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Planning Agency, Autonomous Agency
2005Abstract Are there forms of psychological functioning that can be characterized without seeing the agent herself as playing an irreducible role and that are plausible candidates for sufficient conditions for agential governance? Are certain forms of functioning necessary for self-governance?
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2017
AbstractOur planning agency contributes to our lives in fundamental ways. Prior partial plans settle practical questions about the future. They thereby pose problems of means, filter solutions to those problems, and guide action. This plan-infused background frames our practical thinking in ways that cohere with our resource limits and help organize ...
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AbstractOur planning agency contributes to our lives in fundamental ways. Prior partial plans settle practical questions about the future. They thereby pose problems of means, filter solutions to those problems, and guide action. This plan-infused background frames our practical thinking in ways that cohere with our resource limits and help organize ...
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Decisionmaking in Regional Health Planning Agencies
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1979Health Systems Agencies (HSAs), the new regional health planning agencies established by the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974, have as their major goals quality, accessibility, continuity and cost containment. One of the tools for cost containment available to HSAs is their active participation in the statewide certificate-
H S, Luft, G A, Frisvold
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Agency Theory and Financial Planning Practice
Australian Economic Review, 2014AbstractWe extend an influential contribution to the literature on agency theory and then use this extension, along with other theoretical contributions, to shed light on agency problems affecting funds management and financial planning in Australia. The case for pure fee‐for‐service in actively managed funds and plans turns out to be weak.
Kingston, Geoffrey, Haijie Weng
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Planning within multi-agency context
The journal of mental health administration, 1983Current environmental conditions such as limited financial resources, cost containment, rising consumer expectation, and perhaps more stringent regulation of available public monies to support social services signal declining opportunities for survival of autonomous, freestanding community agencies and the development of newer collaborative forms of ...
R J, Rydman, L, Rowitz
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American Political Science Review, 1935
An important and clearly marked recent trend in American government is that in the direction of systematic planning—local, state, and national. City planning has developed for the last twenty years, and there are now some 700 city planning agencies.
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An important and clearly marked recent trend in American government is that in the direction of systematic planning—local, state, and national. City planning has developed for the last twenty years, and there are now some 700 city planning agencies.
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Mental health in health planning agencies
Social Science & Medicine, 1985Two models of organizational behavior were tested using a population of 200 Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) in the U.S.A. A 'needs' model, based on mental health high-risk sociodemographic indicators, and a 'resources' model, based on a mental health manpower, facilities and system-activation indicators, were used to predict 1978 HSA activities in ...
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2018
This essay appeals to self-governance to explain why basic planning norms—both synchronic and diachronic—are norms of practical rationality. The best rationale of her own plan-infused practical thinking that is available to a reflective planning agent who has the capacity for self-governance involves a tight connection between plan rationality and ...
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This essay appeals to self-governance to explain why basic planning norms—both synchronic and diachronic—are norms of practical rationality. The best rationale of her own plan-infused practical thinking that is available to a reflective planning agent who has the capacity for self-governance involves a tight connection between plan rationality and ...
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UK plan for Food Standards Agency
BMJ, 1999The British government has resuscitated its plan for an independent Food Standards Agency designed to improve nutrition and food safety. A draft bill setting up the agency was published last week for consultation, along with the government's stated intention to pass the necessary legislation this year.
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1983
In the first chapter we identified three central agencies that are primarily responsible for coordinating the physical flows of resources, goods, and services through the Soviet economy—the State Planning Committee, the State Committee for Material and Technical Supply, and the State Committee for Science and Technology—and three central agencies whose
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In the first chapter we identified three central agencies that are primarily responsible for coordinating the physical flows of resources, goods, and services through the Soviet economy—the State Planning Committee, the State Committee for Material and Technical Supply, and the State Committee for Science and Technology—and three central agencies whose
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