Sentences with phrase «local government studies»

Yoo, Taegun, The Korean Association for Local Government Studies, The Korean Journal of Local Government Studies 17 (4), 2014, 301 - 334

Ma, Eun Gyeong, Oh, Mi Ok, The Korean Association for Local Government Studies, The Korean Journal of Local Government Studies 18 (1), 2014, 147 - 168

Andrew Coulson (Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham) assesses whether the proposed Betts reforms to local authority oversight and scrutiny committees could do the same for local government.

Andrew Coulson is an Associate of the Institute of Local Government Studies at the University of Birmingham, with a special interest in political leadership and scrutiny in local government.

According to the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the African Automobile cars left to rot at the Institute of Local Government Studies even after the Judgment Debt Commission has concluded its work and some indicted officials by the Commission still holding public positions shows that the country has not put in enough effort and commitment in tackling corruption.

Not exact matches

When targeting a non-traditional market, Hogue's team gathers information from every branch of local government, and studies key competitors, the regulatory environment and tax rules.

Projects must be identified, cost - sharing with local governments negotiated, engineering studies conducted, budgets set and land acquired before a shovel ever strikes the dirt.

Secondary research involves gathering statistics, reports, studies, and other data from organizations such as government agencies, trade associations, and your local chamber of commerce.

The study's authors say they used the same methods researchers developed in a 2009 report titled «State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce,» compiled by business professors at the University of Tennessee.

Whether it is through study and work experiences abroad, learning more about Asia in the classroom, or even engaging with newcomers in our local communities, our government needs to help us be more proactive in stepping out of our comfort zones.

This report identifies the policy instruments at the disposal of local governments based on central government policy framework, and presents a few successful and replicable case studies and international experiences as reference for China's future development in promoting green bonds.

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is a public policy research institute that conducts studies and related projects on state and local government and finance, American federalism, public management, and New York StaGovernment is a public policy research institute that conducts studies and related projects on state and local government and finance, American federalism, public management, and New York Stagovernment and finance, American federalism, public management, and New York State issues.

Following the path beaten out by the Plain English Campaign (now in its 30th year) and their Golden Bull Awards, organisations such as the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestabiLocal Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestabilocal authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestability.

The agencies will study options for using facilities owned by state or local governments or the possibility of using privately - run sites.

In 2014, the city and county joined with six nonprofit groups to form a Commission on Local Government Modernization, or Consensus, a 19 - member panel that is studying ways to streamline local governLocal Government Modernization, or Consensus, a 19 - member panel that is studying ways to streamline local gGovernment Modernization, or Consensus, a 19 - member panel that is studying ways to streamline local governlocal governmentgovernment.

A recent study by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security finds that when such factors as education and work experience are accounted for, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector worLocal Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security finds that when such factors as education and work experience are accounted for, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector worlocal employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector workers.

E.g., in an opinion of a local expert (Emad Gad, an analyst at the Egypt government - funded Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies) was quoted as:

Bond has obtained government grants and crafted a special curriculum at his college to study multiple issues related to PFOA contamination, from its levels in local maple syrup to how far pollution plumes have spread around various factories in the region.

More than 80 local government leaders, mainly from municipalities who also would have to pay the higher electric rates, came to the Capitol to ask for a moratorium on the deal until there's more time to study the consequences.

Challenging a Clarkson University study that revealed proximity to lands classified as Wilderness generates up to a 25 percent premium on property values, the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board says the connection between Wilderness classification and economic benefit is far more nuanced.

Caroline Flint — born and currently lives in London, read American Literature and History combined with Film Studies at the University of East Anglia, spent 2 years in student politics, 8 years in local government and 3 years as a trade union researcher between University and Parliament

The Cuomo Administration report has angered business groups, who say the study is skewed, and does not look at impacts a two thirds wage hike would have on small business owners, small farms, and local governments and school districts.

As part of a response, Cuomo said he'd continue a «shared services» panel that compels local governments to study ways to make savings and earmark $ 225 million in state funds to match homegrown proposals.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, seen in Albany on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, said Monday that he'd continue a «shared services» panel that compels local governments to study ways to make savings.

In this first three research appointments and his PhD studies local government issues were the dominant interest, a theme which covered work on issues as diverse as the executive and scrutiny reforms; member allowances; the role (s) of local councillors; local elections; departmentalism; community appraisals; consultations; ward boundary changes; and history and structure.

This major study of more than 4,500 New Yorkers, funded by the Dyson Foundation and conducted by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, takes an in - depth look at the issue of local government consolidation on a statewide level and in nine regions — the Capital Region, the Adirondacks, Western New York, the Finger Lakes, Central New York, the Mid-Hudson Valley, the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island.

County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon said he and County Executive Joanie Mahoney have recommended to the agency that it hire a firm to study the potential cost in tax breaks for the hotel and the potential benefits local government would receive in return.

According to a 2006 study by the Local Government Education Committee, a municipal training organization, roughly 14 percent of voters statewide participated in school elections in May of 2006.

Alcantara, who studied Government and Political Science at Manhattan College and graduate work in Urban Affairs at Queens College, is already known on the local political scene.

Governor Cuomo has appointed a commission to study mandate relief and other methods to save local governments money, like consolidation.

Back in 1991, the well - respected and reform - minded local League of Women Voters studied term limits, and to the surprise of some good government types, rejected the idea.

A reform group studied votes taken by local governments across the state on whether to allow hydrofracking, and found numerous potential conflicts of interest that they say could have tainted the outcome of the votes.

Lib Dem local government spokesman Andrew Stunell said: «Ministers» failure to produce the evidence from the pilot studies is beginning to look like another dodgy dossier.

«Mark Boughton has shown remarkable leadership... as an advocate for the principles of limited government and economic growth at the state and local level,» said Connecticut Republican Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr. «When people ask me if Republicans can govern effectively at the local level, I tell them Danbury is a case study in effective governance, primarily because of Mayor Boughton.»

«Consider the situation where special assistants are given scholarships, training programmes and attachments meant for a ministry to study aboard instead of the serving officers in the civil and local government services.

A spokesman for Adams said it was too soon to say how much taxpayers would save, but the BP's office is working with local groups and government staffers to begin studying the impact on taxpayers, as well as the impact on the environment and on municipal transportation.

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After studying government at Colby College in Maine, she became a labor organizer herself, working alongside the Teamsters union and local political groups and eventually serving as a Democratic district leader until she was hired by the de Blasio administration in February of 2014.

In 2006, Kevin published a comprehensive study on the size and cost of local government in Western New York (www.TheCost.org).

«Look this kid was a walking case study of a person who should not have a gun, and the government, the feds, the locals, should have been all over him.

He said he had for the past four years relocated to his native community, Umuchu in Aguata Local Government Area to study the state preparatory to running for the governorship.

Spokesman of the opposition political parties in the state, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, while briefing newsmen in Kaduna said that after a critical study of Mallam Nasir Ahmed El - Rufai's activities and programmes as regard the local government elections in the state and SIECOM's activities directed by governor El - Rufai, it was very clear that the governor is not interested and willing to conduct local government poll within the period of his administration.

Gov. Mario Cuomo tapped Benjamin to be research director for a panel studying possible changes to the state constitution in the»90s; Spitzer later appointed him to a commission on local government reform.

«There's been a race to the bottom: IDAs give away taxpayer dollars to businesses that then have to be raised by local governments from other taxpayers, and the economic benefits are questionable,» said David Friedfel, CBC's state studies director.

The Consensus volunteers spent 18 months studying local government before issuing their preliminary report.

Challenging a study that ties Wilderness classification to a 25 percent increase in property values, the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board says the connection between classification and land value is far more nuanced more

Challenging a study that ties Wilderness classification to a 25 percent increase in property values, the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board says the connection between classification and land value is far more nuanced

More than 80 local government leaders, mainly from municipalities who would also have to pay the higher electric rates, came to the Capitol to ask for a moratorium on the deal until there's more time to study the consequences.

But local governments and green groups bitterly oppose the measure, citing concerns over reduced payments to their localities and school districts, a lack of comprehensive study and how the program might change under future administrations — all of which would lead to a larger tax burden for local taxpayers.

A recent study by The Pew Trusts data show that an average state receives about 2 percent of its revenue as transfers from local governments.