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Does Participatory Budgeting Improve Decentralized Public Service Delivery? [PDF]
, 2014 This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of ...
Amelina, Maria, Beuermann, Diether W.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Well‐implemented social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are associated with positive student outcomes. Through CalHOPE, County Office of Education (COE) leaders are providing implementation support to districts and schools seeking to improve SEL delivery statewide.
Ashley N. Metzger +4 more
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Fiscal determinants of empowerment [PDF]
Empowerment of local governments and citizens is a primary object of decentralization. Using the analytic lens of empowerment, the author explores the nature of decentralized governance and how this type of structure is likely to be more or less ...
Raich, Uri
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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The Tax Spending Nexus: Evidence from a Panel of US State-Local Governments [PDF]
We re-examine the tax-spending nexus using, for the first time, a panel of fifty US state-local government units over the period 1963-97 and panel techniques that allow for cross-sectional dependence.
Joakim Westerlund, Saeid Mahdavi
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison +5 more
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Does Higher Social Diversity Affect People’s Contributions to Local Schools? Evidence from New Zealand [PDF]
New Zealand is becoming more socially diverse, in common with other Western countries. Primarily U.S. based-evidence suggests that growing diversity may lower people’s participation in society, and their contributions towards public goods.
Hayden Armstrong, Jeremy Clark
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn +4 more
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Public management and administration in Ukraine, 2023 L.M. Karpenko, M.M. Izha, K.A. Rudenia
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