... service they provide, they will try to expand both the size of their operation andthe funds spent on it—but they have to make tradeoffs between the two objectives Whenever they expand their size, they ... receive the majority support from A, B and C Similarly, the road will pass with the support of A, C, and E, andthe school will pass Chapter 16 Public Choice: Politics in Governmentandthe Workplace ... instance, that the Republican candidate chooses position R, but the Democrat remains at D1 The Republican will take all the votes to the left of R and roughly half the votes between R and D1 She...
... evidence from mainly government publications that described and advertised the e -government projects Other governmentand non -government publications critically reviewing aspects of the projects, such ... hold the gun; the gun is another object because it has entered into a relationship with you The gun is no longer the gun-in -the- armory or the gun-inthe-drawer or the gun-in -the- pocket, but the ... e -government project, the reasons for its initiation, the process of implementation, how the project and its purpose changed, andthe effect it had on government administrators, citizens and other...
... variety of approaches They examine the structure of the press; the methods used to control it by political authorities and their effectiveness; the journalistic texts themselves; andthe political role ... within thepublic sphere, however defined They investigate who owned the papers, who wrote for them, how they were distributed and who read them, and attempt to assess how far audience composition and ... texts, their presentation and format, the topics they covered, the way issues were presented andthe messages, overt and implicit, that they contained Such a comprehensive approach to the comparative...
... conservative propaganda, and with the break up of the radical associations andthe consequent erosion of the links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... in the more pressing conflicts of the age The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil of the 1790s andthe broader hegemonic shift towards the meritocratic bias of the ... borrowed from thepublic stock of art and science, they repaid with interest, by the pleasure and instruction which they afford mankind’ (1 (1812): 358–9) Far from equating literature – the public...
... order In the following sections I will argue the need for further theoretical and empirical investigation to better understand the tensions between professions, the state andthepublicandthe dynamics ... citizens, they had to provide and expand the markets for professionalised work From the perspective of the public, these services offered by the professions beCAMe a gauge for the success of the aims ... a theoretical framework to highlight the transformability of professionalism and to assess the changing relationships between professions, the state andthepublic in the wake of new demands and...
... Professions andthepublic interest Do professions subordinate their own self-interests to thepublic interest? In Professions andthePublic Interest Mike Saks develops a theoretical and methodological ... where the Council of the Law Society has for long endorsed the general view that the legal profession is for the protection and advantage of the wider public (Council of the Law Society 1974) The ... at this stage, in the face of the decline of the landed gentry andthe diversification of demand for services amongst the ascendant commercial and industrial classes, that the professions were...
... (b) The courts in the constitution: judicial review and judicial law-making (c) Judicial independence andthe position of the Lord Chancellor (d) The courts and Parliament (e) Parliament andthe ... statutes and legal works but from a variety of official and unofficial publications and from the writings of political scientists, parliamentarians and other commentators on the constitution andthe practice ... outside the strict limits of the law of the constitution The law student has much to learn from writers and practitioners in politics, governmentandpublic administration, just as students of these...
... commercial and policy) contexts (see Hwang and Jarvie 2003 on China, sport and post-colonialism) Business refers to the role of the media, especially TV andthe new media, in expanding the coverage ... outmoded and riddled with hypocrisy Team distribution was based on the sport’s history andthe urban and economic structure and thus concentrated on two zones: the industrial northeast andthe Mediterranean ... and nothing There is a need to distinguish between different dimensions of globalisation – political, economic and cultural – and consider the relative significance of each to the other and their...
... utility when they send their child to university andthe right hand side the utility when they not The household with a child of ability am will be called the marginal household The marginal ... benefit from the university and those who send their children to the university The left hand side of (2.37) is average marginal social welfare from the former group, andthe right hand side of ... raising the average human capital of the others Therefore, there is a possible complementarity relationship between the low ability workers andthe high skilled workers In his model, the expenditure...
... of public health on the premise that public health is more properly accountable to politics and economics and so falls outside the domain of law The tensions between private andpublic law, and ... treatment is Eg, Mumford, L, The City in History, 1961, Harmondsworth: Penguin Eg, the work of Plato and Aristotle on theorising the citizen andthepublic domain; Plato, The Republic, Lee, D (trans), ... within the political and economic framework of thegovernment in power, and within the capacity of public health services Modern governments across the world are grappling with identification of public...
... scarcer, andthe price of the product will be higher to compensate the producers for the risk of violating the law; andthe more strict the prohibition and penalties, the scarcer the product andthe ... original factors, andthe money transferred from their hands to thegovernmentThe income of thegovernment and/ or those it subsidizes has been increased at the expense of those taxed, and therefore ... remained the same), one money became overvalued andthe other undervalued by thegovernment Thus, suppose that a country used gold and silver as money, andthegovernment set the ratio between them...
... related to climate change and require states and localities to report the findings to thepublicand federal government I The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention andthe National Institutes ... FEDERAL GOVERNMENTThe federal government has the unique ability to set priorities and bring together state and local governments, the private sector, and communities to work towards solutions The ... including the Obama administration, the U.S Congress, and federal departments and state and local governments take the following actions: I The White House should ensure that the existing...
... Diagnosing the Roller Coaster 10 The Income Gap The Consumption Gap The Housing Crisis Investment and Profit The Credit B alloon andthe Financial Crisis Government Spending and Taxes The Trade ... changed the structure of finance and made it very fragile These changes and their effect on thebusiness cycle are spelled out in Chapter Thus, the focus of this book is thebusiness cycle and its ... changes that have occurred in the economy and how these have changed thebusiness cycle From the early 970s to the present, the gap between total employee in come and total business profits has increased...
... by the usurpers and their government In his History of England, Macaulay (1914, 2438-39) vividly described the close connection between the government, the Crown, andthe Bank of England in the ... favorable terms and thereby solved the problem of thegovernment' s poor credit 30 The History of the Modern International Monetary System And as the leading creditor of the government, the bank was ... banking-Scotland in the eighteenth andthe first half of the nineteenth centuries, the United States before the Civil War, and Canada (Scherer and Clark 1984) and Australia in the nineteenth and early...
... companies most of their businessand make most of their profits in the developed world, and because their emerging-market business is smaller in absolute terms (and perhaps they understand it less), ... impossibly pressured by the contradictions in overall policy On the one hand they were being told to increase growth (and short-term returns); on the other hand they were being refused the resources to ... Set high standards and benchmark against the best Successful companies frequently ask themselves what ideal they are aiming at in emerging markets They set criteria and then see what they can learn...
... owns the gas company; and another is a butcher) The Sell−Out Effect 32 Governmentandthe Economy on the Amazon Frontier The Decision to "Abandon Land." Does the evidence of abandoned land support ... "Sustainability" andthe Role of Government on the Frontier 42 Governmentandthe Economy on the Amazon Frontier Roads policy can either raise of lower the price of land Intensification of the road network ... be resisted by both the elite andthe poor as limiting their economic options "Sustainability" andthe Role of Government on the Frontier 44 Governmentandthe Economy on the Amazon Frontier...