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Showing 1 to 20 of 419 for “"Government officials"”.
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Information Utilization Patterns of Rural Local Government Officials
… they make decisions related to federal or state government.
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Tourism education at the tertiary level in Indonesia from the perspectives of the tourism educators, government officials, industry professionals and students
… four different stakeholders i.e. educators, government officials Chapter one of the thesis explores the background context for the study on tourism education in Indonesia. It examines the importance of the tourism industry to Indonesia’s economy. In particular it discusses characteristics of …
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Policy conflicts among local government officials: How does officials' engagement with regional governance relate to their position divergence on sustainability policy?
… position divergence among local and regional officials over community sustainability policy, with a focus on affordable housing, which is a major concern of community sustainability. This research examines if, and how, local government officials' engagement with regional governance can play a …
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Twitter as a New Fourth Estate: A Case of Black Twitter, Trolling vs. Accountability
… Generally, mass media are used to ensure that government officials are held accountable by the public as the ideal fourth arm of the state. Thus, Twitter has afforded the public direct access to government officials. Twitter as a micro-blogging site is often used to challenge the government's …
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Intergovernmental Mediation : a Technique for Successful Local Government Partnerships
<p><em>Problem</em>. Statement Local government officials are faced with ever-increasing citizens' demands and unfunded Federal and State mandates while competing with neighboring governments for dwindling federal and state monies. Both of these tend to fuel intergovernmental conflicts. Research is …
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Intellectual Freedom of Academic Scientists: Cases of Political Challenges Involving Federally Sponsored Research on National Environmental Policies
… examines three controversies in which government officials challenged academic scientists' federally sponsored research, which had implications for national environmental policies. To structure this examination, I used a two- part framework. For the first part, I investigated the …
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Equitable Liability and the Rule of Law in China
… Western rule of law. If the understanding that government is limited by law is necessary for the Western rule of law, China has had neither practice nor thought of the rule of law throughout its long legal history, and it is not what today’s China intends to establish. What Chinese top leaders …
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Modern Slavery: A Thorough Examination on Human Trafficking of Indigenous Women and Children in Mexico
… Mexico. It dissects the involvement of corrupt government officials in organized crime and human trafficking and explains the intersectionality of criminal groups and corrupted authorities and government officials.</p> <p>Keywords: Modern slavery, Human trafficking, Sex trafficking, Child sex …
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Participation is not enough : associations and local government in the social fund of Nicaragua
… and 2) the regulatory strategy of local government officials. A community's associational life influences participation in at least two ways. First, associations help the community to elect honest and capable individuals for influential executive positions in the project. Associations do …
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A geography of the disruptive effects of contaminated sites on residents’ mental health: The regulation of PFAS sites in NSW, Australia
… analysis of interviews with residents and government officials (n = 16), a quantitative survey of residents (n = 178), and document analysis. Results indicate that the chemicals’ unique properties rendered regulating contaminated sites particularly difficult. The persistence, durability and …
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Modeling the Bargaining Game Between Multinational Firms and Britain's Office of Fair Trading: An Exploratory Analysis
… are formed by corporate managers and government officials within a highly discretionary system of regulation. Interactions between companies (foreign and domestic) and Britain's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) are studied in order to assess the impact of international relations, …
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Indigeneity, Constitutional Changes and Urban Policies: Conflicting Realities in La Paz, Bolivia and Quito, Ecuador
… a multiplicity of social actors – including government officials and urban indigenous groups – are involved. Drawing on the practice-centric literature on urban policy and planning, it recognises that the work of government officials is influenced by multiple factors such as constitutional …
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Civic Atlas: Open Government, Civic Tech, and Making Zoning Case Data More Accessible
America’s founders believed that access to government records was essential for democracy. This belief was shared by the Obama Administration, which issued orders across the government to make documents more transparent.1 Even though these efforts focused on digitization, many documents are not …
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Farm-level bureaucrats in action (and inaction) : the distribution of veterinary services in Laos and Cambodia
… research methods to interview service providers, government officials, and farmers about their role in and perceptions of veterinary service delivery. I focus my analytical attention on the community-based service providers as they are the key institutional link between the supply of and demand …
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The Pompeii of Kansas: Race, Environment, and Memory in Quindaro, 1982-1991
… of Quindaro, which challenged the municipal government in court and built a coalition of activists who protested the landfill. The township of Quindaro has a complex history of interracial cooperation between the Wyandot people, white Free Staters, and Black freedmen. The landfill threatened …
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Disaster Management and Persistent Flooding Disaster in Dar es salaam
… management structure, lack of accountability of government officials, poor coordination among the stakeholders at different levels, and weak technical capacity to address disaster risk reduction. The study concluded that, lack of accountability national wide and preparedness by the government …
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Binational Water Management: Perspectives of Local Texas Officials in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
… assess the attitudes and opinions of local Texas government officials that manage water resources in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Previous research on binational water management in Texas has not included the attitudes and opinions of local Texas officials in the border area. Although …
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The influence of groundwater management strategies on groundwater levels of Namibian savannah aquifers
… a self-developed questionnaire tailored for the government officials and farmers, five (5) interviews were conducted with government officials at DWAF. Across all three research sites a total of seventeen (17) farmers were interviewed. For the scientific groundwater management strategy, the …
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Depopulation and Education in a Mexican Migrant Town: Schools in Villa Juarez, San Luis Potosi, 1942-2000
… study examines the way teachers, students and government officials view the purpose of education in the agrarian village of Villa Juarez that, like other communities in central Mexico, is undergoing the influence of globalization, manifested most notably in emigration to the United States. If …
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Teachers and information communication technology in Saudi Arabia : current use and training needs
… semi-structured interviews with teachers, government officials with responsibility for education and representatives of private sector bodies involved in various ways with provision of ICT facilities.The findings showed that teachers' use of ICT was low, especially in the classroom. The …
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