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People, power and planning in public places: the making of Covenant Day
Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2015 Cities have been heralded as the spatial manifestation of differentiated land uses and activities. The planning system has tried to establish some interpretation of sense for the public good within this paradoxical and contested place.
Keith Henry, Greg Lloyd, Heather Ritchie
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014 Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations.
Gordon C Shen
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Novos Cadernos NAEA, 2009 This work objective deals with analyses the instrumental rationality of the New Political Economics in the transformation State Institutional concerning a conceptual and methodological transdisciplinary that involve the interaction of political and ...
Josè Gpe. Vargas Hernàndez
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Förskoleklassens institutionella kulturer
Utbildning & Demokrati, 2020 Based on the assumption that teachers are policy actors, this study aims to identify the meanings given to the preschool class’s institutional cultures in teachers’ articulations about the preschool class.
Lina Lago, Sven Persson, Helena Ackesjö
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The End of Self‐Regulation: Will the Football Governance Act 2025 Fix the National Game?
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The Football Governance Act 2025 is a watershed. It upends the model of self‐regulation that has defined how the game has been run in England and Wales for over a century‐and‐a‐half. The newly created Independent Football Regulator will exercise control over clubs, owners, and competition organisers.
Jan Zglinski
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Can Historical Institutionalism Explain the Reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy? [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2012 Historical institutionalism, one of the three variants of new institutionalism, has been largely employed by scholars to explain the development of one of the first policies developed at the European level, namely the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP ...
Nicoleta Lăşan
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the evolution of European Union (EU) space policy through the lens of historical institutionalism, highlighting how security and defence considerations have been incrementally integrated into a domain originally framed as civilian and scientific.
Gustavo G. Müller, Philip De Man
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This paper examines the substantive representation of women in Australian legislative institutions by analysing private members' bills introduced at the state and federal levels from 1997 to 2022. While Australia has made considerable progress in gender equality, persistent sexism and misogyny challenge the substantive impact of increasing numbers of ...
Isabella Vacaflores, Elise Stephenson
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