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Competing Objectives in the Reorganization of Maine State Government
The budget difficulties faced by Maine and by most other states have prompted a national search for better ways to deliver government services. In Maine, a conference entitled "Rethinking Maine Government" was held at the University of Maine on January 5-6, 1993 under the auspices of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy.
Kenneth Palmer
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Maine, like the federal government and many other states, has embarked upon a major initiative to change how government conducts its business. At the federal level this initiative has been called the National Performance Review. Spearheaded by Vice President Al Gore, its goal is nothing short of reinventing government so it performs better, costs less,
Bruce Clary, Barton Wechsler
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An Interview with Janet Waldron: Reforming Maine State Government
This past year Janet Waldron was appointed Commissioner of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services for the State of Maine, planting her firmly in the center of a number of recent Maine state government reform initiatives. In this interview, Waldron discusses some of these current initiatives and in the process, offers a vision of a more
Janet Waldron
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The basis and objectives of the state are contained in the Constitution as stated in the Preambule of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia To make it happen, it is necessary, among others, to support an integrated budgeting system through fiscal policy, so it can be formulated, First, how to realize the correlation of budget principles to
Mas Iman Kusnandar, Refi Pratiwi
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The State of "Good Migration Governance". Fieldwork main findings of the AdMiGov project
In this article we draw conclusions about the state of “good migration governance” based on the findings in the six fieldwork related work packages (1-6) of the AdMiGov project. These work packages address migration governance and good migration governance with regard to entry (WP1), exit (WP2), circular migration (WP3), protection in the borderlands ...
Garcés-Mascareñas, B., van Heelsum, A.
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Associations between health care access and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among rural and urban lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adults. [PDF]
Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals experience elevated rates of trauma exposure, minority stress, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet, research examining how geographic location and LGBTQ+ identity shape PTSD outcomes is scant, particularly studies considering structural facilitators and barriers ...
Kenyon EA +6 more
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ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn +3 more
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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn +1 more
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ResearchConnect is an AI‐powered platform that automates researcher profiling, interdisciplinary team formation, and early‐stage research ideation. By extracting keywords from papers and web sources, it quickly clusters researchers into coherent teams and generates collaborative ideas using large language models. Validation on NSF‐funded projects shows
Akshay Vilas Jadhav +2 more
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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