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Strengthening local government budgeting and accountability [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Practice Insight: Adapting Peacebuilding Dialogue Methodologies to City‐Resident Relations and Inclusive Policymaking in Calgary, Canada

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study presents a project in which peacebuilding dialogue methodologies were adapted for use in municipal‐level dialogue sessions that took place in Calgary, Canada in late 2022 and early 2023. The authors found that using this approach built trust among cross‐sectoral participants and facilitators, resulted in greater diversity ...
Aleem Bharwani, Josh Nadeau
wiley   +1 more source

The Recall in Colombia: institutional design and results of its application

open access: yesRevista 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
doaj   +1 more source

A People's Budget: A Research and Evaluation Report on Participatory Budgeting in New York City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This cycle of Participatory Budgeting in New York City ushered in a significant expansion of the process from previous years, with 24 Council Members -- nearly half the City Council -- taking part.

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Ngos' Contributions to Innovation: Innovation Enablers or Lead Innovators?

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) engage with innovation processes. Drawing on a comparative case study of two NGOs working in water sustainability, the paper analyses NGO involvement across seven stages of the innovation process.
Maria Cristina Pietronudo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Government Transparency: Six Strategies for More Open and Participatory Government [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Deepening Democracy in Buffalo by Honoring Prior Commitments (And a Legacy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who is willing to deliberate, and how? Dissatisfied democrats, stealth democrats and populists in the UK: SEI Working Paper 131 [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action

open access: yesCorporate 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
wiley   +1 more source

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