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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Researchers have examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) cultivated relations with Chinese diaspora communities to secure recognition of their government as the true homeland of the Chinese people. However, less attention has been paid to how accidental and contingent encounters between communities ...
Jess Marinaccio
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Macroeconomic measurement of the unofficial economy
Financijska praksa, 1997 Vrlo je teško, a možda i nemoguće točno definirati pojam sive ekonomije. Unatoč velikom broju postojećih metoda, teško gaje i izmjeriti. Naime, različite metode mjere različita obilježja tog fenomena. Iako u službenim statističkim pokazateljima ne postoji stavka "neslužbeno gospodarstvo " kao dio nacionalnih računa, postoje posredni postupci kako bi se
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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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Economic policy and unofficial economy
Financijska praksa, 1997 Neslužbeno gospodarstvo utječe na uspjeh u provedbi gospodarske politike. Što je veće neslužbeno gospodarstvo, veći je i njegov utjecaj na gospodarsku politiku. Provedena istraživanja ukazuju daje u Hrvatskoj riječ o značajnim veličinama neslužbenog gospodarstva (oko 25 posto BDP-a), pa će se u tekstu pokušati ukazati na povezanost neslužbenog ...
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New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digitalization of the labour process has occasioned the emergence of new temporal orders at work. For newspaper journalists, it has resulted in a radical reorganization of newsrooms and the temporalities of news production, offering a key site for studying this process of temporal reordering.
Xanthe Whittaker
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Participatory budgeting can encourage meaningful community engagement in all phases of the budgeting cycle to promote social equity. However, participatory budgeting administrators often experience administrative and political challenges in establishing participatory processes that effectively promote social equity.
Michelle L. Lofton +1 more
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Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry +2 more
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Water Alternatives, 2008 Despite its relatively modest importance, and the current difficulties faced by the government in implementing liberalisation in the rest of the country, the Egyptian governement decided to embark on a reform of the Lake Nasser fishery in the early 2000s.
Christophe Béné +2 more
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