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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"public service provision"”.
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Community characteristics and the provision of emergency medical services
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is provided in a variety of different ways in the United States. Methods of service delivery range from the purely private to the completely public and include mixtures that are not clearly one or the other. Based on a review of the literature, this variation is …
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Conflict Resolution : A study of identity, social/economic exclusion, islamophobia and racism
… with employment discrimination, and access to public service provision in Newham. The transmission and impact of public opinion is explored, in association with local media input, and the manifestations of racism in the neighbourhood. The perceptions of different parties towards the concept …
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The Politics of Local Service Provision in the United States
… States spend more than $1.6 trillion annually on public service provision. Access to reliable public services is essential for health and wellbeing. But there are large disparities in access to services across the country. This dissertation asks why. Specifically, I examine the incentives and …
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Redesigning rural life : relocation and In Situ urbanization in a Shandong village by Saul Kriger Wilson.
… Chinese government's attempts to improve village public service provision, limit the loss of arable land, and coordinate urbanization have converged in land readjustment schemes to rebuild some villages as more densely populated "rural communities." I present a case study on a financially …
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The impact of marketisation on higher education in post-Mao China, with case studies of universities in Yunnan Province
An important component of the New Public Management, which has spread through many countries in the world, is the emergence of hybrid governance, a structure which has replaced traditional hierarchical governance in many parts of the public sector. Hybrid governance lies between hierarchical …
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Civil Society and the Collaborative County
… 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 development portfolio, and mediate …
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Geo-Analytics of Citizen-Government Interaction: The Integration of Spatial Data Mining, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), And Geovisualization To Explore Non-emergency Requests in the State of Kuwait
… growth of population requires simultaneous provision of public services (or commons) at high spatial and temporal scales. In addition to the commons provision, governments are ought to maintain the commons to be at high quality standards. However, the rapid consumption of the urban commons, …
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The source of self-restraint? How domestic politics and international markets shape natural resource policy in the developing world
… of this money to invest in human capital and public goods. It can pay external debt obligations or set money aside in a rainy day fund. It can redistribute resource revenues at the subnational level to reduce regional disparities. But if history serves as a guide, most political leaders in …