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Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain [PDF]

Social Policy &Administration, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 770-788, September 2023., 2023
Surveys show that most citizens are unable to correctly identify the taxes received or the services provided by the different levels of government. This shortcoming represents an obstacle to democratic accountability and for the efficiency gains that the
López-Laborda, Julio, Rodrigo, Fernando, Sanz-Arcega, Eduardo   +2 more
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DECENTRALIZATION AND PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE: NEW EVIDENCE FROM ITALY

Economic Inquiry, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 856-880, April 2020., 2020
We exploit a new dataset based on European Union (EU) procurement award notices to investigate the relationship between the degree of centralization of public procurement and its performance. We focus on the case of Italy, where all levels of government, along with a number of other public institutions, are involved in procurement and are subject to ...
Olga Chiappinelli
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The present and future use of functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for cognitive neuroscience

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1464, Issue 1, Page 5-29, March 2020., 2020
The past few decades have seen a rapid increase in the use of functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in cognitive neuroscience. In our review, we aim to provide a comprehensive and state‐of‐the‐art review of fNIRS basics, technical developments, and applications.
Paola Pinti, Ilias Tachtsidis, Antonia Hamilton, Joy Hirsch, Clarisse Aichelburg, Sam Gilbert, Paul W. Burgess   +6 more
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Más allá de la ley orgánica de financiación de las comunidades autónomas: Implicaciones constitucionales en el diseño del sistema de financiación subcentral [PDF]

, 2022
El presente trabajo persigue aportar una perspectiva constitucional al debate sobre la reforma del sistema de financiación autonómica, clarificando el marco conceptual dentro del cual deberá concretarse. Ello nos llevará a estudiar, en primer lugar, cómo
Guerrero Vázquez, Pablo
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Beyond Federalism: Estimating and Explaining the Territorial Structure of Government [PDF]

, 2012
This paper suggests that the basic distinction between federal and unitary government has limited as well as served our understanding of government. The notion that variation in the structure of government is a difference of kind rather than degree has ...
Adcock, Alesina, Alesina, Amoretti, Amoretti, Ansolabehere, Arrow, Arrow, Arzaghi, Bakker, Baldwin, Bednar, Benini, Beramendi, Besley, Blalock, Blöchliger, Boadway, Bolton, Brancati, Brancati, Breuss, Chhibber, Coppedge, Council of Europe, Dahl, Dahl, Dahl Fitjar, Darby, Deutsch, Eckstein, Elazar, Falleti, Fearon, Färber, Garrett, Gary Marks, Gellner, Habyarimana, Heston, Hodge, Hooghe, Hooghe, Hopkin, Inman, Jeffery, Keating, Keating, Kochen, Laitin, Lane, Liesbet Hooghe, Lijphart, Lockwood, Marks, Marks, Meguid, Oates, Oates, Oates, Oates, OECD, Olson, Osterkamp, Ostrom, Ostrom, Ostrom, Ostrom, O’Brien, Panizza, Peterson, Pritchett, Riker, Rodden, Rodden, Rokkan, Sabel, Schakel, Scholz, Shankar, Shevlin, Simon, Sorens, Sorens, Stegarescu, Stein, Swenden, Treisman, Van Houten, Watts, Watts, Wibbels, Wright, Zeitlin, Ziblatt   +94 more
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Making polycentrism: Governance innovation in small and medium-sized cities in the West Midlands and Barcelona metropolitan regions [PDF]

, 2018
The development of metropolitan regions shows increasing patterns of polycentrism, with growing relevance of small and medium-sized municipalities, suburbs and outskirts, which become economic subcentres within enlarging metropolitan realities ...
Pradel, Marc
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Distribution and Transmission of Medicinal Plant Knowledge in the Andean Highlands: A Case Study from Peru and Bolivia

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
This paper presents a study of patterns in the distribution and transmission of medicinal plant knowledge in rural Andean communities in Peru and Bolivia. Interviews and freelisting exercises were conducted with 18 households at each study site. The amount of medicinal plant knowledge of households was compared in relation to their socioeconomic ...
Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Ina Vandebroek, Ulysses Paulino De Albuquerque   +2 more
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Update on Babesiosis

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, Volume 2009, Issue 1, 2009., 2009
Human babesiosis is an emerging tick‐borne infectious disease caused by intraerythrocytic protozoan species of the genus Babesia with many clinical features similar to those of malaria. Over the last 50 years, the epidemiology of human babesiosis has changed from a few isolated cases to the establishment of endemic areas in the northeastern and ...
Edouard Vannier, Peter J. Krause, Louis M. Weiss   +2 more
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Analyse and rule? A conceptual framework for explaining the variable appeals of ex-ante evaluation in policymaking [PDF]

, 2020
This article integrates disparate explanations for increasing (but variable) turns to ex-ante policy evaluation, such as risk analysis, across public administrations.
Paul, Regine
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estimating and explaining the territorial structure of government [PDF]

, 2012
1\. Introduction 6 2\. Theorizing Government Structure 7 2.1 Spatial Theory 7 2.2 Soft Information Versus Scale Economies 8 3\. Estimating Government Structure 11 4\. Explaining Government Structure 17 5\. Results 18 6\.
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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