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Disconnected Youth in Urban Areas: Can Youth Councils Enhance Connection to School and Work?
Youth who are disconnected from work and education require policy and practice attention due to the long-term negative impacts of early...
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An ICT architecture for Smart Local Councils: a Mauritian case study
The purpose of this paper is to present the work done with regards to the development of an ICT architecture for Smart Local Councils in Mauritius...
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The Role of Pensioner Councils in Regional Healthcare Policy: A Holistic Perspective
To ensure older individuals actively engage in healthcare service development and policymaking, it is crucial to counteract declining social and...
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Local Immigrant Councils as a Form of Participation and Governance: How Institutional Design and Agency Matter
Over the past decades, Western European municipalities increasingly reacted to the presence of immigrants with efforts to include these new residents...
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Two recent judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on Councils for the Judiciary
In recent years the European Court of Human Rights has been confronted with cases where the problems concerning judicial careers and the bodies...
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Works Councils
This chapter reviews the economic effects of employee representation with statutory consultation and information rights at the workplace, the works...
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Engaging people with lived experience on advisory councils of a national not-for-profit: an integrated knowledge translation case study of Heart & Stroke Mission Critical Area Councils
BackgroundIn 2018, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada transformed its approach to organizational strategic planning and priority-setting. The...
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Web accessibility in Spanish city councils: a challenge for the democratic inclusion and well-being of citizens
Public institutions find an open window and greater transparency towards citizens in the digital sphere. So much so that the websites of local...
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Blockchain Assisted Voting in Academic Councils
Councils are a common organisational structure of Portuguese Universities and Polytechnic Institutes. They make the key decisions, in these...
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Membership of Boards, Councils and Committees
Many researchers are elected to members of peer-review panels, boards, councils and committees within the research community. The work may include...
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City councils evolution: a socio-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm
The supreme council of a city is usually formed by the evolution of councils from the smallest neighborhoods to the largest ones, regions, and...
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Independent Judicial Councils and Democratic Quality: A Set-Theoretical Approach
Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, this chapter provides for more complex scrutiny of the relationship between formally independent judicial...
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Role of Science and Technology Councils in Strengthening STI Ecosystem for Sustainable Development
Science, technology, and innovation (STI) are the powerful tools for socio-economic progress of any country. To realize the dream of “Atmanirbhar...
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Participation Without Influence? On the Role of Councils for Elderly and Councils on Disability
Councils for elderly and councils on disability have existed for many years in the Nordic countries, but very little is known about their actual...
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The role of Japan’s agricultural restoration councils during natural disasters: a case study of water withdrawal restrictions due to the 2018 Mt. Iwo eruption
Throughout Japan, municipalities, agricultural cooperatives, agricultural committees, and farmers responsible for rice production adjustment have...
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Towards an effective collaboration between the South Western Sydney Local Health District and local councils: insights from a qualitative study
BackgroundPartnership between local government and local health districts is imperative, given their overlap** goals. However, the need for further...
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Evaluating Change in Representation and Coordination in Collaborative Governance Over Time: A Study of Environmental Justice Councils
Collaborative governance involves convening of government and non-government actors in policy formulation and implementation. Motivating...
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The role of science granting councils in promoting ethics in research and innovation: strategies used by selected African SGCs in promoting ethics in research and innovation
The Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) in Africa aims to strengthen the capacities of selected science granting councils (SGCs) in...
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Social participation in the unified health system of Brazil: an exploratory study on the adequacy of health councils to resolution 453/2012
IntroductionSocial participation is one of the guidelines of the Brazilian health system. Health councils are collegiate instances of participation...
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The Professionalization of an Evolving Sector: Evidence from Watershed Councils
Over the past two decades, attention has focused on the increasing professionalization of the nonprofit sector. Hwang and Powell’s article on...