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The Quasi-Contractual Liability of Governments
The University of Toronto Law Journal, 1959N this article, I propose to examine one aspect of quasi-contractual liability-a topic that is complicated and uncertain in most legal systems, not only in the area of governmental liability but also in the area of private law. For the purposes of a comparative study, I have chosen the legal systems in the United States, England, and France.
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Contractual Liability of a Government
1938It has been stated above that the Commission did not consider claims based upon non-fulfilment of a contract by a Government to be outside its jurisdiction.
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Contractual Liability of Government of India
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010The subject of government contracts has assumed great importance in the modern times. Today the state is a source of wealth. In the modern era of a welfare state, government's economic activities are expanding and the government is increasingly assuming the role of the dispenser of a large number of benefits.
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‘Contractual Governance’ of Deviant Behaviour
Journal of Law and Society, 2003This paper seeks to analyse and make sense of the growing role and implications of forms of ‘contractual governance’ that are emerging in diverse fields of social life and public policy in England and Wales, both within and beyond criminal justice. Collectively, these modes of control mimic and deploy ‘contracts' and ‘agreement’ in the regulation of ...
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Governing of Contractual Relations in Agriculture
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences) and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of agrarian contracts.
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Contractualism and transnational welfare governance
2006The global public policy agenda now resonates with terms such as ‘poverty reduction’ and ‘pro-poor growth’. Poverty, it seems, has been rediscovered by the global community, and the new social agenda differs from the previously dominant ‘Washington Consensus’ of market and trade liberalization.
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Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2003
This paper considers the significance, as a matter both of political and of legal analysis, of the considerable and growing use in the UK of ostensibly contractual or contract-like arrangements between public authorities and members of society whose behaviour it is judged necessary to manage and control.
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This paper considers the significance, as a matter both of political and of legal analysis, of the considerable and growing use in the UK of ostensibly contractual or contract-like arrangements between public authorities and members of society whose behaviour it is judged necessary to manage and control.
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Government and industry in France: A contractual approach
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Public Money, 1982France's post‐war economic track record is better than ours. Does their success owe anything to their industrial policy, and in particular to the tough‐sounding, legalistic way they handle relations both with the nationalised industries and with other State and private enterprises?
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Hybrid Relational-Contractual Governance for Business Process Outsourcing
Journal of Management Information Systems, 2012We examined 335 business process outsourcing BPO ventures to understand the effect of contractual and relational governance factors on BPO satisfaction from the client's perspective. While both contractual and relational factors explain significant variance in BPO satisfaction, relational factors dominate.
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Governance of outsourcing and contractual relationships
2010Many public sector organizations (PSOs) rely on outsourcing as a way to increase their “value for money” in the provision of public services (Broadbent and Guthrie, 2008). As a result, the topic of outsourcing has been addressed with some regularity in the public management literature for many years. Increasingly, attention is being directed toward the
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