Ambiguously Divided Responsibilities across Government Spheres: How they Impact the Policy Process and Result in Coordination Problems in the Case of Poland

Empirical studies in decentralized settings associate ambiguities in the division of responsibilities between government spheres with coordination problems.This study explores the mechanisms behind this association, mainly drawing on in-depth interviews with local government officials in Poland.A typology emerges from the data.Ambiguities can refer

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Building archaeology geodatabase in Iraq using GIS

Geomatics has been an important tool in archaeology.The combination of Geomatics and archaeology adopters have been considered a perfect match, since archaeology often involves the study of the spatial dimension of human behavior over time, and all archaeology carries a spatial ecoalf baku component.Since Iraqi archaeology becomes one of the main v

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Classification and geographical dispersion of Mongolic languages

In the article the main models of genetic classification of Mongolic languages are introduced, commented and finally compared with our new model based on the recalibrated glottochronological test applying its modification developed by Sergei Starostin.We recognize the "core Mongolic" cluster of languages (Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat, Kalmyk, honda grom

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