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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Municipal government"”.
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Metropolitan municipal government for greater Cape Town
… area. Political and structural reform of local government may seem to some to be an incongruous starting point for the objective outlined above but yet, when the matter is considered, it will be realised that local government is a form of government which is closest to the people, and because it …
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Des Moines Adopts the Commission Form of Municipal Government
… in the adoption of the Commission Form of Government by the City of Des Moines, and to see if the Des Moines Plan was really a reform movement as its backers claimed or an attempt to establish a form of government more easily controlled by them. THE PROCEDURE. The first step, after …
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Of Time and Place / A Municipal Government Facility in Edenton, NC
Through the design of a municipal complex for Chowan County, North Carolina, the intention is to examine what it means to design with a sense of place that is an extension of the region's past. Regionalism has been trivialized to be as simplistic as the practice of attaching community-accepted …
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The role of the town clerk in municipal government in South Africa
… the role the Town Clerk plays in South African municipal government and to suggest what that role could be. The thesis is not concerned with politics as such but with public administration, although because of the structure of local government, the Town Clerk is involved with politics in the …
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Lease vs. Purchase: A Field Study of Asset Acquisition Decisions in Municipal Government
… that the use of expenditure accounting by governments causes inefficiency in acquisition of assets for long-term use.
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Local action for the global environment : municipal government participation in a voluntary climate protection program
… is a voluntary environmental program for municipalities, which is increasingly being applied around the world by local governments taking action on climate change. This thesis investigates the reasons for adoption, barriers and drivers of implementation, and potential outcomes of municipal …
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Politics in Middletown : a reconsideration of municipal government and community power in Muncie, Indiana, 1925-1935
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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"Do not give me a fish, teach me how to fish" : good municipal government and community participation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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Democratization of local government in Brazil : decentralisation and people's councils
… of implementation of alternative strategies for municipal government reform in Brazil, decentralisation and People's Councils. The aim is to answer the following general question: `Can decentralisation and People's Councils be a means for democratization of municipal government in Brazil?'. The …
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An assessment of public participation in selected ward committees in the City of Cape Town
… study investigates public participation at local government level in South Africa, namely, the ward committee system. It will look at the extent to which ward committees, as instruments of public participation, can be said to empower citizen involvement in local government decision-making. …
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Energy & the built environment : assessing renewable energy planning in Burlington, Vermont
… energy capacity and supporting policies, municipal governments in the United States continue to struggle with incorporating renewable energy systems into the built environment. The primary challenges concerning this integration rest in the capacity of municipal government to reinterpret …
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Changing federal-municipal relations as reflected by aid-to-airports.
… theoretical and the practical aspects of federal-municipal relations. It is an effort to point out the growing dependency of municipal government to the national government; it provides a historical resume of this relation prior to the "New Deal", and the rapid growth of this relationship into the …
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Por uma política de gestão documental como garantia ao acesso à informação no Arquivo Central da Prefeitura Municipal de João Pessoa
… analysis in the Central Archive of the Municipal Government of João Pessoa, in relation to the importance of a Document Management Policy as a guarantee of accessing information in the municipal ambit. Its specific objectives are to identify the inhibit mechanisms to the implementation …
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The role of actors and incentives in municipal solid waste management : a case study on Muzaffarnagar, India
… issue, there has been limited compliance by municipal governments. One of the key changes and challenges resulting from the new legislation is that municipal governments are now responsible for household waste collection. This is both a major expense for municipal governments, and also …
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Master lease & leaseback of government owned real estate : a model for a fixed income investment product
… tied up in the ownership of state and municipal government buildings. Today, multiple state and municipal governments face record budget deficits, and are struggling to find ways to raise revenues and decrease annual operating costs in order to close these budget gaps. At the same time, …
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Job descriptions and job analyses in practice: How research and application differ
… examined the content of job descriptions in municipal government and compared the content to the recommendations in the literature. The study also examined the agreement between job descriptions and job analysis. It found that the position held by the person completing a job analysis form …
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The effects of training in feedback on managers' attributional bias and perceived effectiveness of their work groups
… field study was conducted in a large municipal government to address manager-subordinate feedback. Pre and post test measures were used to answer three research questions: What are the effects of training in feedback on managers' (1) perceived effectiveness of their work groups, (2) …
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The sustainability of Saskatchewan municipalities
Although the municipal government is considered closest to the people, municipalities are not referenced in the Canadian constitution. Recognizing this gap, soon after joining the Confederation of Canada in 1905, Saskatchewan enacted a municipal act to regulate its rural and urban sectors. The …
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Heterogeneity in Immigrants’ Municipal Engagement and Participation in Calgary
… federal levels, but there is a gap in studying municipal elections. Additionally, Canadian political science has some interest in studying immigrant participation in provincial and federal elections, but more research on immigrant involvement in municipal elections is required. The limited …
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Cholon's urban evolution, 1879-1930: State, Locals, and Trans-locals
… 1930s was a port-town with its own separate Municipality under French rule. Once the French amalgamated Cholon with Saigon, it has only survived as the colloquial name for districts 5 and 6 in Vietnam's largest metropolitan area, now renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Nevertheless, since the 1930s it …
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