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Community Improvement Districts: Perspectives On Benefits, Costs, And Risk From Georgia Cid Executive Directors And Their Board Members, Andrew Ewoh, Kristin Rome

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

An Exploratory Analysis Of At-Will Employment In The State Of Georgia, Andrew Ewoh, Olayinka Tejuoso

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Environment For Public-Private Partnerships In Asia-Pacific: The 2011 Infrascope, Manisha Mirchandani, Vanesa Sanchez, Manoj Vohra, Michael Regan

Michael Regan

Preface This document comprises a summary and analysis of a benchmark index and learning tool that assesses the capacity of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to carry out sustainable publicprivate infrastructure partnerships, as of June 2011. The methodology is based on a similar study of Latin America and the Caribbean published in 2009 and 2010. The index was built by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The views and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the Economist Intelligence Unit and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the ADB. An Economist …

Corruption, Public Integrity And Globalization: A Comparative Analysis Of Trends In South-Eastern European Nations, Andrew Ewoh, Ani Matei

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Bugs For Sale: Legal And Ethical Proprieties Of The Market In Software Vulnerabilities, Taiwo Oriola

Taiwo Oriola

Software vulnerabilities are inherent errors or mistakes in software programming and designs, and arguably the weakest link in digital information architecture with high propensity for rendering information systems infrastructure susceptible to compromise and hacking. Given the increasing reliance of the global economy on digital platforms with concomitant imperatives for securing sensitive intelligence, business and personal data, the need for continual corrective patch of perennially recurring critical software bugs is at once urgent and sacrosanct. This has precipitated research and a thriving market in software vulnerabilities, an integral element of the burgeoning multi-million dollars information security industry that epitomizes the externalization …

Evaluation Of Masters Programs In Public Administration: A Comparative Study Of European Union And The United States, Andrew Ewoh, Lucica Matei

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

The Fall-Out From Emerging Technologies: On Matters Of Surveillance, Social Networks And Suicide, M.G. Michael, Katina Michael

Professor Katina Michael

No abstract provided.

Identifying And Responding To Africa's Security Challenges, Emmanuel Aning

Emmanuel Kwesi Aning

This chapter discusses a broad range of new and emerging security challenges that affect and impact the survival of Africa's constituent states. It seeks to (a) understand the dynamics and mechanics of the narcotics trade and the manner in which it impacts the content, particularly West Africa, which is now known as the "coke coast"; (2) identify and analyze the threat of cyber crime; and (3) examine the strategies for coping and responding to these challenges within the broader framework of initiatives undertaken by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union.

Guest View: Vote Of Confidence In Public Schools, Peter Dreier

Peter Dreier

No abstract provided.

Public-Private Partnership In Atlanta And Houston Metropolitan Areas Of The United States, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Progress Delayed: State Of Tobacco Control Policymaking In Oklahoma From 2005-2011, Michael S. Givel, Ami E. Stearns, Andrew L. Spivak

Michael S. Givel

• Oklahoma’s 1987 Smoking In Public Places Act required the inclusion of smoking sections in restaurants and pre-empted more stringent local anti-tobacco laws with state regulations. • With the 2001 arrival of an aggressive new Commissioner of Health, Dr. Leslie Beitsch, the tide turned with new legislation (Senate Joint Resolution 21 in 2003) that prohibited smoking inside public places and required restaurants to build separately-ventilated “smoking rooms.” • In 2004, State Question 713 increased the cigarette tax by 55 cents per package. • Dr. Beitsch resigned in 2003 and since that time, efforts toward clean air have stalled. Although restaurants …

Changes In The Labor Market, Vernon Briggs

Vernon M Briggs Jr

[Excerpt] The service-oriented economy has an undeservedly bad reputation. The notion of a service-oriented economy somehow conjures up an impression of a nation of "hamburger flippers." That's not where the growth in employment is coming in the service sector. In fact, the greatest increases in the service sector are coming in the professional and technical areas. Fully one-third of the growth in employment since 1972 has occurred in the professional-technical worker classification. Eighty percent of the managerial jobs in the United States are in the service sector. As a consequence, the changes require a better prepared labor force than we've …

Illegal Immigration And The Dilemma Of American Unions, Vernon Briggs

Vernon M Briggs Jr

[Excerpt] Over its long and often turbulent evolution, the American labor movement has confronted few issues as persistently and as difficult has those related to subject of immigration. By definition, immigration affects the size of the labor force at any given time as well as its geographical distribution and skill composition. These vital influences, in turn, affect national, regional and local labor market conditions. Most immigrants directly join the labor force upon entering the country, as do eventually most of their family members. Hence, organized labor never has ignored immigration trends. As Samuel Gompers, one of the founders of the …

United States Foreign Policy Responses To Africa's Transition Conflicts, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Responses To Programmatic Features Of States' Children's Health Insurance Programs, Carole Gresenz, S. Edgington, M. Laugesen, Jose Escarce

Carole Roan Gresenz

No abstract provided.

Tradeoffs Between Public And Private Insurance Under Recent Chip Expansions To Higher Income Children, Carole Gresenz, S. Edgington, M. Laugesen, Jose Escarce

Carole Roan Gresenz

No abstract provided.

Resource Control And The Rise Of Militia In The Nigerian Delta Region, Andrew Ewoh, Chux Ibekwe

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

The Economic And Administrative Consequences Of Hosting Worldwide Sporting Events, Greg Hill, Craig Shaul

Gregory C. Hill

No abstract provided.

Do Immigration Networks Of Connectivity Facilitate Illegal Immigration?, Kattalina Berriochoa, Gregory Hill

Gregory C. Hill

Illegal immigration is one of the most contentious policy issues facing the United States. This analysis seeks to address the factors that influence the persistence of immigration through illegal means and the effects of these immigrants in a receiving country. We posit the hypothesis that illegal immigration persists due to the increasingly connected networks between receiving and sending countries. We utilized a comprehensive overview of recent literature and interviews with undocumented immigrants to present an analysis of the individual incentives, social networks, and structural factors that amalgamate to generate the practice of illegal immigration. This paper will present illegal immigration …

The Four Pillars Of Disaster Resiliency, John Kiefer

John J. Kiefer

No abstract provided.

The Preemptive Effect Of The Judiciary On State Legislation, Elizabeth Stiles, Lauren Bowen

Elizabeth A. Stiles

We examine the interaction between state legislatures and courts of last resort to assess whether and where in the legislative process judicial ideology serves a preemptive function.

Much Ado About Nothing?: Undocumented Students And Student Performance, Greg Hill, Daniel Hawes

Gregory C. Hill

In 2009 alone, over 1500 bills relating to immigration were considered by all 50 states, resulting in over 350 new laws and resolutions. Indeed, immigration policy, and particularly illegal immigration, is a salient topic for state and local policy makers and those who are responsible for implementing public policy. Arguably, this increased salience in immigration policy is driven by at least two factor; 1) a failure to comprehensively address immigration policy at a national level and 2) political and media attention on anecdotal claims regarding the deleterious costs illegal immigrants have society. With respect to education policy, since 2005, 74 …

Nigeria Media Coverage Of The Niger Delta Crises And Agenda Setting, Andrew Ewoh, Onimi Wilcox

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Critical Infrastructure Mitigation, John Kiefer

John J. Kiefer

No abstract provided.

Using Servqual As A Management Tool In The Provision Of Welfare Services, Stephen Kelly, Karen Mcfadyen, Jennifer Harrison

Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly

No abstract provided.

Moral Hazards, Crisis, Bail Outs And E-Scads, Judy Johnston, Alexander Kouzmin, Kym Thorne, Stephen Kelly

Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly

No abstract provided.

Crisis Opportunism: Bailouts And E-Scads In The Gfc, Judy Johnston, Alexander Kouzmin, Kym Thorne, Stephen Kelly

Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly

As a response to the junk debt-inspired global economic crisis, governments, with supra-national organizational approval, have appropriated billions of taxpayers dollars for bailouts, have set up special funds and underwritten depositors savings in the desperate hope of alleviating the threat of rapid, economic decline and systemic destruction of value. Whether these governments have a democratic mandate for such unprecedented action is debatable. More importantly, though, is whether such decisions amount to good re-regulatory policy. First, it is known that some of the bailout money to large corporations has been squandered by oligarchic recipients and appropriated by them in their own …

Consumer Acceptance Of Hybrid Electric Passenger Vehicles In Australia, Martin Kunst, Stephen Kelly, Melanie Thomas

Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly

No abstract provided.

Student Activism And Curricular Change In Higher Education, Mikaila Arthur

Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur

While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understanding of what knowledge counts as legitimate and important. Therefore, understanding the college curriculum and how it is changed and shaped helps us to understand the overall dynamics of knowledge in contemporary society. This book considers the emergence of three curricular fields that have developed and spread over the past half century in American higher education - Women's studies, Asian American studies and Queer/LGBT studies. It details the broader history of their development as knowledge fields and then …

The Nonexistence Of Sustainability In International Maritime Shipping: Issues For Consideration, Chad J. Mcguire, Helen Perivier

Chad J McGuire