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Rationalities in Trade Union Practices: A Discourse Analytic Perspective on The Strategies of Three Danish Trade Unions for Professionals

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015
The ambition of this paper is to analyze the discursive practices of three Danish trade unions for professional and managerial staff as found in their strategy and position papers.
Anders Buch
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The Rise of Welfare Service States – Conceptual challenges of an ambiguous welfare settlement and the need for new policy research

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2019
Welfare states are changing. They differ in the way they provide their citizenry with social rights, material resources and support. Contemporary transformations of European welfare states, however, have - apart from significant differences - a common ...
Jean-Michel Bonvin   +3 more
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Legacies of mistrust

open access: yesPlaNext, 2021
National authorities across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa have implemented various forms of fiscal decentralization over the past three decades with equivocal results. The design of such reforms haslong rested on theories based on the experiences
Gabriella Y. Carolini, Sarra Lynn Hess
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Rationing Legal Services [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Legal Analysis, 2013
There is a deepening crisis in the funding of legal services in the USA with cut backs in Legal Services Corporation and Interest on Lawyers Trust Account funding, rendering more visible the fact that there is and always will be persistent scarcity in the availability of both criminal and civil legal assistance. This article examines how existing Legal
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Dilemmas in rationing health care services: the case for implicit rationing [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1995
With tension between the demand for health services and the cost of providing them, rationing is increasingly evident in all medical systems. Until recently, rationing was primarily through the ability to pay or achieved implicitly by doctors working within fixed budgets.
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Ethics of rationing health care services [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1995
EDITOR,—Unlike Raanon Gillon,1 I find myself agreeing with the King's Fund when it advocates the formation of a Oregon-like commission modelled on the Nuffield Council of Bioethics to start the process of rationing of specific services.2 Gillon doubts whether it is morally safe to use, as he sees it, “populist solutions in distributive justice such as
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Pre-service mathematics teachers’ perceptions based on two differing mathematically underpinned debates

open access: yesPythagoras
This study explores how pre-service mathematics teachers build alternative model simulations of real-world scenarios. Inclusion in the formal structures for wealth generation and accumulation is a fervently debated issue in South Africa.
Belinda Cornelissen, Cyril M. Julie
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“Complete the Test First”: Prescreening Tests at the Margins of Digital Public Administration

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Western welfare states are rushing to digitalise access to public services and citizens’ interactions with public institutions. Finland exemplifies this trend towards digital‐first administration. In this article, we discuss digital public administration
Heta Tarkkala   +3 more
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Institutional language and quality of life in the French medico-social field: from discursive governance to practice-with-many framework

open access: yesArchives of Public Health
Background Institutional discourse shapes how care, autonomy and participation are governed within the French medico-social field for autistic people and individuals with intellectual disabilities. Although the Quality of Life (QoL) paradigm is prominent
Giorgia Tiscini   +9 more
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