This paper examines the Net neutrality, or argument that the Internet should remain and open and equal platform, debate in the United States up to November 2010. After critically examining the past regulatory and legislative efforts, the feasibility of alternate solutions invested in protecting citizens' interests is examined.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jan. 31, 2007). Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-85).

Language has become a central feature of the debate surrounding Canadian identity. The Canadian project is an example of a state struggling to find a means of accommodating linguistic difference. This struggle is epitomized by the language legislation in Quebec as well as by federal bilingualism. Language legislation is ultimately aimed at promoting and protecting identity. An examination of language legislation as promoted by Quebec and the federal government reveals a different orientation toward the concept of equality. Language policy thus presents both a vision of community and a political argument. Federal language policy promotes a vision of Canada in which English and French are juridically equal. Politically, this vision of community denies Quebec is distinct. Quebec's language policy, on the other hand, asserts the importance of protecting Quebecois culture against the majoritarian impulses of a larger Canadian identity. As a result, Quebec's language legislation incorporates Quebec's different position in Canada into a definition of equality. Recognition that Quebec has a right to protect its language is tantamount to an acknowledgement that Quebec is a distinct society in Canada. The language debate thus embodies competing visions of equality that relate to a specific identity. The national unity issue plaguing Canada cannot be resolved through a commitment to equality as similar treatment. The problem of language planning, in Canada, revolves around finding a way to acknowledge and promote the local aspirations of the Quebecois, without creating an inequitable language environment for the English linguistic minority in Quebec.

This thesis demonstrates that Calvin Coolidge applied a philosophy of limited government to his executive decisions concerning two domestic issues, Prohibition and agricultural policy. In both matters, various groups attempted to pressure Coolidge into permanently increasing the scope of the federal government's activities. Coolidge refused to comply with their demands and maintained his belief in the benefits of a federal government that limited itself to minimal activism by mediating the disputes of conflicting interest groups. Through both Prohibition and the agricultural problem, Coolidge exhibited his effectiveness in handling divisive political issues while maintaining his philosophy of limited government. Overall, this thesis contributes to the scholarly revisionism of Coolidge. / Department of History

The ending of apartheid and the transformation process in South Africa, the transition to democracy brought with them fundamental changes to the form and function of the State. In particular, they bring a restructuring of co-operative governance and intergovernmental relations. The responsibilities, functions and powers of the three spheres of government (national, provincial and local) were changed and streamlined as stated in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act, 108 of 1996. The system of intergovernmental relations delineated in the Constitution differs significantly from that of the previous dispensation, particularly in its ambitions to advance democracy and to improve service delivery to all South Africans. Of particular significance is the respect in the fact that instead of the inherently conflicting intergovernmental relations that characterises most modern states, the Constitution actively promotes co-operation between different levels of government. The Intergovernmental Relations Framework Act, 13 of 2005 was promulgated on 15 August 2005. The Act provides for an institutional framework for the three spheres of government to facilitate coherent government, effective provision of services, monitoring the implementation of policy and legislation, and realisation of developmental goals of government as a whole. All spheres of government must provide effective, efficient, transparent, accountable and coherent government in order to ensure the progressive realisation of constitutional rights. One of the most pervasive challenges facing the country as a developmental state is the need for government to redress poverty, underdevelopment, marginalisation of people and communities and other legacies of apartheid and discrimination. This challenge can only be addressed through a concerted effort by government in all spheres to work together and integrate as far as possible their actions in the provision of service, alleviation of poverty and development of the communities. Co-operation and integration of actions in government depends on a stable and effective system of intergovernmental relations, one in which each of the spheres respect the relative autonomy of the other whilst appreciating the interrelatedness and interdependence of the three spheres. The study elaborated on the research as well as the research problem. In so doing, it further looked at the historical overview of the transition to a democratic South Africa which brought a significant change in the reconfiguration of the state. The studies further deals with a critique of co-operative governance and intergovernmental relations in the Eastern Cape and discuss the perspective on service delivery. In order to critically evaluate the notion of co-operative governance and intergovernmental relations in South Africa with specific reference to Eastern Cape, the study recommended that intergovernmental planning and budgeting, management of change, support and capacity building, communication and stakeholder engagement and institutional arrangement interventions be embarked upon. / Thesis (MBA)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Willoughby, Katherine; Committee Member: Eger, Robert; Committee Member: Kingsley, Gordon; Committee Member: Sjoquist, David; Committee Member: Wallace, Sally.

abstract: Interviews of nine managers within the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division's Western Region were conducted by a researcher who also works as a Wage and Hour Investigator. The intention of this research was to survey the differences in trafficking-related training and experience throughout the region, to examine the role of the Wage and Hour Division in human trafficking casework, and to explore potential areas for growth. This thesis recommends that upper level agency management produces standards for training, interagency engagement, and procedures and also provides suggestions for best practices and effective enforcement. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Social Justice and Human Rights 2011

[pt] Esta dissertação aborda a manipulação simbólica dos corpos em propagandas recentes do Governo Federal. Após ser apropriado socialmente e trabalhado no âmbito da cultura, o corpo (materialidade mais concreta de uma sociedade) é reutilizado pela propaganda e suas técnicas como signos na produção interessada de discursos que visam a afetar a construção social da realidade. Mais do que isso, por abrigar o cruzamento entre o individual e o coletivo, o corpo transfigura-se em dimensão simbólica estratégica para pensar um dos principais dilemas que se colocam à sociabilidade sob o Estado nacional desde sua formação: a articulação constante entre partes e todo. O código racial/étnico utilizado para promover ideias em torno da identidade nacional brasileira (miscigenada) apagando diferenças e hierarquias sociais quando o tema é a coesão nacional, também serve de base para a elaboração de discursos que as confirmam sob determinadas perspectivas interessantes a um projeto específico de governo. Por isso, a pesquisa procura analisar qualitativamente as representações sociais suscitadas pelos corpos presentes nos anúncios estudados dividindo-as em dois grandes núcleos de significação. Faces de uma mesma moeda, um deles remete a representações de brasilidade e de pertencimento à nação, enquanto o outro articula mecanismos de classificação social. / [en] This thesis approaches the symbolic manipulation of bodies on recent advertisements of the Brazilian Federal Government. After being socially appropriated and worked in the field of culture, the body (the most concrete materiality of a society) is reused by advertising and by its techniques as signs on the interested production of discourses that seek to affect the social construction of reality. More than this, for housing the cross between the individual and the collective, the body becomes a strategic symbolic dimension in order to think one of the main dilemmas that the sociability faces under the national State since its formation: the constant junction between parts and whole. The racial/ethnic code used to promote ideas about the Brazilian national identity (mixed) that erases differences and social hierarchies when the subject is national cohesion, also serves as the basis for the elaboration of speeches that confirm them under certain interested perspectives to a specific project of governance. Therefore, the research seeks to analyze qualitatively the social representations raised by the bodies that are present in the ads we have studied. For this, we have divided them into two great cores of meaning. Sides of the same coin, one refers to representations of brasilidade and of the fact of belonging to the nation, while the other articulates mechanisms of social classification.

Submitted by Guilherme Silveira Leite (guilherme.silveira.leite@gmail.com) on 2016-03-09T03:49:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Guilherme_Leite.pdf: 761355 bytes, checksum: 943adb2f7b300c89b8c6a6dd02dbd45d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Renata de Souza Nascimento (renata.souza@fgv.br) on 2016-03-10T16:13:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Guilherme_Leite.pdf: 761355 bytes, checksum: 943adb2f7b300c89b8c6a6dd02dbd45d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-10T16:16:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Guilherme_Leite.pdf: 761355 bytes, checksum: 943adb2f7b300c89b8c6a6dd02dbd45d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-17 / The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of electoral variables, such as political alignment and election years, in the public federal banks behavior. Using banking and electoral data for Brazilian municipalities, panel regressions are made in order to identify the credit and loss provisions pattern in political aligned cities through the electoral cycle. By the tests we found no evidence of credit or loss provisions increase related to the electoral variables, results that do not support the political use of public banks hypothesis. / O objetivo deste trabalho é verificar se a atuação dos bancos públicos federais é impactada por variáveis eleitorais como o alinhamento político e períodos de eleição. Utilizando dados de crédito bancário e dados eleitorais dos municípios brasileiros, são feitas regressões em painel para identificar o comportamento do crédito e das provisões dos bancos públicos federais em cidades politicamente alinhadas ao governo federal ao longo do ciclo eleitoral. Pelos testes realizados, não encontramos evidências de aumento da concessão do crédito ou de aumento das provisões relacionadas às variáveis eleitorais, resultados que não corroboram a hipótese de uso político dos bancos públicos.

FICK, Vera Maria Soares. O Instituto de Ação da Cidadania dos Funcionários do Banco do Nordeste no Assentamento Unidos de Santa Bárbara: um estudo de caso. 2005. 115f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2005. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-16T16:55:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_dis_vmsfick.pdf: 1568265 bytes, checksum: 7142a925c15538e9fe3fd2df3615eeaf (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-08-17T14:27:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_dis_vmsfick.pdf: 1568265 bytes, checksum: 7142a925c15538e9fe3fd2df3615eeaf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-17T14:27:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_dis_vmsfick.pdf: 1568265 bytes, checksum: 7142a925c15538e9fe3fd2df3615eeaf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Throughout history, the Brazilian State has adopted different strategies in issues related to the economic development of the Northeast Region. The creation, in 1909, of the National Department of Works Against Drought (DNOCS), the former Inspection of Works Against Drought, the São Francisco Hydroelectric Company (CHESF) in 1945, Banco do Nordeste in 1952, and the Superintendency (SUDENE) in 1959 are examples of these actions, implemented until the middle of the last century. In the last decades, the actions of the federal government in the region have prioritized already favored groups, or sectors of activities considered dynamic and competitive, to the At the same time as they have provided an industrial development envelope sustained, above all, by the fiscal renunciation and, often, by the force of workers submitted to new forms of exploitation and control of labor. [...] / Ao longo da história o Estado brasileiro adotou diferentes estratégias na condução das questões relacionadas ao desenvolvimento econômico da Região Nordeste. A criação, em 1909, do Departamento Nacional de Obras Contra a Seca (DNOCS), antiga Inspetoria de Obras Contra as Secas, da Companhia Hidrelétrica do São Francisco (CHESF), em 1945, do Banco do Nordeste, em 1952, e da Superintendência de Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (SUDENE), em 1959, são exemplos destas ações,implementadas até meados do século passado.Nas últimas décadas, as ações do governo federal na região têm priorizado grupos já favorecidos, ou setores de atividades considerados dinâmicos e competitivos, ao mesmo tempo em que têm propiciado um invólucro de desenvolvimento industrial sustentado, sobretudo, pela renúncia fiscal e, muitas vezes, movido pela força de trabalhadores submetidos a novas formas de exploração e de controle do trabalho. [...]