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Police De-Escalation Training & Education: Nationally, Provincially, and Municipally
, 2021 Lisa Deveau
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The article addresses the role that communities played in managing the social and health crisis generated by the Covid‐19 pandemic in two Chilean cities. Chile is an interesting case study owing to its intense and prolonged confinement measures, which focused heavily on individuals and households.
Francisco Letelier Troncoso +3 more
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Three quantitative predictions based on past regularities about voter turnout at the French 2009 European election [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 The previous twelve turnout rates of French national elections by municipality show regularities. These regularities do not depend on the national turnout level, nor on the nature of the election. Based on past statistical regularities we make three predictions. The first one deals with the standard deviation of the turnout rate by municipality.
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Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2017 The paper analyzes a recent judgment by the Supreme Court that in view of the discussion regarding the bar to proceeding with the evidences in a criminal process deals with the question of the activities carried out by the local police corps outside its ...
Manuel Izquierdo Carrasco +1 more
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, 2017 The aim of the essay is to describe, analyze and compare the nationalization of the municipal police service in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century.
Björn Furuhagen
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Nonparametric tests of optimizing behavior in public service provision: Methodology and an application to local safety [PDF]
We develop a positive non-parametric model of public sector production that allows us to test whether an implicit procedure of cost minimization at shadow prices can rationalize the outcomes of public sector activities.
Bruno De Borger +2 more
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SPORT‐RELATED GENTRIFICATION: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban studies scholars and sociologists of sport have critically examined the production and consumption of world‐class sports spectacles that are constitutive elements of urban growth agendas and broader accumulation processes by dispossession.
Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
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Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This study contributes new insights into whether volunteering improves the employment prospects of jobless individuals by examining its relationship with the speed at which they secure new jobs— an outcome that has received limited attention in previous research.
Elisabeth Lilleøre Holstein +1 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2023, China introduced regulatory amendments to birth certificates and the hukou (household registration) system, aiming to boost birth rates and offset an aging population. However, the implications of these changes on marriage and family support amidst population policy shifts remain underexplored.
Eileen Y. H. Tsang
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