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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Select Committee"”.
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An analysis of the Select Committee on Arts and Manufactures of 1835-6: anatomy, benthamism and design
This thesis is an analysis of the Select Committee on Arts and Manufactures of 1835-6 and begins with an exploration of previous scholarship surrounding the Parliamentary debate. The present study offers a critique of these analyses by situating the debates alongside the policies of Philosophical …
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Third Sector Campaigning Strategies: A study of Third Sector Organisations campaigning for the reform of UK child poverty policy
… TSO submissions to a 2007/08 Work and Pensions Select Committee inquiry into child poverty. Analysis applies a resource dependence perspective combined with a social fields approach, to show how the values of key resources TSOs possess and require for their work vary depending on whether they …
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Contested Sensemaking and Everyday Leadership Practices in the Context of UK Parliamentary Select Committees
… study of everyday leadership in UK parliamentary select committees. It is based on a detailed analysis of the parliamentary context for leadership and highlights the distinctive characteristics of a chair’s everyday select committee leadership practices. It examines how a chair addresses the …
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A Study of the Evolution of Food Security Discourse, Mobilization, and Congressional Champions
… public health professionals and congressional committees in shaping the discourse and fortifying their relevance in food security policymaking. In short, the what, when, and who of issue definition becomes a foundation for food security policymaking. This study used in-depth content analysis to …
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The Queen's College, Cork: its origins and early history, 1803-1858
… on education embodied in the Report of the Select Committee on Irish Education of 1838. This material has not previously been published. In chapter four an extended study is made of relevant letters in the manuscript correspondence of Sir Robert Peel - even the most recent authoritative …
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Canberra 1954-1980
… the year in which the vitally important Senate Select Committee on the Development of Canberra was established and the crucial decision taken to make Canberra the true centre of government administration. It then deals with the influence of Menzies, the contribution of the eminent London …
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Canberra 1954-1980
… the year in which the vitally important Senate Select Committee on the Development of Canberra was established and the crucial decision taken to make Canberra the true centre of government administration. It then deals with the influence of Menzies, the contribution of the eminent London …
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Policy and practice: Design education in England from 1837-1992, with particular reference to furniture courses at Birmingham, Leicester and the Royal College of Art.
… examines the events which led to the 1835-6 Select Committee and argues that many of the issues raised during the Committee influenced the teaching of design education through the remainder of the nineteenth century; this is further demonstrated through chapter three. Charting the development …
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The humanitarian, technical and political response to shipwreck in the first half of the nineteenth century: the 1836 Inquiry and its aftermath
… others. Politically, the increasing use of the select committee to bring facts before the public and parliament served as the basis of much reform in nineteenth century England, the 1836 Inquiry into the causes of shipwreck, the 1839 Inquiry into the losses of timber-laden ships and the 1843 …
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Empirical Investigation of the Role of Privacy and Data Protection in the Implementation of Electronic Government in Ghana
… servants, political leaders, members of the Select Committee on Communication, academics, university students as well as stakeholders from private and public organisations. The research borrowed from the Straussian grounded theory approach as a technique to analyse the fieldwork data. The …
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Designed to divide: public toilets in Cape Town, 1880-1940
… the city council and members of the public, Select Committee Reports, articles in and letters to the press, maps of the city, architect’s plans, as well as contemporary fictional literature.
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A retrospective evaluation on the use of Cephalosporins in open-heart surgery
… antimicrobials. Senator Gaylor Nelson of the Sub-committee on the Monopoly of the Select Committee on Small Business stated, "Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in this country exceeded only by the psychoactive drugs." Dr. Charles C. Edwards, former Commissioner of the Food …
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The turmoil of evidence: Research utilisation in UK drug classification
… and documentary analysis of Parliamentary Select Committee hearings alongside qualitative interviews with a wide-range of key policy actors involved in the decision-making process. From this a nuanced account of the evidence and policy relationship in such contexts is ascertained,which …
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Walter Stanford as an apprentice in politics, 1908-1910 : a study in the representation of the interests of the black peoples of the Cape Colony
… the report of the Cape Legislative Assembly select committee appointed to investigate the state of African and Coloured education (1908), and the interim and final reports of the 1910 Cape Native Affairs Commission. I also use Stanford's printed magisterial reports contained in the Cape …
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Policy Learning and the Development of Renewable Energy Policy in the United Kingdom
… acts and instruments, consultations and select committee reports); and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders from government, industry, NGOs, academia and the media. It is argued in the thesis that UK energy policy has tended to become ‘locked’ into low-level forms of technical …
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When Politicians Misread the Public: Experimental Evidence that Politicians Underestimate Climate Policy Support and Norm-Based Solutions
… evidence inquiry of the Parliament’s Net Zero Select Committee.
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A retrospective study in understanding 'low speed change' vehicle collisions, occupant movement and likelihood of injury
… Fraud’. Such is the problem that the Transport Select Committee has been considering how to tackle it now for a number of months. The applicant has personally provided assistance to the Chair of the Committee. The question: ‘How do experts assist in determining the legitimacy of individual …
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A Qualitative Case Study Exploring the Processes and Criteria for Presidential Leadership Selection in Three United States Higher Institutions of Learning
… (p. 99). -- Modern change demands that both the selection processes and criteria in institutions of higher learning seriously look at new possibilities. There are pervasive issues within, primarily due to the role in perpetuating the exclusion of marginalized groups, and a continued preference …