Exploring rural community agency differences in Ireland and Pennsylvania

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The role of community agency in contributing to local well-being in Ireland and America is explored through a comparative study and evaluated through the use of a multiple method framework based on extensive key informant interviews, focus groups, and analysis of household survey data. Findings show that community agency is best explained by social interaction, followed by community attachment, social ties/networks, and sociodemographics.

Ireland, Public affairs, Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development, Pennsylvania, Rural Planning & Development, Social aspects, Evaluation, Interpersonal relations, Rural development, Community development

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Regulated freedoms: the market and the state, agriculture and the environment

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It is argued that a free market system is theoretically impossible to produce in a state society, as regulations preventing interference nevertheless require the state to enforce them. A discussion follows on Isaiah Berlin's concepts of positive freedom, or to have agency, and negative freedom, or an absence of agency.

United Kingdom, United States, Economic policy, Political aspects, Industry regulations, Government regulation of business, Trade regulation, Free enterprise

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