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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"normative theory"”.
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Rediscovering the Heart of Public Administration: The Normative Theory of <i>In His Steps</i>
… public administration have failed to stimulate a theory-or even a working understanding-of how to "rehydrate" the observed desiccation of public life and revivify the concept of the public interest. In correcting the historical record, this dissertation shows that the "soul" of public …
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Towards a Normative Theory of Advertising Media Planning: A Case Study of the Cable Television Industry
The absence of a comprehensive theory of media planning remains a distinct problem for those involved in this aspect of advertising, precluding their ability to know what can be done to create media plans that predict precisely advertising's effects on the target audience. To understand fully the …
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Toward a grounded normative theory of strategies of political communication used in politics disadvantages in policy debate
… policies.</p> <p>This study developed a grounded theory about the type of deliberation manifest in politics disadvantages. Pre-constructed politics disadvantages from websites such as PlanetDebate.com, Cross-X.com, as well as from summer policy debate workshops were analyzed to develop a grounded …
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Administrative statesmanship in a government of shared powers
A normative theory of public administration grounded in the Constitution is examined in practice from individual, institutional and situational perspectives. This theory argues that public administrators should use their discretionary power in order to maintain the balance of powers among the three …
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Mezinárodní bezpilotní přeprava zboží
… of goods. For this purpose, a comparison of the normative theory of František Weyr and the way of functioning of formally logical systems is performed within the work. This normative theory has a great impact on the actual functioning of the information system itself, which is exempt from the …
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The Constitution and the council-manager plan: public administration operating under a system without shared powers
… carries forward the exploration of John Rohr’s normative theory of public administration by examining the applicability of the "balance wheel" role for public administrators to local government administration. Because local government charters contain no moral basis for action, and there is no …
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What Does Theism Add to Ethical Naturalism?
… theories within existing taxonomies of normative theory. While perhaps encouraging for theists, would theism add anything substantive to theories of ethical naturalism? In this paper, I examine this question. I argue that theistic naturalism appears to incur certain objections as well as …
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Human aspects of scheduling : a case study
… scheduling, comparing and contrasting it to both normative OR theory and Cognitive Psychology theory. Relevant literature in OR, scheduling and psychology is reviewed, and gaps in theory are pointed out, calling for observation of real-life scheduling and for modeling of the cognitive processes …
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Computer Crime as a Barrier to Electronic Commerce: New Solutions for Public Law Enforcement.
… law solutions to this problem and argues from a normative theory on “the commons” for the application of new public law enforcement solutions in the public trust, sanctions, and public coproduction of order. The thesis argues that given the failures of existing private law solutions to the …
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Reframing public administration: a systems-methodological analysis of governance and the role of public administration
Despite repeated attempts, no normative theory of public administration has emerged that fully and satisfactorily answers questions about the role of public administration, and public administrators, in the process of governance. This dissertation argues that such questions are unresolvable because …
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Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States
… are utilized, Richard Quinney’s critical theory of crime and normative theory of law, to outline predictors for the future legalization of marijuana in the U.S. The findings show that while neither theory outlines a clear path to marijuana legalization, Quinney’s critical theory of crime …
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Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States
… are utilized, Richard Quinney’s critical theory of crime and normative theory of law, to outline predictors for the future legalization of marijuana in the U.S. The findings show that while neither theory outlines a clear path to marijuana legalization, Quinney’s critical theory of crime …
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Monetary Policy in Thailand: A Case Study of the Monetary Authorities' Actual Behavior, 1960-1981
… not included within the conceptual framework of normative theory at its present stage of development. This subject has not been a major preoccupation of economists concerned with macroeconomic and monetary policy. Attention to central bank behavior has been kept in the spirit of normative rather …
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Intellectual Commons: The Normative Perspective
… potential. In the course of exploring their normative aspects, the thesis proceeds successively by analysing (i) the ontological characteristics of the intellectual commons, (ii) the relevant literature concerning their potential and interrelation with capital, (iii) the ways that they been …
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How Newspapers In China, India And Bangladesh Framed The Rohingya Crisis Of 2017
… international media attention. In light of normative theory, media of different countries are assumed to cover an issue differently because of differences in the socio-political systems involved. This study examines how media from three different countries framed the Rohingya Muslim issue. …
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Interpretive experimentalism: A pragmatic theory of moral norms and judgment
… have concluded that the received rule-based normative theories (such as Kantianism and utilitarianism) are inadequate guides for deliberation about concrete moral problems for at least two reasons. First, such problems seem to involve heterogeneous considerations whose normative import can …
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Deep play, urban space, adolescent place: a multi-sited study of the effects of settings on adolescent risk/reward behavior
… The latter finding is novel and diverges from normative theory on adolescent behavior by suggesting that teens exercise interdependence when engaging in urban environments away from home and school. Interdependence is a term derived from economics that means mutual dependence upon others for …
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Naturalizing epistemology : reconsidering Quine and Nietzsche
… argues for ways to construct a more viable normative epistemology--the part of epistemology that focuses on normative notions such as rationality, justification, evidence, and reasons--for a branch of naturalism called replacement naturalism. The replacement naturalist, in contrast to other …
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Active citizenship in the administrative state
… capable of nor intended to support a general normative theory of public administration, illustrates that a true practice of active citizenship is possible within the administrative state. Features of the illustration are interpreted in light of this argument.
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The Safer Sexual Communication Practices of Transgender Adults: Implications for HIV Prevention
… or satisfying safer sex talk. Goldsmith's normative theory guided semi-structured interviews with 41 transgender individuals. Maximum variation sampling methods allowed for the recruitment of trans-individuals of varying sexual, gender, and ethnic identities. Interviews with transgender …
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