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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"intergovernmental relations"”.
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Essays on special education finance and intergovernmental relations
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Intergovernmental Relations in Public Housing With Special Reference to the Experience in Louisville, Kentucky
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Intergovernmental relations between central government and selected local authorities in Namibia with special reference to the decentralisation process
… consultation, participation, centre local relationship, division of decision-making powers between the central government and local authorities; councilior-community relationship and councillors' contact with local development committees. The study revealed that very little consultation …
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An exploratory study of inderstanding electronic government in facilitating intergovernmental relations to encourage cooperative governance in South Africa
… the public sector and whether it can facilitate intergovernmental forums business processes in an effective and efficient manner. The scope of the study is confined to the intergovernmental fiscal system but focused on eGovernment, intergovernmental relations, and cooperative governance. The …
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A Comparative Study of Intergovernmental Relations of two Federal Districts: The Case of the U.S. District of Columbia and Brasília, Brazil
The intergovernmental relationship between the federal district and the national government has been given little significance in the subject of intergovernmental relations. This purpose of this paper is to compare the intergovernmental relationship between two federal districts in the United …
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Developing a complexity leadership competency framework for the Governance and Administration Cluster of the South African Public Service
… Administration reforms plus their links with intergovernmental relations developments, and the implications of the transition from leader-centric practices to collective and hybrid forms of leadership. An analysis of existing literature in these areas leads to the conclusion that the G&A …
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An Assessment of Federal Welfare Reform Policy in Texas
This is a study in intergovernmental relations which allows an insight into the workings of federalism in the United States through an examination of public welfare reform policies. Born from the need for national fiscal constraints, welfare reform has been fueled by public opinion concerned with a …
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Keeping promises in federal systems: the legal status of intergovernmental agreements with special reference to Belgium and Canada
Intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) represent one of the most formal and commonly used instruments for managing intergovernmental relations within federal systems. Through an analysis of the Belgian and Canadian cases, this thesis was designed to test the following hypothesis: while IGAs apparently …
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Federal-local relations: A discriminant model of the grant interaction process
"Most characterizations of the intergovernmental system portray it in unidimensional terms and assume that interactions occur between a relatively stable set of actors, pursuing identifiable goals, attending, at more or less constant levels, to all issues, and classified best by level of …
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An Interagency Approach to Reforming the Administration of Federal Grant-In-Aid Programs: A Case Study of the Indian Task Force of the Western Federal Regional Council
… of these programs has been hampered at the intergovernmental level by the tremendous explosion in the number of grant-in-aid programs, the increasing reliance on categorical grant-in-aid programs, the confusing network of red tape, the development of a "function bureaucracy" which has …
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Employment of People with Criminal Records: An Exploratory Study of the State of Georgia
… with criminal records. The goal is to review the intergovernmental relations existing in the current programs in hopes of exploiting the best practices being used. An example is the grant funding being distributed by the federal government via the Second Chance Act of 2007 which has disseminated …
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Federal-provincial relations and the environment : attaining sustainable development through cooperation /
A study of intergovernmental relations in the area of the environment will determine whether the current Canadian federal structure represents a dangerous impediment to the promotion of sustainable development. This paper examines the interjurisdictional quagmire that has developed from the fact …
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Handcuffs or Stethoscopes: A Cross-National Examination of the Influence that Political Institutions and Bureaucracy have on Public Policies Concerning Illegal Drugs
… policy in 101 democracies. Institutional data on intergovernmental relations, regime type, political bargaining, electoral design, and cameralism were regressed on 6 different drug policy indices: law enforcement, deterrence-based prevention, abstinence-based treatment, educationbased prevention, …
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Critical Digital Infrastructure Protection: An Investigatoin Into The Intergovernmental Activities Of Information Technology Directors In Florida Counties
… to suppress an attack. Guided by the theory of intergovernmental management (IGM), this exploratory research investigated how Information Technology (IT) Directors in Florida county constitutional offices use intergovernmental relations and management activities as part of their information …
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The "illusion of inclusion"? The role of consultation processes in Canadian sport policy-making
… factors influencing sport policy formulation (intergovernmental relations, institutionalized relations and ideas). The research argues that these have the capacity to constrain/enable participation. Finally, it also argues that while the State is influenced by the contextual forces and …
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A legal perspective on the role of municipalities in navigating the relationship between land use planning and mining
… Province. The thesis shows how poor intergovernmental relations and processes hamper effective co-operation and collaboration between the DMR and municipalities. While it is imperative that each government institution retains legislative and executive authority over their respective …
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Defining and Analyzing Negative Policy Transfer: National Orphan Drug Regulatory Policy in Canada and Australia
… federalism and a lack of necessary norms of intergovernmental relations, political capacity, and consensus among experts on the necessity of a national regulatory policy. Path dependency and problem redefinition have impacted policymaking in both cases, but only contributed to negative …
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Urbanizing The Countryside? The Governance Of Rural Restructuring In Bancroft And North Hastings County, Ontario
… contributes an important case study in intergovernmental relations under twenty first century neoliberalism. Analysis of a small municipality - in relation to horizontal and vertical governmental dynamics and with regard to the management of essential infrastructures - provides a clear …
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