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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Examining human agency from Richard Rortys point of view with regard to social education [PDF]
فصلنامه نوآوریهای آموزشی, 2005 Any plan for education presupposes a particular view on human nature. The kind of approach to human and his/her place in society guides educational practices in social education.
Khosrow Bāgheri, Narges sajjadieh
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
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Maxwellův démon. Účelnost pojmu „fikční svět“ z hlediska neopragmatické literární vědy // Maxwell’s demon: On the usefulness of the term "fictional world" from a neo.pragmatic point of view [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2016 The study discusses the term „fictional world“: is it a useful and well-founded term for a literary critic? Is it possible to separate fiction from non-fiction, a fictional world from the real world?
Vladimír Papoušek
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ILCEA, 2013 At the end of the nineteenth century, a process of secularisation stirred up Roman Catholic countries. It was accompanied by a movement, called “modernist”, which aimed to liberalise Catholicism. Hostile to that current, the Vatican set out on a form of “
Camille Lacau St Guily
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The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice +1 more
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Neo-Pragmatism and Phenomenology: A Proposal [PDF]
European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 2011 This article introduces a new pragmatist-inspired perspective on the social sciences. It explores the relevance of neo-pragmatism for the philosophy of the social sciences, showing how it can lead to innovative and groundbreaking social research. The paper attempts to drive home these insights by elaborating on the affinities of neo-pragmatism with ...
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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Antiseizure medications are approved based on clinical trials that demonstrate their efficacy as measured by reductions in seizure frequency (SF). When designing these trials, trialists must select inclusion criteria where SF can be reliably measured to maintain statistical power.
Wesley T. Kerr +6 more
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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Inclusion and exclusion criteria of clinical trials for seizures aim to select representative participants with a high enough seizure frequency to evaluate the efficacy of treatment in a relatively short double‐blind period. To inform the selection of seizure frequency‐based inclusion criteria, we evaluated the association between ...
Wesley T. Kerr +5 more
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From one to many: recent work on truth [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, we offer a brief, critical survey of contemporary work on truth. We begin by reflecting on the distinction between substantivist and deflationary truth theories.
Lynch, Michael, Wyatt, Jeremy
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