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Showing 1 to 20 of 331 for “"Public interest."”.
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Invoking the public interest in planning
The value to planning of the concept of the public interest is in question due to its lack of an agreed operational meaning (Campbell and Marshall 2002, Moroni 2006). This research identifies those aspects of the concept that are agreed on by discourses about the concept of the public interest …
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Public interest concerning elementary school information in Ceres, California
… and the community and to evaluate local school publicity.</p>
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Working toward the public interest: integrating public and policy
The issue of public involvement in public policy planning is of fundamental importance for professional planners, public policy, and ultimately a problem of democratic governance. However, despite the attention given to this issue in literature and in practice, there is little agreement on the …
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The public-interest concept : a study in social control
… the strategic position therein occupied by the public-interest concept, has long been of considerable interest to me. Because it is an ever-changing relationship, studies made and theories formulated thirty or forty years ago seem inadequate today. This study is a re-examination of the …
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Privacy and a free press: locating the public interest
The term “the public interest” is oft-cited but seldom defined. It is in essence both an umbrella term and a short-hand for a concept (or concepts) that we know we need to understand but have difficulty explaining. However, given both the prevalence and the importance of the concept to the law in …
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Polycentric security governance : legitimacy, accountability, and the public interest
… ways by which it is gained: through promoting public participation in decision-making; through transparent and accountable policing nodes; and through the delivery of effective security for the public good. Polycentric systems of security governance are usually composed of a number of policing …
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Corporate control and the public interest; theory and cases
… that preferences vary over strategy but not all interests are currently being represented, resulting in a failure to govern in the public interest. As solutions, we consider membership of the company and also more immediate ways forward, focusing on regulation and democratically controlled public …
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Private land, public interest : small town meets big dairy
This paper examines a grassroots effort undertaken by local residents of the communities of Nora and Warren in northwest Illinois in their attempt to prohibit the construction of a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) in their county. In particular, it is an attempt to understand and …
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Evolving Concepts of the Public Interest in Comprehensive Planning
The public interest is an important, yet contested, concept in the field of planning. On the one hand, it offers a normative criterion against which planning decisions can be evaluated and is traditionally viewed as the source from which planners derive their authority. However, the precise nature …
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Citizen journalism, public interest and social media in Saudi Arabia
… in investigating the nature and practice of public interest citizen journalism (PICJ) in Saudi Arabia (KSA). It offers a deeper understanding of the role and relevance of Citizen Journalism (CJ) in Saudi Arabia by analysing the coverage by Saudi citizen journalists of key economic events as …
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Problematising the public interest as a tool of neoliberal urban planning
This thesis problematises the public interest as a tool of neoliberal urban planning. As a tool of planning, the public interest has always remained relevant for planners and the planning profession. Since the emergence of land-use or spatial planning as a distinct discipline and profession it has …
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Legal aspects of public interest participation in environmental management and conservation
… new awareness of the environment in the general public. The cultivation of this awareness heightens the public's interest in becoming involved in environmental matters. Although individuals often realise that some action is required to address an environmental problem, they are in general …
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Evaluating interactive documentaries : audience, impact and innovation in public interest media
Public interest media organizations are increasingly interested in experimenting with interactive and participatory approaches to documentary storytelling enabled by digital technologies. However, due to the experimental nature of these interactive documentaries, it is not yet clear whether the …
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The role of the public interest in competition law: a consideration of the public interest in merger control and exemptions in South Africa and how the public interest plays a more important role in the competition laws of South Africa and of develop
… the role accorded to, and importance of, the public interest objectives of the South African Competition Act[1] (the Act). The aim of this paper is not to critique these objectives or to consider what role these objectives have played in South African competition jurisprudence in the eleven …
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Competing Populisms: Public Interest Litigation and Political Society in Post-Emergency India
This dissertation studies the politics of 'Public Interest Litigation' (PIL) in contemporary India. PIL is a unique jurisdiction initiated by the Indian Supreme Court in the aftermath of the Emergency of 1975-1977. Why did the Court's response to the crisis of the Emergency period have to take the …
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