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Los servicios públicos locales: reforma de la Administración local en tiempos de crisis económica

open access: yesRevista Digital de Derecho Administrativo, 2015
Este trabajo se centra en el intento de la Ley 27/2013, de Racionalización y Sostenibilidad de la Administración Local, de limitar, al socaire del principio de equilibrio presupuestario, los servicios públicos que hasta el momento venían prestando las ...
Juan Antonio Chinchilla   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Costs of Government-Sponsored Agrarian Settlements in Brazilian Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Brazil has presided over the most comprehensive agrarian reform frontier colonization program on Earth, in which ~1.2 million settlers have been translocated by successive governments since the 1970's, mostly into forested hinterlands of Brazilian ...
A Brandão Jr   +54 more
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Optimization of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings

open access: yesIbis, Volume 168, Issue 2, Page 785-798, April 2026.
BirdNET is a popular machine learning tool for automated recognition of bird sounds. However, evidence on how to optimize its settings for accurate bird monitoring remains limited. Here, we evaluate how BirdNET settings influence model performance in identifying bird vocalizations and characterizing bird communities, using 4224 1‐min recordings from 67
Cristian Pérez‐Granados   +98 more
wiley   +1 more source

Venezuela: The Shifting Organizational Framework for the Police [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Recent political polarization in Venezuela has exacerbated longer term tensions over the organization and control of the police. Additionally, there is ongoing and widespread public dissatisfaction with the nature of policing.
Birkbeck, CH
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Canalized to heat, plastic to cold: adaptive coordination of leaf and seed strategies in populations spanning an elevational gradient

open access: yesNew Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 2, Page 873-884, April 2026.
Summary In tropical mountains, surviving temperature extremes demands finely tuned strategies. We investigated how populations of the bromeliad Pitcairnia flammea across a 2200 m elevational gradient balance genetic canalization and plasticity, and whether thermal strategies are coordinated between seeds and leaves.
Cleber J. N. Chaves   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

El régimen local tras el fracaso de la reforma de 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
La reforma de 2013 ha sido, incluso tras los diluidos planteamientos respecto de lo que fueron algunos de sus objetivos iniciales con que quedó plasmada legalmente, el mayor intento de reforma del régimen local español desde su implantación en los per ...
Boix Palop, Andrés
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Historical Institutionalism and Transnational Influence: Social Policy Responses to the Great Depression in the United States and Canada

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The Great Depression was a turning point in the development of social programming in North America. This paper explores the politics of social policy expansion during the Great Depression in the United States and Canada through an analytical lens that combines the insights of historical institutionalism and the analysis of transnational ...
Daniel Béland   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2026.
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

Las competencias locales: una reforma pendiente

open access: yesRevista de Derecho de la UNED (RDUNED), 2013
Las competencias locales constituyen un elemento fundamental del principio general de la organización territorial del Estado que conocemos como «Autonomía local». Su regulación ha de efectuarse por el legislador básico estatal, y autonómico en desarrollo, en lo que a directrices para la asignación de competencias se refiere y, a su vez, por el ...
openaire   +2 more sources

A gestão pública nos governos locais: uma era de mudança e modernização [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
As últimas décadas representaram um ataque severo ao modelo de gestão pública associado ao Estado de Providencia Social. Diferentes pressões de índole económica, financeira, política e ideológica, motivaram o surgimento de um novo estilo e modelo de ...
Rodrigues, Miguel
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