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Performance information and issue prioritization by political and managerial decision-makers: A discrete choice experiment
Joris van der Voet and Amandine Lerusse
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 2024, Pages 582–597, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muae011
Published: 29 April 2024
...” behavioral perspective on decision-makers’ information processing to prioritize between simultaneous performance issues. issue prioritization performance information discrete choice experiment local governments public officials Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research In the wake of developments...
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Understanding ‘flexing’: the impact on mental health and public trust
Ali Rachman and others
Journal of Public Health, Volume 45, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages e806–e807, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad088
Published: 10 June 2023
...Ali Rachman; Inuriya Verawati; M Arli Rusandi flexing influencers mental health public officials public trust social media tax morale unethical behavior Dear editor, We express our concern regarding the increasing social media phenomenon of ‘flexing’—a slang term that describes...
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Explaining public officials’ opinions on blockchain adoption: a vignette experiment
Diego Cagigas and others
Policy and Society, Volume 41, Issue 3, September 2022, Pages 343–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puab022
Published: 08 February 2022
... the transparency of, and citizens’ trust in, public administration and its services. However, the introduction of blockchain to public administrations means potentially changing aspects of the job performed by public officials, including their day-to-day activities and responsibilities, and even their very control...
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Against Privatisation As Such
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Avihay Dorfman and Alon Harel
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2016, Pages 400–427, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqv029
Published: 25 November 2015
.... privatisation public officials private entities shared responsibility public law For several decades now, privatisation—roughly speaking, the shifting of responsibility from public to private entities 1 —has affected modern societies in a deep and profound way, and this shift is forcing us...
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Published: 09 May 2019
... and partnerships, the creation of trust property, and the actions of public officials. It concludes with a description of how fiduciary duties came to be understood as a more formal relationship that exists whenever one person exercises effective control over another and therefore is bound to use that power...
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Conclusion
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Carl F. Cranor
Published: 16 February 2017
... deficiencies of Scientific evidence for causation Endocrine disrupters Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act Advancement of public health protections Carson Rachel Furst Arthur National Toxicology Program NTP C8/PFOA formaldehyde choices by public officials postmarket laws...
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Overview
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Stuart H. Deming
Published: 16 July 2014
.... Moreover, enforcement of a single prohibition is not the only means by which improper inducements to foreign public officials are being deterred. A series of seemingly collateral legal regimes of a more general nature – such as relating to private bribery or commercial bribery, money laundering, record...
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Ireland
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Stuart H. Deming
Published: 16 July 2014
...In implementing the OECD Convention, Ireland adopted the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act 2001 to amend its corruption law by replacing section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 to extend the scope of the offense of bribery of agents to include bribery of foreign public officials...
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Corruption and anti-corruption
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Tom Gallagher
Published: 01 August 2009
... in Romania and the determination of figures high up in the political system to allow it to remain unimpeded. Anti-corruption rhetoric was merely a device to scare off or punish rivals. The anti-corruption legislation obliged public officials to fill out income and asset declarations in the belief...
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Introduction: Power and Money
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J. C. Sharman
Published: 01 March 2017
...This introductory chapter discusses the concept of grand corruption or kleptocracy (“rule by thieves”). It particularly focuses on instances of corruption committed by senior public officials involving large sums of money that are held in a foreign country. There is an international moral and legal...
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Published: 30 June 2013
...This chapter examines the role of formal and informal leaders, including local public officials and heads of voluntary organizations, in small communities' efforts to adapt to changing social and economic conditions. It considers how residents confer respect on leaders and how leaders draw...
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Insult of Public Officials
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Christoph Bezemek
Published: 10 February 2021
... Supreme Court would eschew. Considering the question of insult to public officials, the chapter focuses again on structural differences in doctrine. Expanding the focus to include the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR), it shows...
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Nuns of the West
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Anne M. Butler
Published: 17 September 2012
... discrimination, supporting the working class, speaking up to public officials, and providing monetary and spiritual assistance. Cantwell Josephine SCL Kinsella Thomas F Religious life Ross Xavier SCL Segale Blandina SC Work by women Anti Catholicism Catholic Church Americanization of Dominican Sisters OP...
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Elections and the Politics of Threats
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Justin Buchler
Published: 13 April 2011
.... The book argues that an election is not a consumer product market. It is a mechanism for hiring and firing public officials. The chapter discusses the centrality of competition in American political thought; the consequences of noncompetitive elections; and critiques of the market framework for electoral...
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The Liability of Public Administration: A Special Regime between Formal Requirements and Substantial Goals
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Fulvio Cortese
Published: 15 December 2020
..., as mentioned at the beginning of the section, liability lies first and foremost with public officials and civil servants 5 —the aggrieved parties litigate directly and exclusively against the authority (moreover, the administration is usually the only subject that is certainly solvent). With all...
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Public Authority Liability in Romania
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Roxana Vornicu
Published: 15 December 2020
... constitutional provisions on government liability jurisdiction administrative and ordinary courts liability of public authority and public officials rights and interests 10 Public Authority Liability in Romania Roxana Vornicu I. Is there any formal constitutional provision concerning public authority...
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Oath of Office
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Danny M. Adkison and Lisa McNair Palmer
Published: 17 September 2020
...The Oklahoma State Constitution. Danny M. Adkison and Lisa McNair Palmer, Oxford University Press (2020).
© Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/ oso/ 9780197514818.001.0001 This chapter highlights Article XV of the Oklahoma constitution, which sets out the oath of office taken by public officials...
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Miscellaneous
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Danny M. Adkison and Lisa McNair Palmer
Published: 17 September 2020
... of employees in factories, in mines, and on railroads. Section 10 focuses on the salary and emoluments of public officials. labor right to work child employment Civil Rights Act of 1964 convicts and labor employees Fair Labor Standards Act health and safety assumption of risk contributory negligence...
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The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America
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Gail Radford
Published online: 26 September 2013
Published in print: 15 June 2013
...In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers, they created a new class of quasi-public agencies...
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Fostering Accountability: Using Evidence to Guide and Improve Child Welfare Policy
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Mark F. Testa and John Poertner
Published online: 01 May 2010
Published in print: 08 January 2010
...Fostering Accountability presents a model of child welfare decision-making that holds public officials answerable for the integrity and validity of the actions they take on behalf of the children and families in their care. It operationalizes the concept of results-oriented...
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