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Testing Staff Roles in the Danish Parliament
Politics and GovernanceInvestments in parliamentary staff in many countries raise the question: What tasks do they perform in exchange for the public money with which they are paid?
Stijn van Voorst
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Preparatory Definitional Problems in Political Research
, 1969 11 p.This work is an attempt to explain and analyze some of the fundamental problems in political system-oriented research. It is my intent to discuss some of the prevailing problems which have beset the many different attempts to analyze a political ...
Lavalli, Timothy Joseph
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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Brussels StudiesWhat 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
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Who is Running the IMF: Critical Shareholders or the Staff? [PDF]
The paper deals with the principal-agent relationship at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). We argue that residual control rights at the IMF are vested with the critical shareholders, the countries included in the G-7.
Michele Fratianni, John Pattison
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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Brussels StudiesWhat 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
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Familias, influencias y clientelismos. Una microhistoria del poder franquista en Lleida, 1938-1951
Historia Actual On-Line, 2015 A partir del estudio del caso leridano, el artículo profundiza en el conocimiento de las bases sociales sobre las que se construyó y consolidó el régimen político franquista.
Josep Gelonch Solé
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The Parapolitical Path to Parliament: Former Political Support Staff as Parliamentary Members
Politics and GovernanceIn 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
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Political economy and political risks of institutional reform in the water sector [PDF]
It is difficult and time-consuming to get adequate information about influence groups in a society. Dinar, Balakrishnan, and Wambia develop an approach to estimating the political risk associated with implementing a set of institutional reforms in the ...
Dinar, Ariel +2 more
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