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Governmental financial resilience under austerity in Austria,England and Italy: How do local governments cope with financial shocks? 下载免费PDF全文
Carmela Barbera Martin Jones Sanja Korac Iris Saliterer Ileana Steccolini 《Public administration》2017,95(3):670-697
The recent economic and fiscal crisis provides an opportunity for learning lessons of general and practical relevance about how governments face shocks affecting their financial conditions. This article draws on the resilience concept to investigate the organizational capacities that are deployed and/or built by local governments (LGs) to respond to such shocks, looking at their combinations and interactions with environmental conditions. The article presents the results of a multiple‐case analysis of 12 European LGs across Austria, Italy and England. The analysis allows us to highlight and operationalize different patterns of financial resilience, that is, self‐regulation, constrained or reactive adaptation, contented or powerless fatalism, that are the result of the interaction and development over time of different internal and external dimensions. 相似文献
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The competing merits of plurality and proportional representation have intrigued political economists and political scientists for quite some time. Of primary interest is whether one or the other system is better in serving the interests of the electorate. Since theoreticians are unable to unambiguously determine the answer to this question, the issue must ultimately be decided empirically. We use data from Sicilian elections, where the system was recently altered towards the system of plurality. We are able to demonstrate that the proportional representation system engenders greater information among voters and elicits greater commitment from them than plurality. We are also able to show that in larger towns increased information causes a more dispersed vote under a proportional representation system; further, this result does not hold under plurality. This may have some implications for the size of positional rents reaped by political parties under the two electoral systems. 相似文献
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As a new challenge to law enforcement, computer crime has recently received increasing attention from law enforcement and
government officials. However, most writings about this issue are not empirical. This study fills this void by examining the
attitudes of computer crime officers in Texas in two areas: general problems in dealing with computer crime, and the impact
of demographic and institutional support factors on officers' attitudes. The results are: (1) more budgetary support and training
are needed; (2) lack of computer skill/knowledge is the most problematic for computer investigations/forensics; (3) the idea
of cooperating and sharing resources has already been utilized; and (4) officers understand the complexity of computer crime
but are uncertain about its seriousness. The size of the city and whether the departments have a computer crime unit are the
most significant factors that impact officers' attitudes toward the need for institutional support. This study suggests four
elements (officers' attitude, institutional support, personnel, and network) that are important to successfully combat against
computer crime; these elements need to be included in the development and implementation of both short-term and medium-term
plans.
Authors' Note: Dr. Sutham Cheurprakobkit is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Sociology, Geography, and Anthropology,
Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain Road, Kennesaw, GA 30144.
Gloria Pena is a criminology major at The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX 79762. 相似文献
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Danielle Sneyd M.A. Nadja Schreiber Compo Ph.D. Jillian Rivard Ph.D. Michelle Pena Ph.D. Stephanie Stoiloff M.S. Gabriel Hernandez M.S. 《Journal of forensic sciences》2020,65(5):1507-1516
The current study examined the potential for cognitive bias in lay examiners' comparisons of footwear impressions within the technical review process while addressing limitations of previous research. Prior research has found inconsistent results regarding the extent to which cognitive bias may influence forensic comparisons, often asking non-experts to review forensic stimuli above their competency level. Furthermore, past research has largely ignored the potential for cognitive bias during the technical review process. In collaboration with the Miami-Dade Police Department's Forensic Services Bureau, we examined the effects of previous examiners' level of experience and prior knowledge of the previous examiner's decision on the technical review stage of footwear impression stimuli. Before lay examiners were presented with pairs of known match and nonmatch footwear impressions, they were either told that an expert or a novice had previously examined them and determined them to be either a match, nonmatch, or inconclusive (plus a no-information condition). Participants then evaluated each pair of footwear impressions to make their own determinations of match, nonmatch, or inconclusive. Results support the technical review process for all decision types, as known nonmatch stimuli were generally more difficult for lay examiners to assess than known match stimuli. Knowledge of a prior examiner's decision and status was observed only when the prior decision was inconclusive, suggesting the need for inclusion of inconclusive decisions in future research examining cognitive bias in forensic examination. 相似文献
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Using a two-level structural equation approach, this article investigates the links between organizational climate and work engagement in a sample of public hospitals in Italy. Drawing from the Job Demands-Resources model, the model posits a positive association between work engagement and a climate promoting worker’s autonomy, empowerment, and well-being, whereas it suggests that a climate based on efficiency and goal attainment is not favorable for engagement. Results support the hypotheses and suggest that performance based models implemented in recent years as part of public sector reforms are not conducive to engaged workers. Implications for research on work engagement in the public sector and for public management are drawn. 相似文献
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Johnt Hieme Jason Wilson Maria Alicia Ferrera‐Pena Amanda Hopkinson Nissa Torrents Judie Newman 《Third world quarterly》2013,34(4):1376-1414
Thinly‐veiled autobiography The Enigma of Arrival. V S Naipaul, London: Viking. 1987. 318pp. £10.95hb Unmasking Mexico The Good Conscience. Carlos Fuentes, London: André Deutsch. 1986. 148pp. £8.95hb/£3.95pb A Change of Skin. Carlos Fuentes, London: André Deutsch. 1986. 462pp. £6.95pb The Old Gringo. Carlos Fuentes, London: André Deutsch. 1986. 199pp. £8.95 Alternative realities: novels from Brazil Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Jorge Amado, London: Serpent's Tail. 1986. 553pp High Art. Rubem Fonseca, London: William Collins Sons. 1987. 345pp. £9.95 Maíra. Darcy Ribeiro, London: Picador, Pan Books, 1985. 353pp. £3.50 Perceptions of Nicaragua To Bury Our Fathers. Sergio Ramirez, London: Readers International. 1984. 253pp. £5.95pb Stories. Sergio Ramirez, London: Readers International. 1986. 118pp. £3.95pb The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey. Salman Rushdie, London: Picador. 1987. 171pp. £2.95pb The double yoke: women's writing from the Third World Other Fires: Stories from the Women of Latin America. Edited by Alberto Manguel, London: Picador. 1986. 222pp. £3.50pb Unheard Words: Women and Literature in Africa, The Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. Edited by Mineke Schipper, London and New York: Allison and Busby. 1985. 288pp. £4.95pb A Double Colonization: Colonial and Post‐Colonial Women's Writing. Edited by Kirsten Hoist Petersen & Anna Rutherford London: Dangaroo Press. 1986. 188pp. £15.95hb/£8.95pb Future landscapes A Sport of Nature. Nadine Gordimer, London: Jonathan Cape. 1987. 396pp. £10.95hb A Land Apart: A South African Reader. Edited by André Brink and J M Coetzee, London: Faber and Faber. 1986. 256pp. £9.50hb Satires of class and power Out of India. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, London: John Murray. 1987. 288pp. £10.95hb Rich Like Us. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1987. 268pp. £3.95pb The oil of acceptance Talkative Man. R K Narayan, London: William Heinemann. 1986. 123pp. £7.95hb Occupied Palestine: the writer as eyewitness The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist. Emile Habiby, London: Zed. 1985. 169pp. £9.95hb/£3.95pb Wild Thorns. Sahar Khalifeh, London: Al Saqi. 1985. 207pp. £3.95pb Poetry and politics Modern Poetry of the Arab World. Translated and edited by Abdullah al‐Udhari, London: Penguin. 1986. 154pp. £3.95pb Spanning Muslim Literature The Worlds of Muslim Imagination. Edited by Alamgir Hashmi, Islamabad: Gulmohar. 1986. 270pp. $12.95hb Pakistani Literature. Edited by Alamgir Hashmi, Islamabad: Gulmohar. 1987. 107pp. $10.00hb 相似文献
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Entrepreneurial performance of principal investigators and country culture: relations and influences
Manlio Del Giudice Melita Nicotra Marco Romano Carmela Elita Schillaci 《The Journal of Technology Transfer》2017,42(2):320-337
The paper focuses on the role of a country’s culture in influencing the entrepreneurial attitudes of Principal Investigators, in shaping their ability to combine knowledge theory and business practice, in determining their capacity to strengthen the cooperation between the two domains of research and business, and in supporting research spin-off creation in entrepreneurial universities. To make Principal Investigators’ orientation match Entrepreneurial Universities’ goals of the marketing of innovation and entrepreneurship is not an easy task. A research-oriented approach, rather than an explorative entrepreneurial orientation, is still predominant in Principal Investigators. Among the factors influencing the strategic orientation towards entrepreneurship of Principal Investigators, the paper argues that the country’s culture could be key. Evaluating the influence of the entrepreneurial culture on a Principal Investigator’s activity is critical in predicting his performance and comparing it with that of Principal Investigators in other countries. 相似文献
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M.A. Pena M.A. Gomez P. Percow M.M. Lojo 《Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series》2009,2(1):151-152
In disputed paternity cases where the putative father is unavailable DNA from one or more of his relatives could be used. However, interpreting results is often difficult, because of the partial information regarding the parental genotype obtained from his relatives. We analyzed results obtained in 300 real paternity cases performed through close relatives of the real father (sib, half-sibs, one grandparent and/or uncle). DNA was typed with PowerPlex (Promega) and the LR estimated with the Software BDGen. As expected the higher LR values were achieved with sibs and half-sibs (in such cases where his/her mother was available for testing). The LR values were tight related to the number of uninformative loci, which varied between 0 and 13. In 10% of the reviewed cases, 10 or more non-informative loci were observed; all of them associated LR values below 0.01. Thus, providing evidence in favor of no relatedness. 相似文献
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Marcello Rendine D.B.A. Carmela Fiore M.D. Giuseppe Bertozzi M.D. Dania De Carlo M.D. Vera Filetti M.Sc. Palmira Fortarezza M.L.T. Irene Riezzo M.D. Ph.D. 《Journal of forensic sciences》2019,64(2):587-592
The admissibility of human “odor mortis” discrimination in courts depends on the lack of comprehension of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the human decay process and of the lack in standardized procedures in training cadaver dogs. Blood was collected from four young people who died from traffic accidents and analyzed using HS‐SPME/GC‐MS at different decompositional stages. Two dogs, professionally trained, were tested to exactly locate blood samples, for each time point of the experiment. We found a long list of VOCs which varied from fresh to decomposed blood samples, showing differences in specific compounds. Dog performance showed a positive predictive value between 98.96% and 100% for DOG A, and between 99.47% and 100% for DOG B. Our findings demonstrated that decomposing human blood is a good source of VOCs and a good target for canine training. 相似文献