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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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Evaluating community projects [PDF]

, 1999
Evaluating community projects seeks to explore the questions- what do users get out of community projects? what do projects achieve? how can we find this out?
Green, Val
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From Parallel Provision to Health System Integration: Exploring the Trajectory and Contextual Drivers of the Healthcare Response for Refugees in Six Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rising numbers of refugees, prolonged displacement and reduced funding have led to challenges in terms of how to address their healthcare needs, with different approaches taken, ranging from parallel mechanisms to arrangements that are integrated (to different extents) within the national health system. Increasingly, global frameworks call for
Maria Paola Bertone, Natasha Palmer, Amina Olabi, Ibrahim Bou‐Orm, Hussam Rekani, Hassan Ould Moctar, Ricardo Chuquimia, Chitalu Miriam Chama‐Chiliba, Ben Ngoye, Zahid Ali Memon, Marcia Vera‐Espinoza, Karin Diaconu, Alastair Ager, Sophie Witter   +13 more
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Participatory Decision Making: A Field Experiment on Manipulating the Votes [PDF]

Many believe that deliberative democracy, where individuals discuss alternatives before voting on them, should result in collectively superior outcomes because voters become better informed and decisions are justified using reason.
Paolo Spada, Raymond Vreeland
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The Participatory Budgeting Towards a New Governance and Accountability [PDF]

, 2018
Public sector governance covers responsibility tasks in relation to the specific objectives of this sector, which are not only limited to the provision of services but include the impact of policies on the community or on society in general.
Christian Rainero, Valerio Brescia
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The Structure of Informal Learning in the Workplace—An Experience Sampling Approach

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper complements retrospective approaches to researching informal learning in the workplace with experience sampling. Since (conscious) informal learning is becoming increasingly important for successfully keeping pace with rapid changes in working environments, a clear understanding of the construct and its precise measurement are ...
Katja Häußermann, Tina Seufert
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Co-designing soft climate adaptation: citizen centred solutions across four European pilots

Frontiers in Climate
Climate 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, Anna Verones, Nefertari Nachtigall, Marta Ellena, Lucía Moreno, Judith Bielsa, Mathilda Englund, Karin André, Åsa Gerger Swartling, Rosie Witton, Sukaina Bharwani, Eulalia Baulenas, Sam Pickard, Alfredo Reder, Paola Mercogliano   +14 more
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Citizen Participation - Case study about participatory budget in Condeixa-a-Nova

, 2019
Dissertação de Mestrado em Intervenção Social, Inovação e Empreendedorismo apresentada à Faculdade de EconomiaRESUMO A presente dissertação tem como temática a “Participação Cidadã” e trata-se de um Estudo de Caso sobre Orçamento Participativo de ...
Vaz, Fernanda Maria Gonçalves
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How Is FinTech Shaping Household Portfolio Behaviour?

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how FinTech adoption influences household portfolio allocation across major advanced economies. Using a flow‐of‐funds framework and the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we model household demand for currency, deposits, loans, debt securities, and equity in the United States, United Kingdom, Euro Area, Japan and Australia.
Victor Murinde, Athina Petropoulou
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Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting

Digital Government: Research and Practice
Participatory Budgeting (PB) has evolved into a key democratic instrument for resource allocation in cities. Enabled by digital platforms, cities now have the opportunity to let citizens directly propose and vote on urban projects, using different voting input and aggregation rules.
Joshua Chu-Yue Yang, Carina I. Hausladen, Dominik Peters, Evangelos Pournaras, Regula Hänggli Fricker, Dirk Helbing   +5 more
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