... terrorists after a procedure which derogated considerably from the common law: prolongation of custody up to 10 days, night searches or seizures authorized (art. 17), powers of the appointed examining magistrate throughout the country, possibility of derogating from the right of information of the parties (art. 21), possibility of extending the preventive detention period without giving reasons by the examining magistrate (Art. 22); it was obliged to give a three ... governing the State Security Court. The law of 15 January 1963 relating to its composition, operation and procedure provi...

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... then be used to develop strategies and plans for sustainable tourism development. In order to achieve their role the government and the planning authorities have set quotas, by limiting the number of tourist arrivals. An example would be Bhutan. Bhutan's government has implemented "High Value, Low Volume" policy which has been successful according to studies ... between local communities and tour operators or and planning authorities. NGOs also help encourage other stakeholders, such as local communities to actively participate in managing the impact of tourism. An example would be, non-...

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... (Heilbroner, p 293). With out the protection of private property there is no incentive to accumulate stock and wealth as Smith points out "it is only under the shelter of the civil magistrate that the owner of that valuable property, which is acquired by the labor of many years, or perhaps of many successive generations, can a sleep a single night in security." Smith's third role for the Sovereign ... , the Expense of Public Works and institutions, is one of the more "controversial" in his theory of the state as he states that it ... is the duty of the government to build and ... ...

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... participation combined with political competition brings about a change in the composition of political leadership, particularly among those who gain office by means of elections. Thus when the narrow suffrage of a competitive oligarchy has been extended to the middle class and minority groups, the number of party leaders and members of parliament drawn from the middle class and minorities has increased, thus establishing ... inclusiveness and competition at the same time. (Dahl (1971) Page 21) In Nigeria, the president is directly elected by the Nigerians and separately elects members ...

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... discourage criminal activity in the community, and that process is very expensive and is not very effective since there sill lies a section of the population that has not been properly educated and given the tools to earn and to develop maturely and therefore turn to criminal ... crime prevention, and policing, gobbling a tremendous part of the government's budget and the Beaurocrats a have lack of vision and motivation to change the system. The system should be altered by gradually increasing the budget towards early education and detection of troubled children and to direct them to spe...

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According to Cambridge dictionary the definition of corruption is "illegal, bad or dishonest behavior, especially by people in positions of power". Moroccan citizen are facing this bad behavior every day and it is a real problem for Moroccans and their government as well. Three weeks ago, I took an exam in order ... are hidden and no one can know what the corrupter is doing inside his office , furthermore , the absence of the control such as the ones by cameras is another primary factor of this phenomenon ,in addition to that , the responsibility given to a specific person gives him the oppo...

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... serve particular groups like farmers, unions and veterans. Another interesting feature of the bureaucracy was the development of the modern civil service program, which prevented the rotation in office of officials appointed by one president, only to be reappointed by the next president. This reduced the practice of the spoils system by an incoming president, who ended up filling government jobs with loyal ... followers and people who followed view of himself and party. The civil service reform led to the reduction of the spoils system, which placed ... this was that an outgoing preside...

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... in an Indian society still traditional and feudal in nature. Traditional hierarchies of caste existed, with low rates of popular participation through secular interest groups based on class differentiation. High rates of illiteracy persisted and the challenge of post colonial reconstruction were obstacles to the operation of democracy. They were overcome by evolution of a new model of democratic politics. First, democratic debate in India has always been non ... ideological compared with the West's clear differentiation of left wing and right wing views. Indian political discourse has f...

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... reformed and accepted in order to satisfy citizens in terms of governmental responsibility and efficient public services. Ministerial responsibility can be understood through the structure functions of the system of the Irish government. The Civil Service consists of personnel whose functions are to administer policies formulated or approved by the national government. Within this, public administration is concerned with ... Minister. The 1924 Act provided a legal basis for structure and organization of Administration by designating the extent of the Ministers authority in respect of per...

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The Fourth Amendment reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." However, surveillance is becoming more ... point. Without it they might be unable to do their job. Notwithstanding, this assessment is misguided. Our constitution and particularly the Fourth Amendment's restriction on baseless pursuit a...

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... duration never surpassed in the nation's history " than during Attlee's governance. Contrastingly, due to the state that the economy was in by the 1951 elections " Churchill famously said that the inheritance of the welfare state was a 'crown of thorns' " and the alarming recovery made in the sequential years, it is clear that the conservative party did achieve profound ... from economic collapse, as historian C. Barnett stated "New Jerusalem itself, a dream turned to a dank reality ". RAB Butler (chancellor for the exchequer) rectified the balance payment deficit of £700mill putting t...

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... "Most elected officials within the political elite are dependent upon wealthy families and corporate leaders for their initial financial support, and military leaders are appointed by civilians who win control of the executive branch. The elite theory does not emphasize the class bias that is built into the policy-planning network and other non-profit organizations in the ... were themselves important political figures, thus virtually guaranteeing that their clients will have direct access to congressional leaders" (Ginsburg, Lowi, Weir, Tolbert 447). The stable hold of power by the elit...

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... people's viewpoints are represented via factional groups that then transmit that viewpoint to the representatives in Congress and Senators. This gives a notion of the significance attained by bureaucratic interest factions in that seldom is a critical component of legislation advanced by Congress unaccompanied by consent from the organizational agency that was involved with the execution. Brandeis University's well known professor, Peter Woll, states that, "[Madison's] view ... government to be modular, and not follow one specific agenda too closely, unless agreed upon by the majori...

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... )). Trained in a limited manner and under a certain time constraint, the LHW do not fully acquire the capability to cater the needs of the local women (Service Provision And Private Sector Family Planning Models In Pakistan). Innovation by and the modernization of the private sector is another reason why they prospered as an institution. Incorporating new methods into the system and coming up with ... ; and "women in development" which worked to facilitate their target individuals and were more efficient as they focused on one segment, instead of the whole. In addition to these three, ano...

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... to recall that Colombia was able to achieve its transition to a final democracy after surpassing one of the most dramatic periods of its history, which was very notorious for its violent era popularly known as "La Violencia." After being governed by civilians for many years, Rojas Pinilla overthrew the government in the 1950's and lead Colombian politics with ... its political arena and social peace remained stable for many decades until the end of 1980's. At the beginning of 1989 Venezuela's democratic order was shaken by the disaffection of its citizens, the decay of the two main polit...

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... had such widespread appeal. While there are no universally accepted explanations, the poor economic and financial performance of many public enterprises and the demonstration effect resulting from cases of successful privatization have been used as convincing arguments for privatization by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (Berg, 1981, Kikeri, Nellis and Shirley, 1992). ... critique relies on arguments based on the existence of information asymmetries and the absence of market mechanisms in the public sector to justify the non-welfare maximizing behaviour of public ente...

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... than the ideological regime and so derives greater legitimacy from it. For Weber, democracy would be seen as a good way of acquiring knowledge of the consent of the governed, being encompassed largely by the 'charismatic' branch of his understanding of legitimacy. His definition of political legitimacy involves three aspects: the traditional, the charismatic and the rational-legal5. These suggest that legitimacy is built upon ... that reverence for the institutions and values handed down to us by our forefathers, the popularity and general approval of a leader's character by the pop...

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... is called, the transition period. The transition paradigm assumed that all transitions from previous political regimes will be towards democracy. Yet, as some cases of the fourth wave of democratization show- as named by Mcfaul (2002), outcomes differ from state to state and today not all qualify as full or partial poliarchies. Given this new phenomena, a vast ... , this essay will only concentrate on horizontal accountability as we assume vertical accountability as a natural indicator of the scope of inclusion of a state. First and outmost, governments have to be able to be held account...

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... legislature. Party politics had, after a two-decade struggle, finally become a weight in government, but not without compromise. The lower, elected house of the Diet was given less power than that of the House of Peers, to which membership was hereditary or gifted by imperial will, and this upper house managed to block initiatives from the elected body on several occasions2. Another official counterweight to ... own lives14. This bill shows that there were some undeniable steps being taken towards democracy, and that considerable elements of the Japanese population were sufficiently mot...

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... While, the government should be more open and accountable through innovation especially through prior ministers, phrasing of terminology, non- departmental agencies, House of Commons, senate, deputy minister, and the amount of seats in House of Commons there are objectives put in place by Prime Minister Harper to improve accountability and transparency within the near future. Much more interesting, objectives ... apply more pressure on public services to keep government communications open (Tough, 2011). Therefore, objectives have been put in place to improve accountability by cabinet m...

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... legacy before 1714 supports this, with lessons learnt from a previous campaign whereby James II, prior to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, had tried to install authoritarian rule by abolishing the self-governing Puritan colonies and replacing them with the Dominion of New England. Aside from distaste for James's Catholic values, popular rebellions erupted in Massachusetts, Maryland, and New York ... legislation was reserved exclusively to their own assemblies." In a radical context, this gave the opportunity for the foundations of a politically independent America to rise by importantly...

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... public good as opposed to extreme and biased decisions. Madison described how within these majorities and minorities, existed factions, groups of people united by a common interest that was counter to the public good. Acknowledging that people are factious by nature and will inevitably disagree when it comes to their interests in almost every matter, the only way to prevent against ... In response, the Federalists argued quite the contrary and advocated that a strong national government was the absolute best way to protect the people and their natural rights by preventing oppression of t...

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