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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Bureaucracies"”.
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Bureaucracies and the Supply of Information in Higher Education Policy
Most discussions of the policy process begin with and focus on the legislative branch, as this is the institution most directly responsible for crafting policies. Many also bring the chief executive or interest group lobbyists into the equation through the study of executive orders and campaign …
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Information systems in public bureaucracies - a case study and analysis.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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Understanding Development Bureaucracies: A Case Study of Mexico’s Rural Development Policy
… development practice is produced by development bureaucracies. In 2001, the Mexican Congress enacted a new national law called Ley de Desarrollo Rural Sustentable (Sustainable Rural Development Act) seeking to produce the radical change that the Mexican rural sector needed to improve the social …
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On the fringes of formality : organizational capability in street-level bureaucracies in Brazil
… for how best to improve service delivery by bureaucracies in middle-income countries.
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Of bureaucracies and motorways: administrative reform and infrastructure policy for national roads in Poland
The construction and improvement of roadway infrastructure has been the dominant direction of transportation policy throughout East-Central Europe (ECE) since the democratic transition began in 1989. In Poland, the government has been developing a nationwide network of motorways and expressways in …
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Policy information and policymaking in governmental bureaucracies: A causal modeling of processes and impacts
… utilization and decisionmaking in governmental bureaucracies. More specifically, this study attempts to empirically investigate causal relationships among the factors involved in the ""impact stage"" of information utilization in bureaucratic decisionmaking. This study is conducted on the basis …
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Flexible bureaucracies : discretion, creativity, and accountability in labor market regulation and public sector management
This dissertation is about state bureaucracies and the conditions under which they learn, innovate, and play a positive role in social and economic development. It takes issue with the extant literature on the topic, which has either looked at such organizations from the outside and prescribed the …
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Mathematical models and decision making in bureaucracies : a case story told from three points of view.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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The Institutional Basis for a Decision: Rational Pathology, Struggle and Institutional Conformity in British National Security Decision-Making
… and is formed from a group of security-related bureaucracies that have routine connections with each other, and with certain International Government Organisations and other states and their bureaucracies. The thesis begins by defining the ways in which bureaucracies are formally designed and …
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Feminism in the City: a study of the participation of women in the planning processes of public bureaucracies, using the City of Cape Town as a case study
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Unstable Actors, Alternating Currents: Reimagining Bureaucratic Knowledge Production in the Technopolitics of Development
Contemporary international development bureaucracies are constituted by and operate through diverse actors whose work requires sustained interaction with changing material landscapes and the changing subjectivities of partners, clients, and intended beneficiaries. Understanding the production of …
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Unraveling red tape: foreign aid allocation and the domestic bureaucracy
… motivations of donor governments and aid bureaucracies. Strategic and political interests often motivate governments, while foreign aid bureaucrats tend to have personal altruistic motivations. This divergence creates conflicting goals with governments seeking economic and political …
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Essays on Bureaucracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bureaucracies in sub-Saharan Africa frequently depart from the Weberian ideal, but how does the politicization of these bureaucracies affect governance and the implementation of public policy? My dissertation explores this question through three essays. In the first essay, I introduce a unique data …
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Re -Scaling Conservation: The Political Ecology of Community Based Forest Management in Southern Malawi
… elitist, unaccountable, and corrupt village bureaucracies. Alienated, many communities withdrew their labor and support for CBFM. Therefore, how power is exercised was a major factor in CBFM success. Scholars and policy makers should look beyond institutions, seek broad-based community …
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The role of politics in the construction of a capable bureaucracy
… The focus of the research is about how capable bureaucracies emerge out of an abidingly complex and messy political reality. This research endeavours to unravel the complex, dynamic, often messy inherent intersection of politics and bureaucracy. It is argued that politics are an inherent …
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Inside the App Bureaucracy: The Use of Smartphone Apps in Public Service Delivery Organizations in Pakistan
… impact of digital technologies on entrenched bureaucracies in developing countries. While smartphone monitoring apps have improved speed and reliability of information from the ground, we do not know how availability of such apps among large number of middle to low level officials affect work …
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Road sector reform in Namibia: Institutional development issues
… became large centralized and hierarchical public bureaucracies, with cumbersome and detailed administrative rules and a permanent staff with secure civil service protections. The ministries were fragmented by many vertical programmes, which were often run as virtual fiefdoms, dependent on …
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Federating EU Development Cooperation? Europe’s Contributions to International Development Effectiveness
… in the EU institutions, member state bureaucracies and civil society contribute to shaping the terms of debate regarding the EU’s role in effective development cooperation. These network interactions, which form around institutional decision-making centres, transcend the organisational …
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Dynamics of National Morality: Negotiating Values and the State
… in power structures, social practices, and state bureaucracies. A focus on state institutions highlights negotiation processes for civil-sphere activity and state reactions. I analyze the public discourse regarding three cases of military violence that instigated public debates, using content …
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Requirements For Effective United States Counterintelligence
… weak. A loose confederation of federal bureaucracies, formally codified in the National Security Act developed following World War II, has been ineffective in negating hostile intelligence gathering efforts. This thesis examines the entire structure of the modern U.S. counterintelligence …
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