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Trusting the Gatekeeper: Why and When Do we Trust State Audit Institutions?
Regulation &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
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The Pro‐Office Mindset. Anticorruption Beyond Legal Instruments
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
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Regulation &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
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Regulation &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
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Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, November 2026.Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä +2 more
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Clean, Pleasant, Governed: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Bathing Without a Battle
Nursing 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
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The defensor civitatis for the Protection of Vulnerable People
Journal of Interdisciplinary History of IdeasThis 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
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Environment-Behaviour Proceedings JournalThis 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
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Through a Glass Darkly: The Esk Valley Floods
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2026.Recent decades have seen a refocus from flood mitigation to risk reduction in favour of more proactive approaches to risk reduction and flood risk management. This study draws on the findings from surveys of residents in the Esk catchment of Hawkes Bay who experienced two significant flood events in 2018 and 2023 and residents’ perceptions of flood ...
William Smith
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Building Trust in the First Stages of Research With Children
Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 923-932, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article focuses on the process of building trust in the first stages of research with children. Based on three research examples conducted in Finland, we analyse the ways of building trust and illustrate how trust or distrust can emerge in research with children.
Terhi Tuukkanen, Elina Weckström
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