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Pasture-Based Livestock Economics under Joint Production of Commodities and Private Amenity Self-Consumption: Testing in Large Nonindustrial Privately Owned Dehesa Case Studies in Andalusia, Spain

open access: yesAgriculture, 2021
In this study, we apply the hypothesis of private amenity which simulates that the nonindustrial livestock farmers are assured an ex-ante normal minimum operating profitability rate for their investments in the production systems of livestock species ...
Pablo Campos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Policy: Ethics [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
There are many ethical dimensions of public policy. Public policy as actions to solve the collective problems includes directly or indirectly making ethical judgments. Public policy takes into account reconciliation of conflicting interests of individuals, groups, and organizations which is based on the values agreeing which influences on the ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Public Service Motivation and Determining Factors to Attract and Retain Health Professionals in the Public Sector: A Systematic Review

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2022
(1) Background: The motivational determinants of health professionals to choose and remain in the public sector have been increasingly addressed, including the customized approach of Public Service Motivation (PSM).
Alexandre Fernandes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Opinion and Public Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Abstract The key function of representative democracy is to provide a mechanism through which public opinion and public policy are regularly connected. On one hand, there should be policy representation; public preferences for policy should be reflected in policy itself.
Christopher Wlezien, Stuart Soroka
openaire   +2 more sources

Reliance on Direct and Mediated Contact and Public Policies Supporting Outgroup Harm

open access: yes, 2016
Two studies examined the effects of reliance on direct and media-based contact for information about Muslims on Americans' stereotypic beliefs of and negative emotions toward Muslims and support for public policies harming Muslims domestically and ...
M. Saleem   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Paradigms and Public Policies on Drought in Northeast Brazil: A Historical Perspective

open access: yesEnvironmental Management, 2015
This paper describes the evolution of drought-related public policies in Northeast Brazil (NEB). Using a historical approach, we show that the evolution of public policy has not been characterized by abrupt shifts, but has instead been shaped through ...
J. Campos
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The influence of education on the access to childhood immunization: the case of Spain

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2018
Background In order to enhance childhood vaccination uptake and the health consequences for the whole society, there is a need to study predictors that might help in understanding parents’ behaviour in relation to childhood vaccination schemes.
T. Mora, M. Trapero-Bertran
doaj   +1 more source

Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-Control Trade-off [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We model personnel policies in public agencies, examining how wages and promotion standards can partially offset a fundamental contracting problem: the inability of public sector workers to contract on performance, and the inability of political masters ...
Cameron, Charles M.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Explaining public support for counterproductive homeless policy: the role of disgust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Federal, state, and city governments spend substantial funds on programs intended to aid homeless people, and such programs attract widespread public support.
Piston, S.
core   +1 more source

Problems of sustainable development worldwide and public policies for green economy

open access: yes, 2017
Introduction. Conducting economic activity in modern conditions is often connected with a negative impact on ecology. Today, economic activity has reached such a scale that it can be considered to be a geological and climate-forming factor which can ...
Y. Vertakova, V. Plotnikov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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