The Business of Missing Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Author(s):  
ABRAHAM B. BERGMAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Breakfast Cereal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Congressional Committees ◽  
Missing Children ◽  
Cereal Boxes

No pediatric issue has so captured the attention of the American public during the past year as that of missing children. It is impossible to escape the haunting faces who peer out at us from television screens, milk cartons, breakfast cereal boxes, grocery sacks, bus posters, and business envelopes. Corporations vie with each other over sponsorship of public service campaigns to "publicize the plight of missing children," while television stations compete with a whole variety of specials. Naturally, whenever emotional concerns of such magnitude are raised, politicians are sure to become involved with stern demands for "immediate action." In May 1985, no less than three separate congressional committees held hearings on missing children all in the same week.

scholarly journals The management strategy for government building disposal process in Jakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 06007
Author(s):  
Mulyadi ◽  
Ayomi Rarasati
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Actual Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Building Demolition ◽  
Management Cycle

The feasibility of government buildings, especially offices and schools as public service and social infrastructures, must be well maintained. When the building needs to be majorly rehabilitated, the government sometimes has to combine building demolition and deconstruction processes. In the government asset management cycle, the process starts with erasing the asset from the accountancy system, by selecting a building demolition contractor, then producing a new asset by selecting another builder contractor. In the past few years, the duration of this actual process acquired longer than the planned time. Therefore, this research aims to develop a management strategy in order to improve the government building disposal process. The process of the research started with obtaining the dominant factors that influence the demolition and deconstruction process, and then it is continued by developing the strategy.

Non-Partisan Advisors in the Minister’s Office—Ghosts in the Core Executive Machine?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Cole
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Resource Dependency ◽  
Policy Coordination ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Core Executive ◽  
Dependency Approach ◽  
Over Time

Abstract The ‘core executive’ is conceived of as the collection of organisations and procedures that coordinate executive government. Two approaches to core executive studies are: the resource dependency approach, which focusses on how roles interact and resources are utilised; and the functional approach, which focusses on how roles change over time. Both approaches are applied to non-partisan advisors (private secretaries) in ministerial office settings, actors which to date core executive studies have ignored. It reveals the resources that non-partisan advisors apply to contribute to policy coordination and maintain political neutrality; and that their role has changed since the increased presence of partisan advisors in ministers’ offices in the past 20 years. Six distinct roles describe how non-partisan advisors respond to and meet the needs of both minister and public service in the core executive. When compared with political advisory roles, five of the roles appear strongly aligned in function.

Fifty years ago: ‘Free enterprise and public service’

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-28
Author(s):  
Anon
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Occupational Health Services ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
The Past ◽  
Selection Of

This series provides a selection of articles from the past. In Fifty years ago: ‘Free enterprise and public service’ the author briefly explores Government policy on occupational health services, particularly the issues faced from services being run like commercial businesses.

scholarly journals A softer kind of hard news? Data journalism and the digital renewal of public service news in Sweden

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482097541
Author(s):  
Andreas Widholm ◽  
Ester Appelgren
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
News Production ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Service Organizations ◽  
Soft News ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
New Research

Over the past decade, data journalism has received considerable attention among scholars, pointing to novel forms of investigative reporting as well as new daily practices of news production. This study contributes to existing scholarship by conceptualizing data journalism through distinctions between hard and soft news in relation to service journalism. We analyze news produced by specialized data desks in Swedish public service organizations over a 5-year period (2015–2019) and propose a model for how service journalism attributes can be used as a bridge between the binary categories of hard and soft in data journalism. With this model, we point to how data journalism in public service organizations challenges established notions of soft and hard news and how hybrid production practices open up new research trajectories concerning the societal significance of news in the digital age.

Comment on the ‘leopard’ killings

Africa ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. G. McCall
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
The Past ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Comprehensive Discussion

Opening ParagraphDr Nwaka, in writing his paper on the ‘man-leopard’ killings of southern Annang, Nigeria, 1943–48, has performed a good public service for Nigeria. During the past few years a number of Nigerians have expressed to me the view that the killings should be written up. Now Dr Nwaka has done just this, and only after a very considerable amount of research, as his extensive references indicate. The fact that I do not accept his main conclusion is not the point. His paper forms the basis for a comprehensive discussion of the circumstances surrounding the killings from 1943 to 1948, and for this we owe him a real debt of gratitude.

The State of Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation and its Role in Policy Formation

2012 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
pp. R41-R52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Davies
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Evidence Based Policy ◽  
The Uk

This paper argues that evidence-based policy has clearly made a worldwide impact, at least at the rhetorical and institutional levels, and in terms of analytical activity. The paper then addresses whether or not evidence-based policy evaluation has had an impact on policy formation and public service delivery. The paper uses a model of research-use that suggests that evidence can be used in instrumental, conceptual and symbolic ways. Taking four examples of the use of evidence in the UK over the past decade, this paper argues that evidence can be used instrumentally, conceptually and symbolically in complementary ways at different stages of the policy cycle and under different policy and political circumstances. The fact that evidence is not always used instrumentally, in the sense of “acting on research results in specific, direct ways” (Lavis et al., 2003, p. 228), does not mean that it has little or no influence. The paper ends by considering some of the obstacles to getting research evidence into policy and practice, and how these obstacles might be overcome.

VI. The Brazilian Program of Administrative Reform

1945 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 536-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Reining
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
Getulio Vargas ◽  
Merit System ◽  
Central Management

The régime of Getulio Vargas has in the past fourteen years wrought a major transformation in the national government of Brazil. A vast centralization has taken place whereby the states' rights direction of the post-Empire period—1889–1930—was reversed and both the states and the municipalities were brought under control. New ministries and other national organs were created. A merit system was established and a public service organized. The national administration has been integrated both structurally and by means of central management agencies.These sweeping changes have come rapidly, mostly in the past five years. There is added interest for people in the United States of America because the precedents have been taken from the theory and practice of this country. It will not be possible to present in this brief paper more than a summary of the Brazilian administrative reforms.

Putting the Methodological Cart Before the Theoretical Horse? Examining the Application of SEM to Connect Theory and Method in Public Administration Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall S. Davis ◽  
Edmund C. Stazyk
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
The Past ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
Statistical Approaches

The application of psychometric statistical techniques, such as confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, has grown significantly in public administration research over the past three decades. Given the growth in the application of these techniques, we take stock of the ability of these statistical approaches to advance public administration theory by examining their use in two areas of research: public service motivation and red tape. We further argue that theoretical and methodological diversity in public administration is desirable, so long as scholars recognize that the application of new and multiple methods in a single study do not inherently lead to better tests of theory. Instead, scholarship should focus on emphasizing that each theoretical and methodological approach adds significant, yet partial, contribution to public administration scholarship.

scholarly journals Changing the Story: An Alternative Approach to System Change in Public Service Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-70
Author(s):  
Sandra Geelhoed ◽  
Hayley Trowbridge ◽  
Sarah Henderson ◽  
Lauren Wallace-Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
System Change ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Managerial Innovation

Abstract Storytelling is a powerful instrument for system change. Telling stories of lived experience, listening to them, and sharing them contributes to a culture of trust based on dignity, mutual respect and shared values. In this paper we draw attention to public service innovation and co-creation with the people the service is meant for. In the past years, public service innovation was result-and output driven, targeting technological and managerial innovation. Stories of service users revealed the unintended negative consequences of such innovation policies and opened new perspectives for conversations of change based on shared values leading to innovations based on human development and dignity.

scholarly journals A revised scoring scheme for the classification of socio-economic status in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Michael O. Ibadin ◽  
George O. Akpede
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Rater Reliability ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University

Background: Researchers in medicine and related fields in Nigeria have usually made recourse to the instrument developed by Olusanya et al and Oyedeji in the past three-and-a half decades for determination of socioeconomic status (SES). Beside the question of their age, however, these instruments were purposive and might no longer be suitable because of the changes in the parameters on which they were based.Objective: To develop a robust but generic scheme that takes into consideration the changes in the nation’s socioeconomic space in the succeeding three and a half decades.Methods: A detailed and comprehensive review of the extant schemes was undertaken with a view to identifying their inherent weaknesses. The latter were then factored into the design of a new scheme taking into consideration the emergent restructuring of career positions in the civil/public service as well as the place of private and informal sectors of the economy. The new scheme was validated at the University of Beninand Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospitals.Results: The new scheme had a remarkably high Inter-rater reliability (r = 0.947, p<0.001), raterre- rater reliability (r = 0.984, p <0.001) and % agreement (with modified Oyedeji’s tool as standard) of 67% (K coefficient = 0.47, r = 0.71, p<0.001)Conclusion/Recommendation: The new scheme could be a viable tool for the assessment of SES of families and individuals, which not only takes into consideration current realities of the nation’s economy, but also is readily adaptable to meet foreseeable changes.

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