The Municipal administration of Glasgow, 1833-1912, examines the evolution of civic government in Scotland's major industrial city during a period of unprecedented urban development. The thesis is centred on the contribution of town councillors in determining a distinctly Scottish municipal identity, and the extent to which social, economic and political influences helped shape prevailing attitudes towards the public service. Biographical sources have been used to construct a collective profile of the 577 representatives who served on Glasgow Town Council during this time. However, attention is also focused on the municipal bureaucracy, especially the role of the Town Clerks. The 1833 Burgh Reform Act redefined the civic entity of Glasgow, and removed the traditional burgess basis of authcirity. Yet it was not until 1846 that the Council was able to overcome numerous legal obstacles and extend its sphere of operations. Thereafter, municipal policy was directed towards a programme of city improvenent, beginning with the spectacularly successful Loch Katrine water supply in 1855. The quality of urban life was a major civic preoccupation, and the importance of issues such as temperance reflected the concern of many councillors to present a more positive image for Glasgow. The notion of "civic pride" took firm root during the 1850s, and the following decades represented a period of steady consolidation. During this time the Council expended considerable energy in attempting to extend the municipal boundaries, particularly as many outlying areas already benefited from Glasgow's public utilities. After several false starts, success was achieved in 1891, and the municipality underwent extensive administrative restructuring. Yet by the 1900s, the rise of Labour and the spectre of "municipal socialism" had called Glasgow's civic priorities into question. Despite the controversy, there was no significant reversal of the Council's long-held expansionist strategy, and territorial additions in 1912 enlarged the city substantially.

This dissertation examines whether men and women in rural local government differ on a number of demographic and attitudinal variables. Using survey data for city council members in rural Iowa, this dissertation used difference of means tests, cross-tabs and multiple regression modeling (OLS and logistic regression) to compare the responses of male and female town councilors. Scholarship on state legislatures and Congress often find that male and female legislators are different on a number of important demographic and attitudinal variables and many feminists argue that electing more women to office will change the way government institutions work. However, council members are very different from legislators at higher levels of government, and many of the theories developed using data from Congress and state legislators do not apply. Male and female town councilors share many important characteristics and attitudes, with some important exceptions. Women and men in local government are different on many demographic characteristics, in their approach to the delegate-trustee dilemma and regarding the initial motivation to run for office. On occasions where council members disagree with their constituents on policy issues, women are more likely to be politicos than trustees. Female council members were less likely than male council members to run for office because they were interested in addressing a particular issue and more likely to say that they ran for office because they believed there was no good alternative. Several factors contribute to the differences between council members small town Iowa and other types of elected officials in the U.S: the nature of elections and office responsibilities at the local level, and conservative rural politics.

The literature on descriptive and substantive representation focuses on elected representatives, but overlooks the gender of those who play an integral role in policy process (agenda-setting) and outcomes (implementation): The elected’s chief of staff, senior policy advisors, and, in council-manager systems, the city manager. This thesis examines the role policy staff and city manager gender plays in substantive representation. After analyzing staff composition and agenda priorities — gleaned from State of the City addresses — for mayors of the 50 most-populous cities in the United States, I found substantial evidence to support my hypotheses that the chief of staff’s gender, not the elected’s gender, will drive the overall gender of staff as well as the gender characterization of policy agendas. Mayors — regardless of gender — with female chiefs of staff in this dataset have more female staffers and more neutral policy agendas. Mayors — regardless of gender — with male chiefs of staff have more male staffers and mostly masculine policy. In weak mayor systems, city managers’ gender strongly influences mayoral policy agendas, especially in small cities; since most city managers are male, those policy agendas are more masculine, regardless of the mayor’s and chief of staff’s gender. Thus, I find that staff who are involved in the intricacies of policy process and outcome have a stronger influence on policy than the public-facing elected official. These results, supplemented by interviews with mayors and chiefs of staff from across the country, could change the importance scholars place on descriptive representation, and alter scholars’ approach to studying both substantive representation for women and American democracy in general.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-296). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-296). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (MTech (Public Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2006. / Every organisation needs to have well-trained and experienced human resources to perform organisational activities. In the absence of such resources, it is necessary to raise the skills levels and increase the versatility and adaptability of current personnel. The aim of the study was to analyse the impact of training and development on service delivery in the City of Cape Town. Chapter one introduced the study and includes the terms of reference, the problem statement, the objectives of the study and the key questions pertaining to the study. As part of the methodology the researcher conducted a pre-testing of the competencies of the experimental group, investigating the extent to which present competencies contributed towards execution of service delivery obligations and the extent to which lack of capacity contributed to lack of service delivery. Chapter two provided information on the evolution of local government training and development in South Africa. The chapter found that there has been a complete democratization of local government structures where the emphasis has been on greater development, particularly in terms of human resource development. Chapter three analysed the Human Resource Development Strategy for staff development in the Western Cape Provincial Administration. Legislation such as the South African Qualifications Authority Act 1996 (SAQA), the Skills Development Act of 1998 and the Skills Development Levies Act of 1999 formed the basis for Human Resource Development Strategy in the Western Cape Province particularly the in City of Cape Town. Chapter four put forward the research design and methodology. The technique used to obtain information for the study included a literature review. A survey was conducted with selected employees. In the chapter a brief overview of the study is provided, as well as the methods utilized, data collected and the proposed data analysis. Chapter five concluded the study and put forward recommendations. One such recommendation is for example, the utilization of the concept training and development in a more concrete way, and the redefinition of the consequent roles or duties of trainers. It may appear as if implementation of training and development was not done effectively. It is unclear whether trainers were able to conceptualise and interpret the aims and objectives of training and development in the City of Cape Town.

Magister Legum - LLM / This thesis attempted to examine the enabling conditions of existing South African water law and its implementation by the appropriate authorities. The Cape Town Municipality's management over water supply and services is included in this study. The research attempted to expose any shortcomings that might be prevalent in the new water law. The water allocation mechanism of the transformed water legislation and the water demands within various competing water user sectors of the community, such as those pertaining to agriculture and industry, was also explored. / South Africa

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:16:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Simone Fantucci.pdf: 1364163 bytes, checksum: 0fd8ac75a9a87306e3685247cc4b63a3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-28 / The central theme of this work is the technical and legislative consulting activity in City Councils. Based on the knowledge of the assignments and work processes of a team of consultants, this study sought to answer what would be the contributions of Social Work in this professional acting space. It is known that advisory and consulting are listed as professional skills of a social worker in the Law that regulates the occupation, which led to the question: For what reasons has the existence of social worker consultant, acting with their technical and scientific knowledge within the scope of the Legislative Power, been rare? Assuming that the social worker has legitimate technical and professional competence to carry out legislative consulting, the following assumptions have been identified: the fact of there being a small number of and/or there being no social worker consultants in the Legislative Power would be associated with the fact that technical and legislative consulting has been consolidated recently and in Legislatives with greater structural complexity; the dilemmas about the meaning of a "highly technical" body of professionals in the Legislative Power are still persistent, such as the Institutional Consulting, due to several political interests; contests for the access to a consultant position are performed in different ways; there is low investment in human resources for the work linked to social areas; the Social Work profession would still be associated only with the Social Assistance area and the final execution of that Policy; and last but not least, the social workers little knowledge or total lack of knowledge of institutional legislative consulting. The research is qualitative and has been carried out through the search of documentary sources, bibliographical survey and gathering and analysis of statements by some legislative consultants who deal with social issues. As a result, we can say that the existence and the activity of Legislative Consulting are still incipient due to countless reasons, the main one being the little appreciation of the technical and scientific work. Moreover, Social Work has wide space for performance in this position, in a critical and relatively autonomous way, according to the ethicalpolitical project of the professional category of social workers, based on the Code of Ethics, which, together with other documents, sets out the principles, values and guidelines of the aforementioned project / O tema central do presente trabalho é o exercício da Consultoria técnico-legislativa nas Câmaras Municipais. A partir do conhecimento das atribuições e processos de trabalho de uma equipe de consultores, procurou-se responder quais seriam as contribuições do Serviço Social nesse espaço de atuação profissional. É sabido que a assessoria e a consultoria estão elencadas como competências profissionais do assistente social na Lei que regulamenta a profissão, o que levou à questão: por quais razões tem sido rara a existência do assistente social consultor, atuante com seu conhecimento técnico-científico no âmbito do Poder Legislativo? Admitindo-se que o assistente social tem legítima competência técnico-profissional para exercer a consultoria legislativa, foram levantadas as seguintes hipóteses: o fato de não se ter conhecimento e/ou de haver reduzido número de assistentes sociais consultores no Poder Legislativo estaria associado ao fato de a Consultoria técnico-legislativa estar se consolidando recentemente e principalmente em Legislativos de maior complexidade estrutural; ainda são persistentes os dilemas no Poder Legislativo sobre o significado de um corpo eminentemente técnico de profissionais, tal como a Consultoria Institucional, em face dos diversos interesses políticos; os concursos de acesso ao cargo de consultor são realizados de diferentes formas; há baixo investimento em recursos humanos para o trabalho afeto às áreas sociais; a profissão de Serviço Social ainda seria associada apenas à área da Assistência Social e à execução terminal dessa Política, e, por último mas não menos importante, o pouco ou total desconhecimento do próprio assistente social quanto à consultoria institucional legislativa. A pesquisa tem caráter qualitativo e foi realizada por meio de consulta a fontes documentais, por levantamento bibliográfico e pela coleta e análise de depoimentos de alguns consultores legislativos que se ocupam de temáticas da área social. Como resultado, podemos dizer que a existência e a atuação da Consultoria Legislativa são ainda incipientes por inúmeras razões, sendo a principal delas a pouca valorização do trabalho técnico-científico no âmbito do Legislativo. Ademais, o Serviço Social tem amplo espaço para uma atuação neste cargo de uma forma crítica e relativamente autônoma, segundo o projeto ético-político da categoria profissional dos assistentes sociais, à luz do Código de Ética que, em conjunto com outros documentos, enuncia os princípios, valores e diretrizes do aludido projeto

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:13:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006-Sandro Augusto Viegas Leao.pdf: 1817546 bytes, checksum: 92779aab225ffa58d5aede0123875209 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-22 / In the Amazon, the difficulties of political participation of social groups of the ruling processes, open space for the investigation on the obstacles of the legitimation of new public politics. The contradictions in the relationships between the public power and the civil association and the open tendencies for the implementation of those politics need to be identified and explained. The regional configuration of the government programs and it relationship with the local actors constitute central element of analysis. In this direction, this study it searchs to present a general characterization of the experiences of management of the politics, in return of the National Program of enlargement of Familiar Agriculture - PRONAF in the line Infrastructure: the City councils of Sustainable Agricultural Development - CMDRS's and the Politics of Territorial Development of the Secretariat of Territorial Development - SDT/MDA. We will break of the process of creation and constitution of the CMDRS/Santar?m and the territory of Low Amazon, to argue later as these enclosures for bullfighting functioned, and are functioning now, detaching the aspects that mark institucional advances and politicians of the two experiences. Our universe of study is the city of Santar?m and the organized and institutionalized actors that depends, live, produce and act in its half agricultural one. For in such a way bibliographical revision of main the thematic ones was carried through treated here and that they had given to support the field research, carried through together to the excellent actors to the santareno way agricultural that acts and/or if they benefit of such politics. The objective is to understand the dynamics of the politics in local level (municipal), having with central focus, the performance of the main social actors in the implementation/planning process; control; e coordination of the actions developed in its institucional environment. / Na Amaz?nia, as dificuldades de participa??o pol?tica de grupos sociais dos processos decis?rios, abrem espa?o para a investiga??o sobre os obst?culos da legitima??o de novas pol?ticas p?blicas. As contradi??es nas rela??es entre o poder p?blico e a sociedade civil e as tend?ncias abertas pela implementa??o dessas pol?ticas precisam ser identificadas e explicadas. A configura??o regional dos programas de governo e sua rela??o com os atores locais constituem elemento central de an?lise. Neste sentido este estudo busca apresentar uma caracteriza??o geral das experi?ncias de gest?o das pol?ticas, entorno do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar - PRONAF na linha Infra-estrutura: os Conselhos Municipais de Desenvolvimento Rural Sustent?vel CMDRS s e a Pol?tica de Desenvolvimento Territorial da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Territorial - SDT/MDA. Partiremos do processo de cria??o e constitui??o do CMDRS/Santar?m e do territ?rio do Baixo Amazonas, para discutir posteriormente como estas arenas funcionavam, e est?o funcionando agora, destacando os aspectos que marcam avan?os institucionais e pol?ticos das duas experi?ncias. Nosso universo de estudo ? o munic?pio de Santar?m e os atores organizados e institucionalizados que dependem, vivem, produzem e atuam no seu meio rural. Para tanto foi realizada revis?o bibliogr?fica das principais tem?ticas aqui tratadas e que deram suporte a pesquisa de campo, realizada junto aos atores relevantes ao meio rural santareno que atuam e/ou se beneficiam de tais pol?ticas. O objetivo ? compreender a din?mica das pol?ticas em n?vel local (municipal), tendo com foco central, a atua??o dos principais atores sociais no processo de implementa??o/planejamento; monitoramento; e coordena??o das a??es desenvolvidas no seu ambiente institucional.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Zürich, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-358).