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- Medvedev inauguration ceremony starts in Kremlin
- MOSCOW AFP — Dmitry Medvedev was being sworn in Wednesday as Russian president under the shadow of his powerful mentor Vladimir Putin and growing challenges to the country's oil boom from corruption and inflation. The inauguration of Russia's third president since the Soviet collapse was set to take place...
- Research articles 2008-05-06
- Like it or not, lobbying is a constitutional right
- WASHINGTON -- Everyone knows the First Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. How many remember that, in addition, the First Amendment protects a fifth freedom -- to lobby? Of course it doesn't use the word lobby. It calls it the right "to petition the Government...
- Research articles 2008-03-02
- Film is one big blast; THE KINGDOM DVDs
- WHEN suicide bombers target the Gulf Oasis West-, ern Housing Compound in Riyadh, resulting in the slaughter of dozens of men, women and , children, bureaucrat ic red tape prevents the immediate deploy ment of a team of crack FBI oper atives. Going behind the back of supercilious Attorney...
- Research articles 2008-01-25
- 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
- Vietnam's civil servants told to mind their manners
- HANOI AFP — Communist Vietnam's public servants have been told to improve their manners, stop shouting at people and refrain from cooking in government offices, state media reported Friday. Responding to public complaints about the rudeness of some stamp-wielding bureaucrats, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a new...
- Research articles 2007-09-07
- Russian mayor bans bureaucratic whining
- MOSCOW AFP — If you're a bureaucrat having a bad day in the Russian city of Megion, don't let the mayor hear about it. Mayor Alexander Kuzmin of the western Siberian city has banned local bureaucrats from whining in his presence, his press service said Saturday. The mayor...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Bureaucrat arrested for leaking Canada's environment plan
- OTTAWA AFP — Federal police arrested an Environment Canada employee Wednesday for leaking secret draft legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the country, authorities said in a statement. The bureaucrat was charged with breach of trust, but was not identified because the matter remains under investigation, Superintendent Stan...
- Research articles 2007-05-09
- India govt drops menstrual queries
- NEW DELHI AFP — The Indian government has decided to drop intrusive questions relating to the menstrual history of female bureaucrats in a new service review form after it caused a furore, a report said Thursday. "A decision to this effect has been taken considering the sensitivity of the...
- Research articles 2007-04-12
- Determinants of bureaucratic turnover intention: evidence from the department of the treasury.
- INTRODUCTION If the personnel function does a good job of selecting bureaucratic agents of the appropriate type, then conditions must not be created under which they will leave their jobs. The myth of low bureaucratic turnover, namely "the popular image ... of someone tenured...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- No small change
- There are a number of tactics local officials use to discourage journalists and the general public from requesting public documents they don't want us to see. This being Sunshine Week, a national media celebration of open government, we thought we'd focus on a few. There's the "playing-dumb ploy," in which...
- Research articles 2007-03-14
- Changing Colours At Bangalore's Aero India show, Rahul Sachitanand found commercial and fighter jet manufacturers falling over each other to snag a piece of India's defence and civilian markets.
- FEBRUARY 8, 2007 4 p.m.; Yelahanka Air Force BaseA day after an impressive inaugural flying display and winding speeches from politicians and bureaucrats, delegates at the sixth edition of Aero India have got down to business, huddling in air- conditioned chalets and talking shop over fresh cookies and bad coffee....
- Research articles 2007-03-11
- Macro managing
- Micro credit and other community-based projects play a role in alleviating poverty and suffering ("Tilting at Windmills," by Charles Peters, December 2006). They are not, however, long-term solutions. After a stint in the Peace Corps and more than forty years in Latin America and Africa, I would recommend the use...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Environmental politics and the bureaucracy.(Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment)(Book review)
- Richard Waterman, Amelia Rouse, and Robert Wright. 2004. Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. 165 pp. Although many models of bureaucratic politics have been propounded and tested, the principal-agent model enjoys exceptional popularity among scholars. In this volume,...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- New Japan PM vows to continue reform but investors wary
- TOKYO AFP — Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to take up the torch of reform from former premier Junichiro Koizumi, in a bid to calm investor worries that the economy is low on his agenda. Abe, a 52-year-old conservative, on Tuesday announced a relatively unknown team of...
- Research articles 2006-09-26
- Japan central banker renews apology for scandal
- TOKYO AFP — Japan's central bank chief Toshihiko Fukui has said he will return some 30 percent of his salary for the rest of the year as he expressed fresh remorse for a scandal-tainted investment. Fukui told reporters his judgment had been "too soft" in judgment in investing in...
- Research articles 2006-06-20
- Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the editor)
- Leaders splurging; our children will pay Since President George W. Bush took office in January 2001, the debt ceiling has been boosted four times. Over the past five years, the total increase in authorization to spend more than receipts exceeds $3 trillion....
- Research articles 2006-05-20
- The conditioning effects of policy salience and complexity on American political institutions.
- Political scientists and policy scholars have a love-hate relationship with policy typologies. On the one hand, typologies help condense a vast amount of information into discernible and distinct categories. If compiled correctly, these typologies might spawn research into a range of political and policy-related topics, such...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Fat cat pay board hides behind veil of secrecy.
- Byline: Graham Mason Apr 10, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Western Australia's Salaries & Allowances Tribunal has refused to answer questions on its decision to grant pay rises of up to 24 for senior bureaucrats. The tribunal's executive officer,...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- Problem; solution.(Up Front)(dealing with disloyal Republicans)(Brief article)
- The White House is increasingly concerned about Republicans breaking ranks-Arlen Specter and John Sununu in the Senate, New Mexico's Heather Wilson in the House, and various bureaucrats. Karl Rove, naturally, is a bit miffed at these people. But we hear he has come up with a...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Sweet-talking the fourth branch: the influence of interest group comments on federal agency rulemaking.
- Students of politics and public administration have scrutinized the responsiveness of the largely unelected bureaucracy to its many political constituencies for over a century. The vast majority of this work identifies the formal and informal powers that Congress and the president hold over the U.S. federal...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
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