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Trends in the Informational Basis of Policymaking: Norway 1970–2024

Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The information that flows to public officials is an important aspect of policymaking. Research on the informational basis of policymaking is, however, fragmented, tending to focus on singular informational practices in isolation. This article develops a typology of multiple informational practices, joining apparently fragmented informational ...
Erik Døving, Jostein Askim, Åge Johnsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

O MODELO POLÍTICO ADMINISTRATIVO DO ESTADO NOVO PORTUGUÊS: CORPORATIVISMO E REPRESENTAÇÃO POLÍTICA DAS AUTARQUIAS (1936-1959)

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie V, Historia Contemporánea, 2015
A historiografia portuguesa não tem dado o devido destaque ao papel desempenhado pela reforma político-administrativa, efetuada por Salazar, em 1936, ao subvalorizar o papel que esta teve na consolidação política do Estado Novo Corporativo.
António Rafael Amaro
doaj   +1 more source

Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐19

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic sparked unprecedented experimentation in the German social assistance system, leading to changes previously considered impracticable by policymakers. This included a sanctions moratorium, easier access to benefits, and temporary cash transfers, all of which were advocated by welfare associations—key organized interests ...
Christopher Smith Ochoa
wiley   +1 more source

Sex in the city: gender mainstreaming urban governance in Europe. The case of Sweden and Italy

Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2014
This article reviews gender mainstreaming in practices of urban governance in Europe by comparing Sweden and Italy, which have distinct welfare-state systems: that of the former is firmly embedded in institutional and social structures, whereas that of ...
Martin Zebracki
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Urban politics in Brazil and the US: state, economic actors and local development scenarios

Cadernos Metrópole
This paper analyses different patterns of articulation between market and state in subnational units in Brazil and the US, and forecasts scenarios that are more or less prone to enhancing development policies locally.
Nelson Rojas de Carvalho
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From Imagination to Compassion and Democracy: Martha Nussbaum on the Role of Art

International Journal of Creative and Arts Studies, 2019
It is undeniable that most of our modern universities are portraying themselves as factory-like institutions which manufacture useful knowledge. The term “useful knowledge” refers to a type of knowledge which directly has immediate payoff and practically
Ferdinand Indrajaya
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Do Medical Health Ministers Make Different Health System Choices?

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Healthcare decision‐making is a highly specialized domain of government, particularly at the central or federal level, which may partly explain why medical professionals are sometimes appointed to ministerial roles within government cabinets.
Marcello Antonini, Joan Costa‐Font, Nicolas Marchi, Debra Winberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sur la circulation du modèle corporatif fasciste dans le monde : agents, réseaux, effets

Laboratoire Italien
Recent historiography on the transnational dimension of fascism has attributed a role of primary importance to the circulation of the corporatist model that Mussolini’s regime began to construct from the mid-1920s onwards.
Matteo Pasetti
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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Windows in an Authoritarian System: How Alignment, Leadership Signals, and Disasters Enabled Policy Entrepreneurship in China's Poverty Alleviation

Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT China's poverty alleviation campaign is significant. Over the past four decades, the number of people in China living below the international extreme‐poverty line fell by close to 800 million, accounting for nearly three‐quarters of the global reduction in extreme poverty.
Zhiqi Xu, Wil Hout
wiley   +1 more source