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The Invasion Hierarchy: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Invasions in the Fossil Record
No full textPublic Service Reform and Policy Capacity: Recruiting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest
No full textPolitics and the permanency of permanent secretaries: testing the vitality of the Westminster administrative tradition, 1949–2014
No full textResilience and robustness in policy design: a critical appraisal
No full textResilience and robustness are exciting concepts for policy researchers. Their broad use in other disciplines has motivated social scientists and policy researchers to adopt them in analyses. In the present paper, we review definitions of these concepts and the primary theoretical and empirical challenges presented by resilience and robustness as lenses for improving the understanding of policy process and policy design. The results reveal that the two concepts differ in their potential value for public policy analysis. Despite its diffusion and \ue2\u80\u98charme\ue2\u80\u99, resilience does not appear to be useful and may be misleading, whereas robustness exhibits great potential with respect to both analysis and design
Genotoxic and Histopathological Effects of Water Pollution on Two Fish Species, Barbus capito pectoralis and Chondrostoma nasus in the Büyük Menderes River, Turkey
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