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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"county governments"”.
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Social Capital and Government Performance in American Urban Counties
… and government performance in metropolitan county governments. The dissertation also explores alternative theoretical approaches that have recently or historically been proposed as predictors or determinants of government performance in public administration and political science …
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Management Style Dimensions of United States County Administrators.
U. S. county government in general, and county managers in particular, are some of the least known entities of the U. S. government system, though counties affect most of the people in this country. Even though county governments are not very active in some areas of the country (eg., the …
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Civil Society and the Collaborative County
… austerity measures) place stress upon U.S. local governments’ efforts to provide public services. County governments operate in a context where they must meet federal and state devolutionary responsibilities while addressing service demands among their citizenry, stimulate their own economic …
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Tennessee County Commissioners' perception of the relevancy of the University of Tennessee Extension Agriculture Program
… Extension (UTE) receives 15% of its funding from county governments (University of Tennessee Extension, 2021a). According to Blevins, Jayaratne, Bruce, Bradley, and Stumpf-Downing (2020), the relationship between Extension and county commissioners is vital to the success of county-based …
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Information Sharing, Transparency, and E-Governance Among County Government Offices in Southeastern Michigan
… electronic information services, businesses and governments are also players in the arena for sharing official information. Information can be easily stored on Internet websites for the public, businesses, and other governmental offices to search and peruse when needed. This study examined the …
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The Builders versus the Birds: Wetlands, People and Public Policy in the United States, Florida and Hillsborough County
… discourse, newspaper articles, local voices, county employees, and legislation help reveal the relationship between perceptions of wetlands and the regulations that affect these ecosystems. Hillsborough County's wetland controversy exemplifies a debate between differing public attitudes toward …
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Budget and policy planning in devolved Kenya: a case study of citizen participation in Nairobi county
… Kenya now has 47 Counties, each with a County assembly, an elected Governor and an administration in charge of managing public resources and providing social services. Kenyan legal frameworks such as the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and the County Government Act (CGA) as well as …
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Is it a fairer play? Effectiveness evaluation of China's funding mechanism for rural education
… education is funded in a relatively wealthy county and evaluates their effectiveness against two sets of international theories: Atkinson et al s (2005) critique of main funding models and OECD s guideline to education equity (Field et al. 2007). With a focus on county and school levels, the …
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Making land fly : the institutionalization of China's land quota markets and its implications for urbanization, property rights, and intergovernmental politics
… agricultural land to urban land, local governments have created new land quotas by demolishing sparsely located farmhouses, and resettling peasants into high-density apartments. These quotas are then sold in new land quota markets to real estate developers. I find that China's land quota …
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A new climate for regionalism : metropolitan experiments in climate change adaptation
… paradigms. Only places with regional agencies or county governments that have land use authority, fiscal leverage, or state mandated targets have advanced region-wide zoning and long-term developmental changes. This indicates that state policies towards regional planning institutions are more …
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THREE ESSAYS ON PROPERTY TAX ADMINISTRATION
… tax system.</p> <p>The first essay examines how county governments respond to a state policy that reduced counties' share of state Medicaid costs, in a state where counties are mandated to financially contribute to the state program. The key motivation of this study is to understand the …
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Three Essays on Economic Growth and Natural Resources
… coal abundance on educational attainment, local (county) level education expenditure decisions, and local level taxation decisions. I find evidence that the educational attainment channel accounts for a significant portion of the negative effect of resource abundance. Coal resource abundance tends …