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Business Lobbying: Mapping Policy Networks in Brazil in Mercosur
Social Sciences, 2018 In the creation of trade policy, business actors have the most influence in setting policy. This article identifies and explains variations in how economic interest groups use policy networks to affect trade policymaking.
Galia J. Benítez
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Interest, networks and institutions: Socio-legal analysis of recent welfare legislation in Serbia [PDF]
Sociologija, 2013 The article deals with the influence of organized social groups and their interests on laws and public policies. The subject of the analysis is new Serbian social legislation with 2011 Law on Social Protection being the subject of the most detailed ...
Vuković Danilo
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Underperforming policy networks : the biopesticides network in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2010 Loosely integrated and incomplete policy networks have been neglected in the literature. They are important to consider in terms of understanding network underperformance.
Grant, Wyn, Greaves, Justin
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Addressing Animal Welfare through Collaborative Stakeholder Networks
Agriculture, 2019 In this review, we discuss animal welfare as a complex and contested issue facing society and outline why collaborative, multi-stakeholder approaches are critical for effective policy development.
Jill Fernandes +7 more
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Systems, Networks, and Policy [PDF]
, 2017 AbstractSystems theory is fundamental to understanding the dynamics of the complex social systems of concern to policy makers. A system is defined as: (1) an assembly of components, connected together in an organised way; (2) the components are affected by being in the system and the behaviour of the systems is changed if they leave it; (3) the ...
Johnson, Jeffrey +2 more
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Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2022 After 50 years of institutional history in Canada, the focus of ombuds has shifted from resolving individual complaints to improving the quality of government services for all. New tools in the ombuds world enabled the conceptualization and promotion of
Daniel Johns, Brent Epperson
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A comparative analysis of governance and leadership in agricultural development policy networks
World Development, 2019 Agricultural development initiatives feature many public and private organizations working together across sectors and scales to pursue the goals of food security and climate resilience.
J. Rudnick +3 more
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Policy Networks with Two-Stage Training for Dialogue Systems [PDF]
SIGDIAL Conference, 2016 In this paper, we propose to use deep policy networks which are trained with an advantage actor-critic method for statistically optimised dialogue systems.
Mehdi Fatemi +4 more
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Policy & Society, 2021 In a globalizing world, cross-border enforcement networks are rapidly emerging as important mechanisms to tackle illicit transnational markets. As a relatively recent mode of cross-border governance, both the IPE and public policy literatures have only ...
Tim Legrand, Christian Leuprecht
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Cross-level linkages in an ecology of climate change adaptation policy games
Ecology and Society, 2018 Social and ecological outcomes of environmental governance systems are shaped by interplay across the spatial levels at which policy actors and decision-making forums operate.
Matthew Hamilton +2 more
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