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McLaughlin, Andrew Martin. "Governing the motor industry : analysing public policy and government-industry relations." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288717.
Full textPark, Hanna. "The association between the public's perceptions of government's crisis communications and government-public relationships." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0025115.
Full textBoateng, Joseph. "Complementarity in Politics-Administration Relationship: Interpersonal Trust Between Political Appointees and Career Public Managers in State Government." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1399993559.
Full textLong, Robert Arni. "Mayors and Chief Administrative Officers Relationships: Aspects of Functional Relationships." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1569323833668306.
Full textCasey, Joseph. "LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PERFORMANCE AND COST IN COLLECTIVE AND NON-COLLCTIVE BARGAINING WORKFORCES." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3247.
Full textGarcia, Ricardo S. "The benefits and risks that mentors experience from participating in mentoring relationships in the federal sector." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/861383.
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Humphrey, Bryan, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "Insider Research, the Process and Practice: Issues arising from professionals conducting research within their own working environments." Deakin University. School of Education, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040614.122119.
Full textCherns, Jack Jacob. "Government and public information in the political system : a study of formation and systemic relationships, with particular reference to the Israeli political system, and appropriate comparison with the United Kingdom." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1986. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/3233/.
Full textAl, Dhabbah Muna. "The Seven Public-Government Relationship Typlogies: Apply CRM in United Arab Emirates (UAE) Government." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81091.
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McClusky, Beverley. "Investigating the relationships between education and culture for female students in tertiary settings in the UAE." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1974.
Full textKana, Gudveig Kartveit. "Resilience in children experiencing voluntary parental absence." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1167.
Full textAlghanim, Waleed. "Relationship and cloud factors affecting government confidence in the public cloud." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/14279.
Full textDe, Costa Ravindra Noel John, and decosta@mcmaster ca. "New relationships, old certainties : Australia's reconciliation and treaty-making in British Colombia." Swinburne University of Technology, 2002. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050627.092937.
Full textMiles, Mary Alice, and n/a. "A critical analysis of the relationships between nursing, medicine and the government in New Zealand 1984-2001." University of Otago. Faculty of Education, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20061024.145605.
Full textRhee, Yunna. "The employee-public-organization chain in relationship management a case study of a government organization /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1423.
Full textThesis research directed by: Communication. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
Houlihan, B. M. J. "The relationship between central and local government in the policy area of public sector housing." Thesis, University of Salford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372126.
Full textPitman, Grant Alan, and n/a. "Police Minister and Commissioner Relationships." Griffith University. School of Public Policy, 1998. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030228.140953.
Full textFerraro, Andrea Marie. "Exploring An Alternative Public Relations Framework for the Public Sector." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1429033839.
Full textAlmamari, Mohammed R. H. "The Role of Organisational Culture in Digital Government Implementation. Exploring the Relationship between Public Sector Organisational Culture and the Implementation of Digital Government in Oman." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15709.
Full textTeles, Fazendeiro Bernardo. "Uzbekistan's self-reliance 1991-2010 : public politics and the impact of roles in shaping bilateral relationships." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3966.
Full textLaurie, Emma Jane. "The enduring appeal of #reasonable preference' : public sector housing allocations within the context of the central local government relationship." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270686.
Full textRichter, Paul. "The public services' customer as talk, text and technology : a constructionist study of customer relationship management in English local government." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3007.
Full textSidloyi, Sizwe C. "Transformation of the Public Service under Fiscal and Constitutional Constraints: An Analysis of the Relationship between Human Resource Development and Representativeness." University of the Western Cape, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7763.
Full textThe essence of the study is to examine progress in the transformation of public service under fiscal and constitutional contraints. The thesis focuses on the implementation of affirmative action and human resource development programmes. The emphasis is on linking the transformation of the public service with the attainment of RDP goals and objectives. The reform of the public service should create opportunities for the employment of new staff to improve the representativeness of the civil service, whilst at the same time increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of government, and generating significant savings to help reduce the fiscal deficit and release resource for productive investment.
Emadi, Mohammad H. "Pastoralists, participation and policy : an action oriented, systemic and participatory approach to improve the relationships between pastoralist nomads, government and natural resources in Iran /." View thesis View thesis View thesis, 1995. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030530.122653/index.html.
Full textPnD thesis, School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1995. Bibliography : leaves 324-337.
Anderson, Leigh R. "An Assessment of Intergovernmental Relationships between Native American Tribes, the States, and the Federal Government in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Policy." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1399292073.
Full textMoore, Katie Dyretha. "Knowledge Sharing and Customer Relations in Mobility." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7168.
Full textCuster, Samantha J. "Does openness enhance public trust| A cross-country assessment of the relationship between openness of budgeting processes and perceptions of government corruption." Thesis, Georgetown University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1536223.
Full textIn the last two decades, openness of public budgeting processes garnered the attention of governments, non-governmental organizations and donors, evidenced by a proliferation of budget transparency and accountability initiatives worldwide (McGee & Gaventa, 2010; De Renzio & Angemi, 2012). Designed to facilitate productive citizen-government interaction around resource allocation, open budgeting initiatives should contribute to strengthening public trust in political institutions (Sayogo & Harrison, 2012; Hakhverdian & Mayne, 2012). Using corruption perceptions as a measure of public trust, this study analyzes the relationship between the openness evident in the budgeting processes of 70 countries and corruption perceptions over a five-year period, 2006-2010. As a traditionally obtuse, closed process, public resource allocation and expenditure is an arena particularly ripe for "wealth-maximizing" civil servants to engage in corruption (Spada, 2009; Rose-Ackerman, 2004). Open budgeting processes that improve citizen awareness of, and provide opportunities for their participation in, government budgeting processes should theoretically improve, not only the incidence of actual corruption, but also citizens' perceptions regarding the level of corruption within their government (Anderson & Tverdova, 2003; Martinez-Moyano et al., 2007). It was hypothesized that citizens in countries with greater transparency, consultation and public monitoring in their budgeting processes perceive lower levels of corruption and higher levels of government anti-corruption effectiveness. OLS and fixed effects regressions found suggestive evidence to support the contention that consultation and openness were positively associated with perceived anti-corruption effectiveness. In contrast, once confounding factors were controlled for, there was no clear evidence to support the contention that openness, either as a composite or its three sub-components, was negatively correlated with perceived government corruption. Furthermore, the results imply that the cumulative effect of the components of transparency, consultation and monitoring may have a stronger impact on perceptions of anti-corruption effectiveness and government corruption than they do as stand-alone activities.
Alves, Mariana Teixeira Pereira. "CzRM nas autarquias : o futuro da relação com os cidadãos." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/23558.
Full textO uso de ferramentas de Customer Relationship Management (CRM) permite o armazenamento de informação dos clientes e assim personalizar os processos tornando-os mais céleres, eficazes e eficientes. Na presente investigação pretende-se analisar a introdução desta abordagem nas Entidades Públicas, principais prestadoras de serviços aos Cidadãos, usando o conceito Citizen Relationship Management (CzRM) e assim melhorar o relacionamento com os Cidadãos. O Estudo de Caso foi realizado na Câmara Municipal de Braga, onde foram feitas 2 entrevistas e inquiridos 122 Munícipes. Conclui-se que o CzRM é reconhecido pela autarquia como algo benéfico onde apesar dos pontos de melhoria apontados o executivo compromete-se a melhorar a relação estabelecida com os Munícipes através de revisões frequentes dos processos de interação de forma a garantir que o Cidadão é o elemento central das atividades realizadas permitindo desta forma que os Bracarenses estejam satisfeitos e que a interação com a Câmara seja mais rápida e facilitada.
The use of CRM tools allows the storage of customer information and thus customizes the processes making them more faster, more effective and more efficient. In this research the author intends to analyze the introduction of this approach in Public Entities, the main providers of services to Citizens, using the CzRM concept and thus improve the relationship with them. The Case Study was carried out in the City Hall of Braga, where 2 interviews were done and 122 citizens were interviewed. It was concluded that the Municipality recognizes the benefits of CzRM where, despite the points of improvement pointed, the executive is committed to improve the relationship established with the citizens through frequent reviews of the interaction processes in order to guarantee that the Citizen is the central element of the activities carried out, thus allowing them to be satisfied and the interaction with the Municipality to be faster and easier.
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Chen, Xiaodong. "The role of public sector in economic performance : theoretical analyses of the effect of fiscal policies on long-run growth with a self-interested government & empirical study of the economic relationship between the government and non-government sectors in China." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/72731/.
Full textHahn, Yih-Tsu. "GOVERNMENT-NONPROFIT RELATIONSHIP AFTER WELFARE REFORM— AN ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS." online version, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=case1184284350.
Full textPeterson, Timothy John. "The Relationship Between a Private Voluntary Organization and the Government of a Developing Country in the Delivery of Public Education: A Case Study in Rural Guatemala." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1375.
Full textEdwards, Jesse. "Our Government is Perpetuating the Tobacco Crisis: An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Tobacco Industry and the Government." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1287.
Full textAdanri, Adebayo A. "The Relationship Between Nigerian Local Government Administrative Leadership Styles and Organization Outcomes." Thesis, Walden University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10134346.
Full textDespite the multitude of existing studies of leadership and organizational outcome, there are few empirical studies of these phenomena in Africa. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine the relationship between Nigerian local government administrative leadership and organizational outcome and between perceived leadership effectiveness and transformational leadership factors, based on Bass’s full range leadership theory (FRLT). Data were collected through the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaires administered to a randomly selected sample of 240 department heads in 30 local governments in Osun State, Nigeria. Regression result shows a statistically significant correlation between the local public administrators’ leadership practices and organizational outcome (p < 0.05), but the model only accounted for 10.5% of variance in organizational outcome, suggesting other influential factors on the local government outcome other than leadership. Regression results also showed a significant relationship between local public administrators’ leadership effectiveness and transformational leadership factors (p < 0.05). The model accounted for 28% of the variance in leadership effectiveness, suggesting other factors affecting the public administrators’ leadership effectiveness. The implications for positive social change include the opportunity to move the Nigerian local administrators’ leadership practices towards more effective and ethical leadership as explained by the spectrum of FRLT, through training and transformational leadership development programs. In turn, transformational leadership and organizational practices may discourage corruption and help build a sustainable local government institution that is responsive and accountable to the Nigerian public.
Bennett, Josephine. "Marketing public art : public art, urban cultural policy and the role of relationship marketing." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2000.
Find full textChe, Mat Che Rosmawati Binti. "The effect of innovation and dynamics capabilities on the relationship between Malaysian SMEs' business network and firm performance." Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15964.
Full textDemeyère, Caroline. "Gouvernance publique et collaboration gouvernements-associations dans l’action publique : approche ethnographique des dynamiques relationnelles dans le champ des politiques d’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes (1981-2020)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA100068.
Full textThis thesis proposes to study the collaboration between governments and non-profit organizations in policy-making, conceived as a process in which existing intersectoral relationships are transformed by the actors' practices and their interactions. A neo-institutionalist theoretical framework, focusing on the concepts of Strategic Action Field, institutional work and interactions, is used to articulate the micro-level of collaborative practices with collaboration emerging at a meso-level, and with public governance at a macro-level. The adopted methodology is an organizational ethnography, with a 3-year immersion in a field bringing together public and non-profit actors around gender equality public policy making in a French region. The doctoral student has used a double academic and non-profit position to observe relational dynamics between governmental and non-profit actors. She has held administrative responsibilities and has volunteered in a professional equality training association. She was also a member of an open collaboration structure between the State and the Social and Solidarity Economy actors whose aim is to promote equality between women and men through and in associative life. The study combines a retrospective longitudinal perspective by tracing the evolution of government-association relations from the first regional public policies in 1981 with a study of government-association collaboration as an ongoing process between 2016 and 2020. Three results are exposed. First, there is a diversity of associative and governmental strategies adopted with regards to collaboration, explained by the positions of actors within the fields and the organizational impacts of collaboration. A typology of these strategies is proposed. Secondly, the governance of collaboration is doubly embedded in a hierarchical and a market logic, which raises difficulties and paradoxes for the actors. Their work to articulate collaboration with preexisting logics in their institutional environment is described. Thirdly, the advent of a collaborative paradigm of public action separate from New Public Management appears to be conditioned by the transformation of public actors’ role, responsibilities and working methods, of intersectoral relationships management tools, and of public policies funding. The construction of a collaborative public management ethic should focus on valuing and preserving the diversity and differences of associative partners and on the redefinition of the consensus/conflict dialectic
McCall, Sarah. "Water systems, water policy, and Karst terrain: An analysis of the complex relationships between geology, economy, public perceptions, and policy in southern Trelawny, Jamaica." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5585/.
Full textStewart, Derek George. "Changes in the tri-partite relationship between central government, local government and civil society and its implications for the geography of the city : the effects of developments in public education management on school catchments in the Glasgow division of the former Strathclyde region 1990-96." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298686.
Full textNdude, Peace-maker Mqokeleli. "An evaluation of the coordination of selected decentralised provincial services in the province of the Eastern Cape and its relationship with similar municipal services." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/158.
Full textWu, Wei-Ning. "Determinants of Citizens’ 311 Use Behaviors: 311 Citizen-initiated Contact, Contact Channel Choice, and Frequent Use." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801912/.
Full textGerber, Johannes Abraham. "A golden midway for a divided society? : the South African land reform project and its relationship with the rule of law and transformation." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49821.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa's history led to an unequal distribution in land ownership, which is not conducive to democratic consolidation. Land refortn is the means to address this problem. However, land reform, part of the larger process of transformation, is a potentially dangerous process: it can have negative implications on the rule of law. The objective of this study is to provide an analysis of the dynamic relationship between land reform, the rule of law and transformation in South Africa, within the debate on democratic consolidation. One can distinguish two paradigms regarding democracy: the liberal paradigm and the liberationist paradigm. These two paradigms have divergent views on the way land reform and transformation should be implemented, and what the goal of these two processes is. The liberal paradigm would seem to be more favourable for democratic consolidation, while the liberationist paradigm is a breeding ground for populist transformation. Furthermore, the negotiated constitutional settlement has left land reform with an ambiguity. On the one hand the constitution forces the govemment to address land reform, but on the other hand it firmly entrenches the private property rights by enforcing the 'willing buyer, willing seller' principle, which makes the process more costly and time consuming. The main hypothesis of this study is: Demographic indicators (race, party affiliation and provincial setting) influence support or rejection of the land reform policies of the South African govemment. Tbe dependent variable is 'support or rejection of the government's land reform policies'. Support for the govemment's land reform policies is indicative of the liberal paradigm and rejection of the govemment's policies is indicative of the liberationist paradigm. It is found that the majority of South Africans reject the govemment's land reform policies. However, strong divisions are evident. Respondents differ along racial, party affiliation and provincial lines. Thus, the liberationist paradigm dominates, but the liberal paradigm has a strong presence, creating an ideologically divided society. This means that the legitimacy of South Africa's land reform project, as well as the legitimacy of the constitution, is under stress. This does not bode well for democratic consolidation, as the rule of law is under severe threat. Thus, one can conclude that land reform is not going to make a positive contribution to the consolidation of South Africa's democracy, if a substantial financial injection is not found to increase the efficiency of the process.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrika se geskiedenis het aanleiding gegee tot 'n ongelyke verspreiding van grondeienaarskap. Dit is nie gunstig vir demokratiese konsolidasie nie. Grondhervorming IS die mamer waarmee die probleem aangespreek kan word. Grondhervorming, deel van die groter proses van transformasie, is egter 'n potensieel gevaarlike proses: dit kan negatiewe implikasies vir regsoewereiniteit hê. Die doel van hierdie tesis is om 'n analise van die dinamiese wisselwerking tussen grondhervorming, regsoewereiniteit en transformasie te verskaf, binne die debat oor demokratiese konsolidasie. Daar kan aangaande demokrasie tussen twee paradigmas onderskei word: die liberale paradigma en die bevrydings (liberationist) paradigma. Hierdie twee paradigmas het teenstrydige perspektiewe oor die manier waarop grondhervorming, sowel as transformasie, geïmplementeer behoort te word, sowel as wat die doel van hierdie twee prosesse is. Die liberale paradigma is meer geskik vir demokratiese konsolidasie, terwyl die bevrydings paradigma 'n teelaarde vir populistiese transformasie is. Verder het die onderhandelde grondwetlike skikking grondhervorming in 'n teenstrydigheid geplaas. Aan die een kant vereis die grondwet dat die regering grondhervorming moet aanspreek, maar aan die anderkant bied dit 'n ferm onderskraging van private eiedomsreg deur op die 'gewillige koper, gewillige verkoper' beginsel aan te dring. Dit maak die grondhervormings proses langer en duurder. Die hoof hipotese van die studie is: Demografiese indikatore (ras, partyaffiliasie en provinsie) beïnvloed ondersteuning of verwerpmg van die regering se grondhervormingsbeleid. Die afhanklike veranderlike IS 'ondersteuning of verwerping van die regering se grondhervormingsbeleid '. Ondersteuning van die regering se grondhervormingsbeleid dui op die liberale paradigma, en die verwerping daarvan dui op die bevrydings paradigma. Daar word bevind dat die meerderheid Suid-Afrikaners die regenng se Respondente verskil volgens ras, partyaffiliasie en provinsie. Dus, die bevrydings paradigma domineer, maar die liberale paradigma het ook 'n sterk teenwoordigheid. Dit sorg vir 'n ideologies verdeelde samelewing. Dit beteken dat die legitimiteit van Suid-Afrika se grondhervormings projek, sowel as die legitimiteit van die grondwet, in gedrang is. Dit is nie 'n goeie teken vir demokratiese konsolidasie nie, aangesien dit regsoewereiniteit in die gedrang bring. Daarom kan daar tot die gevolg gekom word dat grondhervorming nie 'n positiewe bydrae ten opsigte van die konsolidasie van Suid-Afrikaanse demokrasie sal maak nie, tensy daar 'n beduidende finansiële inspuiting gevind kan word.
Sarver, Joseph Michael. "The Status of Food Safety in China: A Systems Analysis." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397600140.
Full textBell, Clement. "The relationship between conscientiousness, extraversion and leadership effectiveness among local government managers in Bisho and East London." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007116.
Full textVan, Zyl Hester Nicolette. "An examination of the relationship between public opinion and public policy in South Africa : the case of abortion." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53262.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: A democratic political system grants unimpaired opportunities for all citizens to have their preferences weighted equally in the conduct of government regardless of content or source. However, governments in democratic political systems frequently disregard public preference. But all governments, not only popular governments, are dependent on the 'will of the people' if the system is to remain viable. This study investigates the relationship between public opinion and public policy in South Africa, using the 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act as case study, as it provides a practical example to illustrate this complex relationship. The study used a longitudinal approach to investigate shifts in public opinion over a period of five years, using secondary survey analysis. Attitudes towards abortion are cross-tabulated by demographic variables, religion, interest in politics and democratic norms. The study found that the most significant shifts in public opinion occurred within demographic groups previously discriminated against by the 1975 Abortion and Sterilisation Act. In 1994 South Africa emerged from a lengthy anti-apartheid struggle and human rights were of paramount importance to many South Africans. The restrictive abortion legislation of 1975 was vestige of discriminative apartheid legislation and was not in line with South Africa's exemplary 1996 Constitution. Consequently, progressive abortion legislation was ratified, amidst significant public indifference, in order to promote equal citizenship of women. It is argued that abortion constitutes a basic democratic right, in the context of reproductive health rights, and although South African citizens predominantly support a democratic political system, few made the ideological connection with abortion as a democratic right. Therefore, the study infers that the South African electorate is ill informed of the ideological norms surrounding democracy. The significance of this study is that it investigated abortion not as a legal or moral issue, but as a politicised issue in South Africa. The African National Congress (ANC) was strongly committed to advancing progressive abortion legislation in South Africa. The ANC elected to vote on a party platform on the proposed abortion bill. When a majority party, which holds 252 seats of 400 in the National Assembly, elects to vote as a block on proposed legislation, it is likely that the legislation will be passed into law. This conduct of the ANC raises fears that South Africa is a de facto one-party dominant state, where free and fair elections are held, but no rotation in office occurs. Both the 1994 and 1999 elections led to landslide victories for the ANC, and they are assured that the 2003 elections will yield the same result. It is extremely damaging to any democratic system when competition but no contestation occurs. Therefore, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between state and party interests. The study concludes that in the case of progressive abortion legislation in South Africa, the people did not rule. It is the view of this study that the enactment of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act did not represent democratic conduct. It illustrates that the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act was, by implication, "bulldozed" into law by the ANC.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n Demokratiese politieke stelsel vergun gelyke geleenthede aan elke burger sodat hul voorkeure gelyk opgeweeg word in die optrede van 'n regering, ongeag die bron of konteks daarvan. Nogtans minag regerings gereeld openbare voorkeur. Nie slegs populêre regerings nie, maar alle regerings is afhanklik van volkswil, as slegs dan die stelsel lewensvatbaar sal bly. Hierdie studie ondersoek die verhouding tussen openbare mening en openbare beleid in Suid-Afrika. Die Wet op Keuse oor Beëindiging van Swangerskap van 1996 word gebruik, omdat dit 'n praktiese gevallestudie bied om hierdie komplekse verhouding te illustreer. Die studie maak gebruik van 'n langsdeursnee aanslag om die verandering van openbare mening oor vyf jaar te ondersoek en maak gebruik van sekondêre meningsopname vraelys analiese. Lewenshoudings oor aborsie is kruis getabuleer met demografiese veranderlikes, geloof, intriseerdheid in politiek en demokratiese grondregte. Daar is gevind dat die mees aanduidende veranderinge in openbare menings te vinde was in demografiese groepe waarteen gediskrimineer was deur die Wet op Vrugafdrywing en Sterilisasie van 1975. Suid-Afrika het in 1994 uit 'n wydlopende anti-apartheid stryd getree en mense-regte was van oorwegende belang vir die meeste Suid-Afrikaners. Die 1975 Wet op Vrugafdrywing en Sterilisasie was 'n bewys van diskriminerende apartheid wetgewing en was nie in lyn met Suid-Afrika se nuwe Grondwet nie. Dus is progressiewe aborsie wetgewing bekragtig, om vroue in Suid-Afrika gelyke burgerskap te gee, te midde van deurslaggewende openbare ontevredenheid. Die studie veronderstel dat aborsie 'n grondreg van demokrasie vorm, binne die konteks van reproduktiewe gesondheids-regte. Alhoewel Suid-Afrikaners 'n demokratiese politieke stelsel steun, het weinig die konneksie tussen aborsie en demokratiese ideologiese grondregte gemaak. Die studie maak dus die gevolgtrekking dat Suid-Afrikaners swak ingelig is in verband met die ideologiese grondregte van demokrasie. Die inhoudsbelang van hierdie studie is dat aborsie ondersoek word as 'n politieke vraagstuk en nie as morele of wetregtige vraagstuk nie. Die African National Congress (ANC) was sterk verbind tot die totstandbringing van progresiewe aborsie wetgewing in Suid-Afrika en het besluit om op 'n party-platform te stem in Parlement aangaande voorgestelde progressiewe aborsie wetgewing. Wanneer 'n meerderheidsparty, wat 252 setels van 400 in die parlement beslaan, besluit om as 'n blok te stem oor voorgestelde wetgewing, dit redelik seker is dat dié wetgewing bekragtig sal word. Hierdie gedrag van die ANC gee aanleiding tot vrese dat Suid Afrika 'n de facto een party dominante staat is, waar vry en regverdige verkiesings voorkom, maar geen afwisseling in ampstermyn nie. Dit is skadelik vir enige demokratiese stelsel wanneer kompetisie maar geen betwisting paasvind nie. Gevolglik word dit al hoe moeiliker om te onderskei tussen party-en staatsbelange. Die studie sluit af dat die publiek nie regeer het in hierdie geval nie. Dit is die siening van hierdie studie dat die bekragtiging van die Wet op Keuse oor die Beëindiging van Swangerskap van 1996 nie goeie demokratiese optrede weerspieël het nie en dat dit, by implikasie, deur die ANC deur middel van intimidasie bekragtig is.
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Full textHow does the Swedish Police use relationship building tactics on Instagram? I’ve been able to determine how these tactics are being used practically by examining how the Police engages, interacts, and handles critique on this specific social media platform. All posts and comments posted published to the Police’s account during a selected timeframe have been examined through the lens of previous research and theoretical perspectives. As I began processing this material, a conflict emerged as a result of the Police’s use of the aforementioned tactics used to build relationships with the public. This conflict was determined to be the result of athe tension emerging when a government agency is required to adapt its communication afterto the media logiclogics of social media platforms. This tension was also discussed from the viewpoint of a government perspective. The theoretical results presented in the conclusion of thise thesis highlights the challenges that has facesd a government agency the which choses to Swedish Police as it adapts itsadapt its external communications afterto the media logic. I will also account for the relationship building tactics that has been used by the Police on Instagram.
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Full textRose, J., J. S. Persson, L. T. Heeager, and Zahir Irani. "Managing e-Government: value positions and relationships." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/11320.
Full textPublic sector managers take much of the responsibility for selecting, commissioning, implementing and realising benefits from information technology (IT) projects. However, e-Government initiatives often suffer from complexity, vision failure, lack of goal clarity and insufficient commitment. These problems may stem from value traditions that are deeply ingrained in managers’ cultural environments but not always in harmony with each other. A first step towards working with value complexity is to understand it; we synthesise a model of value positions for e-Government derived from major traditions in the public administration literature. Four value positions relevant to e-Government together with their IT assumptions are identified; they reflect the ideals of professionalism, efficiency, service and engagement. A qualitative investigation of Danish local authority managers displays both value congruence and value divergence. The interpretive study results in a theoretical model that combines value positions and relationships, and the model’s implications for researchers and practitioners in focusing successful e-Government initiatives are outlined.
Lin, Yi-Shan, and 林宜珊. "A Study on Relationships between Public Servants’ Emotional Labor and Organizational Commitment of Taichung City Government." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/873k6n.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the current situation and the correlation between organizational commitments and the emotional labor of public servants who occupy a position of level eight or below in a first tier organ in Taichung City Government. The study also aims to discuss the difference between emotional labor and organizational commitment under different personal backgrounds, and put forward relevant suggestions on personnel administration for the executives after the research. Major discoveries of this research are: 1. Public servants of the first tier organ in Taichung City Government consider their service etiquette to be good. 2. The degree of emotional control of public servants of the first tier organ in Taichung City Government is high. 3. It is difficult to balance organizational management and employees’ feelings; emotional labor presents paradoxes. 4. Public servants of the first tier organ in Taichung City Government have low intentions of retaining their posts. 5. Servants with different attributes have differences in emotional labor and organizational commitment. 6. Emotional labor of public functionaries of the first tier organ in Taichung City Government and organizational commitment has a positive correlation. According to the research, it is expected that executives of government organs adopt the following suggestions: use properly the personal assistance program and related training courses provided by the Taichung City government, set up full-time professional counseling positions, establish empathic services that include familial care and initiative actions, these three methods will be applied to reduce the pressure of employees on controlling their emotions at work. In addition, it is suggested that they build a caring and amicable environment, as well as an impartial promotion pathway to explore the functionaries’ potentials effectively, increase their organizational commitment by means of promotion, or others, and furthermore, improve the service etiquette of functionaries by raising their organizational commitment.