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Government Transparency: Six Strategies for More Open and Participatory Government [PDF]
, 2011 Offers strategies for realizing Knight's 2009 call for e-government and openness using Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies, including public-private partnerships to develop applications, flexible procurement procedures, and better community broadband ...
Jon Gant, Nicol Turner-Lee
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Creating green space sustainability through low-budget and upcycling strategies [PDF]
, 2018 Frugality is a core notion of sustainability, and responsible resource management should be prioritized in urban planning and landscape architecture. Low-budget strategies as a deliberate means of creating valuable, attractive, well-used, sociable public
Herman, Krzysztof +2 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As global climate ambitions intensify, the key challenge lies not in setting renewable energy targets but in designing governance systems that can translate them into lasting transformation. The transition management literature has advanced a valuable research agenda for initiating change through niche innovations and participatory arenas in ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea +2 more
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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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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collaborative governance networks are increasingly central to local climate action, yet research offers limited understanding of the personal, psychological, and informal factors that sustain engagement within them. This paper examines how such networks facilitate meaningful and lasting participation through an in‐depth study of Malmö Works, a
Gustav Osberg
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Civil Society, Public Action and Accountability in Africa [PDF]
This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It further develops the analytical framework of the World Development Report 2004 on accountability relationships, to
Devarajan, Shantayanan +2 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
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The Recall in Colombia: institutional design and results of its application
Revista de Derecho Político, 2018 : Since the 90s, after the crisis of the mass representation model characteristic of the Welfare States, and the arrival of the so-called audience democracy, typical of the States of the Global Era, several Latin American countries undertook ...
María Laura Eberhardt
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Who is willing to deliberate, and how? Dissatisfied democrats, stealth democrats and populists in the UK: SEI Working Paper 131 [PDF]
, 2012 This article draws on a new survey of British citizens to test the hypothesis that there are two quite distinctive types of attitude prevalent among those who are ‘disaffected’ with politics, the ‘dissatisfied democratic’ and ‘stealth democratic ...
Webb, Paul
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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 +4 more
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