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Author : Kathryn Furlong
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774831510

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Municipalities around the world face important water supply challenges. One response has been alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD is a way to have independence from municipal government without relinquishing control over the utility; for its detractors, it is privatization under another name. Yet the organizational barriers offered by ASD are at best leaky. Deeply interdependent, both water management and municipal governance must be strengthened to meet contemporary water supply needs. Leaky Governance explores ASD’s relation to neoliberalization, water supply, and local governance. Using Ontario as a case study, Kathryn Furlong paints a complex picture of both ASD and municipal government. She examines organizational models for water supply and how they are affected by shifting governance and institutional environments. Leaky Governance addresses increasingly pressing environmental, political, and social issues surrounding water supply and their relationship to urban governance and economics, as well as to broader issues in public policy.

Author : Mark Fenster
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1503602672

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Is the government too secret or not secret enough? Why is there simultaneously too much government secrecy and a seemingly endless procession of government leaks? The Transparency Fix asserts that we incorrectly assume that government information can be controlled. The same impulse that drives transparency movements also drives secrecy advocates. They all hold the mistaken belief that government information can either be released or kept secure on command. The Transparency Fix argues for a reformation in our assumptions about secrecy and transparency. The world did not end because Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and Edward Snowden released classified information. But nor was there a significant political change. "Transparency" has become a buzzword, while secrecy is anathema. Using a variety of real-life examples to examine how government information actually flows, Mark Fenster describes how the legal regime's tenuous control over state information belies both the promise and peril of transparency. He challenges us to confront the implausibility of controlling government information and shows us how the contemporary obsession surrounding transparency and secrecy cannot radically change a state that is defined by so much more than information.

Author : Elie Abel
Publisher : Twentieth Century Foundation
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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The press has often been called the handmaiden of government. Certainly that was the case when journalists who covered government operations, whether at the federal, state, or local level, dutifully reported what they received by way of news releases or statements from government spokesmen. Though the press today is the handmaiden of the government, the official reporting of statements have turned into the unofficial and anonymous leaks from the government. For the most part, such leaks are useful. They do add to the understanding of the government by the public and consequently tends to lead to more accountability. However, there have also been long problems with the media and leaks . As some politicians and insiders use the media as an instrument to gain favor or start exaggerated mud slinging, the press does not much care about the motives of its sources, only if it is news. In Leaking: Who Does It? Who Benefits? At What Cost? veteran journalist and author, Elie Able, considers what can be done about the leaks and leakers. It is his view that nothing can or should be done to muzzle leakers but that the press might consider taking voluntary action to be somewhat more responsible in making clear the motives of those who leak. His paper is useful and informative and wise on leaking, recognizing both the value and the limitations of leaks.

Author : Elie Abel
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1987-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870782190

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The press has often been called the handmaiden of government. Certainly that was the case when journalists who covered government operations, whether at the federal, state, or local level, dutifully reported what they received by way of news releases or statements from government spokesmen. Though the press today is the handmaiden of the government, the official reporting of statements have turned into the unofficial and anonymous " leaks" from the government. For the most part, such leaks are useful. They do add to the understanding of the government by the public and consequently tends to lead to more accountability. However, there have also been long problems with the media and " leaks" . As some politicians and insiders use the media as an instrument to gain favor or start exaggerated mud slinging, the press does not much care about the motives of its sources, only if it is news. In Leaking: Who Does It? Who Benefits? At What Cost? veteran journalist and author, Elie Able, considers what can be done about the leaks and leakers. It is his view that nothing can or should be done to muzzle leakers but that the press might consider taking voluntary action to be somewhat more responsible in making clear the motives of those who leak. His paper is useful and informative and wise on leaking, recognizing both the value and the limitations of leaks.

Author : Kaushik Basu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319656848

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This book considers how emerging economies around the world face the challenge of building good institutions and effective governance, since so much of economic development depends on having these in place. The promotion of shared prosperity and the battle against poverty require interventions to reach out to the poor and the disadvantaged. Yet time and again we have seen such effort foild or diminished by corruption and leakage. The creation of good governance and institutions and structures to combat corruption require determination and passion but also intricate design rooted in data, analysis, and research. In this book, leading researchers from around the world bring to the table some of the best available ideas to help create better governance structures, design laws for corruption control, and nurture good institutions.

Author : Glenn D. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134217730

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Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes chapters on global governance, local policy-making, democracy, environmental governance, the Japanese financial system, corruption, the family and corporate governance.

Author : Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315486199

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This book explores the foundation of European management philosophy at a dramatic moment in European history: the Cold War has ended; Western capitalism has triumphed over communism. The book reflects on the role of business and management that has emerged in Western capitalism and it searches for the roots of moral philosophy and the philosophies of management derived from the history of economic thought. It traces such ideas from the late 18th century works, Quesnay and Smith, down through the 19th century to the present. The closing chapter of the book sets out ten principles for tight management in a socio-economic doctrine of ideal enterprise and good management.

Author : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2014-04-09
Category :
ISBN : 9290907835

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The theme of the seminar was groundwater governance with due consideration to health aspects as polluted groundwater is suspected to have contributed to some diseases prevailing in the areas where groundwater is widely used for drinking.

Author : Melvin J. Dubnick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1317477863

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Public accountability is a hallmark of modern democratic governance and the foundation of the popular performance management movement. Democracy is just an empty exercise if those in power cannot be held accountable in public for their acts and omissions, for their decisions, their policies, and their expenditures. This book offers a finely detailed and richly informed consideration of accountability in both government and the contemporary world of governance. Twenty-five leading experts cover varying aspects of the accountability movement, including multiple and competing accountabilities, measuring accountability, accountability and democratic legitimacy, and accountability and information technology, and apply them to governments, quasi-governments, non-government organizations, governance organizations, and voluntary organizations. Together they provide the most comprehensive consideration of accountability currently available, with a blend of theoretical, empirical, and applied approaches.