Business Analytics: Methods and Cases for Data-Driven Decisions
Business Analytics, a new textbook from author and professor Richard Huntsinger is uniquely designed for both the business-oriented and data science-oriented student.…
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Anchor Management: A Field Experiment to Encourage Families to Meet Critical Program Deadlines
In early 2017, only half of Washington, DC families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) successfully recertified their eligibility and maintained their benefits.…
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Government Policy Performance and Central-Local Political Trust in China
Government policy performance is an important source of political trust. When governments perform well, the public is inclined to have high levels of trust toward them.…
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Aviation Policy Instrument choice in Europe – High Flying and Crash Landing? Understanding Policy Evolutions in the Netherlands and Germany
In the Paris agreement, countries have committed themselves to decrease their carbon emissions drastically. Against this background, aviation has become an emblematic bone of contention since it is proven to be the most polluting mode of transport.…
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The Decentralization of Death?
When 43 students disappeared in the Mexican city Iguala in September 2014 during an attack of a joint group made up of local mafia and municipal police forces, a public outcry plunged the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto into crisis and decisively contributed to the defeat of his PRI party in the presidential elections.…
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Europeanization on Demand: The EU Cybersecurity Certification Regime Between Market Integration and Core State Powers [1997-2019]
The digital sphere is consistently expanding, and now encompasses more than half of the world’s population with eight billion digital devices (Kemp, 2019).…
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Policy and the Dimensionality of Congressional Roll Call Voting
In a recent opinion piece on Bloomberg.com, Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama Administration, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic would be an unprecedented Political Science experiment that would test whether the threat of the virus could overcome the polarisation of American political parties.…
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Where does implementation lie? Assessing the determinants of delegation and discretion in post-Maastricht European Union
“I would like to be free, as a man is free. Like a man who needs to wander with his fantasies and who finds this space only in his democracy, that has the right to vote and spends his life delegating and in receiving commands has found his new freedom” (Giorgio Gaber, “la Libertà”, 1973) Delegation is a very common act in our everyday life: We delegate tasks to our colleagues in the workplace.…
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Social sustainability in food production? Recent developments in labour standards in the meat-processing industries in UK and Germany
The overexploitation and pollution of natural resources and accelerating climate change are among the greatest challenges of the present. Against this backdrop, industries are more and more prone to taking sustainability aspects into account.…
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The regional politics of austerity after the Great Recession: What lessons can we learn from Italy and Spain?
The world is currently facing the most serious health crisis in more than a century. While virtually all countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some variation in the spread of the virus and the extent to which it has disrupted societies and economies.…
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Relationality: A Richly Different Lens for Analyzing Policy
Policy is often depicted as prescription –a set of rules by which services and functions are carried out in the public sphere.…
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The strings of the ‘golden straightjacket’: How sovereign credit ratings constrain democratic choice in developing and developed countries
In the past three decades, credit rating agencies have been in the limelight on more than one occasion, and not in a good way.…
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Does gambling belong in the category of morality policy?
Morality policies involve a controversial question of first principles or core values. Does gambling belong to this category of policies?
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Unequal benefits – diverging attitudes: How an equal expansion of childcare attenuates backlash against egalitarian gender norms
After decades of value change towards more egalitarian gender norms across most Western societies, the trend has now slowed, and even reversed in some countries.…
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Symposium on Institutional Innovations in the Enforcement of EU Law and Policies
Much is being said, lately, regarding the effectiveness of EU policies, often arguing that their implementation is too poor or uneven throughout the Union.…
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More Policies. More Progress. More Problems.
From the operation of a functioning health care system and the protection of the environment to the provision of jobs, social benefits and decent housing – citizens demand a lot from their elected governments.…
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How Policy Packaging can increase public support for costly policies
Around the world, policy-makers are confronted with various challenges originating from climate change, urbanisation, population growth, as well as technological and economic change.…
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It Could Happen to You: How Perceptions of Personal Risk Shape Support for Social Welfare Policy in the American States
Social welfare policies are among the most salient and potentially controversial policies today. In virtually all western democracies, public support for the social safety net has changed significantly over time.…
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Physical harm warning urges patients to use medicine correctly
Patients warned about the personal health risks of misusing medicine were almost twice as likely to heed the advice and take and it correctly, a new study has found.…
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Regulatory Policy Entrepreneurship and Reforms: A Comparison of Competition and Financial Regulation
Regulations and regulatory change are a political process that is the product of the interaction between politicians, bureaucrats, the general public and interest groups.…
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How Policy Instruments Matter in Higher Education Performance
According to the mainstream literature related to governance change in higher education (HE),Western European governments have redesigned governance systems to make HE institutions more accountable by turning to a similar policy formula (the so-called ‘steering at a distance’ governance arrangement).…
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As Governance Evolves, So Should Our Tools for Studying It
Decision making in highly contentious public policy domains can become mired in political conflict, leaving important policy problems unaddressed. To remedy this, public agencies across levels of government are experimenting with non-traditional governance approaches that emphasize conflict reduction and negotiation among diverse stakeholders.…
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How Bureaucratic Leadership Shapes Policy Outcomes: Partisan Politics and Affluent Citizens’ Incomes in the American States
Unified control of policymaking by a single political party is perhaps necessary, but not sufficient for observing policy outcomes consistent with majoritarian policy preferences.…
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Left to Right: How Labor Market Policies affect Support for Right-Wing Populists
Much recent popular attention and research has been devoted to economic sources of individual support for right-wing populists. While there is considerable debate about the extent to which economic factors vs.…
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How do actors influence each other in regulatory decision-making?
Since the rise of regulation as a tool used by governments to intervene in different policy sectors in the late 1980s and early 1990s, countries around the word have established sector regulatory agencies to perform that task.…
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More bang for your buck: tax compliance in the United States and Italy
Sven Steinmo states in his book Taxation and Democracy, “Governments need money. Modern Governments need lots of money.” This is no less true today than it was twenty-five years ago when he wrote it.…
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The dynamics of policy change in authoritarian countries
In democratic countries, actors inside and outside the state have various channels for expressing their concerns and influencing policy agendas. In contrast, in authoritarian countries, less inclusive institutions lead to different dynamics of policy change.…
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Do the 50 American States Give Voters What They Want on Health and Immigration?
The 50 American state governments have been faced with many questions related to healthcare and immigration in the past two decades.…
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Do governments maintain major policy changes?
The public sector serves a diverse citizenry across many different policy areas. To better serve their citizens, governments strive to develop routines and normalize service delivery.…
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When less public participation may be better public participation
Currently, policymaking is torn between two demands. On the one hand, issues become increasingly complex, calling for the incorporation of expertise in the policymaking process and increasingly complex decision-making procedures.…
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Why do regulators network?
Networks of regulators are a well-established feature of the European Union system of governance. For a long time, the academic debate emphasised that networks were created in order to ensure a degree of convergence in regulatory policies across the EU, given the absence of supranational Euro-regulators.…
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Political Control and Policymaking Uncertainty in Environmental Justice Policies
Inequities in the enforcement of environmental regulations are an important problem, as a number of studies show that ethnic minorities and low-income citizens are likely to suffer disproportionately from the effects of toxic waste, and air and water pollution. …
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Political and Legal Antecedents of Affirmative Action: A Comparative Framework
Why do some states have affirmative action policies while others do not? Much of the literature that examines this question is normative in nature or focuses on one state or a small number of states.…
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A definition of free sugars for the UK
As a nation, we are eating too much sugar. Consuming too many foods and drinks high in sugar can lead to weight gain and related health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers.
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Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice
What if the greatest challenge facing regulation today is not erratic executive action, or lack of political will, or under-resourcing (though of course these matter)?…
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Why are private actors able to co-govern prostitution policy and assisted dying in Germany?
Prostitution and assisted dying are highly contentious topics in German politics and many more countries around the world. Policy-makers commonly disagree on the “right way” of solving related policy problems.…
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For what purposes should the government be able to take private property?
For what purposes should the government be able to take private property? When I first started writing about that question, I thought there was little chance anyone outside the United States would ever be interested in my work.…
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Global Institutional Justice – A Chimera?
A United Nations tribunal constituted under Annex VII to the United Nations Convention (UNC) on the Law of the Sea at Hague submitted its verdict recently on a unilateral arbitration instituted by Philippines on June 21st, 2013 questioning the validity of China’s “nine-dash line” claims in the South China Sea (SCS).
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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The Forgotten First Woman Candidate for U.S. President
Long before Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, or Kamala Harris became the first woman vice president and launched her own presidential bid in 2024, another woman set her sights on the White House, at a time when women couldn’t even vote.…
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How did Down syndrome get its name?
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
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Exploring the Arrival of Domestic Cats in the Americas
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend”.…
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Medieval Ethiopia, ‘Antiquity’, and African Archaeology
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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Experimenting with tablet-making
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
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