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Generating Political Priority for Primary Health Care Reform in Romania

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2021
This paper examines how political priority was generated for comprehensive reforms to address inequitable access to high-quality primary health care (PHC) in Romania.
Huihui Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Political Opposition": Towards a Renewed Research Agenda [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Political Studies, 2011
Despite the centrality of political opposition in democracy, limited theoretical research has been conducted on this issue since the 1970s. However, the previous context of conceptualizing has dramatically changed.
Nathalie Brack, Sharon Weinblum
doaj   +3 more sources

Building a Caring Democracy: Four Cornerstones for an Integrated Progressive Agenda

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 2017
Why do people vote for “strong” leaders who condone violence, debase women, and stoke fear and scapegoating? If free elections alone are not the answer, what will it take to build a caring democracy that promotes the wellbeing and full development of all
Riane Eisler
doaj   +1 more source

Why are Brazilians so interested in gun control? Putting the Multiple Streams Framework to the test

open access: yesOpinião Pública, 2022
Gun control has been a relevant political issue in Brazil for over twenty years. The first goal of this article is to understand and explain this unusual prominence in the political agenda.
Diego Sanjurjo
doaj   +1 more source

‘No politics in the agenda-setting meeting’: plenary agenda setting in the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yesWest European Politics, 2019
he process of agenda setting is fundamental to politics, yet there is surprisingly little research about this process in parliamentary systems. The reason for this lacuna is that agenda setting tends to occur behind closed doors. The Dutch Tweede Kamer is an exception to this rule: decisions about the parliamentary agenda are made in public. This study
openaire   +2 more sources

The Political Agenda: Concept, Specifcity, Formation Factors

open access: yesДискурс Пи, 2019
The article deals with the analysis of the concept and phenomenon "the political agenda". The specific features of this phenomenon are shown in the maintenance, structure, mechanisms, subjects and factors of its formation, in character and degree of an ...
T.N. Mitrokhina
doaj   +1 more source

Cities in search of Policy

open access: yesMétropoles, 2013
Studies of urban public policy in Italy heretofore have highlighted the absence of attention to urban questions in the national political agenda until 1990, and afterwards the fragmentation of public initiatives, due to the lack of effective tools for ...
Massimo Allulli, Walter Tortorella
doaj   +1 more source

European Road Safety Policy 2016-2020: A Forecast on Topics and Activities

open access: yesARCHive-SR, 2018
Objective 25,500 people were killed on European roads in 2016. Thus, despite the achievements of the past, there is still need for action in order to reduce the number of people killed or injured in road traffic.
Armin Kaltenegger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists

open access: yesEcology and Society
Despite pastoralists’ contributions to local food systems in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, resource constraints, conflict, and climate emergencies are threatening pastoralists’ abilities to thrive.
Elizabeth L Fox   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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