Important decisions should be reserved to department heads and the expertise of front line staff. Policy and operational decisions are reserved for city/county managers because of the need for accountability to elected officials and the community. Decentralization offers better coordination and conformity when decisions come from one point of the organization‚ with avoidance of contradictory decisions from different parts of the organization‚ more expertise and specialization by staff‚ specific supervisor
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Religion was a major factor in the centralization of territories into modern nation states. Religion was crucial in the development of the modern nation state because of it’s ability to be a unifying characteristic. Religion also created common enemies which allowed groups with different religious views separate into individual states that be far more likely to have a more centralized government or monarch. While religion acted as a catalyst in the development of the modern nation state‚ religion
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Decentralization of Banks in Eastern Europe And the Soviet Union As Soviet communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989‚ the countries of Central and Eastern Europe began the unprecedented transition from a centralized command economy to a market economy. The stages of transition included‚ liberalization‚ stabilization and privatization. All of these steps required decentralization of government assets and financial institutions. One of the most crucial parts of the transition was the decentralization
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My piece centralizes on Lady Macbeth’s face. The face shows only eyes and no other features‚ this is for good reason. Lady Macbeth struggles throughout the play "Macbeth" with not being able to find rest and sleep. I wanted to draw attention straight to her eyes which outwardly show rest and peace. On the left I have her eye closed to symbolize her sleeping‚ to make sense of this‚ I chose to include stars in the background. Stars are something everyone can associate with the night and further‚ with
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In Paul Smoke’s article‚ which analyzes the use of subnational revenue for decentralization efforts‚ he claims that generating subnational revenue often fails even when normative instruction has been followed. In an attempt to shed light to this oddity‚ he posses the question‚ “are the principles inappropriate‚ or are they just poorly applied?” He later goes on to demonstrate how both elements hinder decentralization efforts (Smoke 2013). This notion of principle versus practice echoes an issue psychiatry
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FIFTEEN YEARS OF DECENTRALIZATION: THE DSWD EXPERIENCE Alicia D. Bala The Local Government Code of the Philippines was enacted in 1991 to address the problems associated with a highly centralized Philippine bureaucracy. It was enacted to by the state to ensure the autonomy of local governments as contained in the Philippine constitution. One of the major features of the Code was the transfer of the responsibility for the delivery of basic services‚ including appropriate personnel‚ assets‚
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Book Review: Decentralization of education: why‚ when‚ what and how? Introduction |Name of the Book : |Decentralization of education: why‚ when‚ what and how? | |Authors’ Name : |Noel McGinn and Thomas Welsh | |Publishing : |Published in 1999 by the UNESCO: | |
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aThe decentralization of retailing and other services has had a major impact on urban areas.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? – Consequently the decentralization of retailing and other services are having or have had major impacts on the urban areas whether they are negative or positive because it is taking consumers out of their local town and spending their disposable income elsewhere‚ this is bound to have effect on urban areas. In the 1970s the shopping patterns began to
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Since the birth of the United States‚ the issue over how strong the national government should be has always been a controversial one. While some believe that decentralization will inevitably lead to chaos‚ others contend that a powerful central government will inevitably become a tyranny. Although the United States would wholeheartedly embrace the idea of a loose alliance of independent states at first‚ the many glaring problems that the nation faced under the Articles of Confederation would quickly
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After the American Revolution was won and the Treaty of Paris formally recognized the United States of America as a country‚ there was still much to do . Major parts of the country were in shambles‚ and there was a strong need for a central government. At the time‚ many states drafted their own state governments‚ but soon realized that a national government was needed‚ so delegates went to the Second Continental Congress to draft the Articles of Confederation. Though it provided a legislative branch
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