Only about one-third of young U.S. children receive recommended screenings or surveillance designed to catch developmental delays, a new study from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of ...

After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Japanese government tried to democratize energy policy-making by introducing public participation. Over the course of its implementation, however, ...

ANOTHER State of the Nation Address (SONA) was given by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 6 February 2025 in which he gave another ...

Workforce Development State Strategies: A 50-State Scan of Best Practices From Recent Action States can strengthen their workforces through fostering registered apprenticeships, establishing career ...

In the President's eagerly awaited State of the Nation Address (Sona) on the 6th of February 2025, it was refreshing to hear President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledge that South Africa is developing state ...

South Africa’s democratic project has always been animated by a vision of a capable and ethical developmental state: one that anticipates the needs of its people, acts proactively to meet these needs ...

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Strangely enough, the literature on “state capacity” – including that on industrial policy and on the entrepreneurial state – says very little about the people who staff the higher ranks of the state.