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A free and informative press is widely agreed to be crucial to the democratic process today. But throughout much of the nineteenth century U.S. newspapers were often public relations tools funded by politicians, and newspaper independence was a rarity. The newspaper industry underwent...
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data from New York City, which assigns accountability grades to schools based on student achievement, I perform a … find that a lower accountability grade decreases teacher turnover and increases joining teachers' quality. A likely channel … is that accountability pressures induce increases in principal effort at lower-graded schools, especially among high …
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more accountable than others. The relationship between elite identity and political accountability is complex and non … the British Crown. Consistent with the theory, we find evidence linking this to rising accountability of the islands …
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transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …
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"The notion of empowerment has been more often deductively claimed than carefully defined or inductively assessed by development scholars and practitioners alike. The authors define and assess empowerment through an in-depth examination of the extent to which a large community development...
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significant public investment decisions. A plethora of participatory governance institutions have since proliferated in Brazil …. However, the OP constitutes one element in a broader complex system of participatory governance in Porto Alegre. Findings on …
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significant public investment decisions. A plethora of participatory governance institutions have since proliferated in Brazil …. However, the OP constitutes one element in a broader complex system of participatory governance in Porto Alegre. Findings on …
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databases and the strengthening of MIDES's Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system; (b) increased transparency and strengthened … accountability in selected departments through the piloting of a participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) approach; (c …
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