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Eskimo Housing Programmes, 1954-65: A Case Study Of Representative Bureaucracy, Patrick Gerald Nixon
Eskimo Housing Programmes, 1954-65: A Case Study Of Representative Bureaucracy, Patrick Gerald Nixon
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The concept of representative bureaucracy is used in this study to understand the reasons for the development of Eskimo housing programmes in Canada between 1954 and 1965 and to evaluate their effectiveness.;The study argues that, in the absence of the Canadian federal public service's taking an advocacy/representative position vis a vis Canada's Eskimo peoples, the historic government policy of doing little for northerners would likely have continued. Nevertheless, because public servants for various reasons failed to involve Eskimo people in the decision making which affected their lives, the legitimacy of a representative bureaucracy was challenged within the public service and …
Local Government And National Development: Fragmentation And Centralization In Lesotho, Sefora Thakane-Masia
Local Government And National Development: Fragmentation And Centralization In Lesotho, Sefora Thakane-Masia
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Development debates have been going on since the beginning of the 1960's. Development models have been proposed and tried in many developing countries, but it seems that in spite of all those efforts, rural people in such countries are experiencing less development and increased hardship. The current trend in the development literature is therefore laying emphasis on rural development. While the emphasis has changed, the methods have not. Governments, scholars and professionals make major decisions on rural development and expect the rural people to implement those decisions. Current studies are also directed toward solutions of rural development problems within an …
Jeremy Bentham On The Utility Of Religion And The Church Of England, James Edward Crimmins
Jeremy Bentham On The Utility Of Religion And The Church Of England, James Edward Crimmins
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The dissertation provides a comprehensive study of the neglected religious writings, published and unpublished, of Jeremy Bentham. The origin, character, and purpose of his thoughts on religion have been misunderstood by scholars in the past. The first five chapters are devoted to an interpretive account of the importance of the religious writings and how they are to be understood. The second chapter is a history of Bentham's emerging unbelief, his early disaffection with organised religion, and his subsequent systematic attack on religion in general in later life. In the third chapter the conventional interpretive accounts of the religious writings which …