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Strengthening local government budgeting and accountability [PDF]
In many developing and middle-income countries, decentralization reforms are promoting changes in governance structures that are reshaping the relationship between local governments and citizens.
Schaeffer, Michael, Yilmaz, Serdar
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Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paucity of research analysing thematic persistence in public sustainability limits our understanding of how this field of research evolves and reconfigures itself. The present paper addresses this gap through a longitudinal bibliometric analysis of 692 publications processed with SciMAT. The methodology combines co‐word analysis, strategic
Laila Ribii Khalifi +2 more
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Environmental Aspects of Participatory Budgeting in Selected Cities in Europe
Journal of Environmental Management and TourismThis paper explores the integration of environmental priorities into participatory budgeting (PB) processes in selected European cities, with a focus on Poland, Spain, and Portugal.
Małgorzata SIEMIONEK-RUSKAŃ +1 more
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If citizens have a voice, who's listening? Lessons from recent citizen consultation experiments for the European Union. CEPS EPIN Working Paper No. 24, 12 June 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 Are European Union institutions, as they claim, really listening to citizens thanks to more ‘deliberative’ consultation tools? The European Commission and the European Parliament in particular have committed themselves to engaging in a dialogue with ...
Boucher, Stephen.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
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Deepening Democracy in Buffalo by Honoring Prior Commitments (And a Legacy) [PDF]
, 2020 The waning years of the 2010s and the opening weeks of the 2020s have been rife with headlines, editorials, academic articles, lectures, and book titles lamenting a “crisis of democracy”.
Weaver, Russell
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Participation Effectiveness of Citizen Participatory Budgeting: The Case of Yanjin County in China
Chinese Public Administration Review, 2020 Citizen participatory budgeting (CPB) is a mechanism to enhance governance, particularly regarding accountability and responsiveness. The growing literature on the topic, however, has not addressed the participation effectiveness of CPB in developing countries. Drawing mainly from first-hand data, this study examines the participation effectiveness of
Muhua Lin, Kaiping Chen
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public organisations often experience a discrepancy between improvements in technical efficiency and stakeholders' perceptions of integrity and performance. This study analyses the mechanisms that may underlie this efficiency–perception discrepancy in Spanish Defence Delegations during 2020–2023.
José Solana‐Ibáñez +1 more
wiley +1 more source
A Decade of Helping Civil Society Fight Corruption in the Philippines: Results and Lessons [PDF]
, 2015 This Report details the results and lessons of a decade long (2003-2013) Partnership for Transparency Fund (www.ptfund.org) support to Filipino civil society organizations to fight corruption.
Jeffery Gutman, Vinay Bhargava
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and operating profitability in the agri‐food manufacturing industry of Southern Europe, focusing on Extremadura (Spain). From an initial pool of 284 firms, the final sample comprised 185 companies after excluding inactive or non‐reporting cases.
Ángel Sabino Mirón Sanguino +3 more
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