Lester W. Milbrath
Originally published in 1965 by Rand McNally College Publishing Company, this volume serves as a compilation of propositions on political participation with supporting discussions, incorporating cross-national research from such countries as Bangladesh, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Latin America. ...
Larry Diamond
The latest volume in this popular series focuses on the best ways to evaluate and improve the quality of new democratic regimes. The essays in part one elaborate and refine several themes of democratic quality: the rule of law, accountability, freedom, equality, and responsiveness. The second part f...
Andréa Cornwall, Vera Schattan P. Coelho
* Foreword - John Gaventa * 1. Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas - Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. Coelho * Part I: The Challenge of Inclusion ** 2. Brazilian Health Councils: including the excluded? - Vera Schattan P. Coelho ** 3. Spaces for participatio...
Richard Crook, James Manor
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...
Uta Erdbrügger, Charles J. Blijdorp, Irene V. Bijnsdorp, Francesc E. Borràs et al.
Abstract Urine is commonly used for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. The discovery of extracellular vesicles (EV) in urine opened a new fast‐growing scientific field. In the last decade urinary extracellular vesicles (uEVs) were shown to mirror molecular processes as well as physiological...
Richard Crook, James Manor
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability betwee...
Vivien Lowndes, Lawrence Pratchett, Gerry Stoker
This is a two part article which should be read as one (see RAE FAQ: www.rae.ac.uk/faq/default.asp?selcat=4&q=119). The first part is: 'Trends in Public Participation: Part 1 – Local Government Perspectives' PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 79/1 pp205-222 (DOI 10.1111/1467-9299.00253). The research that it...
Jessica Dart, Rick Davies
The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a dialogical, story-based technique. Its primary purpose is to facilitate program improvement by focusing the direction of work towards explicitly valued directions and away from less valued directions. MSC can also make a contribution to summative eval...
Helen E. Roy, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Riccardo Scalerà, Alan J. A. Stewart et al.
Abstract Biological invasions are a threat to biodiversity, society and the economy. There is an urgent need to provide evidence‐based assessments of the risks posed by invasive alien species ( IAS ) to prioritize action. Risk assessments underpin IAS policies in many ways: informing legislation; pr...
Tanzania IMCI Multi-Country Evaluation Health Facility Survey Study Group
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has been adopted by over 80 countries as a strategy for reducing child mortality and improving child health and development. It includes complementary interventions designed to address the major causes of child mortality at community, health facility...
Jagdish Kaur, Daksh Jain
Tobacco use is a major public health challenge in India with 275 million adults consuming different tobacco products. Government of India has taken various initiatives for tobacco control in the country. Besides enacting comprehensive tobacco control legislation (COTPA, 2003), India was among the fi...
Guanghui Wen, Zhisheng Duan, Wenwu Yu, Guanrong Chen
This article investigates the second-order consensus problem of multi-agent systems with inherent delayed nonlinear dynamics and intermittent communications. Each agent is assumed to obtain the measurements of relative states between its own and the neighbours' only at a sequence of disconn...
Zahirul Hoque, Trevor Hopper
Nicole Bellows, Ben Bellows, Charlotte Warren
OBJECTIVES: To identify where vouchers have been used for reproductive health (RH) services, to what extent RH voucher programmes have been evaluated, and whether the programmes have been effective. METHODS: A systematic search of the peer review and grey literature was conducted to identify RH vouc...
Shahjahan Bhuiyan