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Beyond the Map: How the Coherence of Daily Decisions Determines the Fate of Strategic Plans—A Case Study of Tunisia's Education 2026-2030 strategy
No full textThe paper’s primary contribution is a theoretical framework that explains why national strategic plans so often fail to translate ambitious objectives into concrete results. It argues that repeated goals and recurring actions across successive planning cycles signal a deeper structural problem: the misalignment between long term strategic intent and the everyday governmental decisions (in many levels) that determine real outcomes. The framework integrates insights from implementation theory, principal–agent dynamics, governance research, and political economy to show how coherence in daily practices—resource allocation, bureaucratic incentives, regulatory enforcement, and crisis management—is the decisive factor shaping implementation success.
Tunisia’s 2026–2030 Strategic Plan is used solely to illustrate the framework’s explanatory power. The plan itself is analytically robust and accurately diagnoses structural challenges in education, regional inequality, and labor market alignment. Yet its implementation difficulties stem from governance constraints—centralized decision making, institutional erosion, and fiscal stress—that systematically undermine decision making coherence. These dynamics exemplify the broader mechanisms identified by the framework rather than constituting the empirical focus of the study.
The paper concludes that improving development outcomes requires strengthening the institutional capacity to ensure consistent, aligned, and credible daily decisions. More sophisticated plans cannot compensate for weak implementation systems; only coherent governance can bridge the persistent gap between strategic vision and achieved results.
Keywords: Implementation Gap, Principal-Agent Theory, Means-Ends Decoupling, Coherence of Daily Decisions, Vernacular Governance, Institutional Lock-In, Education policy
EU Defence Integration after Russia's 2022 Invasion: MSc Dissertation
No full textThis dissertation examines whether Russia's 2022 invasion catalysed institutional defence integration in the European Union or chiefly accelerated pre-existing incremental trends during 2022–2024. It adopts a qualitative, longitudinal single-case design and operationalises domain-specific thresholds across budgetary, legal-institutional, and strategic-narrative change. Methods combine qualitative content analysis of EUR-Lex legal and budgetary texts, thematic discourse analysis of high-level EU communications, and theory-testing process tracing using hoop and smoking-gun tests, with triangulation across methods. Findings indicate a major budgetary shift, with the European Peace Facility ceiling rising from €5.692bn to €17.040bn by March 2024. New legal instruments expanded EU industrial authority, notably EDIRPA to incentivise joint procurement and ASAP to subsidise ammunition production. Strategic narratives hardened around autonomy and sovereignty, converging across multiple documents in the period. The analysis concludes that crisis dynamics were necessary for third-order change, while outcomes were shaped by pre-existing ideas and institutional frameworks, yielding a hybrid pattern of crisis-accelerated incrementalism. The study contributes a transparent, threshold-based toolkit for measuring significant change and clarifies how external shocks and path dependency interact in EU defence policy
Fire Drone Systems — National Network for Early Detection and Autonomous Suppression of Fires
No full textFire Drone Systems is a proposed cyber-physical infrastructure for the early detection and autonomous suppression of forest and wildland fires.
The system combines a national network of automated detection stations with fleets of heavy-lift autonomous firefighting drones operating in coordinated formations.
The objective is to suppress fires within the first 15 minutes after ignition, preventing escalation into large-scale wildfires
Three Facets of Narcissism, Different Reasons to Lie? The Role of Narcissism Facets in Lying among A
No full textSupplementary Materials from the paper: Three Facets of Narcissism, Different Reasons to Lie? The Role of Narcissism Facets in Lying among Adolescent
Doing urban citizenship with (broken) digital data from an air pollution sensor
No full textDigital technologies are increasingly enfolded in citizenship projects - from apps that contribute to the enactment of individual health maintenance for neoliberal citizens, through to more activist engagements using citizen-generated data for environmental justice. We use Sarah Pink and colleagues’ metaphor of ‘broken data’ to explore how one device – a commercially available pollution sensor – was anticipated and used in practice for such citizenship practices by volunteers in one city. The device, at one level, failed in many ways. It produced unreliable data doubles: digital representations of air that failed to correlate with users’ own embodied experiences or tacit knowledge. The data generated by the device failed to afford mitigating actions for personal citizenship responsibilities. The data generated could not be directly accessed, nor easily shared with others in ways conducive to collective action. The disconnects between haptic and digital data highlighted the instability of the sensor, as a hybrid of personal device and political tool. However, in grappling with their ‘broken’ air pollution data, participants mobilized different sensing capacities that afforded (with varying degrees of success) citizenship projects by enacting ‘responsible’ engagements with the city and other citizens, and with more activist imaginaries. Data practices, we suggest, happen alongside citizenship projects, but do not necessarily enable those projects
Habermas and the City: The Unacknowledged Urban Life of his Theory
No full textThis short article reconstructs the influence of Jürgen Habermas on urban studies, demonstrating how communicative action theory has shaped communicative planning theory, public sphere debates, and the legal philosophy of urban governance across five decades of European and North American scholarship. His influence has operated largely underground: through the communicative planning tradition of John Forester, Patsy Healey, and Judith Innes; through the vocabulary of deliberation and legitimacy that now pervades urban theory; and through the concept of the colonisation of the lifeworld, which provides researchers the analytical language to name what happens when markets and bureaucracies dismantle the communicative fabric of neighbourhoods. Against the prevailing reception — which treats Habermas as an abstract philosopher requiring translation into urban language — this article argues that he was, at his roots, an empirical and historical thinker of the city. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962) is a meticulous historical sociology of how European cities — their cafés, salons, reading clubs, and press — created the institutional conditions for democratic deliberation. The Theory of Communicative Action (1981–84) diagnoses the pathologies of urban modernity through the mechanism of colonisation of the lifeworld, tracing how instrumental rationality erodes the communicative infrastructure of urban life. Between Facts and Norms (1992) advances a constitutional theory of urban governance, specifying what conditions planning and land-use decisions must meet to achieve democratic legitimacy in late-modern democratic cities. The article concludes by examining Habermas's 2022 return to the public sphere in the age of digital platforms — a structural transformation of urban democracy as far-reaching as the one he analysed sixty years earlier — and argues that communicative action theory remains an indispensable analytical resource wherever deliberative urban governance and democratic legitimacy are at stake
Geometrical Framework of Knowledge: Relational Big Bang Simulation
No full texthttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1902690
Twelve Years of SRQR: A Meta-Research Evaluation of Qualitative Reporting Quality in Health Research
No full textThis project contains the preregistered protocol and materials for a meta-research study evaluating changes in qualitative reporting quality following publication of the Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research (SRQR) in 2014.
The study examines qualitative articles published in five major health research journals (Academic Medicine, Medical Education, BMJ Open, Social Science & Medicine, and PLOS ONE) across two time windows: a pre-SRQR period (2010–2013) and a post-publication period (2020–2025).
Articles will be evaluated using the SRQR-Derived Instrument (SRQR-DI), a 21-item operational scoring instrument developed for this study to assess transparency and completeness of qualitative reporting.
Primary analyses examine whether reporting quality improved after SRQR publication and whether improvement differs across journals with different levels of SRQR endorsement.
Secondary analyses examine item-level reporting patterns and the prevalence of ritual compliance—defined as the formal presence of reporting elements without substantive methodological disclosure.
All study hypotheses, analytic models, and scoring procedures are preregistered prior to data collection. Materials deposited here include the full protocol manuscript, scoring manual, search strategies, and analysis scripts.
This project supports transparency and reproducibility in meta-research on qualitative reporting standards
Gamified Digital Interventions for Children and Adolescents with ADHD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Game Elements
No full textImplementation factors for enhancing of intrinsic capacity of older adults: a scoping review protocol
No full textIntrinsic capacity is a key determinant in achieving healthy aging; however, interventions aimed at enhancing intrinsic capacity face multiple challenges during implementation. This scoping review aims to systematically examine the facilitators and barriers that influence the implementation of interventions targeting older adults’ intrinsic capacity, clarify how these factors are defined, categorized, and reported, and explore their relationships with intervention types, implementation settings, and population characteristics