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The European Citizens' Initiative: An Early Assessment of the European Union's New Participatory Democracy Instrument [PDF]
, 2013 The world's first transnational, digital right of initiative, the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) took effect on April 1, 2012, when the EU Regulation on the citizen's initiative (No 2011/2011) entered into force.
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Location Privacy in Spatial Crowdsourcing
, 2017 Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) is a new platform that engages individuals in collecting and analyzing environmental, social and other spatiotemporal information.
A Liu +9 more
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Involving citizens in public decision making: the case of participatory budgeting in Lithuania [PDF]
Financial Theory and Practice, 2013 In times of increasing public distrust in government and its institutions, engaging the public in decision making may strengthen democracy as well as result in a more effective allocation of scarce public resources. Participatory budgeting has started in Brazil and spread around the world but is a new concept in some countries.
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to renewed interest in analytical tools that address complex policy problems and move beyond linear‐rational approaches in policy appraisal, Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) integrates participatory approaches with multi‐criteria analysis (MCA), thereby incorporating specialised knowledge and diverse social values and ...
Egle Basyte Ferrari
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The Status of Civil Society in Zambia: Challenges and Future Prospects [PDF]
, 2010 This report analyses this multi-faceted nature of CSOs, whether formal or informal in nature, in order to gain a greater understanding of the characteristics that make them a valued partner in the development process, the challenges they encounter, and ...
Moonga Hangoma Mumba, Rudo Phiri Mumba
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The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice +1 more
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Creating Citizens for Whom? Participatory Budgeting and Citizenship Learning in Japan
, 2013 This paper explores the ideological underpinning of Participatory Budgeting (PB) projects in Japan through critical analysis of the concept of citizenship advocated in PB. Through a case study of a PB project in Nabari, a local city in Japan, I have examined the type of citizenship municipal governments attempted to achieve trough PB, and the nature of
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Local Responses to Limits on U.S. Public Health Authority During the COVID‐19 Emergency
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public health has become politicized in the U.S. Though research shows that limiting public health authority during emergency response puts community wellbeing and health outcomes at risk, during the COVID‐19 emergency (2020–2021), some U.S. state policymakers limited the disease‐preventing actions local public health agencies could take. This
Genevive R. Meredith +6 more
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Co-designing soft climate adaptation: citizen centred solutions across four European pilots
Frontiers in ClimateClimate change impacts in Europe are intensifying and disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. While adaptation strategies increasingly acknowledge the value of public participation and citizen science, there remains a gap in inclusive ...
Francois Jost +14 more
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Strengthening governance through engaged societies : lessons from the implementation of poverty reduction strategies [PDF]
In December 1999, the Boards of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund approved a new approach to their relations with low-income countries.
Barbone, Luca, Sharkey, Katrina
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