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LOCAL OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION IN SERBIA AND SPAIN WITH A SPECIAL OVERVIEW OF THE PROCEDURE FOR THE LOCAL OMBUDSMAN ELECTION

open access: yesPravo, 2013
Human freedoms and rights are one of the most significant creations of a man. Ombudsman institution occurs in the overall context of human freedoms and rights, with the aim of protecting and enabling people to realize their rights.
Aleksandar Grujić
doaj  

Design‐Based Politicization in Non‐Majoritarian Institutions: The Case of the European Commission's Regulatory Scrutiny Board

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Non‐majoritarian institutions are designed to depoliticize policymaking and enhance the credibility of regulatory decisions. Yet many such bodies have become sites of contestation, exposing the limits of technocratic insulation. While research highlights external and behavioral drivers of politicization, the role of institutional design ...
Brigitte Pircher
wiley   +1 more source

The Pro‐Office Mindset. Anticorruption Beyond Legal Instruments

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
wiley   +1 more source

Trusting the Gatekeeper: Why and When Do we Trust State Audit Institutions?

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We reveal the sources of public trust in state audit institutions as a major gatekeeper of good governance. Based on rationales developed in trust research and democratic theory, we test our hypotheses using a survey distributed to Israeli citizens.
Dana Natan‐Krup   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Thin Blue Democratic Line? Organization, Interest, and Ethical Compatibility as Foundations of External Accountability Credibility

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility ...
Sebastian Roché   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clean, Pleasant, Governed: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Bathing Without a Battle

open access: yesNursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Bathing Without a Battle is a widely circulated video training resource in residential dementia care, but the assumptions it advances about bathing, refusal, and appropriate nursing practice have received limited critical attention. This paper analyzes how the text constructs resistance to assisted bathing and how it frames legitimate nursing ...
Patricia Morris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Back to the Future”: Testing the “Individual Problems and Strengths” Scale With a Stepwise Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 82, Issue 9, Page 1378-1387, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Routine Outcome Monitoring systems have been developed to monitor how clients' lives change over the course of therapy. However, for such systems to be effective, they must possess sufficient construct validity and scale‐reliability to warrant their use. In this study, using a sample of 841 Norwegian clients, we performed the first independent
Rune Zahl‐Olsen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The defensor civitatis for the Protection of Vulnerable People

open access: yesJournal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas
This article considers the Roman defensor civitatis, which has been seen as an ancient precedent for the ombudsman for the people. Similar to the current ombudsman, he protected the most vulnerable people.
M. Lourdes Martinez de Morentin
doaj   +1 more source

Ombudsman in Malaysia: Ombudsman in Sarawak and Ombudsman for Financial Services (OFS) in Kuala Lumpur

open access: yesEnvironment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal
This research focuses on the ombudsman in Malaysia and its importance in strengthening good governance in civil state service. Public complaints towards maladministration and abuse of power of the government administrators or authorities have always been an issue that must be resolved in order to ensure that the government authorities are performing ...
Izyan Farhana Zulkarnain   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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