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Results, Performance Budgeting and Trust in Government
No full textThe book identifies four categories of
performance budgeting, namely direct performance budgeting,
performance informed budget (PIB), opportunistic performance
budgeting and presentational performance budgeting. While
the Conference papers often refer to performance budgeting
broadly defined, much of the book focuses on PIB, the most
common category of performance budgeting adopted to date,
making the argument that this is likely to be the most
applicable in many Latin American countries. The book
combines two seemingly diverse governance topics, adopts
contrasting analytic styles to address these, and seeks to
draw out their inter-connections, with particular reference
to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) and Latin American countries. The first topic is PIB,
which is discussed largely from the practical perspective of
policy makers and practitioners, reflecting that it is a
major public administration reform that has been underway
for several decades. The second topic is the trust of
citizens and firms in government. This book is divided into
seven chapters. Chapter one provides an overview of PIB,
building on two decades of experience and lesson-learning,
and sets out the key themes that provide the basis for the
discussions in the subsequent chapters. Chapter two
introduces the concept of trust in government, particularly
in OECD and Latin American countries, and explores why this
matters for development. Chapters three, four, and five
explore key dimensions of PIB, including the institutional
foundations, the production of performance information, and
the uses of performance information. Chapter six considers
the impact of performance improvement on trust in government
in OECD and Latin American countries. Chapter seven provides
a guide for practitioners on PIB
Slow culture: an introduction
No full text[Extract] There is a powerful message permeating our social lives today, found in our self-help networks, talkback television and radio shows, and online forums. It is a warning that, through technology and modernisation, our lifestyles have become increasingly hectic, fast, complex and immediate. 'Life', writes online author Leo Babauta (2009, para. 2), 'moves at such a fast pace that it seems to pass us by before we can really enjoy it'. We are encouraged to take a step back, to breathe deeply and 'slow down', in order to recapture the essence of 'real' living. By doing so, we can escape the seemingly endless stresses associated with our multi-tasked, time-compressed and instantaneous speed culture (Tomlinson 2007). This book presents illustrations of how people are beginning to disentangle themselves from a speed culture by embracing slowness. It is not simply a matter of slowing down, as the term implies, but of undertaking changes in the way we do things at an everyday level. Underpinning these transformations is a concern, as Babauta (2009) suggests, with the uniquely stressful lifestyles we are living in contemporary culture
Nick Earls launches 'Wisdom Tree' - a new model for novella publishing, 9 Jun 2016
No full textBrisbane author Nick Earls discusses 'Wisdom Tree' a new model for novella publishing with fellow author and UQ Senior Lecturer in writing Dr Kim Wilkins. In 2013, Nick Earls realised his five best story ideas would need padding to become novels and would lose something if he tried to trim them to short-story size. He had to write them, and they had to be novellas. He also realised it was time to confront head-on the publishing industry's reluctance to work with the novella form. The result is Wisdom Tree, a new model for novella publishing, a PhD project and a chance to turn his best ideas into a series of five novellas to be published as individual paper, e and audiobooks at monthly intervals from May to September 2016.Introductions by Professor Doune Macdonald, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Nick de Grandmaison Jr. Reading Our Heritage by John Fisher
No full textAn audograph recording of Nick de Grandmaison Junior reading an excerpt from Our Heritage by John Fisher. The text details the author encountering Red Cloud and David Bearspaw, members of the Stoney tribe, in a Banff hotel lobby on their way to sit for Nicholas de Grandmaison. From here, the clip speaks to why he chose to paint Indigenous peoples, the history of the Blackfoot people, language and colonial contact.The University of Lethbridge Library received permission from the University of Lethbridge Archives and the Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess Gallery to digitize and display this content.Not yet availabl
Bold masked robbers; or, Nick Carter's lively conflict / by the author of "Nick Carter," [Incomplete].
No full textNick Carter in Wall Street; or, Tracking a stolen fortune / by the author of "Nick Carter."
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Nick DiChario
No full textNick DiChario visited The College at Brockport in September 1996. He is an author and essayist of fiction.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
‘The Martiniad’: Nick Shay as Embedded Author within Don DeLillo’s Underworld
No full textNick Shay functions as embedded author and implied narrator within DeLillo\u27s Underworld. Nick creates an origin myth (what I call “The Martiniad”) involving Cotter and Manx Martin to account for the missing first link of the Thomson homerun ball\u27s provenance on October 3, 1951. This invention provides an imaginative forum to reenact, revise, and work through formative traumas and fantasies from Nick\u27s past, principally unresolved tensions with his deadbeat dad
Nick DiChario
No full textNick DiChario visited The College at Brockport in September 1996. He is an author and essayist of fiction.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_photos/1021/thumbnail.jp
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