…A report published in 2017 by the State Civil Service Agency found that more than 40% of the 696 directors (the highest-ranking bureaucrats) that it assessed were not fit to do their jobs. Want more evidence?
The Corruption Perceptions Index, which runs from 1 to 10, was converted into a simple ranking of countries, with the least corrupt country ranked first. For GDP/capita, countries were ranked from low to high income. 20 For details on Poupatempo, see Annenberg (2006) and Paulics (2003)....
…The US currently funds 19.1% of Part I of the OECD’s budget, according to the letter addressed to House Appropriations State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Chairman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) and ranking member Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.). …Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) s...
CEOs and their high-ranking lieutenants in such corporations send their children to private schools. They have their own private healthcare systems and even protection by armies of private security officers. As far as they are concerned: “Why should we pay for public services that we don’t...
And just as high-ranking field marshals in Hitler’s Wehrmacht held their tongues when he insulted them, so, too, did American generals when Trump belittled their intelligence and even patriotism. When Trump arbitrarily decided to remove American forces from Syria and Afghanistan, Secretary of Def...
The staff of the Privy Council remains important and powerful, however, and the modernPrivy Council Office(PCO) has evolved into the highest-ranking bureaucratic department in Canada. Employing over 500 people, it’s the agency charged with advising and supporting the prime minister of Canada, and...
thought that the IRS might purposely use its power to inconvenience citizens and their groups.[2]The House directed its Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to launch an investigation into the IRS, during which time it interviewed and publicly scrutinized a number of high-ranking civil ...
The essence of such ranking system is control (see Lim 1983; Omohundro 1981, 1983; Oxfeld 1993; Redding 1990; =-=Redding and Whitley 1990-=-). As far as relational properties are concerned, “you trust your family absolutely, your friends and acquaintances to the degree that mutual ...
understood as made in legislatures or top-floor suites of high ranking administrators, because in important ways it is actually made in crowded offices and daily encounters of street level workers. Policy conflict is not only expressed as contention of interest group ...
And his target wasn’t the President of France or the leader of any other country. It was the officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). It’s an organization Dorner knew well, since he had belonged to it from 2005 to 2008. ...