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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Public confidence"”.
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Women’s Rights And Public Confidence: The Connection Between International Human Rights Norms And Public Confidence In Women’s Organizations
… Despite the need for better women’s rights, public confidence in women’s organizations is varied widely. This paper explains the variations in public confidence of women’s organizations. I argue that the variation in confidence is a function of the state’s level of internalization of …
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Establishing Public Confidence in the Viability of Fingerprint Biometric Technology
… biometric systems still remain uncommon in public sectors of industry such as education, government, and technology. Technology has improved sufficiently that false acceptance and rejection rates are no longer valid excuses. Two proposed reasons for this lack of deployment are 1) society's …
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Ethnic Composition of Constitutional Courts in Ethnically Divided Societies: the cases of the Republic of Cyprus and Bosnia-Herzegovina
… court’s role in constitutional review cases, public trust in the impartiality of the judiciary, public confidence in the court’s legitimacy and the improvement in decision-making. A key thesis in the present work is the support for the ethnic composition of constitutional courts in ethnically …
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Judicial independence versus judicial impartiality: A comparative approach
… can be sufficient to secure a fair trial and public confidence in the judicial system and also whether an impartial bench without independence can do the same. Therefore, this thesis aims to answer the question of how different these two principles are from each other. A second question …
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Reclaiming a national icon: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police: increased acountability and effective transition into the 21st century
… explores the concepts of accountability and public confidence as it applies to the RCMP in British Columbia, specifically examining the existing model of accountability, and the erosion of accountability and public trust with the RCM, in British Columbia, over the past two decades. The thesis …
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Prosecution in Zambia: Why the failures?
… in dispensation of justice thereby eroding Public confidence in the system.A holistic approach is desirable in resolving the problems that are encountered by the Criminal Justice System; Restructuring the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will have far reaching effects as it will …
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David Shaw in the continuum of press self-criticism
… about broad issues affecting the press and the public. In addition to calling attention to bias, sensationalism, arrogance, and unresponsiveness in the press, Shaw has sparked internal criticism from his colleagues at the Times; At a time of declining public confidence in the media, Shaw asserts …
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Counterterrorism in the 1990s: A framework for dynamic analysis
… targets of violence, there exists an audience of public perception whose fragile temperament is too often swayed by the seeming randomness of the act. When terrorism gains momentum, legitimate governments lose public confidence in state protection. To minimize such effects, governments must …
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Police Militarization: Attitudes Towards the Militarization of the American Police
… on this issue. Almost no research exists on public attitudes toward police militarization, which is very important given the social context. A contextual literature review covers a brief history of American police with emphasis on key events leading to modern police militarization, such as …
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Corrosion in the Mining Industry: A Case Study of the Britannia Mine
… of which undermine operational reliability and public confidence. Therefore, continuous corrosion monitoring and management are critical to protecting essential assets and ensuring the safe and efficient operation of mining facilities [1]. This report focuses on the effects of corrosion in the …
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A Critical Examination of Zambia's Democratic Performance since 1991
… and suffer at the hands of police using the Public Order Act in instances of ‘breach of peace' and as an excuse for maintaining ‘public order'. Zambia continues to have a poor human rights record, reflected in the perpetration of violence against its citizenry with impunity by government …
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Auditor-client relationships: an assessment of relationship quality.
… relationship phenomenon and how to restore public confidence. Moreover, it intends to critically examine the key elements in enhancing the service quality and auditor performance and consequently build quality relationships between the auditors and their corporate clients. The research …
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WAS THAT WRONG? SPONTANEITY'S ROLE IN JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE ALLEGATIONS
The public's confidence in the judicial system is generally determined by the integrity of those entrusted to preside over disputes. Judicial integrity in all 50 states and the District of Columbia is ensured, in part, by various codes of judicial conduct that set required standards for judicial …
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An evaluation of the use of mediation in environmental dispute resolution under s.268 of the Resource Management Act 1991
… of present and future generations, and retain public confidence in the mediation process.
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Canada's foreign aid program : a policy analysis (1946-1980)
… government as well as recipients, and undermine public confidence in aid.
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Media Representations and Public Attitudes towards Nanotechnology in Taiwan
… clear investigation of media representation and public attitude toward Nanotechnology (Nano) in Taiwan, this thesis includes three studies. Study 1 investigates the media representation of Nano in Taiwan and the relationship among different Nano-based themes, frames, and media attitudes in the …
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Strategies for designing, testing and demonstrating safety : what synthetic biology can learn from retrospective cases
… safety, they presented specific efforts to gain public confidence. The pro-biotics case was different in that the safety concerns came from the scientific community since history is being used as the convincing demonstration of safety. The three synthetic biology research projects cross the …
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Restructuring public higher education governance in West Virginia, 1969-1989: a policy study
… coalition, a partnership, dedicated to the public interest, striving for quality, access and excellence. In its darkest days, Structure can become a political target, an object of control, a source of rivalry and competition. Restructuring is a ritual within a highly individualistic …
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Understanding the impact of school inspection: An analysis of how school leaders in Wales interpret and respond to inspection outcomes
… process linked to the need to build and maintain public confidence, they were in broad agreement that the inspectors themselves did not communicate appropriately with school staff, were too authoritarian, and were at times disrespectful. This contributed to an ‘us versus them’ mentality and …
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