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Political processes in the Sverdlovsk region under the Governor E. Kuivashev
Studia Humanitatis, 2016 The research is devoted to the political life of the Middle Urals. The author identifies several political processes taking place in the Sverdlovsk region under the Governor E. Kuivashev.
Mukhametov Ruslan Salikhovich
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For Better and for Worse? On the Transformation of the Finnish Social Assistance Scheme
Social Work and Society, 2020 The recent reform of Finnish social assistance may be described as, in many ways, going against the European tide toward a welfare service state. The reform involved the transfer of the implementation of social assistance from municipal frontline ...
Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll
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Municipal Boundary Battles explores the motivations, land use effects, and financial implications of municipal boundary adjustments across Canada, focusing mainly on annexations and amalgamations—the most frequent means to adjust boundaries and reform ...
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Orchestration of Climate Action in Municipalities: A Collective Capacity Approach
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Municipalities are increasingly positioned as key actors in enabling local climate action, yet their ability to mobilise societal actors remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how municipal officials in six Finnish municipalities from different local contexts understand and operationalise collective capacity for climate action,
Maija Faehnle +2 more
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Public Sector Reforms in Modern Russia
RUDN Journal of Economics, 2011 The article deals with problems of the public sector performance in Russia, the main tasks, phases and challenges of the reform. The data of federative relations and municipal government’s features and results, the reform of housing and community ...
E V Ponomarenko
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Short-term municipal securities [PDF]
An abstract for this article is not availableMunicipal finance ...
John R. Walter
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how farmers perceive and respond to climate policy risk in the context of drought and argues that understanding such responses is as important as understanding farmer reactions to the biophysical impacts of climate change.
M. Anne Visser +3 more
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RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2009 The article is devoted to the analysis of the prospects of development of institute of local self-management in conditions of finishing of municipal reform.
V V Kazakov
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Making negotiated land reform work : initial experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa [PDF]
The author describes a new type of negotiated land reform that relies on voluntary land transfers negotiated between buyers and sellers, with the government's role restricted to establishing the necessary framework for negotiation and making a land ...
Deininger, Klaus
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Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why do formally similar multi‐level governance arrangements produce different governance outcomes in urban climate and transport policy? This article examines variation in governance performance across three metropolitan regions in Norway operating under the national Urban Growth Agreement (UGA) framework and pursuing the shared objective of ...
Kirsten Hegsvold
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