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Does practice make perfect? Debate about principles versus practice in New Zealand local government planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Legislation and practice are two arms of public policy planning. Legislation empowers or enables; practice is the articulation and implementation of legislative principle.
Jay, Grace Mairi M.
core   +2 more sources

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overview: Departmental Strategic Planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
For the first time in several years, our Department assembled on Saturday, March 7, 2015, for a strategic planning session. This retreat was well attended, with over 60 participants including faculty, residents and administrative staff, as well as non ...

core   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Parapolitical Path to Parliament: Former Political Support Staff as Parliamentary Members

open access: yesPolitics and Governance
In Western parliamentary democracies, a growing number of MPs have worked as special advisers, political assistants, and parliamentary aides before their election as members of parliament.
Anchrit Wille, Mark Bovens
doaj   +1 more source

Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Apprentissage social à l’hôtel de ville : obstacles et solutions pour tirer le meilleur parti des conseils communaux à Bruxelles

open access: yesBrussels Studies
What are the conditions of social learning within municipal councils? While public distrust towards representative democracy has fostered participatory approaches to politics and policies, we turn the spotlight back on deliberations between municipal ...
Mohamad-Amin Alomar   +2 more
doaj  

Right-Wing Populism and Museums: Findings from an Interview Study in the UK, Poland and Germany

open access: yesMuseum & Society
This paper contributes to the growing research on right-wing populism’s increasing impact on cultural and heritage institutions, presenting findings from an interview study with museum professionals in Poland, Germany, and the UK.
Julia Leser   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID‐19 Open Science

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 703-717, April 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we examine the role digital curation practices and practitioners played in facilitating open science (OS) initiatives amid the COVID‐19 pandemic. In Summer 2023, we conducted a content analysis of available information regarding 50 OS initiatives that emerged—or substantially shifted their focus—between 2020 and 2022 to address ...
Irene V. Pasquetto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social learning in the city hall: obstacles and solutions to make the most of municipal councils in Brussels

open access: yesBrussels Studies
What are the conditions of social learning within municipal councils? While public distrust towards representative democracy has fostered participatory approaches to politics and policies, we turn the spotlight back on deliberations between municipal ...
Mohamad-Amin Alomar   +2 more
doaj  

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