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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma, Nick Kirsop‐Taylor, David Benson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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AI‐Ready Bureaucracies? Assessing Capacity‐Building Approaches in European National AI Strategies

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies is reshaping expectations about state capacity, yet the role of civil servants in this transition remains insufficiently theorized. This study examines how EU Member States address the civil service workforce in their national AI strategies, employing content and cluster analysis ...
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, Sergio Medina‐Bernabé, J. Ignacio Criado   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Localising the Sustainable Development Goals. A Place‐Based Analysis of Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Areas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are increasing calls for a place‐based approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals that show their territorial diversity at subnational level. Based on 33 indicators, covering 13 SDGs and aggregated in three sub‐indexes (economy, social and environment), this paper develops a Sustainable Development Index for Rural and Urban Areas
Lucas Olmedo, Paul Holloway, John Barimo, Mary O'Shaughnessy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Intangible Cultural Heritage Governance: Discursive Alignment for Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intangible cultural heritage governance is increasingly relevant to sustainable rural development, yet the conditions under which public, private and residents align priorities, responsibilities and legitimacy remain underexplored. This study examines how these actors conceptualise, prioritise and discursively legitimise it in Bergamo (Italy).
Berta Tubillejas‐Andrés, Walesska Schlesinger, Amparo Cervera‐Taulet, Francisco Higón‐Tamarit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Instrumentalidad racional de la nueva economía política en la transformación institucional del estado

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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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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Incremental Shifts, Strategic Orbits: The Evolution of EU Space Policy Through Gradual Security Linkages

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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Symbolism and Substance: How Geopolitics, Organisational Design, and Continental Coherence Shape Africa's Multilateral Reform Aspirations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What factors shape African agency in global multilateral reform processes? Rather than a supposed pawn of geopolitical competition, Africa's proactive diplomacy for multilateral reforms is garnering increasing interest. Yet we know surprisingly little about variation in the pursuit of African agency by the African Union (AU) and African Groups
Ueli Staeger
wiley   +1 more source