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The stealth budget: unfunded liabilities of the federal government [PDF]

The federal budget is incomplete. Action have been taken that will require spending in the future; provision for that spending does not, however, appear in the budget accounts.
Roy H. Webb
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Comissão Parlamentar Mista de Inquérito : cartão de pagamentos do Governo Federal

, 2008
Comissão parlamentar mista de inquérito criada por meio do requerimento n. 2, de 2008.CPMICPGF - CPMI - Cartões Corporativos - 2008.Relatório final da Comissão Parlamentar Mista de Inquérito destinada a investigar o uso do cartão de pagamento do Governo ...
Brasil. Congresso Nacional. Senado Federal. Comissão Parlamentar Mista de Inquérito destinada a investigar o uso do cartão de pagamento do Governo Federal - CPGF
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Unlawful enterprise. Il filibustering di Narciso López: people-to-people diplomacy tra schiavismo ed annessionismo

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2013
Narciso López’s clandestine expeditions to Cuba represented one of the first people-to-people political and economic contacts between Cuba and the United States.
Alessandro Badella è dottorando in Scienze Politiche presso l’Università degli Studi di Genova con un progetto sul ruolo del sistema internazionale nella transizione post-socialista di Cuba. Nel 2012 ha pubblicato il volume monografico La spina nel fianco. Stati Uniti e Cuba in una prospettiva razziale, 1823-1912 (Salerno, Arcoiris). Collabora con diversi think tank geopolitici, tra cui ISPI, per i quali scrive articoli sulle relazioni tra Cuba e Stati Uniti.
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What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
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Obras de arte del Senado Federal

, 2014
Tradução português - inglês: Istvan Vadja, Jales Josino da Rocha Filho, Maria Iracema Lima Martin. Tradução português - espanhol: Jamili Sara Manzur Baroud, Patricia Petri de Souza, Jales Josino da Rocha Silva.Inclui bibliografia e índice.Textos em ...
Brasil. Congresso Nacional. Senado Federal. Serviço de Museu
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US Federal Budgets and Federal Employee Job Satisfaction

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract Researchers have long studied how organizational budgets relate to performance, but how do employees themselves experience the effects of budgetary decisions? Given widespread attention to political dysfunction in US federal budgeting, conventional wisdom holds that employees are negatively affected by budgetary uncertainty (volatility, delays,
Nathan Favero, Carla Flink, Tingli Qu
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Summary and outline of Senate Bill no. 54, creating land and water conservation districts

, 1939
"February 1939.""Senate Bill No. 54, as amended by the Senate Committee on Drainage and Flood Control, proposes the creation of land and water conservancy districts to provide for systematic utilization of reservoirs and lakes and for flood control.
Kansas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Department.
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Unintended Consequences of Fiscal Governance Rules on the Long‐Term Financial Position of State Governments

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fiscal governance rules are viewed as prudent tools that promote balanced budgets, lower tax burdens, and ensure modest use of long‐term debt. However, these rules can create incentives that inadvertently worsen the government's long‐term financial position. Focusing on unfunded retiree benefits and long‐term debt, this study finds that states
Sharon N. Kioko
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The expected federal budget surplus: how much confidence should the public and policymakers place in the projections? [PDF]

When the government runs a deficit, it can borrow from the public—that is, it can create debt. Conversely, when the government runs a surplus, it can retire that debt.
Daniel L. Thornton, Kevin L. Kliesen
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Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on unequal responsiveness has shown that policies tend to align more closely with the preferences of high‐income citizens than low‐income citizens. Using comparative data on opinions and policies, we suggest that this inequality primarily results from status quo bias; asymmetric blocking power drives unequal congruence rather than ...
Mikael Persson, Anders Sundell
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