This article was based on the results of research concerning health policy in municipalities that achieved the most extensive development of decentralization and innovation in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The study applied a questionnaire for health system users' representatives in Municipal Health Councils. The central issues were: the Councils' political role; social control by the Co...

Employee participation and establishment-level codetermination via works councils are central elements of the German system of industrial relations. The existence of a works council is widely observed to be positively correlated with productivity. However, much less is known about the transmission channels that works councils use to affect productivity. In this paper two hypotheses have been de...

In Morgan (2022), the following errors were published on page 642. Figure 2 caption, “north west (8 councils), north (9 councils)”, should read as councils).” The corrected figure caption is shown below: FIGURE Tasmanian regional and local government boundaries for south (12 councils). Adapted from: “Map of Local Government Areas by Region” Department Premier Cabinet (2019, p. 4) MapSVG (2021)....

We report with deep regret the sudden death of the president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr Fulton Gillespie of Edmonton, after presiding at a meeting of the College in Toronto, died in the train on his way home. His loss is felt deeply by all those who knew him and recognised how great a part he was playing in the destinies of the Royal College of Canada. Message...

This article describes positive outcomes in culture, Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores, employee engagement, and clinical quality as a result of using shared governance, specifically unit practice councils (UPC) or staff councils, to implement Relationship-Based Care (RBC).

In 2014, a radical shift took place in Danish water planning. Following years of a top-down water planning approach, 23 regional water councils were established to co-create and provide input to Danish authorities on the development of River Basin Management Plans (RBMP). The water councils advised local authorities on the application of measures to improve the physical conditions in Danish str...

Employees’ representatives at workplace (i.e. Works Councils) are an important component of industrial relations, in particular, in Europe. This institution has been considered as efficient mechanism to avoid the lack of communication between manager and employees [Freeman and Lazear (1995)]. However, we investigate the agency problems between workers and their representatives that are supposed...