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- Citizenship entitlements beyond borders? Identifying mechanisms of access and redress for affected publics in international environmental law
- I argue that although international law is state centric in nature, there is a growing body of international environmental law that allows at least some input from public actors in implementing key substantive and procedural obligations. The evolution of these environmental entitlements is linked to the global diffusion of democratic...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Possible future architectures of global governance: a transnational perspective/prospective
- Several (normative-analytic) images of future global governance architectures are identified. If realized, any of these images would indeed be preferable to the current world disorder, as they all fulfill certain core progressive values. Hence, a synthetic transnational perspective on world dynamics over the twentieth century and its implications for understanding...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- State income tax jurisdiction: a jurisprudential and policy perspective
- INTRODUCTION One of the most contentious issues in state taxation is the reach of the states' jurisdiction to tax net income. The failure to resolve this issue is a leading cause of the recent dramatic decline in state corporate income tax revenues. (1) Familiar forces of change are at...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- The Concept Of The State In Australian Industrial Relations Theory
- Australians are said to have a characteristic talent for bureaucracy; yet they have paid little scholarly attention to the state. The state and its personnel have been an accepted part of the political landscape, examined from time to time by curious...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
- Cities Get Creative with Cost-Cutting Strategies
- All over America, city officials are looking high and low for ways to save and fill in budget gaps.
- Videos 2009-05-20
- The Lost Culture of Saving
- Social scientist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead discusses the institutions and forces that conspire against saving, and how we can change them. According to Whitehead, shortsighted government policy and a financial system based on greed turned Americans away from thrift… Even before it was fashionable, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead was proselytizing about the...
- Articles 2009-03-05
- The Battle Over Internet Taxation Makes Its Way Back to Washington
- "The seeds of the dispute over taxation of Internet transactions go back to laws and policies that long predate e-commerce. The biggest concern of the states has always been their inability to force remote sellers to collect state sales and use taxes on the sale of taxable items to customers...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Roundup -- States Scramble for Tax Revenue
- Many states are facing declining revenue due to the economic downturn. Incomes are falling and people are buying less limiting income and sales tax revenue. Real estate taxes are falling as well as home values decline. States are looking at making up these losses in a variety...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Obama's EPA Could Greenlight 40-Plus MPG Standard in Calif.
- The Obama Administration is looking favorably at a California proposal to regulate greenhouse gases for autos. If it passes, a dozen states could mandate cars that get more than 40 mpg. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Selected Policy Options for Strengthening Employer-Based Health Insurance in Washington State
- Employment is the mainstay of the health insurance system. States are looking at ways to bolster the employer-based system in order to expand health insurance coverage - or at least keep it from eroding. This paper looks at four general strategies to support employer-based health insurance: subsidies to employees; subsidies...
- White papers 2002-05-14
- Offshore Outsourcing - The Ongoing Political Debate
- From the executive summary: ‘Offshore outsourcing is booming these days. IT firms are getting coding and other work done in outside countries. This signifies cost savings but at the same time raises the issue of survival of the domestic workforce. The States are losing immediate revenue to offshore workers and...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Stimulus Spending Preserves Jobs Rather Than Creating Them
- The $787 billion U.S. stimulus package is proving to be more of a job-preservation than a job-creation measure -- at least in the early going. Initial tallies of the aid package's employment impact are coming in and the main beneficiary so far: public-school teachers spared layoff notices. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
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- States Need Bigger Role in Halting Predatory Lending
- On January 7, 2004, the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency quietly staged a coup against the U.S. states. The move poked a gaping hole in the laws shielding consumers from predatory banking practices, and also coincided with a historic boom in subprime lending. Now we're paying the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- 2006 in Review: Top 10 Stories.(California approves legislation aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions)(United States Supreme Court tackles climate change case )(United States Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. rejects plans for reforming New So
- Byline: @@Text: 1. States fill the void on GHG 1. States fill the void on GHG States began taking action on their own to address greenhouse gas emissions in 2006, citing a lack of federal leadership on...
- Research articles 2006-12-18
- A.M. Best Comments on Under Review Status of Cotton States Insurance Group
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- In January 2004, A.M. Best Co. revised the implications of the under review status of Cotton States Insurance Group to positive from negative. The Group is comprised of Cotton States Mutual Insurance Company Cotton States Mutual, Shield Insurance Company Shield Insurance and Cotton States Life Insurance Company...
- Research articles 2004-07-07
- The States And The Federal Government On Spending
- One of the old saws in U.S. politics is that the states are the incubators of ideas that then move to the national level after being adopted by the Federal Government. This has certainly been true in many policy ideas and practices. California is a perfect example with...
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- Congress, States Have the Authority To Regulate, Enforce Fuel Temperature
- Weights and measures regulations have been mainly the responsibility of the states since the United States was founded. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal agency, offers technical assistance to the states but doesn't have any enWeights and measures regulations have been mainly the responsibility of the states...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- HHS Awards $2.5 Million to Five States to Enable More Disabled Persons to Work
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced $2.5 million in grants to five states to help people with disabilities in those states to become and stay competitively employed. Each of the states -- Indiana, MarylanWASHINGTON, Feb. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G....
- Research articles 2003-02-24
- States lobby Congress for federal funds: with so much money at stake, states have offices in the nation's capitol to make sure they get a fair share when Congress sets spending priorities. (intergovernmental affairs)
- Thirty-four states operate lobbying offices in Washington, D.C., to fight for their share of federal dollars and push the govemor's agenda in the halls of Congress. The states' Washington, D.C., representatives, known as state "directors" say states are beggars on Capitol Hill even though congressional delegations are supposed...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- KILL BW0387, CA-AMER-STATES-WATER and KILL BW0437, CQN-CA-AMER-STATES-WATER
- Please KILL BW0387, (CA-AMER-STATES-WATER) American States Water Company Announces Third Quarter 1999 Results and Regular Quarterly Dividends, which ran on Business Wire at 1 p.m. ET on 10/26/1999. Also KILL the CORRECTION, BW0437, (CQN-CA-AMER-STATES-WATER) American States Water Corrects Payment and Record Dates for Regular Quarterly...
- Research articles 1999-10-26
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