7 pp. / All Arizona wells must be registered with the ADWR. Domestic private well are not overseen or regulated by ADEQ. The well owner has the responsibility for maintaining and ownership status of the well and is also responsible for its operating performance and for checking its water quality. The purpose of this publication is to assist well owners to check the registration of their well by searching the ADWR imaged records files, and how to keep well installation and maintenance records current.

With a focus on legitimacy, accountability, and protection equality, this thesis aims to investigate the impact of domestic institutions on the likelihood that peace succeeds in the aftermath of armed conflict. The argument is that the presence of such domestic institutions should facilitate the construction of a peaceful post-conflict environment by reducing commitment problems in the peacemaking process. A quantitative analysis is conducted on 82 peace agreements signed between governments and rebel groups during the time period 1989 to 2004. The findings suggest that the extent to which social groups within the state are protected equally by the government most significantly impacts the likelihood that peace prevails.

Many countries are dependent upon capital flows for their balance of payments accounts. Sources of expenditures include foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment (PI) and remittances. While the determinants of FDI and PI have been extensively analyzed, the analyses of remittance flows from host to home countries are largely lacking and wide-ranging. Factors predominantly not considered are domestic institutions which support or encourage international remittance exchange. Nations routinely desire to control international immigration and capital movement. Consequently they adopt domestic policies which create and enforce institutions that manage both capital and labor mobility across borders. Additionally, researchers commonly neglect to consider the impact of both the supply and demand factors simultaneously, or in other words, the domestic condition (home and host) which both push and pull migrants to migrate and remit. Further, given the non-dyadic nature of the data, there arises a need to "regionalize" the data. To test the effects of variations in immigration institutional attributes, I employ a pooled data set of approximately 104 nations from 1990 to 2004. Controlling for existing explanations and regional influences, I find that domestic institutions have a significant impact on the ability of an individual to migrate to a host country and to eventually remit back to their country of origin.

Most scholars believe that democracies guarantee the rule of law and provide superior institutions, which influence developing states' development trajectories, as well as firms' decisions on where to do business. However, I argue that these superior institutions are prior to the institutions of democracy and constitute the concept of governance infrastructure, and are therefore the key institutional determinants of state's economic outcomes. I find that the institutions that comprise a state's governance infrastructure (GI) are separate conceptually from the institutions that comprise democracy, and that the quality of developing states' GI 1) must reach a certain threshold before democracy positively affects economic development; 2) sends a signal to investors concerning potential transaction costs that investors may incur, ultimately determining the amount of FDI developing states' receive, while being the only domestic institutions that affect investors decision making; 3) determines the quality and provision of a state's intermediary public goods, which are an additional causal mechanism to signaling in determining a state's FDI inflows.

Orientador: Flávia de Campos Neves / Banca: Ricardo Sennes / Banca: Reginaldo Nasser / O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituído em parceria com a Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas" / Resumo: Esta dissertação analisa a institucionalidade da Política Brasileira de Comércio Exterior, focando no papel exercido pela CAMEX na formulação e controle das políticas que regem o comércio exterior brasileiro. O modelo institucional construído a partir das reformas liberalizantes do início dos anos 1990 ocasionou instituições flexíveis e capazes de acomodar os distintos interesses e agendas dos setores da administração pública federal, direta e indiretamente vinculados à política de comercio exterior. A sugestão proposta pela pesquisa se mostra perceptível ao analisarmos a evolução da atuação da CAMEX ao longo das duas últimas décadas e as transformações institucionais pelas quais passou. A análise também permite concluir que esta arquitetura institucional, construída a partir do sistema CAMEX, não foi capaz de realizar os ajustes necessários para que o comércio exterior brasileiro acompanhasse o processo de crescente sofisticação e dinamismo do comércio internacional. Como resultado, embora tenha havido avanços em termos absolutos no que se refere à facilitação do comércio, em termos relativos o Brasil perdeu espaço para outros países que realizaram estas reformas em um ritmo mais acelerado / Abstract: This dissertation examines the degree of institutionality of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Policy, focusing on the role played by CAMEX in the design and control over the policies governing Brazilian foreign trade. The institutional model adopted under the scope of the liberalizing reforms of the early 1990s led to flexible institutions, capable of accommodating the different interests and agendas of the federal public administration sectors that shape foreign trade policy, directly and indirectly. The hypothesis suggested becomes apparent as we analyze the evolution of the performance of CAMEX over the past two decades, and the institutional transformations it underwent. The analysis also shows that this institutional architecture built over the CAMEX system was unable to undertake the necessary adjustments to allow for the Brazilian foreign trade to accompany the process of increasing sophistication and dynamism of international trade. As a result, although there have been advances in absolute terms regarding trade facilitation, in relative terms Brazil has lost ground to other countries that have been able to implement such reforms at a faster pace / Mestre

Concept of Two-level games is one of the most sophisticated approach for analysis of the process of international bargaining. Moreover, many research papers focused either on prediction of the outcome of international negotiations or on explanation of the outcomes of former negotiations are based on premises of this concept. However, its application on real example of the negotiation, specifically, on the SALT I talks between the Soviet Union and the United States shows that the Two-level games is not universally valid since many of its predictions have not been verified. There are certain limitations within crucial independent variables (defined by the concept) connected with domestic institutions and domestic preferences and their influence on the size of win-set which has direct impact on the results of the bargaining process. These limitations must be considered in the research. The analysis of the SALT I explores that heterogeneous preferences as well as relatively strong domestic institutions do not have to result in smaller win-set; that presence of no-agreement costs can reduce an influence of other variables, and; that presence of those non-expected (from the view of the original concept) consequences caused by the adjustment of the independent variables occurs within the negotiations...

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