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Showing 1 to 20 of 190 for “"Bureaucrats"”.
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Local Bureaucrats and Climate Change Adaptation
… local government officials – specifically local bureaucrats – are faced with the realities of a changing climate which include severe storms, prolonged droughts, larger and more damaging floods, and more. Simultaneously, the issue of climate change is incredibly polarized in US politics with one …
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Judging the Bureaucrats: Understanding the Dynamics of Court-Agency Interaction
<p>The policy outputs resulting from the interaction between U.S. Courts of Appeals and federal administrative agencies impact the lives of thousands of individuals on a daily basis. Thus, understanding the factors that influence this process is important for both empirical and normative reasons. …
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Government Behavior in Collective Bargaining: A Test for Self-Interested Bureaucrats
… An alternative view is that government bureaucrats pursue their own interests and are not simply acting on behalf of their constituents. This thesis attempts to distinguish the behavior arising from these different motivations.
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Instructional designers as street level bureaucrats in higher education: A qualitative study
… this conflict by possibly acting as street level bureaucrats. Congruently, this basic qualitative study explored instructional designer job conflict and strategies used to deal with the conflict in three higher education institution, all located in different parts of USA, through the theoretical …
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Enabling access to housing in Jos, Nigeria : Implementation and the new bureaucrats.
This thesis examines the notion of the enabling approach within the context of housing provision in Jos, Nigeria. The research analyses how the notion of enabling has been deployed and why it has failed to provide solutions to formal housing problems in Nigeria and other developing economies. This …
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Bridging the gap : boundary-less bureaucrats and gang reintegration in Panama City
In a small and shrinking world there is pressure for planners and policymakers across the globe to import policy and program models that have worked in other cities and countries. Often lost in the process of transporting policies are questions about why they may have worked in their original …
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Beetles or Bureaucrats? Reconsidering the United States' Failure to Stop Dutch Elm Disease
<p>In this dissertation, I analyze the failure of the United States to address the Dutch elm disease (Ophiostoma ulmi) epidemic that affected American elm (Ulmus americana) across the country. The disease, a fungus carried by beetles between trees, was introduced in 1930 in New York City and slowly …
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GENDERED POLITICS AND THE SECONDARY STATUS OF FEMALE BUREAUCRATS IN CAMEROONIAN GOVERNING INSTITUTIONS
… of the MINCOF and the appointment of female bureaucrats --- women charged with the responsibility of consciously using their positions to promote women's interests in the government bureaucracy --- substantial inequalities still exist in the nature and extent of customs and practices that …
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Prussian Bureaucrats and the Jews in West, South, and New East Prussia, 1772-1807
This dissertation examines policies towards the Jews in late eighteenth-century Prussia, paying particular attention to its eastern provinces in present-day Poland. Drawing on archival sources from Germany, Poland, Israel, and the US, it complicates traditional narratives of eighteenth-century …
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The impact of discretionary hiring on bureaucrats' corruption perceptions, satisfaction, and the mishandling of public resources
Este artículo examina el impacto en un país en desarrollo de adoptar un sistema de selección de servidores públicos a través de contratos discrecionales y temporales en tres aspectos del sector público: las percepciones de corrupción de los burócratas, la satisfacción con el empleo, y el mal manejo …
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Watering the slums : how a utility and its street-level bureaucrats connected the poor in Bangalore
This dissertation is about how urban water utilities behave and what makes them interested in serving the poor. The infrastructure literature tends to treat public service agencies as monolithic entities and to ignore the great diversity of tasks and behavior patterns within them. As a consequence, …
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Farm-level bureaucrats in action (and inaction) : the distribution of veterinary services in Laos and Cambodia
… revenues and gift exchanges enabled farm-level bureaucrats to distribute animal vaccines and maintain organizational cohesion during ongoing social and political unrest in the early-mid 1990s.
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Public Employees and Workplace Rules: Determinants of the Pro-Social and Destructive Rule Breaking of Street-Level Bureaucrats.
North Carolina State University Theses Political Science and Public Administration.
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How to Humanize a Zoning Ordinance: Practicing the Art of the Possible While Writing Laws for Bureaucrats and Citizens
This paper provides some basic principles of good writing to persons seeking to write or revise a zoning ordinance, which is a legal and technical document dealing with certain aspects of city planning. The document design field today is fertile in terms of the many techniques it has developed for …
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Resilience thinking and the influence of street-level bureaucrats on the implementation of EU environmental policies in overseas territories: lessons from Gibraltar.
… achievement of policy goals and how street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) involved in policy implementation utilise coping mechanisms to overcome shortages in resources, expertise and other local constraints. However, it has struggled to provide a systematic analysis of how contextual factors influence …
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Bureaucratic thinking: A study of Block Development Officers of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India
… dimensions of thinking and perceptions of the bureaucrats; 2. To place the individual bureaucrat in his work and social setting; 3. To investigate the relationship between the social background of bureaucrats and their perceptions; 4. To develop typologies of bureaucrats in the total …
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The ways in which new public management ideas impact upon the administrative culture of 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals working within Irish social policy
… the administrative culture of 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals within Irish social policy. Lipsky (1980: 3) defined 'street-level' bureaucrats as ‘public service workers who interact directly with citizens in the course of their jobs, and who have substantial discretion in the …
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Bureaucratic access points
… of lobbyists and interest groups accessing bureaucrats directly in the policy implementation process and its subsequent evaluation. More importantly, I argue that bureaucrats take advantage of access points to other bureaucrats during policy implementation proceedings. This study offers the …
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