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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Administrative Capacity"”.
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An examination of administrative capacity to implement development programmes in South Africa
This thesis examined the concept of administrative "capacity", which has been employed to critique the ability of public administrations to implement development programmes in South Africa. References to administrative capacity in South African academic discourse have generally treated the term as …
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Too Complex to Deliver? Administrative Capacity, Governance, and Waste Management in Peruvian Municipalities
… do both? I focus on service-specific municipal administrative capacity, formal community-based civil society organizations (CSO) involvement, and local collaborative governance. In this dissertation, I make four principal arguments. The first argument is that it is insufficient to examine …
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The character of administrative capacity on developmental local government in municipalities within Vhembe District Municipality
… whether local government in South Africa has the administrative capacity congruent to developmental local governments’ mandate. The study outlined the characteristics of administration that qualify local government institutions to be categorized as local government that promulgate developmental …
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Local political leadership and administrative capacity for EU Structural Funds : the case of Cohesion policy in urban Romania
… critical roles of local political leadership and administrative capacity to explain the success of local authorities in securing EU resources in a context unfavourable to such an outcome. Through an empirical analysis of thirteen municipalities during the 2014- 2020 programming cycle, this study …
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Enforcement without autonomy : the politics of labor and environmental regulation in Argentina
… civil society organizations, and the level of administrative capacity in the bureaucracy. Strong linkages can facilitate routinized resource sharing and the construction of pro-enforcement coalitions, and administrative capacity determines whether bureaucrats passively or strategically use …
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
… adoptions. The event history analysis shows that administrative capacity, operationalized as indirect tax structure, has a positive effect on the implementation of ECT, but only for the first adopters after which this effect declines. Social democracy is a robust positive predictor of ECT, …
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An analysis of treaties for the exchange of information for tax purposes impacting a South African retail sector taxpayer and financial institutions trading in the Southern African development community region
… by increasing the need for additional administrative capacity to identify and report such information, and for revenue authorities to share such information in appropriate circumstances. A number of bilateral and multilateral treaties are currently applicable to SADC taxpayers that …
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The status of the elementary school vice principal in selected cities of California
… in curriculum, supervision, teaching load, and administrative duties.</p><p>Objectives of this investigation are as follows: (1) To discover what types of degree and credentials are actually held by elementary school vice principals.; (2) To discover the number of years of teaching experience …
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Compliance with EU Law: Why Do Some Member States Infringe EU Law More Than Others?
… analysis reported here, is not because of administrative capacity limitations, but because of political context, policy changes and deliberate opposition by member governments in order to maintain their independence. States in turn, are motivated by domestic politics to seek to avoid …
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Driving Change: A Comparative Study of Green Fleet Implementation in Canadian Municipalities
… both intergovernmental coordination and internal administrative capacity. This paper aims to examine how intergovernmental relationships, and local administrative conditions influence the implementation of municipal fleet decarbonization strategies. The paper does this by analyzing the experiences …
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As a Matter De Facto: State Capacity Dynamics and Their Role in Shaping Sovereignty for Unrecognized States
… I analyze the role that relative state capacity plays in shaping preferences for de facto states, whether that be for reintegration, status quo, or independence. My dissertation contributes to the burgeoning literature on de facto statehood in a variety of ways. First, I contribute by …
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As A Matter De Facto: State Capacity Dynamics And Their Role In Shaping Sovereignty For Unrecognized States
… I analyze the role that relative state capacity plays in shaping preferences for de facto states, whether that be for reintegration, status quo, or independence. My dissertation contributes to the burgeoning literature on de facto statehood in a variety of ways. First, I contribute by …
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The role of senior public servants in South Africa : lessons for the future
… required an analysis of the Director General's administrative and policy roles within the political-administrative interface. The aims of the research were firstly to provide a description of the role of the Director General in the South African public service and thereby provide an insight into …
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Tamed village “democracy”: elections, governance and clientelism in a contemporary Chinese village
… self-governance that stress the state’s formal administrative capacity over controlling and manipulating village politics. While it shows some of the formal mechanisms by which township government control village affairs, it demonstrates also that after the implementation of the “village …
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The Third Energy Package gas Directive (2009/73/EC): compliance in Lithuania and Romania
… the countries' general compliance stance, administrative capacity and corruption, national interests and foreign policy, domestic politics with changes of governments and possible pressure from interested groups because of cost-benefit calculations based on the specific Directive's …
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Public participation at local government level in South Africa : a critical analysis of integrated development planning and ward committees
… into three broad themes, namely, political, administrative/capacity, and sociological.
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Factors affecting revenue collection at Lusaka city council.
… in losses; this significantly constrains LCC's capacity to maintain infrastructure and services. This mixed-methods study investigated the factors underlying LCC's revenue challenges. Quantitative data was gathered by surveying 100 randomly sampled taxpayers and 30 purposively sampled council …
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The Demand for Aid and the Supply of Development
… While the creation of new subnational administrative units intends to bring the government "closer to the people", I argue that many fragmented units lack the requisite administrative capacity to fulfill the provision of public goods. Combining remote-sensed development data in Burkina …
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The Legal and Policy Relevance of EU Mobility Partnerships: a comparative study of Morocco and Cape Verde
… negotiation of a third country and its level of administrative capacity. The thesis combines a comparative legal analysis of the development of the legal frameworks in Morocco and Cape Verde with an empirical study of the implementation of Mobility Partnerships’ projects. It is the connection …
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Essays on Public Investment and Regional Economic Performance
… and capable administrations enhance the capacity to transform public resources into productive assets, while weaker environments tend to dissipate policy returns. The analysis also uncovers substantial spatial and temporal heterogeneity: investment policies tend to be more effective in …
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