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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Public officials"”.
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Legal controls on lying public officials
Considering the harm that is caused by lying public officials, to what extent does the law address this harm, and how? To the extent that it does not, is a broader legal remedy possible, and what might it look like? This thesis first sets out the harm that is caused by officials who lie – …
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The utilisation of ubuntu can promote accountability in public officials and state institutions as well as give effect to social solidarity in South Africa
… as forge social solidarity. It is submitted that public officials that embrace ubuntu, as defined by an unwavering focus on communal obligations, will give effect to their duties (as provided for in the Constitution) as a means to create a just and caring nation-state. METHODOLOGY This is a …
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Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry
… in which structural factors such as mass media, public officials (politicians and law enforcement), and major music corporations played a prominent role in the transformation. Media coverage focused on sensationalized cases of widespread drug use, while public officials responded by passing and …
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THE USE OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES BY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES: ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY.
… of the firm’s directors and the host State’s public officials. Who is responsible for that? Absent any legal precedent squarely applicable to this set of facts, I attempted to answer this query by: (i) designing four factual scenarios, where security contractors, business enterprise’s …
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Ethical leadership in the Limpopo Provincial Public Service of South Africa: an imperative for good governance
… of ethical transgression within the province’s public institutions. The reports on fraud and corruption scandals ranges from conflict of interests which manifest itself through payment of ghost workers, tardiness, weak institutions, lack of accountability and honesty by senior and subordinate …
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No ELA Without Ella: Understanding the Naming and Crafting of Gendered Subjectivities in Puerto Rico
… the local media put these women at the center of public discourse. Yet, the government and the media confronted a noteworthy sociolinguistic problem: there was no “appropriate” way of naming these senior public female officials. To solve this problem, local newspapers created new names and …
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The Impact of Competition on Congressional Behavior
… in a democracy is how to make government officials responsive to the desires of those they represent. To solve this problem representative democracies employ the mechanism of periodic free elections. Yet for contemporary democratic theorists such as Seymour Martin Lipset, Robert Dahl, and …
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The ethics of transparency in the public sector
… focused on the ethics of transparency in the public sector. The study was inspired by various sets of circumstances in the Republic of South Africa in which corruption and secrecy in terms of the activities of the public sector played an important role. In the study, consideration was given to …
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The effect of corruption on the 'available resources' for the right to housing as espoused by the Constitution of South Africa
… protected against malfeasance in the public service. The plethora of anti-corruption measures has not deterred wayward public officials from personally abusing the 'available resources' earmarked for housing. Stark evidence of corruption was revealed by the SIU Reports (2011, 2012, and …
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Enduring history : the struggle to control the future of Houston's oldest African American neighborhood
… of the Metropolitan Research Center at Houston's Public Library, and interviews were conducted with developers, residents, activists and public officials.
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Probing corruption: Elite perceptions of sting operations
… elite consensus exists that the nature of public corruption in the Las Vegas Valley justifies the use of federal law enforcement undercover operations. Using the elite interviewing method, the writer obtained the perceptions of twenty-four sworn public officials from the cities of …
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Estimating the effects of foreign bribery legislation in the international economy
… through the payment of bribes to foreign public officials without its own country bearing the associated costs of governmental corruption, and hence while eliminating foreign bribery may be in the best interests of all who are engaged with the global economy, there are few obvious …
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Job stress and Depression of Male Industry Workers
… depression symptoms (Korean version of CES-D) in public officials was analyzed using SPSS Window program version 12.0 program. The study subjects were male worker at dairy industry. The study results are as follows. In correlation analysis, job stress was positively correlated with depression. In …
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A survey of state laws and regulations regarding corporal punishment in the public schools
… have laws relating to corporal punishment in the public schools; (2) to ascertain the number of states having specific provisions in their education code relating to corporal punishment; (3) to determine the authority which authorizes or prohibits or restricts corporal punishment in each states; …
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Contratos inteligentes y certificados auténticos para trámites productivos en el sector público peruano orientado en un servicio de calidad al ciudadano
… work, design thinking focused on citizens and public officials was applied. When analyzing corruption, they indicated the desire to disappear, but they feel and perceive that it is impossible, instead, they consider that digital attention in procedures can improve productivity. The legal …
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Education, Politics, and a Hunger Strike: A Popular Movement's Struggle for Education in Chicago's Little Village Community
… The movement was inspired when the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) failed to construct a new high school promised three years earlier to alleviate overcrowding in the community's only public high school at the time. The movement reached a climax when a group of residents held a hunger strike to …
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A critical examination of the concept of welfare dependency : its assumptions, underlying values and manifistation in social policy, internationally and in South Africa
… dependency" has featured prominently in the public discoursearound social assistance programmes in numerous countries for many years. The notionthat social assistance payments tend to sap the recipient's initiative, independence andpropensity for securing paid employment is widespread and is …
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Criminalising illicit enrichment to combat economic crime in South Africa
Prosecuting corrupt public officials in South Africa is a difficult task, in part because they gain enormous fortune from their access to public monies. Because of their powerful positions, their wealth has reached unparalleled levels. However, a significant amount of their wealth and assets …
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Outdoor relief by the counties of Missouri
… probably lies in the novel view it affords of a public relief system in the earlier stages of its development. Though sufficient facts have been learned to give a comprehensive idea of the situation, certainly no claim can be made of statistical completeness and minute analysis. To accomplish the …
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Identifying perceptions associated with agricultural chemical use: Implications for pesticide applicator training programs in Illinois
… to be true about perceptions held by the public on similar issues. Stakeholders having rural orientations were perceived to be more inclined to be supportive of the use of chemicals in the production of agricultural commodities than were those having an urban orientation. The results of …
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