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Women’s Advancement in Politics: Evidence from Congressional Staff

The Journal of Politics, 2021
We examine gender differences in policy influence and advancement within the congressional office context using US Congress payroll system data between 2001 and 2014.
Melinda N. Ritchie, Hye Young You
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The Politics of Staff Counselling

Employee Counselling Today, 1994
Commonly, staff support is conceived of in terms of counselling. Centres on counselling as a form of staff support, and questions the idea that it can be realistically offered within work settings. The idea that a short course plus some unsupervised practice might adequately prepare a person to counsel others is rejected.
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The Micro politics of Accountability: The Case of Staff Appraisal

Educational Policy, 1998
Nowhere are the micropolitics within schools more evident than in staff appraisal. Currently, the New Zealand government is attempting to shift the evaluation of teachers from a predominantly professional form of accountability to a more democratic form in which teachers are held accountable for their performance to both central government and local ...
Helen S. Timperley, Viviane M. J. Robinson   +1 more
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Political Savvy in Staff Development: Building an Indispensable Department

The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1994
ABSTRACT Political savvy is not something with which one is born; instead it is a process that is learned, sometimes painfully, always demandingly. The purpose of this article is to identify strategies that will make a staff development department essential to organizational functioning and that will enhance both productivity and political ...
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The Growth of Political Advisory Staff

2018
This chapter will examine the causes and consequences of recruiting an increasing number of political staff from outside the permanent civil service. The evidence is ‘politicisation’ has grown in recent decades as a consequence of the influx of appointees.
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Sociological Analysis of the Soviet Party Staff Politics

Management of the Personnel and Intellectual Resources in Russia, 2018
Industrialization in the Soviet Union is a genuine “economic miracle”. For a very mild historical period, in just one third of a century, the country’s economy, having begun with the destruction of the Civil War, having overcome the tests of the Patriotic War, has reached the level of a scientifi c and industrial complex capable of creating atomic ...
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Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Impact of Its Politics on Staff and Patients

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1992
(1992). Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Impact of Its Politics on Staff and Patients. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 281-283.
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Staff Politics in the Republican House: The Case of the Appropriations Committee

Congress & the Presidency, 2004
This article examines recent developments in one of the most important staff units in Congress–the staff of the House Appropriations Committee. We consider changes in staff politics on this committee in light of the competing claims of informational and partisan theories.
Sarah K. Handy, Randall Strahan
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Staff, Kulaks and Peasants: a Study of a Political Field

1977
This paper is concerned with the complex reality of penetration at ‘grass-roots’ level, presenting a picture of penetration in a particular corner of the periphery. The study is based on case material from the Rungwe District in Southwestern Tanzania.1 In particular, the consequences of penetration for emerging power relationships among the peasantry ...
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Micro‐politics in the 1990s: staff relationships in secondary schooling

Journal of Education Policy, 1998
Drawing on case study material from four London comprehensive schools, this article examines the micro‐politics of secondary schooling in the mid‐1990s. The extent to which new social relationships governed by expendiency and pragmatism are developing in schools is explored.
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