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2021
This chapter considers the particular difficulties in establishing duty of care where public authorities are accused of negligence in performance of statutory functions. It also deals with the relationship between liability under the law of negligence and liability under the Human Rights Act 1998. In addition the chapter analyses the Scottish dimension
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This chapter considers the particular difficulties in establishing duty of care where public authorities are accused of negligence in performance of statutory functions. It also deals with the relationship between liability under the law of negligence and liability under the Human Rights Act 1998. In addition the chapter analyses the Scottish dimension
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Public Authority and the Public Interest
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1989Our paper reviews Marxist, pluralist and conservative theories of the state under capitalism from the standpoint of evidence on United States federal taxing and spending during the 1980s. The deficit panic is a product of the political stratum that defines the public interest as actions opposed to private interests because then they cannot be accused ...
Joseph White, Aaron Wildavsky
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2007
This section of the book Self-Determination of Peoples and Plural-ethnic States in Contemporary International Law: Failed States, Nation-building and the Alternative, Federal Option contains a list of publications by Edward McWhinney. In analysing the contemporary International Law principles as to Self-determination of Peoples, Dr.
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This section of the book Self-Determination of Peoples and Plural-ethnic States in Contemporary International Law: Failed States, Nation-building and the Alternative, Federal Option contains a list of publications by Edward McWhinney. In analysing the contemporary International Law principles as to Self-determination of Peoples, Dr.
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Public Challenge of Physician Authority
Medical Care, 1979A sample survey of the public in a midwestern state substantiates the existence of widespread challenges to the authority of physicians, a phenomenon previously reported only impressionistically in the media. Attitudes tending to reject physicians' right to direct their interaction with patients characterized more than half the sample and were related ...
M R, Haug, B, Lavin
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2015
Abstract Public authorities are agencies created by governments to engage directly in the economy for public purposes. They differ from standard agencies in that they operate outside the administrative framework of democratically accountable government.
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Abstract Public authorities are agencies created by governments to engage directly in the economy for public purposes. They differ from standard agencies in that they operate outside the administrative framework of democratically accountable government.
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Trust in Portuguese Public Authorities
Public Integrity, 2006This article explores perceptions of trust in Portugal, focusing on how corporate executives assess the ethical behavior and competence of public officials. The reasons why executives do not trust government officials are analyzed, followed by an examination of the consequences of their attitude for tax compliance, economic development, and corporate ...
Rego, Arménio +2 more
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On the Dispensation of Justice by Public Authorities
European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2010The Austrian Umweltsenat is a court or tribunal for the purposes of Article 234 EC. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive is to be interpreted as meaning that a Member State has to subject a transboundary project to environmental impact assessment (EIA) even if the size of the project on its own territory does not reach the threshold for ...
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Public Authority and Public Reasoning
Abstract This chapter looks at the perception of conflict between science and religion in the areas of social and ethical contention. Issues like abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, and stem cell research have long had a perceived ‘science and religion’ dimension to them, and current data show opinions on them correlating with ...Nick Spencer, Hannah Waite
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The Authority of International Public Administrations
2016This chapter takes stock with the research on the authority of international organizations (IOs) and international public administrations (IPAs) in the fields of International Relations (IR) and Public Administration (PA). It combines arguments from conceptual and theoretical debates with empirical findings to explore under which conditions IPAs are ...
Busch, Per-Olof (Dr.) +1 more
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Abstract Public authorities have P-duties which individuals do not have, and their having such duties is one major reason for their existence. All sorts of things need to be done when people live together which it would be inappropriate legally to require individuals to do on their own. In some cases, this is because the burden of some P-
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