At present date, 47 States have committed to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The Convention aims to give all humans some basic human rights. Children are however not explicitly mentioned. The European Court ...

The Citizen’s Charter has been adopted as a device by the Government of India to induce clienthis research primarily used a qualitative perspective, attempting to discern the meaning ofhe empirical evidence suggests that ...

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHTPA) was designed to maintain peace and security in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region. The study examines the extent of policy output of the CHTPA implementation in terms ...

Funding of higher education and research has experienced substantial changes in the last decades. Although there is variation across European countries, a stronger competitive element increasingly characterises higher ...

This study explores a particularly wide discretionary space set for decision-making within the Norwegian welfare bureaucracy; care order decisions concerning newborns directly removed from the hospital by the child protection ...

This paper presents the views of judicial decision-makers (n = 1794) in four child protection jurisdictions (England, Finland, Norway, and the USA (California)), about whether parents and children are provided with appropriate ...

Norway tops international indexes on children’s rights but continues to attract criticism for its level of compliance with the Convention of the Rights of Child. This book is the first scholarly attempt to address this ...

We examine the concept of spatial optimism, defined as the tendency for individuals to perceive climate change as less threatening to themselves than to people in geographically more distant locations. Existing studies ...

Dealing with crises is a main responsibility of government authorities. Crises strike at the core of democratic governance and challenge not only capacity but also legitimacy and accountability. They are a test of whether ...