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Questioning Public Sector Accountability, Bryane Michael

Bryane Michael (bryane.michael@stcatz.ox.ac.uk)

The rise of accountability seems to unambiguously promote more responsible, effective and participatory public sector action. However, the benefits of accountability are less ambiguous than they appear. Activities aimed at increasing accountability generally proliferate as they gain importance – making monitoring an end in itself at both the national and international levels. While there are economic and institutional explanations for the rise of accountability, these fail to explain the political nature of the rise of accountability. Such politics may include negotiations over power, organisational boundaries, image, social value or moral values. If such negotiations imply that some of the value …

Towards University Library Support For Cyber-Education, Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr

Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr

This paper discusses the need for university libraries in Nigeria to support cyber-education or cyberscience. There is the move from the traditional print-based system to the automated system of library services. Most recently, the birth of digital environments has led to the introduction of virtual libraries and online services which enhance the output of libraries andmeet the demands of users in places where they have been adopted. This paper encourages the support of cyber-science or cyber-education in Nigerian university libraries as a way to meet the changing needs of university communities. It highlights the transitions from the old to the …

El Surgimiento De Un Poder Judicial Efectivo En México: Gobierno Dividido Y Toma De Decisiones En La Suprema Corte De Justicia, 1994-2002, Julio Ríos-Figueroa

Julio Ríos-Figueroa

No abstract provided.

Town Of Viola Comprehensive Plan, Troy D. Mix

Troy D Mix

No abstract provided.

Public Goods, Merit Goods, And The Relation Between Private And Government Consumption, Riccardo Fiorito, Tryphon Kollintzas

riccardo fiorito

We investigate the relation between public and private consumption by constructing a general government spending data set by function for 12 European countries. In particular, we split government consumption in two categories. The first category ("public goods") includes defence, public order and justice. The second category ("merit goods") includes health, education and other services that are available in the market. GMM estimates of a dynamic panel show that public goods substitute while merit goods complement private consumption. Since merit goods share is bigger, the aggregate relation between private and government consumption turns out to be positive.

Conditional Correlations In The Returns On Oil Companies Stock Prices And Their Determinants, Massimo Giovannini, Margherita Grasso, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera

Matteo Manera

The identification of the forces that drive stock returns and the dynamics of their associated volatilities is a major concern in empirical economics and finance. This analysis is particularly relevant for determining optimal hedging strategies based on whether shocks to the volatilities of returns of oil companies stock prices, relevant stock market indexes and oil spot and futures prices are high or low, and positively or negatively correlated. This paper investigates the correlations of volatilities in the stock price returns and their determinants for the most important integrated oil companies, namely Bp (BP), Chevron-Texaco (CVX), Eni (ENI), Exxon-Mobil (XOM), Royal …

Effect Of Different Thyroid States On Mitochondrial Porin Synthesis And Hexokinase Activity In Developing Rabbit Brain., Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Divisão De Assistência Judiciária Da Faculdade De Direito Da Ufmg: Ações Para Mais Cidadania, Rafael De Oliveira Alves, Danilo Castro, Délia Carvalho, Edílson Lima, Júlio Zini

Rafael de Oliveira Alves

No abstract provided.

“Will The New Second Generation Experience ‘Downward Assimilation’? Segmented Assimilation Re-Assessed”, Roger D. Waldinger, Cynthia Feliciano

Roger D Waldinger

Research on the “new second generation” in the United States has been deeply influenced by the hypothesis of “segmented assimilation,” which contends that the children of immigrants are at risk of downward mobility into a “new rainbow underclass.” This paper seeks to assess that assertion, focusing on the experience of Mexicans, the overwhelmingly largest of today's second generation groups, and a population of predominantly working- or lower-class origins. The empirical component of this paper rests on analysis of a combined sample of the 1996-2001 Current Population Survey.

Between The Black And Red Light, Savad Rahman

savad rahman

Between the Black & the Red Light http://www.boloji.com/society/074.htm Original in Malayalam: Chillumedayilirunn Kalleriyoo by Savad Rahman Translated in English by Sony V. Mathew

Mumbai is truly one of a kind. You might have been residing here for a decade or more but still you can�t be absolutely certain of your way. Andheri, Dadar, Navi Mumbai� the longer you travel the more you get confused. Such is the traffic and human convergence associated with this great city that, it could take hours to move from one point to another. But Kamathipura has always been an exception, in more ways than one. …

Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: Can Rico Protect Human Rights? A Computer Analysis Of A Semi-Determinate Legal Question, Eric A. Engle

Eric A. Engle

Uses AI to model RICO racketeering law to examine an uncertain area of law: Whether RICO gives a private right to damages for extraterritorial wrongs.

The Torture Victim's Protection Act, The Alien Tort Claims Act, And Foucault's Archaeology Of Knowledge, Eric A. Engle

Eric A. Engle

Outilnes the procedural obstacles to Alien Tort Statute Claims and discusses how to surmount them. Relates ATS to Foucaults power-knowledge and power-body discourses.

Yankee Go Home: Tales Of A Northerner Educated In The South, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.

Moseley, W.G. "Environmental Degradation And ‘Poor’ Smallholders In The West African Sudano-Sahel: Global Discourses And Local Realities, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

This chapter explores the 'poverty-induced environmental degradation' thesis in the West African Sudano-Sahel and the extent to which it may be considered an environmental development narrative. It examines: (1) the key elements of this discourse; (2) the degree by which this thesis has been internalized by policy makers in Mali; (3) whether there is empirical evidence to support the notion of poverty-induced environmental degradation in Mali's smallholder cotton zone; and (4) the alternative explanations for environmental degradation in southern Mali (e.g., unsustainable cotton production) and the reasons why these causal factors have been less prominent in environment-development discourse.

African Environment And Development: An Introduction, William G. Moseley, B. I. Logan

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.

Beyond Eurocentrism: The Frankfurt School And Whiteness Theory, Clay Steinman

Clay Steinman, Retired

No abstract provided.

What Makes Good Web-Based Instruction?, Carol Tenopir, Beverly Simmons

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Journal And Digital Database Pricing: Threat Or Opportunity, Carol Tenopir, Donald King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Do Maternal Concerns At Delivery Predict Parenting Stress During Infancy?, Terri Combs-Orme, Daphne S. Cain, Elizabeth E. Wilson

Terri Combs-Orme

Objective: In a previous study,we found that newmothers could andwould express concerns about their parenting, including concerns about maltreatment and poor care. In this study,we examine the utility of early maternal concerns for predicting parenting stress in the first year. Parenting stress is important because it has been shown to be related to maltreatment and poor parent-child relationships.

Method: A sample of 246 mothers were interviewed shortly after delivery in a publicly funded hospital about their parenting concerns, and 93% were reinterviewed in their homes about their parenting when the infants were 6 to 12 months old. Standardized measures with …

Use Of Electronic Science Journals In The Undergraduate Curriculum: An Observational Study, Carol Tenopir, Peiling Wang, Richard Pollard, Yan Zhang, Beverly Simmons

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Interpreting Workplace Learning In Terms Of Discourse And Community Of Practice, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

Based on the ethnographic data collected from the workplace of an academic library, I argue that workplace learning (WL) is a situated socio-cognitive process. It is expedited by knowledge management (KM), which is a collective effort to generate, share, and institutionalize work-related knowledge. KM is inherent in the face-to-face conversational interactions embedded in planned formal training, planned informal sharing, and spontaneous informal learning. When face-to-face interaction is not possible, KM is accomplished through textualization. It helps the members of the workplace acquire new work-related knowledge and integrate it to their common, contextualized knowledge base. The contents of the knowledge base …

Economic Measurements And Quality Of Life In Mexico, Constantine P. Danopoulos

Constantine P. Danopoulos

Using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), the article seeks to evaluate the quality of life in modern Mexico. The GPI employs the same indicators used to arrive at per capita GDP, but adds positive and negative monetary and non-monetary actors that affect people's lives. Monetary factors include income distribution, increased health care cost due to air and water pollution, and loss of wetlands. Non-monetary factors involve parenting, time spent in highways, loss of leisure time, the cost of volunteer work, and other social costs. If one takes these into account, the purchasing power and quality of life of Mexican citizens …

Microfinance And Third World Development: A Critical Analysis, Elahi Khandakar, Constantine P. Danopoulos

Constantine P. Danopoulos

Microfinance is emerging as an integral part of the new development paradigm, described by the phrase "participation and development. "Although the idea has become quite popular among donor agencies, development practitioners, and academicians, theoretical premises on which this idea is founded seem entirely unexamined. Accordingly, this article investigates the academic merits, as well as potential consequences, of this popular poverty alleviating model from the supply-side perspective and asks a provocative question: Do the microfinance ventures have features which suggest that the establishment of this new finance industry in the Third World countries might further complicate their pervasive poverty problems? The …