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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Appointees"”.
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The People Behind the Presidential Bully Pulpit
… Using interviews conducted with political appointees who served as Treasury spokespeople during the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, civil servants who served in public affairs for the Treasury, and Treasury reporters who interacted frequently with the …
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Three essays on political economy
Essay 1: Allies and Adversaries: The Roles of Appointees in Administrative Policymaking under Separation of Powers. In a system of divided power, public sector agencies are an important front in the day-to-day battle for political supremacy between the executive and the legislature. The executive's …
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Career Public-Sector Employee Attitudes About Political Appointments: A Study of the U.S. Department of State
… the past few decades connects high ratios of appointees to career leaders with decreased agency performance and higher voluntary turnover at the career senior ranks. However, less attention has been dedicated to the effects of such appointments on the attitudes of the civil service workforce, …
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The Lincoln Administration and the Southwestern Territories
… New Mexico, and the attitudes toward him and his appointees in both New Mexico and Arizona exemplify the role Lincoln played in administering the western territories during the Civil War.
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“Hero to zero to hero” : exploring the experiences of football managers as they socialise into a new football management job role
… period. The transition made by internal appointees was more difficult than that of external appointees. Assistant managers (internal appointees) who had little or no experience of dealing with the organisation level, e.g. chair and board, and the extra-organisational level had not …
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A Multiple Case Study of Selected Individuals Who Facilitate the Successful Adoption of Environmental Public Policy
… elected to public office, some were political appointees, and some were private citizens who chose individually to act in the public interest through a local, grassroot effort. The choice of individuals to be studied was approved by a select panel of publicly recognized experts in the field of …
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Statutory intervention: perceptions of New Zealand primary school principals and their experiences
… difficult situations. Working with statutory appointees provided a range of challenges for the principals, which included seeking to find common understandings of the issues within the school and the lack of contextual awareness from some appointees. Complex and challenging issues relating to …
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Telekom Malaysia : privatisation and strategic management
… than acquiescent political and civil service appointees, who are obliged to accept passively directives from the government which clearly will affect the ability to achieve the stated corporate goals of Telecommunications Vision 2005 - to put in place a first class network and organisation …
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Effects of politicization on the regime, policy subsystem, and agency levels: a case study of the Commonwealth of Virginia
… service reform, and increased use of political appointees have politicized administration in the state. At the regime level, executive aggrandizement reduces the legislature’s constitutional role in administration. This complicates the application of public administration theories that call upon …
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The new constitutional law.
… have been replaced by Roosevelt and Truman appointees. After an unprecedented outburst of destructive activity in 1935 and 1936, in which the Court announced eleven decisions holding acts of Congress unconstitutional, it quickly abandoned its functions in this field. As a result, with the …
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Shared Governance in the British Columbia Post-Secondary Education System: The Boards' Role in Decision-Making
… The new boards consisted of fewer lay appointees with the addition of elected faculty, staff, and students, together with the college presidents and education council chairs as non-voting members. The presence of employees and students on boards was viewed by most observers as likely to …
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The Role and Responsibilities of Andrews University Trustees as Perceived by Themselves
… (3) A program of orientation for all new appointees and a continuing educational program for all trustees; (4) Trustees to read material and attend workshops and seminars on trusteeship; (5) The formulation of trustee sub-committees; (6) Tentative agendas to be sent to trustees prior to …
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The local dimensions of defence: the standing army and militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649-1660
… in the localities by a group of trusted appointees, who worked closely with the garrison governors, and later with the Major-Generals of 1655 and 1659 to coordinate the regions' defence and security. The financial structure of the militia was based on a uniform and statutorily defined …
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An analysis of the input of MasterLife on the twenty-three functional characteristics of a disciple
… this same research project with missionary appointees, and MasterLife participants overseas. The final stage of this research project will be to use these results to accurately identify reasons and issues surrounding inactive church members.
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THE LOGISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, 1812–1821
… tasks well. In fact, the performance of civil appointees and career officers improved over the course of the war and a few even proposed logistical reforms that the army would later adopt. The War of 1812 not only provided the catalyst for the postwar reform of logistics and the onset of a …
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A Descriptive Study of the Personality, Attitudes, and Overseas Experience of Seventh-day Adventist College Students Who Served as Short-Term Volunteer Missionaries
… (Me) showed no significant difference between appointees and returnees. The most distinguishing personality characteristic of the group was their high rating on self-control. Former student missionaries played the most influential role in encouraging these students to serve overseas. Over half …
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Institutionalizing Performance Management: Lessons for Government Leaders from the Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act of 2010
… to legislators, stakeholders, political appointees, and career federal managers to shape the Federal Performance Management Framework and craft tailored management strategies suitable for the characteristics of federal agencies.