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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

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
wiley   +1 more source

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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The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

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, Wolfgang Drechsler, Fabienne Maron, Albert Meijer, Hiroko Shimada‐Logie, Michele Tantardini   +5 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
doaj   +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
doaj   +1 more source

The New Institutionalism and Africa [PDF]

Journal of African Economies, 2012
Artículo de revista El nuevo institucionalismo y África Obtenga acceso Robert H. Bates, Robert H. Bates * aDepartamento de Gobierno, Universidad de Harvard *Autor correspondiente: Robert H. Bates. Correo electrónico: rbates@latte.harvard.edu Buscar otros trabajos de este autor en: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven A. Block, Steven A.
Robert H. Bates, Steven Block, Ghada Fayad, Anke Hoeffler   +3 more
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WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ‘ACCEPT’ URBAN SHRINKAGE? A Comparative Analysis of Discursive Pathways to Policy and Action on Shrinking Cities in the Netherlands and Finland

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Shrinking cities are increasingly drawing global attention, but urban shrinkage is seldom considered as an enduring structural condition necessitating a move beyond growth‐centric strategies. The focus often remains on mitigating symptoms rather than embracing the broader implications of long‐term decline. Understanding of what drives decision‐
Marjan Marjanović, Johanna Lilius
wiley   +1 more source

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

Introduction to \u3cem\u3eThe Economics of Social Institutions\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2013
This volume includes thirty-six important contributions to the economics of social institutions by leading figures in the history of the field. Its nine Parts are: Early Contributions, Methodological and Conceptual Issues, Old Institutionalism, New ...
Christoforou, Asimina, Davis, John B.
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