Download or read book Building State Capability written by Matt Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.

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Download or read book Federal Preemption of State and Local Law written by James T. O'Reilly and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preemption is a doctrine of American constitutional law, under which states and local governments are deprived of their power to act in a given area, whether or not the state or local law, rule or action is in direct conflict with federal law. This book covers not only the basics of preemption but also focuses on such topics as federal mechanisms for agency preemption, implied forms of preemption, and defensive use of federal preemption in civil litigation.

Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Download or read book The Limits of State Action written by Wilhelm von Humboldt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is important both as one of the most interesting contributions to the liberalism of the German Enlightenment, and as the most significant source for the ideas which John Stuart Mill popularized in his essay On Liberty. Humboldt's concern is to define the criteria by which the permissible limits of the state's activities may be determined. His basic principle, like that of Mill, is that the only justification for government interference is the prevention of harm to others. He discusses in detail the role and limits of the state's responsibility for the welfare, security and morals of its citizens. Humboldt's special achievement in this work is to enlarge our sense of what a liberal political theory might be by his particularly sensitive grasp of the complexity of our attitudes to and our need of other people. Dr Burrow has based his translation on Coulthard's version of 1854. In an important introduction, he provides a most perceptive as well as scholarly guide to Humboldt's political thought.

Download or read book State Actions 1974 written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Congress written by Joseph F. Zimmerman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful reassessment of the relationship between the U.S. Congress and the states.

Download or read book Privatwirkung der Grundrechte in den USA written by Thomas Giegerich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Privatwirkung der Grundrechte der US-Bundesverfassungbesch{ftigt als Problem seit }ber 100 Jahren die Rechtspre-chung des U.S. Supreme Court, ohne da~ es ihm oder der Ver-fassungsrechtswissenschaft gelungen w{re, ein schl}ssigesL|sungskonzept zu entwickeln. Dementsprechend handelt auchder Bundesgesetzgeber in diesem Bereich ohne klare Orientie-rung. Das Buch zeichnet erstmalig umfassend die H|hen undTiefen der Rechtsentwicklung nach und arbeitet die Gr}ndedaf}r heraus. Diese sind vor allem im herk|mmlichen Ver-st{ndnis des bundesstaatlichen Systems der Verfassung zu su-chen. Au~erdem wird h{ufig nicht klar genug erkannt, da~hinter der Privatwirkungsproblematik ein Konflikt prinzi-piell gleichrangiger Grundrechte von Privatpersonen steht(z.B. Anspruch auf rassische Gleichbehandlung beim Zugang zuHotels einerseits und Eigentum andererseits). Die Aufl|sungderartiger Konflikte ist Uraufgabe der staatlichen Gewalt,wie sich an den staatsphilosophischen und historischenGrundlagen des amerikanischen Verfassungsstaats nachweisenl{~t, von denen sich der Supreme Court entfernt hat. Geigne-tes Mittel zur Konfliktl|sung ist die Herstellung einer Syn-these (praktische Konkordanz) zwischen den kollidierendenGrundrechten der beiden Beteiligten, in der diese Rechtebeide so weit wie m|glich realisiert werden. Dies entsprichtvernunftrechtlichen Vorstellungen, wie sie auch der amerika-nischen Verfassungsstaatlichkeit zugrunde liegt.

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Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.