Accountability and Transparency in Local Government BY BILL BOGAARD Left to Right: Bell’s Mayor Pro Tem Ana Maria Quintana‚ Mayor Violeta Alvarez‚ Council Member Nestor Enrique Valencia‚ Council Member Ali Saleh and Council Member Alicia Romero prepare to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremonies for La Campana‚ the city’s first-ever fixed-route bus service. Bill Bogaard is mayor of the City of Pasadena and immediate past president of the League. He can be reached at bbogaard@cityofpasadena
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The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) (Malay : Unit Pemodenan Tadbiran dan Perancangan Pengurusan Malaysia) is one of the prominent (MAMPU Portal‚ Malaysia )government agencies in Malaysia‚ that is responsible for ’modernizing and reforming’ the public sector. Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) is one of the few central agencies in Malaysia‚ responsible for ‘modernizing and reformizing’ the public sector in the areas
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What is Political economy? * No widespread agreement of what; but understood in three ways- those who see PE as an interaction of existing disciplines‚ those who see it as a set of questions‚ and those who see it as a method of analysis: Interaction of existing disciplines: * Starting point is that as capitalism develops politics and econ becoming increasingly interdependent. * Not only interdependence of domestic pol and national econ but also international pol and global econ
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Philippine Political Parties‚ Electoral System and Political Reform The most important characteristic of Philippine political parties is that they are parties of the elite. In some senses‚ parties anywhere in the world are elite formations whether one defines elite in functional terms as those who lead or in sociological terms as those who hold economic and political power. But many parties at least attempt to organize regularized support from a broader segment of the population. These efforts
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A Long Awaited Rule: Political Parties in Mexico and the Downfall of the PRI On July 2‚ 2000‚ Mexico held elections for presidential office. By July 3‚ 2000‚ the Industrial Revolutionary Party (PRI)‚ the party that had ruled Mexico for over seventy years admitted defeat and conceded their power to the National Action Party‚ also known as the PAN.1 Although the PAN had existed since 1939‚ their capacity to win elections was little due to the popularity of the PRI‚ their grip on power‚ and the
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POLITICAL SCIENCE‚ academic discipline‚ the focus of which is the systematic study of government in the largest sense‚ encompassing the origins of political regimes; their structures‚ functions‚ and institutions; all the ways in which governments discover and deal with socioeconomic problems—from dog licensing to diplomacy; and the interactions of groups and individuals that play a part in establishing‚ maintaining‚ and changing governments. Nature of the Discipline. Political science usually
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In its contemporary meaning‚ political economy refers to different‚ but related‚ approaches to studying economic and related behaviours‚ ranging from the combination of economics with other fields to the use of different‚ fundamental assumptions that challenge earlier economic assumptions: Political economy most commonly refers to interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics‚ sociology‚ and political science in explaining how political institutions‚ the political environment‚ and the economic
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Can governments regulate political speech of corporations through restrictions on independent corporate expenditures? Over the course of the past twenty years‚ the U.S. Supreme Court constantly increased constitutional protection of corporate speech under the First Amendment and repeatedly struck down regulations on commercial speech as violating the First Amendment. Although the Supreme Court recently held statutory restrictions on corporate expenditures for electioneering communications to violate
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A business has many external influences that can affect its overall mission and functions. Such influences may be political‚ global‚ economic‚ legal‚ media‚ medical‚ and nature in itself. These influences may include government departments‚ regulators‚ competitors‚ and trade bodies making it important to identify these at an early stage (Norwich Union‚ 2005). Because these external influences affect a business ’ mission critical process‚ it is evident there is an influence on the business continuity
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time to time. Broken down‚ political culture is the shared beliefs and core values of the human population about how government should operate. For example‚ American political culture is the value of personal liberty‚ equality‚ popular consent and majority rule‚ popular sovereignty‚ civil society‚ and individualism. These six characteristics of the U.S. democracy are the basic concepts that were written into the Constitution. As stated by Dennis Kavanagh‚ political culture is‚ “a shorthand expression
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