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Should the IRS Never Target Taxpayers? An Examination of the IRS Tea Party Affair [PDF]

, 2015
This article is part of a symposium held at Valparaiso University Law School entitled Money in Politics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. In 2013, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration faulted the Internal Revenue Service for the ...
Hackney, Philip
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Family and Intra-Party Democracy in Indonesia. (A Study on the Political Recruitment of the Golkar Party during the Reform Era in South Sulawesi)

Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2017
This paper looks at the political family involved in the local politics in South Sulawesi, particularly the political recruitment mechanism and political party institutionalization from the intra-party democracy perspective. Based on qualitative analysis,
TITIN PURWANINGSIH, VALINA SINGKA SUBEKTI   +1 more
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A System Dynamics Approach to Analysing the Effect of Clientelism on Public Organizations Performance in Italy [PDF]

This paper tries to analyse the effects of political clientelism on the performance of public utilities and organizations in Italy. Shortly, clientelism consists in a series of reciprocal convenience-based relationships between politicians and ...
Federico COSENZ
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Iconic Design to Lost Luggage: Innovation at Heathrow Terminal 5 [PDF]

This paper aims to contribute to understanding of how organizations respond to risk and uncertainty by combining and balancing routines and innovation. It shows how approaches to risk and uncertainty are shaped by the contractual framework in large multi-
Andrew Davies
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Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher, Julian Laurens, Alinka Fisher, Sabrina Forte, Katrina Reschke, Rosemary Kayess   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn, Vanessa Langenberg, Kristy Harper, Libby Callaway, Hilary O'Connell, Eleanor Kennett‐Smith, Natasha Layton   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
wiley   +1 more source