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Thermo-Catalytic Reforming of municipal solid waste
Waste Management, 2017Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) refers to a heterogeneous mixture composed of plastics, paper, metal, food and other miscellaneous items. Local authorities commonly dispose of this waste by either landfill or incineration which are both unsustainable practices.
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Reforming municipal services after amalgamation
International Journal of Public Sector Management, 2004The differing perspectives of decision makers in a newly‐amalgamated municipality may hinder the reduction of costs or introduction of efficient organizational change. Accepting differences may be essential, at least initially, to achieve efficiencies.
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Municipal Reform: Status and Prospects
Journal of Russian Law, 2014A number of questions, demanding their settlement during reform of local government, are put in the article. This refers to improvement of relationship between self-governing authorities and state authorities, explanation of the constitutional norms governing these relations.
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Reform Retardant: Parliamentary and Municipal Reform in Beverley
1992Abstract Analyses of boroughs such as Bristol, Northampton, and Shrewsbury have pointed to the powerful effects of Reform. Paradoxically, the indifference to Reform shown by some voters in Lewes and Great Yarmouth revealed deep partisan divisions in some constituencies well in advance of 1832.
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The Review of Politics, 1943
Treatises on political machines in the United States too often suffer from a lack of historical perspective. Machine government is due to factors peculiar to certain periods in American history, and it is doomed to disappear when its historical basis disintegrates.
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Treatises on political machines in the United States too often suffer from a lack of historical perspective. Machine government is due to factors peculiar to certain periods in American history, and it is doomed to disappear when its historical basis disintegrates.
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Winning the West to Municipal Reform
Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1992In the 20 years after 1900, municipal reformers celebrated triumph after triumph as cities across the country adopted commission and city-manager charters. The cities of the Southwest were prominent in the movement for municipal reform. In this article, the author shows how the West was won to municipal reform and argues that the adoption of reform ...
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Municipalization as Debureaucratization: Municipal Reform Movement in Nineteenth Century
Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2018This article the efforts made by certain political actors to change Chilean municipal institutionality between 1854 and 1891. It shows that the initial design guaranteed central government control over the municipalities. This led political actors that are against an active role of the state, to seek to modify its design by giving municipalities ...
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Seth Low: Theorist of Municipal Reform
Journal of American Studies, 1972The genteel and incapable Mugwump reformers received yet another battering in 1968 with the publication of John Sproat's ‘The Best Men’: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age. They are presented as being consumed by their moral imperatives and their hysterical fear of the lower classes, and sinking amid the social turmoil of the 1890s; their label ...
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Pragmatic Municipal Finance Reform in India
Environment and Urbanization ASIA, 2012The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) enacted in 1993 gave urban local governments constitutional status and aimed to strengthen municipal governance. Municipalities were to be given greater responsibilities in the provision of basic infrastructure and social services and financial power was also to be devolved.
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