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Descentralização, clientelismo e capital social na governança urbana: comparando Belo Horizonte e Salvador

open access: yesDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 1999
In this comparison of Belo Horizonte?s and Salvador?s experiences within three arenas of local government, the article focuses on the viability of institutional arrangements based on decentralization and citizen participation.
Boschi Renato Raul
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Forms of Participatory Democracy: An Analytical Framework Based on the Experiences of Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia [PDF]

open access: yes
Based on the experiences of Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia, the paper proposes a general analytical framework for participatory mechanisms. The analysis is oriented to detect the incentives in each system and the ethics and behavior sustaining them.
Carlos Eduardo Sepúlveda   +1 more
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Digital Product Passports in Fashion: A Strategic Framework for Implementation

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of the Digital Product Passport (DPP) in promoting transparency, traceability, and sustainability within the fashion industry. As the fashion sector faces significant environmental and social challenges, including resource depletion, pollution, and unethical labor practices, the DPP offers a potential solution ...
Laura Macchion
wiley   +1 more source

The European Citizens' Initiative: An Early Assessment of the European Union's New Participatory Democracy Instrument [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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The Role of Participatory Budgeting in Enhancing Citizen Engagement

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal
Participatory budgeting (PB) has emerged as a transformative approach to local governance, designed to empower citizens by directly involving them in decision-making processes concerning public expenditures. This scientific article examines the role of participatory budgeting in enhancing citizen engagement, drawing upon theoretical perspectives ...
openaire   +1 more source

Environmental Management Control Systems and Environmental and Economic Performance: Do Country Characteristics Matter?

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an integrated framework that combines the natural resource‐based view with contingency theory, this study examines how environmental management control systems (EMCS) build multinational firms' environmental capabilities and balance their environmental and economic performance while accounting for cross‐country contextual conditions.
Kimitaka Nishitani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

If citizens have a voice, who’s listening? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This is the paper for the class of "EU Politics", Monday, 9 nov ...
Ignazi, Piero
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The EU Cities Mission: A Governance Innovation for Stockholm?

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Acknowledging that cities play a key role in climate change mitigation, the European Union (EU) launched the Cities Mission in 2021 to accelerate urban climate action. Intended as a governance innovation, it seeks to stimulate mission‐oriented governance in cities.
Lisa Sanderink   +2 more
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
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A Model of Participatory Democracy: Understanding the Case of Porto Alegre [PDF]

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Participatory Democracy is a process of collective decision making that combines elements from both Direct and Representative Democracy: Citizens have the ultimate power to decide on policy and politicians assume the role of policy implementation.
Enriqueta Aragones   +1 more
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