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Uncovering correlates of decline and critical refuges for a threatened terrestrial mammal
Abstract Globally, the geographic ranges of numerous species are contracting. Identifying spatiotemporal patterns of threat impact can illuminate why species decline in some parts of their range but persist in others. We developed a correlative approach to identify species’ response thresholds and locate ecological refuge areas associated with ...
Natalya M. Maitz +5 more
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Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana
ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
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Basic income trials and the politics of scale: A research agenda
Abstract The growing popularity of basic income has led to extensive trials of the policy in numerous settings across the world. However, analysis of the politics of basic income, and in particular the political dynamics preceding and resulting from trial programs, lags. In response, we propose a research agenda that uses political scale to investigate
Jurgen De Wispelaere +2 more
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Abstract We examine whether and how public participation in policymaking contributes towards fostering stakeholder support for policy proposals formulated in the bureaucratic arena. We explain how key markers of procedural fairness describing both the participation process and policymakers' presentations of it during the decision justification stage co‐
Adriana Bunea, Idunn Nørbech
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Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence
ABSTRACT Research on unequal responsiveness has shown that policies tend to align more closely with the preferences of high‐income citizens than low‐income citizens. Using comparative data on opinions and policies, we suggest that this inequality primarily results from status quo bias; asymmetric blocking power drives unequal congruence rather than ...
Mikael Persson, Anders Sundell
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Ciberespacio como espacio-otro
¿Dónde estamos ubicados cuando navegamos por el ciberespacio? La inquietud intelectual por responder a esta pregunta nos lleva a una lúdica reflexión acerca del ciberespacio y su (des) localización.
Patricia Manna
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ABSTRACT As the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) begins to unpack issues of power and narratives, the main focus has been on power‐over and domination rather than more transformative notions of power‐to and empowerment. This article draws on insights from gender and policy studies and suggests that the NPF benefits from adopting a multifaceted notion ...
Hilda Broqvist
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ABSTRACT Disruptive innovations often diffuse faster than inherited policy institutions can classify, assign jurisdiction, and govern them. In these early phases, the central struggle is often not yet about the stringency of substantive standards, but about prior questions of what the innovation is (its legal and administrative classification), who is ...
Sina Jangjoo
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[Dignifying what matters most: a perspective on breaking down life's hierarchies]. [PDF]
de Rivera Atienza VA +1 more
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