This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil's state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies and institutions at all government levels,...

Governance risks stem from the own governance of any organization. The paper puts forward an operational viewpoint of those risks, by mapping the most distinctive categories of governance analysis onto time-dependent governance variables. Afterwards, risks conveyed by the latter are measured...

The Governing Uranium project is a global research effort studying the implications of a changing uranium market, specifically the production, processing and transport of uranium ore concentrates (UOC), commonly referred to as "yellowcake". In total, 15 uranium producing and consuming countries...

Australia has been a long-time key player in the global uranium market. Its uranium policy and regulatory structure has been surprisingly resilient since 1977 - a system that has endowed it with an international reputation for having created a uranium "gold" standard with non-proliferation at...

Canada has been a long-time key producer and global supplier of uranium. It has produced more uranium than any other country, close to 500,000 tU since 1942. It also hosts the worldś largest operating mine (in terms of annual production), mill and refinery and is home to the worldś largest...

Der Trend zur organisatorischen Verselbstständigung kommunaler Dienstleistungen schreitet unaufhörlich fort. Dies ist eine Entwicklung, die nicht nur von Großstädten vorangetrieben wird. Auch die kleineren und mittleren Gemeinden und Städte sowie Landkreise erbringen ihre kommunalen...