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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Freedom of information"”.
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Citizen or subject? Freedom of information and the informed citizen in a democracy
Information is the essence of democracy and the lynchpin of power-ownership. Possession and control of information allows us to demarcate who controls or influences the political system. Freedom of Information (FOI), rooted in Enlightenment values, contains within it a key principle of democracy …
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Internet Regulation in Emerging Markets: How Internet Regulations Violate the Right to Freedom of Information
<p>The purpose of this thesis project is to study a contemporary topic and add on to the debate on Internet regulation by applying ideas and material learned in the International Studies Masters program. This project investigates whether Internet regulation in emerging markets violates the right to …
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Reconciling the irreconcilable: Democracy and the National security exemption to the right to freedom of information
… order is defined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa as a sovereign constitutional democracy. Freedom of access to government held information by the public is a fundamental and indispensable tenet of a sovereign constitutional democracy. The essential link between the …
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A decade of decisions: An evaluation of the implementation of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act by public universities
This dissertation is an evaluation study of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in Illinois and how that act was implemented by public universities, particularly by the largest university in the state, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Universities are used as a focus for the …
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Governments in the spotlight? : on the use and impacts of freedom of information laws and proactive publication of government data
… to pass reforms increasing access to government information to root out corruption and improve public service delivery. Scholars have already offered several fascinating explanations of why governments adopt policies that constrain their choices. However, knowledge of their impacts is limited. …
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To release or not to release that is the question: A phenomenological study of Western Australian government freedom of information coordinators
… impact on Western Australian State Government Freedom of Information Coordinators who, within the framework of the Freedom of Information Act (1992), manage requests from the public to access agency held documents. A literature review identified two bodies of material. One extolling FOI, the …
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The Role of Reasonable Adjustments within Organisations in Wales: Neurodivergent Employee Perceptions
This empirical study explores the effectiveness of the reasonable adjustments’ duty, in ensuring that the needs of Neurodivergent employees in Wales are met, adopting a constructivist perspective, and utilising a concurrent nested mixed methods design. This study responds to recognition that …
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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
The rhetoric and apparatus of national security have played critical roles in American controversies over animal and human experimentation from the dawn of the Twentieth Century to today's "War on Terror." Drawing on archival and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) research, this dissertation traces …
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Indigenous Language Inclusion in Emergency Communications: A Case Study of the 2023 Yellowknife Wildfire Evacuation
This thesis evaluates the exclusion of Indigenous languages from emergency communication during the 2023 North Slave Complex wildfires and examines the implications for reconciliation and public safety. Despite the Government of the Northwest Territories’ recognition of nine Indigenous languages, …
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The Impact Of Immigration Policies On Local Enforcement, Crime And Policing Efficiency
Following a period of increasing immigration enforcement under George W. Bush's administration, the Obama administration reversed immigration policies and issued strict new guidelines to relax enforcement in 2011. The purpose of this paper is to exploit this natural experiment in the enforcement of …
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Implementation of the Texas Open Records Act
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Diabetes Patient Education Materials in the Veterans Administration Health Care System: Readability Suitability and Cultural Relevance for Older Veterans
The purpose of this study was to determine if diabetes patient education materials (PEM) were readable, suitable, and culturally relevant for older veterans. The conceptual framework of health literacy built on the Baum & Christiansen (2005) Person-Environment-Occupational Performance (PEOP) model …
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Social movements using social media in a mined and censored world: examples in the United States and China
<p>This purpose of this thesis is to examine data mining and data censorship in the United States and China through the Occupy Wall Street social movement and labor protest activity at the Foxconn, Foshan, and Lock factories. The question posed relates to the level of investment the U.S. and …
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A descriptive study of leave policies, within mental health and forensic settings in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service
… limited research has explored the use of leave, nor its implementation in practice (Barlow and Dickens 2018). This study determines the content of leave policies, which operate across National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and Health boards in the UK. <br/>Design<br/>A ‘Freedom of …
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Privatisation and public access to information in the united Kingdom
… between privatisation and public access to official information in the United Kingdom. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis, it addresses two main questions: (1) How does privatisation, broadly defined to include outsourcing, affect information access under freedom of …
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The Equal Access to Justice Act and Federal Land Management: Incentives to Litigate?
The increasing use of litigation as a tool to influence land management decisions has been documented within the Forest Service. The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), which allows successful litigants to recover attorney fees and other legal expenses from the federal government, has come under …
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Russian Internet Censorship and Its Future Perspectives in Comparative Context
The purpose of this work is to provide an analysis of the contemporary state of the Russian internet in regards to both the freedom of information within it and the government's influence over it. This project also examines the potential state of that situation in the coming years. Public …
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Accountability in archival science
Laws proclaiming freedom of information have been introduced in many countries in the past twenty years, creating familiarity with the idea that governments can achieve accountability by providing public access to current records. Some archivists hold the view that the preservation and …
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