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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"public oversight"”.
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A theoretical investigation of mandatory auditor reports on internal control structures
… structures has come from many fronts (i.e., Public Oversight Board, GAO, FDIC, etc.). The parties calling for these auditor reports typically assert that these auditor reports will serve to reduce management fraud. Before accepting the efficacy of such auditor reports in reducing management …
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DiSH: Democracy in State Houses
… funding and growing focus at the national level, public oversight for these legislators has drastically decreased. This makes it difficult for citizens and activists to understand the relationships and commonalities between legislators. This thesis provides three contributions to address this …
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Strainer: State Transcript Rating for Informed News Entity Retrieval
… two decades there has been a rapid decline in public oversight of state and local governments. From 2003 to 2014, the number of journalists assigned to cover the proceedings in state houses has declined by more than 30\%. During the same time period, non-profit projects such as Digital …
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Commerce or Significance: Commercial Interventions on Cultural Interpretation at Two Philadelphia Historic Sites
… and Independence Hall, managed within a public governmental framework, the thesis analyzes how different commercial conditions influence the construction, preservation, and communication of cultural significance. The study finds that spontaneous commercial activities, especially those …
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The 21st Century University President: Building Blocks for Effective Rural Leadership
… between higher education and the American public. This new world features extremely complex and competitive organizations that must exist and flourish with less public funding, greater public oversight and increased private costs to consumers. An in-depth examination of the literature …
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Transparency, Accountability and Public Participation as Foundations for Effective Operations of Natural Resource Funds: Implications for the Russian Stabilization Fund
… must be transparent, accountable and open for public scrutiny. Otherwise, a NRF could be useless or even harmful. "Resource curse," "Dutch disease," and "rentier" behavior are theoretical rationales for establishing NRFs. Corruption is viewed as a "transmission channel" of natural resource …