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- Friends in High Places: Congressional Influence on the Bureaucracy in Chile
- ABSTRACT Chile presents a paradox for legislative studies. In most comparative research on the political power of presidents and assemblies in Latin America, the Chilean presidency is considered one of the most powerful in the region. The country's congress is seen, accordingly, as weak and lacking influence over public policy....
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- ENERGY : GERMAN AND FRENCH CHAMBERS CALL FOR COST-EFFICIENT ENERGY POLICY.
- The German DIHK and French ACFCI chambers of commerce and industry want EU decision makers to achieve greater cost efficiency in their climate and energy policy. At a conference in the European Parliament, on 7 April, the chambers presented a joint position paper criticising the bureaucracy...
- Research articles 2008-04-17
- Economic consequences of armaments production: institutional perspectives of J.K. Galbraith and T.B. Veblen
- Within the Institutionalist School, both the writings of John K. Galbraith (sometimes erroneously identified as a "real Keynesian") and Thorstein Veblen are of fundamental importance, although scarcely on a par (Parker 2005, 198; Stanfield 1996, 153-159). Both were prolific and popular writers, both were literary stylists, both held neoclassical economics...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Political control and bureaucratic autonomy revisited: a multi-institutional analysis of OSHA enforcement.(Author abstract)
- INTRODUCTION The proper role of bureaucracy in democratic governance has long been a matter of controversy. One part of the debate on this matter involves the normative and empirical argument that democratic control and bureaucratic autonomy are dichotomous opposites: if there is democratic...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- PetPAC Leads Fight to Oppose AB 1634, Mandatory Pet Sterilization Bill
- Author Levine Attempts to Revive Defeated Bill SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- PetPAC, a grassroots organization of pet owners, today announced opposition to California Assembly Bill 1634 following an announcement by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine that he will once again attempt to pass the mandatory pet sterilization measure in 2008. "AB...
- Research articles 2007-12-04
- The President's Speeches: Beyond Going Public.(Book review)
- The President's Speeches: Beyond Going Public. By Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 2006. 221 pp. It seems to be time to think more carefully about the theory of "going public." Theoretically, "going public" asserts that media-savvy presidents take their message to the...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Change? Don't even think about it.(WASHINGTON PULSE)(Brief article)
- At the Defense Information Systems Agency, it is not easy to even suggest minor changes to the status quo, laments DISA's chief, Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Croom. "I work in a bureaucracy of 15,000 folks--6,600 military and civilians, 8,000 contractors. Many have worked there for...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Tilting at windmills
- The trap Senator Carl Levin recently added his voice to those demanding the removal of Nouri al-Maliki as Iraq's prime minister. This worries me, because Levin is one of the most respected Democrats in the Senate, and he has set a trap for himself. If al-Maliki is replaced, Levin...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Procedural control of the bureaucracy, peer review, and epistemic drift.
- INTRODUCTION Administrative procedures may be used as instruments for the political control of the bureaucracy, preventing policies from drifting from the original intentions of an enacting coalition of legislators and interest groups through the independent action of bureaucrats (McCubbins, Noll, and Weingast 1987)....
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- World wide watchdogs
- The U.S. government is trying to tackle cyberrisk for its citizens and businesses. And if bureaucracy fails us, there's also the nonprofit Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. To access these resources, please visit us on the Web at www.riskandinsurance.com/story.jsp?storyId=22038053
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Mayor's aide writes insider tale of Katrina
- NEW ORLEANS -- After Hurricane Katrina inundated his city, as Mayor Ray Nagin surveyed what was already being called the nation's worst natural disaster, press secretary Sally Forman asked if he was OK, she writes in a new book on the man and the post-storm chaos. "This was...
- Research articles 2007-08-26
- Romney says Homeland Security Department is inefficient and should
- PELHAM, N.H. -- Republican hopeful Mitt Romney complained Wednesday that one of the Bush administration's chief domestic security accomplishments -- the Department of Homeland Security -- is inefficient and requires major restructuring. At a coffee-and-donuts meeting with about 100 supporters, Romney said the department does some things well,...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- New Book Details How the CIA Undermines U.S. Security
- Exclusive Interview With Sabotage Author Rowan Scarborough New Book Details How the CIA Undermines U.S. Security Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA By Rowan Scarborough Regnerv, 2007 $27.95, 229 pp. Available at HEBookService.com In his just-released book. Safanage: America's Enemies Within the ClA (Regnery, a HUMAN EVENTS sister company), veteran...
- Research articles 2007-07-23
- Jill Porter | Report just more of the same, or will this one bring change?
- HOW MANY TIMES does it need to be said?How often does a blue-ribbon panel have to reiterate the deficiencies of the city's child-welfare bureaucracy before systemic changes are made?The latest report of the dysfunction of the Department of Human Services, released yesterday, brings to 23 the number of reports about...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Bush Faces Revolt on No Child Left Behind
- Conservatives Offer Alternative to President's Education Plan Conservatives on Capitol Hill have openly rebelled against President Bush's signature education initiative. Last week, they unveiled legislation that would let states opt out of many requirements of No Child Left Behind in order to pursue alternative, performance-based education strategies. The...
- Research articles 2007-03-19
- Finding fairness in bureaucracy.(ECO-LOGIC)
- Progress is never a bargain--you have to pay for it. President Nixon signed legislation to form the Environmental Protection Agency EPA in 1970. Since then, this umbrella agency for legislative bodies has branched out in all directions to form state and local watchdogs on the environment....
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Outpatient Care Woes Reported at Walter Reed
- Army and Defense Department officials spent much oflast month looking for answers and fixes after a series of articles in The Washington Post detailed significant outpatient care problems at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The articles, which began Feb. 18, detailed dirty and pest-infested housing, a...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Cheney's dead-enders: Rumsfeld is gone, but the veep's other loyalists remain
- With the departure of his longtime friend Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton's resignation as U.N. ambassador, and Democrats taking over Congress, times seem grim for the Dick Cheney wing of the Bush administration. The vice president's vision of a "unitary executive"--otherwise known as the imperial presidency--will almost certainly be challenged by...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Europe grows out of US shadow.
- Byline: Although the general consensus seems to be in favour the US, Europe has a lot to offer as well America is the "land of the free and the home of the brave" while Europe, including Britain, is mired in socialism, and stultified by...
- Research articles 2006-12-18
- Tokyo's Own White House; Japan's prime minister is hoping to bolster his inner circle at the expense of the bureaucrats.
- Byline: Akiko Kashiwagi Just days after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test, sparking what some politicians in Japan called an unprecedented national-security crisis. But ironically, the predicament is also helping Japan's new leader in a...
- Research articles 2006-11-06
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