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Environmental impact assessment is currently the major Brazilian institution that routinely seeks community input about infrastructure projects. It is criticized both by activists who think it permits projects it should not and by project proponents who think that it is too slow and blocks...
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Social movements emerge as part of and in response to the prevailing relations of power. They emerge to make visible identities rendered invisible, abnormal or excluded by these relationships, to challenge currently dominant ideas as to how society should be organized, to draw attention to needs...
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The aim of this study is to build a decision support framework for helping local governments in the identification of sustainable strategies, using a combination of various multi-criteria evaluation methods. The first part of the paper emphasises the importante of multi-criteria methods in the...
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social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …
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The aim of this study is to build a decision support framework for helping local governments in the identification of sustainable strategies, using a combination of various multi-criteria evaluation methods. The first part of the paper emphasises the importante of multi-criteria methods in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451517
results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with increases in individual participation in political organizations …
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public policy may foster or dampen political participation depending on social group affiliation. The policy change we use to … boxes in national elections and they tend to vote more for Arab parties. In contrast, the political participation of Jewish …
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two different -and equally interesting- features of the revolution: the determinants of participation (both in the … participation). We consider different drivers of participation, from traditional proxies for opportunities and grievances, but we … connectivity. What emerges from this study is a more nuanced pattern of participation that does not link uniquely to a single …
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women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double …
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social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670370