Keyword: politics

Found 206 papers in total
Prison privatization and public budgeting: A meta-analysis of the literature
2001,
Corrections is one of the largest growth industries of the 1990s. Correctional budgets...
Blackmailing the mayor: Using semi-formal state-based game theory methods to inform a security situation
2001,
Security situations, with their combination of personal threat, difficulties of...
Improving performance and accountability at the Forest Service: Overcoming the politics of the budgetary process and improving budget execution
2001,
Recent disclosure of systematic shortcomings in financial management and budget...
Chaos in Russian budgeting as a product of institutional design: The failure of unlinked dual-channel institutions
2001,
Chaos in the Russian federal budget process is largely a product of institutional...
Divide and conquer: Rohm and Haas' response to a changing specialty chemicals market
2000,
Rohm and Haas is caught between giant raw-material suppliers and powerful retailers at...
Adaptive policies, policy analysis, and policy-making
2001,
Public policies must be devised in spite of profound uncertainties about the future....
Indicator space configuration for early warning of violent political conflicts by genetic algorithms
2000,
Recognition of preconflict situations has a powerful potential for early warning of...
A survey of algorithms for calculating power indices of weighted majority games
2000,
For measuring an individual's voting power of a voting game, some power indices are...
Conditions to implement outcome-oriented performance budgeting: Some empirical evidence
1999,
This study discusses conditions for effectively implementing outcome-oriented...
How agency conditions facilitate and constrain performance-based program systems: A qualitative inquiry
1999,
This paper examines how administrators in two very different Florida state agencies...
Implementing Florida's performance and accountability act: A focus on program measurement and evaluation
1999,
The 1990s brought major budget and management reform to the State of Florida. Foremost...
The impact of tax increment financing programs on local economic development
1999,
The Tax Increment Financing (TIF) method has achieved widespread popularity as a...
You get what you pay for: Agency resources and local economic development policies
1999,
This paper examines the relationship between and the effects of resource allocation...
Long-run abstinence after narcotics abuse: What are the odds?
1998,
We consider the long-run odds that narcotics users remain abstinent after methadone...
An optimization based heuristic for political districting
1998,
Redistricting, the redrawing of congressional district boundaries within the states,...
Political districting: Traps, criteria, algorithms and tradeoffs
1997,
In modern democracies, political districting has often been flawed by manipulation...
The effect of public versus private decision environment on the use of the net present value investment criterion
1998,
Public and private sector managers make investment decisions under uncertainty....
Budgeting in Hungary during the democratic transition
1998,
The transition to democracy and a free market economy in Hungary and other Central...
In search of decentralization and deconcentration: Local autonomy and fiscal reform in Korea
1998,
Decentralization initiatives that focus mainly on electoral and political processes...
Public budgeting and financial management in Sub-Saharan Africa: A critical survey
1998,
The survey of Sub-Saharan countries shows that after nearly two decades of stagnation,...
Public expenditure management in Asian countries
1998,
Expenditure management practices in Asia shows that these vary from the...
Recent budgetary reforms in Singapore
1998,
The article examines recent reforms in the financial and resource management of...
Complex dynamics and control of arms race
1997,
The aim of this paper is to show that asymmetric, nonlinear armament strategies may...
Iranian government budgets: An analysis
1997,
The Iranian Constitution of 1979 greatly enhanced the role of the government in regard...
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