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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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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What is the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting the design of public administrative reform? We present a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of policy entrepreneurs on public administrative reform. We start by proposing a typology of the various policy entrepreneurs active in the administrative reform arena.
Nissim Cohen
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What is driving the increasing presence of citizen participation initiatives? [PDF]
Nowadays, there is an imperative for governments to be more responsive to community needs and public sector modernization programmes are introducing opportunities for citizen participation.
Ana Yetano, Basisilo Acerete, Sonia Royo
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How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
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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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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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Below the radar in a Big Society? Reflections on community engagement, empowerment and social action in a changing policy context [PDF]
, 2010 ‘The Big Society’ has become a key element of the Coalition’s Government policy platform, not only on the delivery of public services by the formal and funded voluntary sector but also in terms of communities, more informal third sector activities and ...
McCabe, Angus
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
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European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
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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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