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Safeguarding Merit: Citizen Support for Civil Service Protections Against Political Interference

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT President Trump altered the U.S. federal civil service system by reducing merit‐based protections for bureaucratic expertise and expanding the scope of political appointments, shifting the balance long established under the Pendleton Act of 1883. Similar reforms have occurred at the state level with moves to at‐will employment.
Colt Jensen, Jaclyn Piatak
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated lithium niobate photonic devices for photonic quantum information science. [PDF]

Nano Converg
Kim C, Kim H, Moon S, Jung H, Kwon H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda‐setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report.
Eleanor Brooks, Kathrin Lauber
wiley   +1 more source

How the Butler Did It: Investigating Individual City Influence on National Policy

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In most political systems, cities are not formally part of national policymaking. However, since they are often responsible for the implementation of national policies, they are likely to seek influence on these policies. Existing literature deals mostly with institutionalized policy cooperation and collective municipal organizations. As such,
Anders Leth Nielsen
wiley   +1 more source

Wannier functions of defective photonic crystals with broken translational symmetry. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Biswas P, Choi H, Jeong H, Kim NY, Lee CW.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT States, firms, and other types of governors routinely rely on intermediaries to govern issues on their behalf. Such indirect governance drives regime complexity: governors frequently enlist multiple intermediaries for governing an issue. I theorize that governors foster complexity to maximize utility from indirect governance.
David Hagebölling
wiley   +1 more source

Deterministic Quantum Dense Coding Based on Non-Maximal Entangled Channel. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Xin X, Li Z, Wang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Women's Empowerment and Intra‐Household Bargaining Power

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We assess the effectiveness of the Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A‐WEAI) in predicting intra‐household bargaining power. We conducted a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with agricultural households, where spouses made decisions about money allocations.
Marina Nacka, Andreas C. Drichoutis, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glow in the D-ARK: a new bioluminescent species of <i>Corallizoanthus</i> (Anthozoa: Zoantharia: Parazoanthidae) from southern Japan. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Kise H, Bessho-Uehara M, Kondo KCF, Shimoji K, Ito S, Tsuchida S, Fujiwara Y, Reimer JD.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Authority Versus Competition: Intergovernmental Interactions and Subnational Policy Adoption in Climate Policy

Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the face of increasingly complex environmental challenges, subnational governments play a critical role in implementing climate policies. This study investigates how intergovernmental interactions—specifically formal authority interactions and informal competitive interactions—shape the adoption of climate policies by Chinese provincial ...
Shiming Zheng, Alex Jingwei He, Yujie He
wiley   +1 more source