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Showing 1 to 20 of 619 for “"committees"”.
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Do committees make a difference? : an examination of the viscosity of legislative committees in the British House of Commons
Public bill committees in the British House of Commons play a crucial role in the scrutiny of government legislation. The reform of the bill committee system in 2006 and the introduction of oral evidence taking as a standard procedure significantly raised the profile of this stage of the …
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Executive remuneration : considerations of South African remuneration committees
… about the factors which are used by remuneration committees to determine the pay of these executives. This research aimed to gain deeper insight into the determination of executive remuneration, including the factors that are typically considered by South African remuneration committees, with a …
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Community Grantmaking Committees: Pravalence, Conceptualization, And Funding Decisions
… decisions; (2) how these community grantmaking committees (CGCs) are conceptualized and operate; and (3) whether they can deliver on the promise of a “front-row take” on community problems and the organizations best suited to address them. This three-paper mixed-methods dissertation aims to …
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"Not an encounter group": democracy and women's committees
… membership, goals and activities of five women's committees which were studied between 1992 and 1995. The committees were located in local authorities in different parts of England, selected to provide a degree of diversity. One goal of this thesis is to add to the body of knowledge about women's …
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Explaining the Strength of Legislative Committees: A Comparative Analysis
<p>By what means can legislative committees exercise influence on policy outputs? How and why do committees in different countries differ in their abilities to do so? This dissertation argues that legislative committee power is a multidimensional concept. Committee procedures can be distinguished …
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Parties, Committees, and Rules in the U.S. House of Representatives
… rights. The chapter, Minority Party Members on Committees, questions why a generic legislature allows minority party members on committees. If the majority party considers the minority a burden, then it could choose to exclude minority party members entirely from the committee system. This has, …
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Testing Ostrom: an Analysis of Water User Committees in Uganda
<p>In 2009 Elinor Ostrom received the Nobel Prize for her analysis of economic governance of the commons. Specifically, by challenging the conventional wisdom at the time, demonstrating how communities can successfully manage the common resources without any regulation by central authorities or …
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Pearl Harbor Investigating Committees and the East Wind Rain Message
In considering the problem of the East Wind Rain Message the historian is confronted with the task of reconstructing from a mass of raveled evidence and conflicting testimony data which will aid him in determining whether or not this controversial message ever existed. Had it existed, and had it …
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A sociological analysis of four police consultative committees in Birmingham
… Authority had established local consultative committees on each police sub-division. This thesis is a study of four Police Consultative Committees in Birmingham, using qualitative methods of attendance at committee meetings and interviews with committee members. The research was carried out …
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Voluntary formation of audit committees and their practices : an Australian study
… for the voluntary formation of audit committees and analysed their practices using the annual reports for the financial year 2004. The sample size was obtained from the Connect 4 database of companies. Using Agency theory, the study hypothesized that voluntary formation of audit …
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Problems confronted and methods used by citizen committees interested in education
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University
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Postsecondary data processing advisory committees: organization, operation, effectiveness, and leadership style
… advisory committee functions data processing committees are performing, determine how effectively these functions are being performed, and assess the relationship between leadership style and advisory committee effectiveness. Two year postsecondary schools in the Southeast Region of the United …
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Female directors on audit committees and audit quality : evidence from the UK
… association between female directors on audit committees and audit quality is not convincing, as it fails to effectively consider the practitioners’ audit quality assessments. By utilising both the audit fees and meeting or beating the zero earnings benchmark as audit quality proxies, this …
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Training clinic health committees: a vehicle for improving community participation in health
… critical and this includes formation of health committees (HCs) at health facility level. Previous research indicates that health committees are imperative in both actualizing community participation and realisation of right to health. However, few studies have been undertaken to understand the …
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Local Emergency Planning Committees: Collaboration, Risk Communication, Information Technology and Homeland Security
Local emergency planning committees (LEPCs) were designed to develop emergency response plans and provide information through community right-to-know programs. A literature review identified operational effectiveness, collaboration, risk communication, information technology (IT), and homeland …
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A study of the effectiveness of advisory committees in Virginia community colleges
… of A STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADVISORY COMMITTEES IN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES was to determine the effectiveness of advisory committees within the Virginia Community College system. How effective or ineffective these committees are being used has an effect on the programs within each …
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