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Describes events leading to the signing of a trilateral framework agreement by the Sumo Indians of the Atlantic coast region, a foreign-owned timber company, and the government of Nicaragua, with the help of the World Wildlife Fund.

This article shows how and why interactions among sociological, statistical, and public policy issues fuel the current debate about the quality control systems of three family assistance programs: Food Stamps, AFDC (Aid to Families With Dependent Children), and Medicaid. These interactions will be seen to be driven by social policies that in turn will impinge on issues of estimation, measurement error, detection of outliers, and the implied cost share sanctioning of states by the federal government. The authors' conclusions are related to, and extend, the results of a National Academy of Sciences study of methods for improving the current quality control systems.

Other pamphlets on socialism bound with this. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The present volume is the outcome of a course of lectures on the Municipalities of the Roman Empire, originally delivered in the University of London, as part of a scheme for the 'higher teaching' of students. The lectures, with some changes, were given afterwards to American audiences, first as 'Lowell lectures' in Boston, then in the Columbia University, New York."--Pref. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The present volume is the outcome of a course of lectures on the Municipalities of the Roman Empire, originally delivered in the University of London, as part of a scheme for the 'higher teaching' of students. The lectures, with some changes, were given afterwards to American audiences, first as 'Lowell lectures' in Boston, then in the Columbia University, New York."--Pref. ; Photocopy ; Mode of access: Internet.

From first beginnings -- Res angustae domûs -- From pillar to post -- The philosophy of a people -- People and religion -- People at work -- People and politics -- People at play -- Nature and man. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it. A series of new, original frameworks are introduced, including the PROSeS framework which can be used by academics and practitioners around the world to evaluate electoral management quality. A networked governance approach is also introduced to understand the full range of collaborative actors involved in delivering elections, including civil society and the international community. Finally, the book evaluates some of the policy instruments used to improve the integrity of elections, including voter registration reform, training and the funding of elections. Extensive mixed methods are used throughout including thematic analysis of interviews, ethnography, comparative historical analysis; and, cross-national and national surveys of electoral officials. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested and involved in electoral integrity and elections, and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, international relations and democracy studies"--

After a review of the rival approaches that are used to evaluate public sector
performance in general, five dimensions of EMB performance are set out which
are argued to be crucial for achieving democratic ideals in an electoral democracy.
The aim is to set out these dimensions, and the sources of data that can be
used by researchers to assess whether they are achieved. The UK and Canada
are then assessed against the framework so that the utility of the model becomes
clear. The concepts and framework also act as founding principles for the remainder
of the book.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan Presidential election, the country
entered into a political, economic and humanitarian crisis. Post-election violence
erupted leading to estimates of over 1,000 people being killed by police, criminal
gangs and militia groups, and 660,000 displacements, as opponents of President Mwai
Kibaki alleged electoral manipulation (CBS News 2008; Kenny 2019). Tensions
were deeply rooted in Kenya's political history.

The oversight of consumer product safety is a complex system involving many federal agencies. The United States Government Accountability Office identified eight agencies that have direct oversight responsibilities for consumer product safety: the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Department of Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, and the U.S. Coast Guard (within the Department of Homelan