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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Workers' Selection Exams: The Case of the Bank of Italy
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT High‐stakes exams can be used to rank and select candidates for job openings, and the ability of those selected hinges on the design of the exam. I propose a method to model candidates' performance to assess how effective the exam is at selecting high‐ability candidates.
Santiago Pereda‐Fernández
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The Limits of Regulatory Capture: Explaining the UK Payment Protection Insurance Mis‐Selling Scandal
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To what extent does regulatory agencies' failure to protect the public from harm result from undue industry influence? We argue that “regulatory capture” is invoked too easily to explain regulatory failure. To re‐examine the relationship between regulatory capture and regulatory failure, we use process‐tracing to study UK regulatory decision ...
Eva Heims
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LOCAL OMBUDSMAN IN SERBIA : CHANGES OR STATUS QUO?
Pravo, 2012 The realization and protection of human rights in the modern society are imposed as a „condition sine qua non“ for the survival of any community. Modern society knows various ways of protecting human rights and freedoms.
Aleksandar Grujić
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Automation in public administration is often seen as a recent, purely digital phenomenon that transforms decision‐making and governance. This article challenges that view by elucidating a historical continuum in the automation of administrative decision‐making.
Aleksander Heikkinen +2 more
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OMBUDSMAN IN THE FIELD OF ECOLOGY IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Pravo, 2008 The Ombudsman as an institution is present in many countries in the world, imposing itself as an in dependent, unhiased and objective mechanism for protecting citizen's rights, in the cases of maladminstration of the state bodies.
Iskra Aćimovska-Maletić
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Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
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Balancing Neutral and Responsive Competences in the Context of Functional Politicization
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic governments can legitimately expect permanent civil servants to undertake functionally politicized tasks, such as providing political‐tactical advice. However, safeguarding the neutrality and legitimacy of a permanent civil service in the context of functional politicization necessitates that political considerations do not override
Niels Opstrup +3 more
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure.
Mariana Costa Silveira +5 more
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Regulatory Agency Reputation Acquisition With Regulatees: A Q Methodology Analysis
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Empirical studies examining how independent regulatory agencies acquire their reputation with regulatees are scarce. This gap is notable given established links between regulator reputation and regulatee compliance. To address this, this paper presents results of an online, self‐administered Q methodology study with 286 regulatees of 10 Dutch ...
Lauren A. Fahy, Erik‐Hans Klijn
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