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Ministerial discretion in migration matters: Contemporary policy issues in historical context

open access: yes, 2003
This brief analyses the current conundrum surrounding the exercise of ministerial discretion in migration matters in historical context. The machinery legislation of the 1901 and 1958 Migration Acts conferred wide discretionary powers upon the Minister ...
Kerry Carrington   +1 more
core  

In Situ Grown Functional Interfaces for Enhanced Lithium‐Ion Transport in Silicon–Carbon Anodes

open access: yesEcoEnergy, EarlyView.
A novel chemical vapor deposition‐derived silicon–carbon anode with a continuous Li+ transport interface delivers markedly improved rate capability, cycling stability, and specific capacity for lithium‐ion batteries. ABSTRACT Chemical vapor deposition‐derived silicon–carbon (CVD‐Si/C) materials are promising Si‐based anodes for next‐generation lithium ...
Deviprasath Chinnadurai, Zhi Wei Seh
wiley   +1 more source

Water Governance Under International Pressure: Policy Narratives, Food Security, Scarcity, and the Politics of Survival in Iran

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
wiley   +1 more source

Translating Across Boundaries: The Process of Integrating Forestry Into the German National Water Strategy

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory processes are increasingly recognized as essential components of modern environmental governance. While much scholarly attention has been devoted to the design and implementation of such processes, less is known about the critical phase between participatory processes and final policy outputs.
Sabeth Häublein
wiley   +1 more source

Ministerial policy roles and mandate letters in the Justin Trudeau government

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration
AbstractThis article examines ministers as policy actors through analysis of tasks in mandate letters. These tasks were coded as involving either policy initiation, supplementation, maintenance, coordination, engagement, or information. The 2021 mandate letters show that policy maintenance tasks are most common, initiation the least, suggesting that ...
openaire   +1 more source

Policy library

open access: yes, 2001
Policy Library is a collection of material from, and links to, British and international research ...
Policy library
core  

State‐Initiated Climate Intermediaries Shaping Climate Governance–Needed Facilitators of Dialogue for Societal Transition to Net Zero?

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As governments intensify efforts to achieve net zero goals, they increasingly rely on forms of indirect governance to mobilise societal actors and facilitate climate action. Governance literature focuses on orchestration by organisations and governments that engage intermediaries to pursue shared governance goals.
Alexander Nordt, Karin Bäckstrand
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding Safe Hospital Access for Overdose Care in Lebanon [PDF]

open access: yesHealth and Human Rights
In Lebanon, the criminalization of drug use and the misapplication of ministerial directives have led hospitals to report overdose cases to law enforcement, deterring people who use drugs from seeking urgent medical care and increasing the risk of ...
Michelle Wazan   +3 more
doaj  

Policy as a Bargaining Outcome: Coalition Leverage and Pledge Fulfillment

open access: yesBritish Journal of Political Science
Which parties can deliver the policies that they promised? In multiparty contexts, parties must bargain to realize electoral promises. Prior work shows that parties influence policy change by using resources such as legislative seats, ministerial posts ...
Mark A. Kayser   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transformative, Iterative or Performative? Conceptualising Patterns of Fossil Fuel Phaseout Leadership

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global leadership in phasing out fossil fuels is an important new frontier in climate governance, yet remains undertheorised within existing scholarly accounts of climate leadership. In this paper, we argue that ‘phaseout leadership’—climate leadership centred on curtailing fossil fuel supply—is a distinct kind of leadership that dominant ...
Freddie Daley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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