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Eduardo Restrepo, Arturo Escobar • Critique of Anthropology
(2005)
This article seeks to complicate the picture of a simple anthropological tradition emanating from the West that defines anthropology as a modern form of expert knowledge. It introduces a broader frame - ‘world anthropologies’ - that allows ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x05053009
Catherine S. Dolan, Emma Gilberthorpe, Dinah Rajak • Wiley eBooks
(2017)
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology is the most complete reference resource for the field of anthropology and interrelated areas, providing an authoritative and expert overview of the concepts, research, and techniques that toget...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396
Katrien De Troeyer, Jeroen De Man, Eline Vandebroek, Jeroen A Vanoirbeek et al. • Environment International
(2022)
Domestic cleaners have an increased risk of asthma-like and other respiratory symptoms and conditions. Uncertainty exists about which products are most hazardous. We aimed to investigate, among professional domestic cleaners, the associatio...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107170
David Irwin, Mercy Kyande • International Review of Public Policy
(2023)
Governments create advisory committees and arm’s-length agencies and then delegate responsibilities and powers, sometimes merely to provide policy advice but sometimes to implement regulation. Interest groups, and especially groups represen...
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DOI: 10.4000/irpp.3175
Alessandro Connor Crocetti, Troy Walker, Fiona Mitchell, Simone Sherriff et al. • Globalization and Health
(2024)
Abstract Background The commercial determinants of health is a rapidly expanding field of research; however Indigenous perspectives remain notably underrepresented. For Indigenous peoples the intersection of globalisation, colonialism and c...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12992-024-01038-8
Dietmar Braun, Andreas Busch • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
(1999)
Part 1 A theoretical overview: interests or ideas? an overview of ideational concepts in public policy research, Dietmar Braun from hooks to focal points - the changing role of ideas in rational choice theory, Andreas Busch the power of ide...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035306091
Peter L. Berger, Richard John Neuhaus • Routledge eBooks
(2021)
Two seemingly contradictory tendencies are evident in current thinking about public policy in America. First, there is a continuing desire for the services provided by the modern welfare state. Partisan rhetoric aside, few people seriously ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367696559-32
Christopher Koliba, Jack Wayne Meek, Asim Zia • Routledge eBooks
(2017)
What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish some kind of policy function. To be effective, they must find ways to navigat...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315093451
• Choice Reviews Online
(1998)
Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a re...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-2785
Christopher Koliba, Jack Wayne Meek, Asim Zia, Russell W. Mills • Routledge eBooks
(2018)
What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish a policy function. This second edition of Governance Networks in Public Admin...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315268620
Evelyn Angiji, Paul Ebusu • Tobacco Induced Diseases
(2018)
Background and challenges to implementation
Uganda
Cancer Society's (UCS) purpose is to coordinate civil society efforts for a
systematic contribution towards effective cancer control in Uganda. UCS is
moving towards fully integrating tobac...
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DOI: 10.18332/tid/84466
Mohsen Abbaszadeh Marzbali • دولتپژوهی
(2022)
As one of the most visible aspects of political life in recent years, the populist rises imply the ‘crisis of representation’ that means the existing institutional mechanism of representative democracy is ineffective in representing the var...
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DOI: 10.22054/tssq.2023.69050.1278
Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando, Mai-Lei Woo Kinshella, Sangwani Salimu, Brandina Chiwaya et al. • International Breastfeeding Journal
(2021)
Abstract Background Exclusive breastfeeding is widely accepted as a key intervention with proven efficacy for improving newborn survival. Despite international commitments and targets to support and promote breastfeeding, there are still ga...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13006-021-00418-9
Julian Le Grand (2003)
Abstract Can we rely on the public service ethos to deliver high quality public services? Are professionals such as doctors and teachers really public‐spirited altruists—knights—or self‐interested egoists—knaves? And how should the recipien...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/0199266999.001.0001
David Richards, Martin J. Smith (2002)
1. Introduction: Public Policy in a Changing World 2. Interpreting Governance 3. Interpreting the Modern State 4. From Modernity to Crisis 5. Internal challenges to the Modern State : The New Right 6. External challenges to the Modern State...
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David S. Meyer, Helen Ingram, Steven Rathgeb Smith • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
(1994)
A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconstructed to make public policies more responsive to citizens and thus more effective? This c...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2074276
Fiona Preston-Whyte, Toshka Barnardo, Danica Marlin, Tanna Hewett et al. • Southern African Journal of Environmental Education
(2025)
Data gaps limit solutions and policy development for environmental issues. Citizen science offers a possible solution to reduce data gaps at a limited cost while enhancing environmental education (EE). While highly effective in the latter, ...
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DOI: 10.4314/sajee.v41SI1.04
B. Guy Peters (2021)
PART ONE: THE NATURE OF PUBLIC POLICY Chapter One: What is Public Policy Defining Public Policy The Instruments of Public Policy The Environment of Public Policy Summary Chapter Two: The Structure of Policymaking in American Government Fede...
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Marilyn Taylor (2011)
The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement, believe active communities...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-34409-9
Dietmar Braun • IRIS
(2000)
Territorial division of power and public policy-making - an overview the territorial division of power in comparative public policy research - an assessment Canada - dual and executive federalism, ineffective problem-solving regional policy...
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