of migration policy has become a key area of intervention for local governments, during the recent refugee crisis. The scant existing literature on the topic has distinguished different approaches through which local governments manage ...
Andrea Pettrachin
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Who Decides? Toward a Typology of Transit Governance
This article describes a typology for formal governance structures of public transit in the United States to support inquiry into how organizational structures influence policy making processes, organizational capacity and policy outcomes. Scholarship of
Lauren Ames Fischer +2 more
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Between patronage and good governance: organizational arrangements in (local) public appointment processes [PDF]
This article investigates whether certain organizational arrangements in (local) public appointment processes could encourage the use of appointments as a tool of good governance rather than as a tool of patronage.
Grossi, Giuseppe +2 more
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