On the Importance of the Americans With Disabilities Act at 30

2021 ◽  
pp. 104420732110369
Author(s):  
Peter Blanck
Keyword(s):  
Title I ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Employment Discrimination ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
The Public ◽  
Title Iii ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Definition Of

This article offers a glimpse of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) of 1990, as amended by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (“ADAAA”), at its 30th anniversary. It considers current issues before the courts, primarily legal cases from 2020 and 2021, and new questions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, such the latitude of the ADA’s antidiscrimination protections and its definition of disability. It provides a quick primer on the basics of the ADA: employment discrimination under Title I, antidiscrimination mandates for state and local governments under Title II, and commands to places of accommodation offering services to the public under Title III. The ADA at 30 remains a beacon for a future in which all people, regardless of individual difference, will be welcomed as full and equal members of society.

The Continuing Problem of Special Districts in American Government

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larita Killian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Special Districts ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Policy Alignment ◽  
Definition Of

ABSTRACT Due to fiscal constraints and demands for increased accountability, scholars and public officials are reviewing the structure and reporting practices of local governments. These efforts are often incomplete, however, because they bypass special districts, which now comprise over 40 percent of all local governments. The proliferation of special districts has the potential to increase government costs, redirect the allocation of scarce resources, remove debt and expenditure practices from the public eye, and reduce democratic controls over elected officials. This paper highlights some of the public interest concerns related to these entities to inform future, localized research. For decades, scholars have approached special districts from two opposing theoretical perspectives: institutional reform and public choice. Literature from these opposing perspectives is used to analyze special districts along three dimensions: efficiency and economy of operations, policy alignment and allocation of resources, and democratic accountability. This paper uses the U.S. Census Bureau definition of special districts, though alternative definitions are discussed. Efforts by four states (Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and New York) to improve local government, and their varying approaches to special districts, are reviewed, leading to the conclusion that the complex issues related to special districts must be resolved within state contexts.

scholarly journals Regional budget policy: conceptual dominants and vectors of development

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (-) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Vitalii ZIANKO ◽  
Tetiana NECHYPORENKO
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Budget Planning ◽  
Regional Budget ◽  
Budget Policy ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Regional Budgets

The paper is devoted to the implementation of regional budget policy in Ukraine. The main vectors of budget policy development as a component of socio-economic policy at the local level are highlighted. Within the framework of the declared budget policy, the peculiarities of the formation and functioning of local (regional) budgets are considered. The interpretation of the definitions of "budget" and "policy" is presented, and the author's definition of the essence of the budget policy of the region is offered. The conceptual dominants of budget policy, the implementation of which takes place through the budget mechanism, are studied. It is proved that budget policy is an important lever of influence and a real reflection of the tactics and strategy of public authorities and local governments in the budget sphere. It is substantiated that the effectiveness of the implementation of regional budget policy directly depends on the sequence of steps aimed at increasing the level of competitiveness of the regions and overcoming the existing regional disparities. On the basis of generalization of thematic researches and practice the offers concerning application of levers of budgetary regulation which define a level of efficiency of budgetary policy of region are formulated. It is stated that the content of the budget policy of the region should be to determine the course, tasks and activities of the state and local governments in the field of formation and use of budget funds. Full implementation of the budget policy of the region stimulates the functioning of economic activity of administrative-territorial units, promotes rational budget planning, as well as the effective filling, distribution and use of local financial resources.

scholarly journals Worker Choices About Payouts in Public Pensions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Clark ◽  
Janet Raye Cowell
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Pension Plans ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Defined Benefit ◽  
Retirement Plans ◽  
The Public ◽  
State And Local ◽  
State Employees ◽  
State Pension

This chapter reviews available data on the annuity choices offered to retirees who participate in defined benefit (DB) plans. DB plans are most commonly offered by state and local governments to their employees, and information on annuity options is readily available. The authors examine all state pension plans that cover general state employees and teachers, and develop a table showing the similarities and differences across these approximately eighty separate state retirement plans. The authors determine the proportion of retirees selecting each of the annuity options. Where possible, annuity options in the public sector are compared to those offered by private sector employers. The chapter also reviews the empirical literature on who chooses the various annuity options offered in DB plans. Finally, the authors consider the policy implications of plan design and how this affects the types of annuities offered to retirees.

“Choosing Sides”: Comment

1987 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 230-235
Author(s):  
Louis Galambos
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Political Action Committees ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
State And Local

In the past century the American political system has changed in dramatic ways. A new national state has been created, and a substantial part of the nation's goods and services has been entrusted to its care. New administrative agencies allocate most of those resources, working in tandem with a multitude of private and other public organizations. Complex webs of fiscal interaction tie state and local governments—themselves greatly enlarged—to the nation state. All these public bodies are surrounded by and closely allied with formidable interest groups, with political action committees, with business corporations and foundations, and with various professional organizations. Swirling about this great governmental mass in recent years are the consultants, lawyers, and technicians who slip in and out of the public sector as administrations change or their careers dictate; these policy professionals, wherever they land, make use of their special knowledge and contacts in particular areas of public activity.

Skilling for E-Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 1451-1459
Author(s):  
H. Druke
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Central Administration ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
User Groups ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Training Opportunities

Implementing e-government in local, regional, or central administration represents a far-reaching modernisation of governing the public affairs. Therefore, in training it is not sufficient to train users in new programs as in the case of f.i. further training in a new office application. To understand and actively influence the restructuring that, by necessity, goes along with the introduction of e-government a broader approach in e-skilling is needed. For Grabow, Drüke, H., and Siegfried (2002), e-skilling is one of the ten factors for success in local e-government. Schelin (2004) goes into the same direction when she points out: “With the era of digital government upon us, Federal, state, and local governments need to prepare their elected officials and employees to handle the multitude of changes incorporated into digital government. However, the lack of training opportunities, as well as the lack of research dedicated to training for digital government, is ominous for successful digital government endeavour ...” (Schelin, 2004, p. 273). Whereas Schelin in this encyclopaedia, presents the content and methods of an advanced training module this contribution focuses on the competencies that are required to enable the different user groups to be up-to-date for the new challenges that are ahead of them. In accordance to that approach in the first chapter the basic challenges that different user groups have to face when being confronted with e-government as a comprehensive modernisation concept.

Student-Athletes and Campus Bookies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert J. Figone
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Student ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
College Football ◽  
Federal State ◽  
College Sports ◽  
The Public ◽  
State And Local ◽  
New Generation

This chapter reviews further basketball scandals from the 1980s and 1990s. As the professionalization and commercialization of college sports continued, gambling became increasingly accepted among college students. Since wagering on college sports was illegal in all states except Nevada, shady bookmakers reaped immense sums from the public's interest in betting on college football and basketball. By the early 1980s, the NCAA relied on the federal, state, and local governments to enforce and prosecute gambling-related crimes because the association, along with the conferences and colleges' athletic establishments, found it impossible to prevent game fixing. Most coaches had convinced the public that it was impossible to detect the rigging of basketball games, a viewpoint that only encouraged anyone wanting to fix games. A new generation of college student gamblers on sports would contribute to the decades-old scourge of game rigging, leading once again to federal and state investigations and prosecutions.

Impact Of Title I Of The Americans With Disabilities Act On People With Psychiatric Disabilities

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Spirito Dalgin
Keyword(s):  
Title I ◽  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Psychiatric Disabilities ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Current Information ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

This article describes the intricacies of Title I of the ADA for people with psychiatric disabilities. Due to the complexities of the law it is important that rehabilitation counselors understand the specific dilemmas Title I presents for this population. Concerns about the ADA's definition of disability, qualification for the job, requesting accommodations, and disclosure will be discussed. Additionally, recent case law is provided on the impact of Title I for people with psychiatric disabilities. Rehabilitation counselors will gain critical and current information about ADA issues for people with psychiatric disabilities.

The Fight for Access to Government Records round Two: Enter the Computer

1994 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigman L. Splichal ◽  
Bill F. Chamberlin
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Government Records

Federal, state, and local governments are converting public records to computer formats at a rapid pace, creating novel issues with respect to public access. Record requesters are finding access laws, written when most documents were on paper and stored in file cabinets, inadequate when applied to requests for records held in government computers. As a result, requesters have turned to the courts to define the contours of public access in the computer age. Several court cases suggest government agencies are using the fact information is in a computer as an excuse to withhold records. This paper underlines the need to rewrite access laws to acknowledge the pervasive role of computers in government. It proposes a fifteen-point approach to computerized information to help guide the public and media in their quest to ensure computers are used to enhance public access, not undermine it.

scholarly journals Internal Audit in the Statutory Bodies and Government-linked Companies of Malaysia: The Never Ending Saga!

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azham Md. Ali ◽  
Ram Al Jaffri Saad, Aryati Juliana Suleman, Ahmad Zamil Abd Khalid ◽  
Juergen Dieter Gloeck
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
The State ◽  
Internal Auditors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internal Audit Function ◽  
The Face ◽  
State And Local

This paper is part of the third and final study conducted on the state of internal audit in the public sector of Malaysia. The first study was concerned with the internal audit operations in the state and local governments found in  Peninsular Malaysia (Azham et al 2007a), while the second study was concerned with internal audit in the nation’s federal government ministries, departments and agencies (Azham et al 2007b). This third study covers 47 organizations at the federal government level, comprising 27 statutory bodies and 20 government-linked companies. From the face-to-face interviews conducted with internal auditors over the three year period 2005 to 2007, several notable audit features emerged as common to all 47 organizations. Some are depressing, while a few others are encouraging. All in all, however, the internal audit function in a majority of the organizations still leaves much to be desired. Also, it is notable that these findings are very much like those of the previous two internal audit studies (Azham et al 2007a; 2007b), and to make sense of the dismal state of the internal audit function in the public organizations, there is perhaps a need to look at the bigger context within which the internal audit function is found.

scholarly journals Globalist potential of the territorial community: current issues of definition, understanding and possible implementation

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Denis Bobrovnyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Local System ◽  
Collective Mentality ◽  
The Face ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
International Experts ◽  
Final Consumer

The article is devoted to the study of topical issues of definition, understanding and possible realization of the globalist potentialof the territorial community.It is argued that local self-government and territorial community, firstly, are the direct subject of globalization, because they areinfluenced by its factors and species blocks (economic, political, legal, etc.), and secondly, they act as the final consumer of its benefits– the beneficiaries, and the direct or indirect object of its negative phenomena (global, regional and domestic economic crisis dueto the pandemic COVID-19, and related unemployment, closure of enterprises, delays in payment of wages salaries, pensions and othersocial benefits, sequestration of social articles of the state and local budgets, etc.); in addition, thirdly, when applied directly to locallife, they are the relevant user, producer and reproducer of its achievements, actively using them to organize their life cycle or relyingon the influence of global factors on their daily lives.It is proved that the definition of a complex system-complex phenomenology of the globalist potential of the territorial communityis due to the fact that, firstly, it is simultaneously related to domestic – municipal and constitutional law, as well as systems of generalinternational law and international relations; secondly, it has not yet been properly reflected in the science of municipal and internationallaw, although some domestic and foreign scholars and international experts have touched on this issue in an attempt to focuson this phenomenon (phenomenon), which is mostly evaluative. nature.It is established that determining the global potential of the territorial community, it should be understood that it is based on theknowledge, skills and abilities of its members, as well as formed by local governments (representative and executive), including allother bodies and subjects of the local system. self-government – to protect the existential guidelines for the existence, functioning anddevelopment of territorial community in the face of global influences and changes, taking into account its own individual and groupand collective cooperation opportunities both at the level of its own state and abroad, historical and geographical identity, guidelinesfor individual and collective mentality, appropriate sustainable forms of social life and social practice, based on the relevant moral andethical values of community.

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