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Public Media and Political Independence: Lessons for the Future of Journalism From Around the World [PDF]

, 2011
Profiles how fourteen nations fund and protect the autonomy of public media via multiyear funding, public-linked funding structures, charters, laws, and agencies or boards designed to limit political influence and ensure spending in the public ...
Matthew Powers, Rodney Benson
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Warming summers limit reindeer grazing, weakening herbivory pressure in the mountain tundra

Ecography, EarlyView.
Climate change is predicted to alter species interactions by exposing ecosystems to increasingly frequent and intense warm spells. In the mountain tundra, grazing by large herbivores, particularly reindeer, can limit shrub expansion and preserve Arctic plant diversity.
Marianne Stoessel, Akiko Kato, Regina Lindborg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergovernmental relations in Scotland post-devolution [PDF]

, 2002
Central-local relations in Scotland pre-devolution were different to a degree, but the overall substance and rationale behind them tended to be very similar to those in England. This article outlines post-devolution developments in Scotland.
McGarvey, Neil
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The Necessity of parliamentary oversight and the main subjects of parliamentary oversight in Lithuania: permanent committees of the seimas

, 2010
Straipsnyje Lietuvos Respublikos Seimo vykdoma parlamentinė kontrolė nagrinėjama kaip konstitucinis institutas, kompleksiškai sudarantis Seimo konstitucinio statuso institutą sistemiškai ir savarankiškai veikiant vykdomąją valdžią nustatytais kontrolinio pobūdžio instrumentais bei užtikrinant nepertraukiamą ir efektyvų vykdomosios valdžios įgyvendinimą.
Žiobienė, Edita, Kalinauskas, Gintaras
openaire   +2 more sources

For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon, M. G. Elsinga, J. S. C. M. Hoekstra, M. Sunikka‐Blank, R. Galvin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Human Rights in Times of Covid: Human Rights Discourse in the UK and Devolved Legislatures

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
The British government’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant wide-ranging restrictions imposed on people living in the UK with minimal parliamentary oversight.
Anne Cousson
doaj   +1 more source

Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
wiley   +1 more source

Can Evaluation Policies Survive Democratic Erosion? Safeguarding Independence in International Organizations

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International organizations' (IOs) evaluation policies face unprecedented threats from post‐truth dynamics—delegitimization of expertise, nationalist framing against multilateralism, authoritarian overconfidence, and anti‐scientific sentiment. Despite institutional convergence on independence safeguards, methodological standards, and normative
Mita Marra
wiley   +1 more source

Undermining Liberal Democracy? Cross‐Level Opposition in Madrid Regional President's Speeches During the Pandemic Crisis

Politics and Governance
This article offers a theoretical contribution to the study of political opposition during the Covid‐19 pandemic crisis. In liberal democracies, the crisis often amplified executive dominance, thereby weakening the institutional opposition’s key role in ...
Taru Haapala, Andreu Teruel
doaj   +1 more source

Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
wiley   +1 more source