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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon, M. G. Elsinga, J. S. C. M. Hoekstra, M. Sunikka‐Blank, R. Galvin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
wiley   +1 more source

Coordonate ale reformei sistemului de pensii. Cazul României

Revista Transilvană de Ştiinţe Administrative, 2007
The reform of the pension systems has become a necessity in most of countries, as the public pension plans are not capable of ensuring a decent pension for the elderly.
Daniela Georgeta BEJU
doaj  

Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source

The Power to Deduct Pension Benefits Under Lesotho’s Pension Funds Act: Lessons from South Africa and Eswatini

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
The changing demands of society and the emergence of new challenges necessitate the constant evolution and improvement of legal frameworks. In November 2019 Lesotho adopted the Pension Funds Act 5 of 2019 to modernise its regulation and supervision of ...
Mtende Mhango, Teron Rikhotso
doaj   +1 more source

The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice, Katharina Zimmermann   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competing Demographic Drivers of Hospital Expenditures: Coexistence of the Red Herring and the Steepening Effects

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proximity to death than by chronological age, while the Steepening Hypothesis examines whether expenditures ...
Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb, Alexander O. K. Marin, Jes Søgaard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mind the gap: inheritance and inequality in retirement wealth

Intergenerational Justice Review, 2020
Drawing on detailed German panel data, we find that gifts and inheritances substantially increase households’ private pension savings in accounts which are costly or impossible to withdraw prematurely.
Lukas Brenner, Oscar A. Stolper
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability Performance and Corporate Risk: Evidence From the Tourism Industry

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of sustainability performance (Refinitiv Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG] scores) on corporate risk (CR). We apply stakeholder theory and the resource‐based view to an international sample of 247 tourism firms from 2002 to 2018.
Omneya Abdelsalam, Antonios Chantziaras, Vassiliki Grougiou, Stergios Leventis, Nikolaos Tsileponis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Burden of Disease of Treatment‐Seeking Patients With a Cluster‐C Personality Disorder in the Netherlands; Quality of Life, Functioning, and Societal Costs

Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cluster‐C personality disorders (PDs) are common in the general population but often overlooked in scientific research and clinical practice. An important step to increase awareness for timely diagnosis and treatment of cluster‐C PDs is to investigate the burden of disease in terms of quality of life (QoL), daily functioning and the associated
Iuno Z. Groot, Arnoud Arntz, Carlijn J. M. Wibbelink, Bas Verhoeven, Nathan R. Bachrach, Silvia M. A. A. Evers   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source