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What makes a lobby successful? Understanding the capacity of Spanish business organizations to influence public decisions
The research presented in this paper aims to find out which business associations had the greatest capacity of influencing Spanish public issues...
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For the greater good: modern China’s struggle on housing shortage
The examination of housing shortages in China presents a fascinating subject that is rarely directly addressed. This topic not only captures our...
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Influence of different stakeholders on the duration of legislative decision-making in the European Union
How do the different opinions of stakeholders affect the legislative duration in the initial stage of the decision-making process? The European Union...
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Enhancement of work place comfort through the use of soft landscape
The work environment has been shown to have a great influence on employees’ physical and mental state, as such employers try as much as possible to...
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Emotional governance at the street level: a content analysis of service slogans in China
This paper explores emotional governance in Chinese street-level bureaucracy by conducting a content analysis of service slogans. Emotional...
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Activists and activism success: towards a grounded conceptualisation
Success is an important aspect of evaluating activism because the latter is a vehicle for political change. However, the idea of ‘success’ has proved...
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Can Social Media Reach Isolated Domestic Abuse Victims? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial During the Covid-19 Lockdown
Research QuestionsCan social media reach isolated domestic abuse victims? Secondly, does providing victims with more information and a safer means of...
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Map** civil society elites: multi-dimensional measure of resource stratification in civil society (MMRSC)
This paper presents a novel methodological approach, multi-dimensional measure of resource stratification in civil society (MMRSC). The method aims...
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Waterfront developments and engineered canals in the UAE
Engineered canals and waterfront developments as a means to revitalize aging riverfront and coastal areas, dominated until the mid-thirties by...
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Working together: an RACM model of policy implementation capacity
Policy implementation is an integral aspect of the policy process but extant research has not yet established a unified framework of policy...
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Superior endorsement and bureaucratic compliance in China’s environmental enforcement
The influence of politics in policy implementation is a widespread global phenomenon, but bureaucratic responses to it remain understudied. This...
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Working more, paying less: differential effects of austerity measures on the motivation of public employees
Public organizations worldwide are increasingly expected to perform more effectively at a lower cost. Austerity measures are thus taken, affecting...
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Heritagutopia: a new utopian paradigm
The progress of humanity has always, and sometimes even unconsciously, been confronted with the concept of utopia at the social, economic, political,...
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Lobbying transparency and attitudes towards interest groups: a survey experiment
Despite the growing interest for lobbying in public opinion research, little is known about citizen’s attitudes towards interest groups, especially...
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Lobbying venue selection under separation of powers and resource constraints
Prior work examines how organization resources and types shape venue selection strategies. Both Congress and executive branch agencies can change...
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A new approach for configuring modular floating cities: assessing modular floating platforms by means of analytic hierarchy process
Floating cities have emerged as an efficient long-term solution over unsustainable practiced solutions to combat the rising seas problem;...
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Navigating hostility: How political contexts affect the strategies of LGBTQ+ interest groups
Equal rights for LGBTQ+ people are actively contested across some European countries. Although previous studies have analysed what drives this...
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Forecasting for Police Officer Safety: A Demonstration of Concept
PurposePolice officers in the USA are often put in harm’s way when responding to calls for service. This paper provides a demonstration of concept...
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Ghosts and teeming worlds
The article continues a trajectory of studies performed in the last few years regarding the topic of the body in discourse and urban planning design...
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Discovering a Predictive Mechanism to Identify Risk and Harm in Extra-Familial Child Exploitation: Time to Reconsider the Multi-agency Child Exploitation (MACE) Response?
This paper examines the multi-agency identification of risk and harm in extra-familial child exploitation (CE). It explores several data prediction...
