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Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Melissa K. Merry, Rodger A. Payne
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Understanding and supporting change in health systems using the strategic action fields framework: the availability and origin of sources of authority Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Rasa Mikelyte, Anna Coleman, Jenny Billings, Julie MacInnes, Sarah Croke, Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland
Policy-driven change in public service systems is difficult to implement. We focus upon ‘sources of authority’, which figure within the Strategic Action Fields Framework (SAFF) as resources mobiliz...
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Citizen engagement in public sector innovation: exploring the transition between paradigms Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Huong Nguyen, Ina Drejer, Pilar Marques
This paper explores how the public sector engages citizens for innovation purposes. It connects the related but currently separate debates concerning the transition from the ‘new public management’...
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Agricultural land use policies and landscape dynamics: Evidence from rainforest agroecological zone Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Wonder Kofi Adzigbli, Eric Duku, Gerald Atampugre, Christine Fürst, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko
Agricultural-land use policies play a crucial role in shaping agroecological landscapes globally. The evidence suggests that some of these policies tend to have undesired feedback/trade-offs, particularly about coastal resource use and conservation planning. The present study explores how agricultural policies influence land use/land cover (LULC) transition patterns in Ghana's Rain Forest Agroecological
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Context matters: Rethinking resource governance theories for Mongolian pastoral systems Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Ginger R.H. Allington, María E. Fernández-Giménez, Robin Reid, Tungalag Ulambayar, Jay Angerer, Chantsallkham Jamsranjav, Batkhishig Baival, Batbuyan Batjav
Globally, rangelands face interacting pressures from climate, land-use, socio-economic and political changes, all of which threaten herder livelihoods and grassland health. Given these dynamics, it is often unclear which policies would best support sustainable land use and livelihoods in the future. There are multiple theories for how tenure, rules, social relations and environmental variability intersect
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More doctors in town now? Evidence from Medicaid expansions J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Jason Huh, Jianjing Lin
We examine how physicians’ practice locations are affected by Medicaid expansions. We focus on the dramatic Medicaid eligibility expansions for pregnant women that took place between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. Following a recently‐developed estimation strategy, we identify the change in OB/GYN supply due to the expansions in an event‐study framework. We find that OB/GYN counts per capita
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The effects of a newcomer program on the academic achievement of English Learners J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Camila Morales, Monica Mogollon
School districts serving newcomer English Learners (ELs) generally offer short‐term intensive English programs designed to teach foundational language skills and guide students’ integration into the U.S. school system. Despite the growing popularity of newcomer programs, however, there is limited rigorous evidence of their efficacy. In this paper, we present evidence on the causal effect of an intensive
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Which direction should we head to get to our North Star? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Jason Furman
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Building blocks for U.S. health insurance policy J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
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Starting health reform from here J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Jason Furman
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A blueprint for U.S. health insurance policy J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
There is no shortage of proposals for U.S. health insurance reform. In our recent book, We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care (Einav & Finkelstein, 2023), we offered one more. It grew out of our internal debates over healthcare reform, between two academic economists who work (often together) on U.S. health policy but have not yet been involved in making that policy. We started by trying
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Response to Jason Furman J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
We are pleased that Jason Furman responded to our proposal by recommending that the book (on which we base the proposal) should be “required reading by specialists and non-specialists alike” and noting that he “would be perfectly happy if [our] proposal were adopted.” Both comments are extremely gratifying to receive from a skilled and insightful economist, and particularly from someone who was involved—at
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Liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Christopher Koliba
This paper serves as a renewed call for public management scholars and public leaders in liberal democracies to be the champions of accountability standards that are explicitly and implicitly inherent to liberal democratic forms of governance. This call is particularly salient amid increasing populism, polarization, and democratic backsliding. Drawing from the historical and contemporary political
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Performance information and issue prioritization by political and managerial decision-makers: A discrete choice experiment Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Joris van der Voet, Amandine Lerusse
Issue prioritization is the first stage of attention-based theories of decision-making, but remains theoretically and empirically uncharted territory in public administration research. We propose and test how issue prioritization is informed by the characteristics of the performance information on which decision-makers rely, in particular its source (internal or external information), nature (objective
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Wildfire risk and insurance: research directions for policy scientists Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Matthew R. Auer
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The soft underbelly of complexity science adoption in policymaking: towards addressing frequently overlooked non-technical challenges Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Darren Nel, Araz Taeihagh
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Expanding access to identification cards and social programs: Experimental evidence from Panamá J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Ángela María Reyes, Benjamin Roseth, Diego Vera‐Cossio
We experimentally analyze the effects of an intervention to induce the renewal of identification cards on access to a government social program in Panamá. On‐time renewals and access to government transfers increased by 10 and 3.6 percentage points, respectively. Simple reminders about expiration dates generated larger effects than also enabling individuals to renew their documents through an online
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Is a 15-Minute City Within Reach? Measuring Multimodal Accessibility and Carbon Footprint in 12 Major American Cities Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Tanhua Jin, Kailai Wang, Yanan Xin, Jian Shi, Ye Hong, Frank Witlox
Enhanced efforts in the transportation sector should be implemented to mitigate the adverse effects of CO emissions resulting from zoning-based planning paradigms. The concept of a 15-minute city, emphasizing proximity-based planning, holds promise in reducing unnecessary travel and progressing towards carbon neutrality. However, a critical research question remains inadequately explored: to what extent
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
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“Chat‐Up”: The role of competition in street‐level bureaucrats' willingness to break technological rules and use generative pre‐trained transformers (GPTs) Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Neomi Frisch‐Aviram, Gabriela Spanghero Lotta, Luciana Jordão de Carvalho
Organizations worldwide are concerned about workers using generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), which can generate human‐like text in seconds at work. These organizations are setting rules on how and when to use GPTs. This article focuses on street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) intentions to use GPTs even if their public organization does not allow its use (tech rule‐breaking). Based on a mixed‐methods
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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There, across the border – political scientists and their boundary-crossing work Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Pierre Squevin, Valérie Pattyn, Jens Jungblut, Sonja Blum
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Policy‐Making As Designing: The Added Value of Design Thinking for Public Administration and Public Policy by ArwinvanBuuren, Jenny M.Lewis, and B.Guy Peters, Eds. Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, 2023, 244 pp., $149.95 (hardcover). ISBN 978–1447365938. J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Adrianus Aprilius, Albertus Yosep Maturan, Fransiskus Wuniyu, Putri Inggrid Maria Risamasu
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Burdens, Bribes, and Bureaucrats: The Political Economy of Petty Corruption and Administrative Burdens Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Fernando Nieto-Morales, Rik Peeters, Gabriela Lotta
Bribery and other forms of petty corruption typically arise in bureaucratic encounters and are a common element of the everyday experience of the state in many countries, particularly in places with weak institutions. This type of corruption is especially troublesome because it creates direct costs for citizens when accessing services and benefits to which they are formally entitled. However, only
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Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Andreas Kruck, Moritz Weiss
Making security has been Leviathan's home turf and its prime responsibility. Yet, while security states in advanced democracies share this uniform purpose, there is vast variation in how they legitimize and how they make security policies. First, the political authority of elected policy‐makers is sometimes superseded by the epistemic authority of experts. Second, states make security, in some instances
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Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jesper Dahl Kelstrup, Jonas Videbæk Jørgensen
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Communicating climate change as a generational issue: experimental effects on youth worry, motivation and belief in collective action Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Shane Timmons, Ylva Andersson, Peter D. Lunn
Generations differ in their contribution to climate change and susceptibility to its effects. Contextualizing climate change as an intergenerational issue may therefore alter public engagement. We ...
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Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework? Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Max van Deursen, Aarti Gupta
In this article, we examine the contestations and compromises that underpin the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework, with the aim to analyze whose climate action priorities are reflec...
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Contracting ‘person-centred’ working by results: street-level managers and frontline experiences in an outcomes-based contract Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Eleanor Carter, Franziska Rosenbach, Fernando Domingos, Felix-Anselm van Lier
Outcomes-based contracting (OBC) has been heralded as a mechanism for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of social programmes yet has persistently failed to deliver meaningful support for p...
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Crisis coordination in complex intergovernmental systems: The case of Australia Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Naim Kapucu, Andrew Parkin, Miriam Lumb, Russell Dippy
As the scale and intensity of disasters and crises continue to increase, planning and managing crises have become a critical policy and governance issue. Of particular importance to this topic is crisis coordination, as effective response and recovery support the continuity of operations of governments and businesses, and are essential to the economy, health, and public safety. This paper applies a
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Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Michelle Graff
This article investigates the impact of categorical eligibility, a policy aimed at easing administrative burdens, on outcomes of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Through two-way fixed...
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A meta-analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Ed Gerrish, Mikhail Ivonchyk, Cleopatra Charles, Robert A. Greer, Temirlan T. Moldogaziev
State and local governments seek to save money through fiscal efficiency. One such mechanism widely studied in the literature is through the choice for financial underwriting of debt. The extant literature generally suggests that state and local governments can lower borrowing costs through a competitive method of sale. In a meta-analysis of 418 effects from 97 studies, we find that competitive sales
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Adaptive organizational network response in a crisis: The case of five European airports during the COVID-19 pandemic Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Doret de Rooij, Aura Timen, Jörg Raab
The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to the joint organizational response of private and public and here especially public health organizations. This is particularly true for airports as central connectors of global travel and trade. For five European airports, we analyzed the interorganizational response based on input from 66 of the 87 different airport partners, using two fictitious
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Unraveling spatial agglomeration patterns in agri-environmental schemes: Evidence from the improvement of steppe habitats in the Natura 2000 network in Catalonia (Spain) Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Cristina Pérez-Sánchez, Ana Beatriz Pierri-Daunt, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
The European payment for ecosystem services in the agricultural sector, or agri-environmental schemes (AES), have shown limited success in stopping biodiversity loss due to the mismatches between the scale at which they are adopted and the scale of ecological processes. This study analyzes the spatial distribution of farmer participation in the “Improvement of the steppe habitats of the Natura 2000
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The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Perri 6, Eva Heims
How does regulatory statehood develop from the regulatory work which governments have always done? This article challenges conventional views that regulatory statehood is achieved by transition to arm's length agencies and that it replaces court-based enforcement or displaces legislatures in favor of less accountable executive power. To do so, we examine the major 19th-century surge in development
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Creating public value in frontline teams: an empirical exploration of shared leadership behaviour by frontline officials Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Lara van Osch, Sandra Groeneveld, Ben Kuipers
In this study, we aim to provide insight into the way in which frontline officials in teams employ leadership behaviour aimed at creating public value. We conducted 29 in-depth semi-structured narr...
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Land use scenarios for the development of a carbon-neutral energy supply – A case study from Southern Germany Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Stephan Bosch, Dominik Kienmoser
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Connecting founding and dissolution: A demographic study of the US nonprofit sector Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Duncan J. Mayer
Despite a rich literature on nonprofit density, the founding and dissolution of nonprofit organizations remains poorly understood. This study explores the founding and dissolution in nonprofit populations including density dependence, resource concentration, government size, and hypothesizes that dissolution creates an entrepreneurial opportunity. The hypotheses are tested using county level data covering
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Non‐monetary sanctions as tax enforcement tools: Evaluating California's top 500 program J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Chad Angaretis, Brian Galle, Paul R. Organ, Allen Prohofsky
Many U.S. states and countries around the world use non‐monetary sanctions, including public disclosure, license suspension, and withholding of other government‐provided benefits or privileges, to encourage tax compliance. Little is known about the effectiveness of these programs. Using administrative tax microdata from California's “Top 500” program, we study whether notices warning of the imminent
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Creation of state organizations: experiments with ideal-type reform models in a non-Western country Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Abiha Zahra, Geert Bouckaert
By studying organizational creations, this article documents the reform trajectory of a non-Western country from 1947 to 2018, using a comparative analytical framework for the operationalization of...
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Burdens on the gateway to the state: Administrative burdens in the registration of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Laure‐lise Robben, Rik Peeters, Arjan Widlak
Population registries are the gateway to public services, benefits, and rights. However, despite clear formal rules and procedures, people eligible for registration may still face administrative burdens in obtaining access. In this article, we study the case of the municipal registration of people who experience homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands—a group that typically suffers from administrative
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Unraveling how intermediary-beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Cynthia L. Michel
As a result of policy growth, implementing agencies often face new mandates without the necessary capacity expansion to comply with, thus resorting to intermediaries. However, intermediaries are not innocuous to the implementation process, especially when they are expected to play the double role of target and intermediary, responsible for translating/interpreting regulation for beneficiaries. How
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Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse Policy and Society (IF 10.104) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Daniel S Schiff
As artificial intelligence (AI) policy has begun to take shape in recent years, policy actors have worked to influence policymakers by strategically promoting issue frames that define the problems and solutions policymakers should attend to. Three such issue frames are especially prominent, surrounding AI’s economic, geopolitical, and ethical dimensions. Relatedly, while technology policy is traditionally
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Unethical leadership, moral compensation, and ethical followership: Evidence from a survey experiment with Chilean public servants Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Christian Schuster, Javier Fuenzalida, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling
Numerous studies associate ethical leadership with ethical behavior in the public sector. By contrast, the effects of unethical leadership in the public sector have largely not been explored. Yet, unethical leadership need not beget unethical followership. Instead, we theorize that some bureaucrats may perceive unethical leadership as a moral threat and respond to it with moral compensation and greater
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It takes (at least) two to tango: Investigating interactional dynamics between clients and caseworkers in public encounters Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Matthias Döring, Nicolas Drathschmidt, Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen
Public encounters are an essential element in citizen–state interactions. Yet, we know very little about the interactional dynamics between clients and street‐level bureaucrats. By analyzing data from interviews and participatory observations of public encounters in a social security administration context, we propose a typology of public encounters based on clients' and employees' preparedness that
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Do government performance signals affect citizen satisfaction? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Weijie Wang, Taek Kyu Kim
Previous studies have confirmed the causal effect of performance information on citizen satisfaction, but they were primarily conducted in survey experimental settings that featured hypothetical and abstract scenarios and primed respondents to look at certain aspects of performance information. Whether the causal effects hold in the real world, which is a much more complex information environment,
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One issue, two interpretations: unpacking the role of issue definition in e-government implementation Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Ziteng Fan
Current research suggests that the way in which governments interpret e-government has the potential to affect e-government implementation but lacks systematic exploration. To address this gap, thi...
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OK computer: applying the public service logic on digital health services Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Barbara Zyzak, Pål Erling Martinussen
Recent attention to public service logic (PSL) has resulted in the creation of several theoretical guidelines for value creation. This empirical study applies PSL framework to explore how PSL is fi...
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Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Justin M. Stritch, Mogens Jin Pedersen, Ignacio Pezo
Crowdsourcing platforms such as MTurk and Prolific have emerged as data sources for researchers in the social sciences. This article delves into the past, present, and future use of crowdsourced data in public administration scholarship. Through a review of published articles in top public administration journals (years 2013–2022), we uncover a general growth in the use of crowdsourced data over time
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Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Muhammad Azfar Nisar, Ayesha Masood
Administrative burden research has contributed to improved understanding of citizens' experiences while accessing state services. However, the significance of the material infrastructure within which citizen–administrator interactions take place remains largely absent from this line of research. To help address this research gap, this article uses ethnographic data to discuss the influence of material
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Evolution of urban land and population system coupling micro–dynamics and macro-stability: Trends and paths Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Weiqian Lei, Limin Jiao, Zhibang Xu, Xinhua Zhu
Cities are constantly dynamics, but emerge the stability of urban systems as evidenced by robust urban scaling. Both properties serve as necessary perspectives for understanding the evolution of cities and the complexity of urban systems. However, the evolution trends and mechanisms behind the above relationships, particularly concerning geographic processes, remain to be explored in depth. In this
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Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Mariya Aleksandrova, Laura Kuhl, Daniele Malerba
Social protection has gained increasing attention in global climate policy due to its potential to contribute to low-carbon, just and climate-resilient development. Unlocking climate finance for so...
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Land tenure administration in Iraq: Quantitative analysis and a comprehensive evaluation Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Laith H.M. Al-ossmi
The present study underscores its novel methodology, employing a mathematical extrapolation as a guiding framework to investigate and scrutinize the Iraqi land tenancy system. Remarkably, this innovative approach stands distinct from preceding research endeavors. Notably, its application holds potential for facilitating a comprehensive inquiry into land tenure management facets across in Iraqi jurisdictions
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Response to Diane W. Schanzenbach J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Richard Reeves
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