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Positioning public procurement as a procedural tool for innovation: an empirical study
Policy & Society, 2021 Procurement has received scholarly attention as a valuable policy tool to reach desired outcomes in society, such as innovation. While interest has grown in analyzing the impact of the ‘substantive’ function of procurement (purchasing of goods and ...
Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Roberto Vivona
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Public inquiries as procedural policy tools
Policy & Society, 2021 In this article we conceptualise the public inquiry as a procedural tool and address the question of what makes a public inquiry an effective policy instrument. The issue of control is central to our arguments. In our conceptual work, we use control as a
Alastair Stark, Sophie Yates
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Procedural tools and pension reform in the long run: the case of Sweden
Policy & Society, 2021 Welfare state reform is understood to be risky, difficult and still ongoing. As such, there is a need for analytic tools that can aid understanding of how governments are able to overcome the various barriers they face in seeking change, and the ...
Adam Hannah
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Policy & Society, 2021 As local governments have limited formal powers and less substantive policy instruments at their disposal, they are a particularly rich area for the study of procedural policy tools. This paper examines the role played by procedural policy tools deployed
Sarah de Vries
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Tools used to assess medical students competence in procedural skills at the end of a primary medical degree: a systematic review [PDF]
Medical Education Online, 2012 The objective was to systematically review the literature to identify and grade tools used for the end point assessment of procedural skills (e.g., phlebotomy, IV cannulation, suturing) competence in medical students prior to certification.
Marie C. Morris +2 more
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Parental Emotional Resilience and Procedural Anxiety of their Children with Cancer [PDF]
Trends in Nursing and Health Care Journal, 2023 Background: Childhood cancer is a challenging, stressful and unpredictable experience for children and their parents. Since children diagnosis with cancer and throughout treatment journey, they may undergo painful invasive procedures, which heightens ...
ِAhmed Ismail
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Rethinking the procedural in policy instrument ‘Compounds’: a renewable energy policy perspective
Policy & Society, 2021 Contemporary research in the policy sciences places effectiveness as the central goal of policy design. This emphasis permeates both micro-level design considerations for specific policy calibrations, as well as more meso-level policy tool and tool mixes.
Ishani Mukherjee
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Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands
Policy & Society, 2021 Students of public policy have spent considerable effort setting out the types of policy instruments or tools available to policymakers in different stages of the policy process.
Azad Bali, Darren Halpin
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Administrative Procedures as Tax Enforcement Tools
Economics Letters, 2023 We study how common administrative procedures affect firm tax evasion. We begin with the counter-intuitive observation that many firms bunch above, rather than below, large notches in China’s corporate income tax. Cross-sectional patterns suggest that administrative procedures in the prepayment and refund system served as de facto enforcement tools ...
Wei Cui, Jeffrey Hicks, Michael Wiebe
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Procedural policy tools in theory and practice
Policy & Society, 2021 Policy tools are a critical part of policy-making, providing the ‘means’ by which policy ‘ends’ are achieved. Knowledge of their different origin, nature and capabilities is vital for understanding policy formulation and decision-making, and they have ...
Azad Singh Bali +3 more
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