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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"Governors"”.
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The working credos of prison governors in Korea
Prison governors occupy a critical position in applying penal policy. Despite the importance of their role, relatively little is known about how they perceive their work and the prisoners in their care. This study focuses on their working credos in order to understand how and in which ways these …
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Actor-Directors: The Working Lives of Prison Governors
Prison Governors are both actors and directors within the Prison Service. They fulfil key roles at the boundaries of individual prisons and the wider contexts: organisational, social and political, within which prisons function. In this thesis I study aspects of the working lives of nine Governing …
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Parents as consumer-citizens: an investigation into parent governors
… how far a particular group of parents - parent governors - appears to resemble the ideal type: ie how far their views and actions accord with the expectations of the concept. Data from questionnaires completed by parent governors in 1988 and 1992 are used to do this. The study concludes that the …
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Gendered governing: Leadership experiences of seven women former governors
… level. Since 1925, 31 women have served as governors; 20 were elected to office, three replaced their husbands, and eight became governor by Constitutional succession (CAWP, 2012). Many women of the Third Wave generation, or Post-feminists, reject the theory that male oppression continues to …
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A few notes on governors and their principles of action
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1875
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Students' right to participate in school decision-making: the perspectives of school governors
… views listened to and given due weight. School governors have a duty to ensure the student's participation rights are implemented and as holders of power are in a unique position to facilitate this. However, there is a lack of research on governor's perspectives on students' participation …
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From Global Cities to Global Governors: Power, Politics, and the Convergence of Urban Climate Governance
Cities are increasingly included in discussions of climate governance and lauded as sources of innovation, leadership, and experimentation. But can they succeed where states have failed in producing meaningful collective actions and effects? To respond to this pressing question requires …
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An investigation into classroom management in an outcomes-based education context : implications for parents and governors
Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Masters Degree in Technology: (Management) at the Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2004.
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Caliphs, Governors and their Administrators in Early Islam A Prosopographical Approach (AH 24–36/644–661 CE)
My PhD thesis “Caliphs, Governors, and their Administrators in Early Islam: A Prosopographical Approach AH 24–41/644–661 CE,” offers a fresh perspective on early Islamic history by examining the broader social and political networks that underpin the power and influence of historical figures. It …
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Hello from the other side; I'll compromise a thousand times : how minority party governors win unlikely elections
… some blue states continue to elect Republican governors, while some red states continue to elect Democratic governors. These minority party governors are out of step with their state's mass ideology and partisanship when research on public opinion and voting behavior suggests that it should be …
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From Governors to Grocers: How Profiteering Changed English-Canadian Perspectives of Liberalism in the Great War of 1914-1918
The war against Germany was perceived by the majority of English Canadians as a necessity to defend the British Empire, democracy and justice. However, it became increasingly evident to the public that some individuals were being permitted to prosper, while others — particularly those of the …
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The U.S. Opioid Crisis and the Affordable Care Act (ACA): The Politics of Health Policy Decision-Making by Republican Governors, Senators, and States
… to understand decision-making by both Republican governors and Democratic governors in conservative states (determined utilising Cook Partisan Voting Index data) concerning implementation of ACA expansion throughout the 2010s. It also seeks to understand how political incentives influenced voting …
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Effectiveness of rural-based secondary School Governing Bodies in Limpopo Province of South Africa: Implication for rural development
… and an underperforming. Principals, teacher governors and non-governors, learner governors and non-governors, teacher union representatives, a traditional leader, circuit managers, manager for governance, deputy managers for governance and parent governors participated in the study. …
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Prospective Reappointment and the Monetary Policy Preferences of the Federal Open Market Committee Members
… research is to investigate the behavioral of the Governors and Bank Presidents at the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). We have a hypothesis that the Bank presidents and Governors behave differently. We suppose that the governors of the FOMC which are completing a term of …
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The lay/professional relationship: the relationship between headteachers and chairs of governing bodies of schools in wales.
… for the thesis was the recognition that school governors constitute the biggest group of volunteers in the UK (400,000), 26,000 in Wales and are, theoretically, at least, a potentially powerful group. There have however been few studies on school governors. A multi-methodological approach was …
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Yardstick Competition : an empirical investigation using state taxes and media markets
… of their governor on taxes by comparing him to governors from neighboring states. If voters do make these comparisons, it creates "yardstick competition," where governors are competing with each other as they set taxes. Previous research has shown that governors are punished at the ballot box …
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Primary School Governance: The Perspectives of Head Teachers and Chairs of Governance
In England over 300,000 school governors serve some 23,000 schools, influence the lives of over 7 million children and oversee a budget in excess of £20 billion per annum. School governors, as unpaid volunteers, are said to have responsibilities and duties that are unprecedented in the voluntary …
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A critical analysis of decentralization in Zimbabwe: focus on the position and role of a Provincial Governor
Provincial governors constituted an important part of the decentralization package unveiled in Zimbabwe in 1984 and 1985. The President appoints provincial governors among other duties, to coordinate development planning and implementation at the provincial level. This paper seeks to examine the …
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