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What Are Select Committees For?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
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Design, adaptation and content validation of the Sheffield Profile for Assessment and Referral for Care in Colombian Spanish (SPARC-Sp-Col). [PDF]

BMC Palliat Care
Mendieta CV, de Vries E, Calvache JA, Ahmedzai SH, Prue G, Reid J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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Analysis of the efficiency and influencing factors of the urban and rural residents social endowment insurance in China: from the perspective of regional heterogeneity. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Dai A, Hu Y, Xie H, Zhao W, Keskin B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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The impact of child type 1 diabetes on parental incomes in a welfare state context: quasi-experimental evidence from Swedish national registers. [PDF]

Diabetologia
Kennedy B, Wernroth ML, Langenskiöld S, Bonander C, Byberg L, Grönqvist E, Fall T.   +6 more
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Tri-County Contractors Association, Inc. and Milwaukee & Southeast Wisconsin Regional Council of Carpenters of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC) (2003) [PDF]

, 2003

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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Job control and working life expectancy in Sweden. [PDF]

Scand J Work Environ Health
Almroth M, Nevriana A, Falkstedt D, Burdorf A, Kjellberg K, Hemmingsson T, Pan KY, Pedersen J.   +7 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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