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Understanding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Local Government Decision‐Making: The Influence of Institutional Pressures and Managerial Perceptions

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly being integrated into public sector decision‐making processes, with public managers relying on them to enhance their capabilities. As AI adoption becomes more widespread, discussions about its advantages and drawbacks intensify, alongside growing external expectations and pressures. However,
A. Paula Rodriguez Müller   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing the Local Digital Transformation: A European Comparative Perspective

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares governance structures, policy formulation and implementation of administrative digitalization at the local level in three countries with different administrative traditions: France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Sabine Kuhlmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical Analysis of Secondary Victims' Preferred Method of Reporting Crime in a South African Township

open access: yesSexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Digital communication has facilitated freedom of expression in various contexts worldwide. Digitalized communication is a form of expression that has become the norm worldwide despite cybercrime and other challenges. Communication preferences for social media determine attitudes to reporting crime.
Nomsa Ingrid Zikalala
wiley   +1 more source

Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness?

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Local criminalization policies draw on the logic of deterrence to levy costs on individuals who engage in behaviors that are closely associated with various public concerns, such as those criminalizing behaviors associated with homelessness, thereby potentially reducing community‐level costs.
Hannah Lebovits, Andrew Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Dimensión y tipología de los movimientos transfronterizos en la frontera entre España (Extremadura) y Portugal (Alentejo y Región Centro)

open access: yesDocuments d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2010
Este estudio permite acercarnos a la realidad socioeconómica del espacio de frontera que conforman los municipios de las provincias de Badajoz y Cáceres (España) y los concelhos y freguesias de los distritos portugueses de Guarda, Castelo Branco ...
José Antonio Gutiérrez Gallego   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Municipios: ¿Modernización o privatización?

open access: yesDerechos en Acción, 2017
Cada vez es más frecuente encontrar en los distintos municipios de la Provincia de Buenos Aires ejemplos de privatizaciones o concesiones que hacen los fiscos locales de las distintas etapas que conforman la recaudación, delegando de esta manera directamente el ejercicio de funciones esenciales del Estado en materia tributaria.
openaire   +3 more sources

Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2281-2294, July 2026.
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

MUNICIPIOS, AUTONOMÍA Y COORDINACIÓN

open access: yesRevista Eurolatinoamericana de Derecho Administrativo, 2014
El tema desarrollado en el presente texto es la cuestión de la autonomía de los Municipios en la Constitución Nacional Argentina, y la forma como el Derecho argentino trata de la problemática de las "áreas metropolitanas" en las ciudades pequeñas y medianas de Provincia.
openaire   +3 more sources

Time‐calibrated relationships of a rare cave catfish (Trichomycterus rubbioli): Shedding light on troglobitic lifestyle origin in the Brazilian caatinga

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 362-370, July 2026.
Abstract Catfishes of the subfamily Trichomycterinae comprise the most diverse fish group with species adapted to live in Neotropical caves, but past evolutionary scenarios that have driven the origin of these troglobitic species remain unknown. We herein investigate the phylogenetic position of the cave‐restricted Trichomycterus rubbioli, endemic to ...
Wilson J. E. M. Costa   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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