... coalitions. Second, they offer opportunities for these actors to get civically and politically involved in municipal government in direct, influential ways. While in decision-making roles, they effectively help to advance gentrification in their neighborhoods to better suit their economic interests...

... paths is basic to inequity. In The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms: Cleavages and Coalitions, Katharina Sass documents how Norway achieved equity by keeping students together until age 16, while Germany accomplished the opposite by putting students onto academic or vocational paths...

...Michelle C Kegler; Varduhi Hayrumyan; Ana Dekanosidze; Lilit Grigoryan; Arevik Torosyan; Zhanna Sargsyan; Lela Sturua; Alexander Bazarchyan; Carla J Berg Abstract Community coalitions depend on their members to synergistically pool diverse resources, including knowledge and expertise, community...

... how the proliferation of ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalizes established institutions. This occurs through the whittling-down of institutional norms, bypassing of decision-making processes and shifting of resource allocations. Abstract As ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) proliferate, particularly...

... product standards which target final products can mobilize the support of producers of relatively low carbon materials and knowledge-intensive service providers. environmental product declaration product carbon footprint carbon leakage public procurement policy coalitions lobbying Research Institute...

...Daniel Nohrstedt; Tim Heinmiller The ACF assumes that coalition members jointly pursue various political strategies to alter the behavior of governmental institutions ( Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith, 1993 , p. 212). Understanding how actors collectively choose and exploit strategies is thus...

... is determined endogenously by another risk-sharing arrangement. Coalitions form to insure against idiosyncratic income risk. Self-enforcing contracts for both the original coalition and any coalition formed (joined) after deviations rely on a belief in future cooperation which we term “trust”. We treat...

... contact journals.permissions@oup.com Despite the prominence of ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) in global governance, there is little scholarly understanding about how to recognize or categorize them. The article provides a rigorous foundation for identifying AHCs and studying their effects, by drawing attention...

.... Benefits to those of us in animal agriculture include: Greater visibility; Market opportunities; Political support; Better health for all of us. Keywords: coalitions, health, sustainability TEACHING AND EXTENSION EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM 36 Kansas State University Feedlot Boot Camp and Teaching Program: Growing...

... an opportunity, and in light of the failures of human nutrition, a responsibility to: stop accepting their pronouncements; stop citing them in our research; and challenge their legitimacy wherever possible. Keywords: coalitions, health, sustainability J. Anim. Sci Vol. 100, Suppl. S2 194 coalitions health...

... Gap U.S. Political Views Ageism Partisan Coalitions Many observers have raised parallels between current times and the Progressive Era (1880–1920), a period of swift change in our country, including rapid industrialization, large waves of immigrants, and pockets of deep poverty. Then, as now, large...

... the movement of ideas, norms, behaviours and discourses between policy domains, including between international and national levels of governance. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF; Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith, 1993 ) charted the hierarchical belief systems, resources and strategies of actors within...

... evidence shows that the cabinet was responsible to the assembly and that parliamentary majorities forced cabinets to resign. Roll-call analysis reveals behavioural patterns that are typical for parliamentary government such as high party unity, cohesive voting by the governing coalition and substantially...

.... This finding withstands the introduction of various controls, outlier tests, and specification checks. Our results support the view that institutional improvements must accompany the promotion of inclusiveness in low-income and weakly-institutionalised countries. growth regressions ethnic coalitions...

... that an approach inspired by a classic portfolio allocation model works best in explaining the distribution of seats and chairs between parties. Shadowing of coalition partners appears to matter little, if at all. Coalitions Committees Denmark Government In recent years, there has been an increased focus...

...’? This question is addressed from a constructivist angle. Within the constructivist approach debate rages on whether, and if so under what conditions, there could be a relationship between policy learning and policy change. The discourse coalition framework renounces the cognitivist concept of policy learning...

...Cody Koykka; Geoff Wild Address correspondence to Cody Koykka. E-mail: ckoykka@uwo.ca . Handling editor: Louise Barrett behavioral ecology coalitions concessions fitness hierarchies life history In behavioral ecology, coalitions generally refer to two or more individuals that temporarily...

..., the PMNCH brought together previously competing advocacy coalitions for safe motherhood and child survival and attracted support from major donors, foundations and professional bodies. Today, its founders highlight its achievements in generating priority for ‘MNCH’, encouraging integrated health systems...

... impact of political leadership turnovers on the risk of premature withdrawals from military coalition operations. By employing data on all military coalition operations between 1946 and 2001, we then test our argument via a multi-methods approach, that is, a quantitative parametric analysis, non...

... associates they grouped with over multiple nights. Groups formed during the autumn swarming season may represent cohort groups of young bats learning of the location of sites and groups of males that are potentially cooperating to secure more mating opportunities. associations Chiroptera coalitions group...