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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"JS Local government Municipal government"”.
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Tamed village “democracy”: elections, governance and clientelism in a contemporary Chinese village
… continues to be dominated by the Chinese local state. This is because clientelist structures, embodied in vertical patron-client alliances between political elites and villagers, have strongly influenced the actors and functioned to facilitate and supplement the authoritarian control of …
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The blended separation of powers and the organisation of party groups: the case of English local government
In the Local Government Act 2000, central government mandated a change in political arrangements within English local authorities. Through introducing a blended separation of powers to the majority of local authorities, with a leader, cabinet and overview and scrutiny committees, the legislation …
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Influence of formal and informal institutions on outsourcing of public construction projects in Uganda.
… based on plural rationality at central (CG) and local government (LG) contexts. The thesis argues that actors in OPC simultaneously pursue material gains and SC investments while trying to minimise their transaction costs, in the process engaging in ‘forum shopping’ between formal and informal …
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The impact of Korean performance budgeting on budgetary programmes
… of the Korean system of performance budgeting on government spending programmes. It sets out to examine the associations between a programme’s future budget and its past performance and also the impact of performance budgeting on managerial practices. Much of the study uses quantitative techniques …
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What was the political difference made by the introduction of Executive Mayors in England?
… between 2002 and 2005, as part of the Labour Government's wider local government reform, altered local governance in those localities. The 1998 White Paper Modern Local Government identified three key weaknesses in the previous local government system: a lack of leadership, legitimacy and …
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An examination of the Relationship between rationale, Practice and Outcomes in Municipal Property Asset Management – A Comparative Study of the UK and Russia
Local government globally is evolving in response to rising public expectations, changing socio-demographic factors and a growing focus on efficiency. The asset base used by municipalities in its service provision is changing to reflect this evolution. A new discipline of asset management has …
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When do community leaders make a difference? exploring the interaction of actors and institutions
There are an increasing number of opportunities for community leaders to be involved in governing processes. However, the community leader literature fails sufficiently to distinguish the interaction of structure and agency. The thesis establishes a theoretical approach which places community …
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Strategy and leadership : an elite study of the strategy process in local authority
Over the last 20 years or so, local government in Britain has been experiencing a relentless, rapidly changing environment. With successive Conservative governments introducing policies to encourage a new and improved managerialist approach during the 1980s and 1990s, there has been a shift away …
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Risk management in public expenditure management and service delivery in Malaysia
… the Paris Declaration 2005 to use the respective government’s systems. The study then explores the reasons why the financial management system used by the World Bank is more effective in managing risks related to public financial management and aid as compared to the Government of Malaysia …
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The development of a theoretical model of partnership : with a case study on the Coventry and Warwickshire partnership assembled forthe first round of the single regeneration budget
… of partnership working across all spheres of government activity suggests that it now represents the new economic orthodoxy in the approach to co-ordination. During the same period there has been considerable attention drawn to the emergence of new forms of co-ordination based upon networking. …
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The changing face of the local government of education in the 21st century: living with the private sector in selected local authorities as seen by their chief officers and others
… England; in the relationship between schools and local education authorities and in the establishment of the private sector as a competitor to local education authorities in delivering services. Further legislation introduced by both the then Conservative Government and after 1997 by a Labour …
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A Study of the Implementation of the Constitution and the Quality of Governance in Kurdistan
… of the constitutions and quality of government (QoG) in Kurdistan from a practical point of view, this thesis examines the question why the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) fails to deliver the constitutions in a way that strengthens its democracy and produces a good QoG. From …
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Strategic service partnerships and boundary-spanning behaviour: a study of multiple, cascading policy windows
… investigation of an emergent SSP in an English Local Authority to show that interaction between public and private sector organisations is critical to development of an SSP. It is also shown that boundaryspanning individuals are of critical importance in managing and shaping these interactions. …
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The role of motivation in performance management: The case of performance-related-pay schemes in British local authorities
… study of performance-related pay schemes in UK local authorities. The evidence indicates a strong support at policy level for the use of market-type managerial reforms, but less support on the ground for the performance-pay thesis. There are difficulties encountered in the setting, measuring and …
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An investigation into a local education authority's inclusion strategy : the construction and management of change
… investigated how various people, such as Local Education Authority officers, teachers and parents, represented change (defined as becoming different from a previous state) concerning an inclusion strategy. The investigation used a case study approach and methodology based upon grounded …
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The Dimension of Coercion in Chantal Mouffe's Theory of Agonism: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Applications to Local Politics in the UK
Based on the premise that hegemonic practices involve a constant dialectic between consent and coercion, this dissertation explores the specific role and nature coercion in Chantal Mouffe’s theory of agonistic politics and its subjective presuppositions. It concludes that coercion is a ubiquitous …
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Local Government Budgeting Practices in a Traditional Setting
… demonstrates the interactions of key players in government budgeting, i.e. Executive and Legislative in a traditional setting. Drawing on Weber's (1964) traditionalism and Black's (2008) legitimacy and accountability relationships guided by Archer's (1995) morphogenetic approach as the broad …
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