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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Polycentric governance is a trust‐intensive and trust‐dependent governance that should actively seek to build and restore trust. The different ways in which this is done are poorly understood. Our study of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies and the green transition clarifies the role of enhanced self‐regulation and ...
Agnieszka Smoleńska, David Levi‐Faur
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Personality traits (e.g., the Big Five) shape human behavior, decision‐making, and life outcomes. Evidence from various countries suggests that these traits are not randomly distributed but follow systematic regional patterns, fueling interest in their geographical variation.
Martin Obschonka +6 more
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Employment descentralisation: polycentric compaction or sprawl? The case of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region 1986-1996 [PDF]
The Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR) has been repeatedly characterised as a polycentric-type urban system. The aim of this study is to corroborate this affirmation by making use of a methodology that enables the identifying of employment subcentres ...
Ivan Muñiz Olivera +1 more
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Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance. IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 87 [PDF]
, 2003 The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science.
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley +10 more
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Polycentric Spatial Development and Increasing National Wealth
The Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences, 2021 openaire +1 more source
“Women Enlace”: Interweaving Women to Make Collective Action Possible
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 554-571, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study engages with the contemporary debate on women's collective action through the lens of commons governance. Drawing on the theory of collective action in the management of common‐pool resources (CPRs) and on feminist ethnography with a group of rural extractivist women in the Cerrado—a vast tropical savanna biome in Brazil's Central ...
Cilene dos Anjos Marcondes
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Not all sprawl - Evolution of employment centers in Los Angeles, 1980 - 2000 [PDF]
Are contemporary metropolitan regions becoming more dispersed? The collective set of urban models tells us two stories. The first is that changes in the structure of the economy, ever faster and cheaper information and communications technologies, and ...
Christian Redfearn, Genevieve Giuliano
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Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 95-107, February 2026.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how governance structures and policy approaches influence transition pathways in three major oil and gas producing regions: Esbjerg (Denmark), Taranaki (New Zealand), and Aberdeen (Scotland). The methods employ a comparative case study framework and draw on a literature review, document analysis and interviews with key ...
Sophie Kiernan, Tamara Krawchenko
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Budget revenue in function of public requirements Satisfaction of self-governing units of Croatia
Ekonomski Vjesnik, 2008 Within the framework of theory and exact examination in the established system of self-governing units in the Republic of Croatia (communes, cities and counties), the work carried out the research of functioning and budgetary sufficiency of the means ...
Branko Matić, Ivica Čulo
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