Why has Participatory Budgeting Declined in Brazil?
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2022 Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic policy innovation created in Brazil in the early 1990s, recognized worldwide as an effective policy tool for directly involving the population in budget decisions.
Carla de Paiva Bezerra +1 more
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Conflict, Resistance and Alliances in a Multi-Governance Setting: Reshaping Realities in the Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Reforms \ud [PDF]
, 2008 In this article, we will explore how local politics of policy, in the interaction with governance mechanisms, have produced specific polity outcomes in the irrigation sector of Andhra Pradesh. The water sector of Andhra Pradesh, which has been struggling
Molen, Irna van der, Nikku, Bala Raju
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From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India
L'Espace Politique, 2016 Informed by the ‘right to the city’ literature a large body of research on urban transformation in India and other developing countries had shown how Global city aspirations of the urban elites have increasingly come about through commoditisation of ...
Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy
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The Local-National Gap in Intergroup Attitudes and Far-Right Underperformance in Local Elections
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 The far right typically performs worse in local elections than in national ones. We propose that a key reason for this underperformance is the difference in how intergroup attitudes manifest and are informed in local and national settings.
Hege H. Bye +2 more
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THE LOCAL POLITICS OF ORTHODOXY: The Majelis Ulama Indonesia in the Post-New Order Banten
Journal of Indonesian Islam, 2012 The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) has played an important role in guarding the Sunni orthodoxy in contemporary Indonesia. As it has chapters in almost parts of Indonesia in the provincial, district and municipality level, this role has been also ...
Moch. Nur Ichwan
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An AFSCME Local Transforms Local Politics [PDF]
, 1994 [Excerpt] In the late 1980s, AFSCME Local 2703, in Merced, California, found itself in a position familiar to many union members at that time: fighting hard to keep pay and benefits from being slashed.
McLeod, Sean P.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Blinatumomab is a bispecific T‐cell engager approved for the treatment of pediatric B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL). Outpatient home infusion reduces hospitalization burden and optimizes resource utilization, but is logistically challenging.
Angela Parra del Riego +10 more
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To Strike or Not to Strike (Review of Julius Getman, The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements) [PDF]
, 1999 This is a book review of Julius Getman, The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements ...
Brudney, James J.
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Local politics and economic geography [PDF]
We consider information aggregation in national and local elections when voters are mobile and might sort themselves into local districts. Using a standard model of private information for voters in elections in combination with a New Economic Geography ...
Berliant, Marcus, Tabuchi, Takatoshi
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Women as mayors: the political representation of women in the leadership of Slovak municipalities after the municipal elections in the year 2010 [PDF]
Annales Scientia Politica, 2018 The paper analyses women’s representation at the local level in Slovakia, or at the level of all (almost three thousand) Slovak municipalities, respectively.
Pave Maškarinec
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