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Forest canopy height retrieval using LiDAR data, medium-resolution satellite …
This paper presents a methodology that combines airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data with medium-resolution optical Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite imagery to predict stand canopy height in a study area in Aberfoyle, southern Scotland. Canopy height is an important forest variable that can provide information relating to forest structure, Yield Class, standing biomass and the…
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- Volume 83, Number 2, April 2010 Pp. 195-206
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Development of a policy and strategy for controlling infection by Heterobasid…
Heterobasidion annosum causes serious root disease in conifers: pines are generally killed but other species, such as Sitka spruce, are more susceptible to decay. In the mid-twentieth century, much of the expanding forest estate in Britain was disease free, but as thinning increased in plantations established over the preceding 30 years, it was expected that stump infection would increase; this…
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- Volume 83, Number 2, April 2010. Pp. 207-218
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Resilience in Public Administration: The Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom fr…
This essay examines the remarkable careers of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, exploring polycentricity and human management of common property resources from the "no-name fields" of public administration in the late 1950s, through the metropolitan public service industries and public choice approach to democratic administration in the 1960s and 1970s and the institutional analysis of common pool res…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 193 - 202
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Challenges Confronting Contemporary Public Budgeting: Retrospectives/Prospect…
For nearly half a century, Allen Schick's works have explored and analyzed central issues in the role of budgets in modern government. In 2009, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development published Evolutions in Budgetary Practice: Allen Schick and the OECD Senior Budget Officials, a selection of his work, together with new chapters. The book traces developments in budget practic…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 203 - 210
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Spanning "Bleeding" Boundaries: Humanitarianism, NGOs, and the Civilian-Milit…
How do nongovernmental (NGO), international (IO), and military organizations cope with their dependencies and address their perceptual and real differences in order to coordinate their field operations? This question is addressed through the creation of a matrix grouping civilian (NGOs and IOs) and military operations into four general types: peacekeeping; disaster relief; complex humanitarian …
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 212 - 222
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Examining Small Town Revenues: To What Extent Are They Diversified?
How diversified are small town revenues? Revenue diversification is analyzed among towns governed by town meetings. Using previously developed diversification measures, the findings confirm that these localities draw from less diverse revenue streams than other state and local governments. The reasons for these variations include differences in home rule status as well as tax and expenditure li…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 223 - 235
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Evaluating Local Government Emergency Management Programs: What Framework Sho…
Local governments play a key role in emergency management by developing the necessary policies and concrete procedures for responding effectively to community emergencies and their aftermath. However, because emergency measures in most jurisdictions are rarely, if ever, activated, public managers find it difficult to evaluate and assess the quality of existing emergency management programs. Dra…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 236 - 246
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Understanding Street-Level Bureaucrats' Decision Making: Determining Eligibil…
Personal interactions between clients and street-level bureaucrats are significant in explaining why street-level bureaucrats behave as they do. Not all bureaucracies that apply program rules to individuals, however, engage face-to-face with their clientele. As more intake procedures are automated, such "one-on-one" encounters decrease. The author generates and tests hypotheses about frontline …
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 247 - 257
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What Influences City Council Adoption and Support for Reinventing Government?…
What influences the degree to which city councils support reinventing government (REGO)? Controlling for environmental factors that are likely to shape council policy adoption as well as the tenure of the chief administrator, the findings of this study underscore that the type of representation system is most consistently related to opposition to REGO. In addition, the economic health of the ci…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 258 - 267
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Interlocal Service Cooperation in U.S. Cities: A Social Network Explanation
Local governments increasingly confront policy problems that span the boundaries of individual political jurisdictions. Institutional theories of local governance and intergovernmental relations emphasize the importance of networks for fostering service cooperation among local governments. Yet empirical research fails to examine systematically the effects of social networks on interlocal servic…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 268 - 278
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The Effect of Problem Severity, Managerial and Organizational Capacity, and A…
Like most public managers nowadays, local emergency managers operate within complex, uncertain environments. Rapid changes in the scope and severity of the issues increase the extent of intergovernmental collaboration necessary to address such challenges. Using a large data set of county emergency management agency directors, variations in intergovernmental collaboration reflect influences from…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 279 - 288
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Brenda Bryant: There Is Nothing More Practical than a Good Theory
Public administration values the relationship between theory and practice. Regrettably, theory and practice are regarded more often than not as separate purviews of two different groups—academics and practitioners—resulting in a perceived gap between the two. The doctorate of public administration program at the University of Southern California's Washington Public Affairs Center sought to span…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 289 - 294
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The Conditions of Care: Reframing the Debate about Public Sector Ethic
While a growing body of research argues for increased attention to ethics within public administration, scholars diverge on how to conceptualize the character of public ethics. Likewise, empirical evidence regarding the role that ethics plays in the quality of service delivery is rare. The author argues that the concept of a public ethics of care is useful for public administration in welfare s…
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- Volume 70 Issue 2, Mar-April 2010. Pages 295 - 303
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Parliamentary Constituency Boundary Reviews and Electoral Bias: How Important…
It is frequently canvassed by some politicians and political commentators that the current British electoral system is biased against the Conservative party because of variations in constituency size: seats won by the Conservatives at recent elections have been larger than those won by Labour in terms of their registered electorates, thereby disadvantaging the former. As a consequence, it is ar…
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- Volume 63, Number 1. January 2010 . Pp. 4-21
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The Impact of Semi-Presidentialism on Governance in the Palestinian Authority
In 2003, the Basic Law of the Palestinian Authority (PA) was amended and a semi-presidential form of government was established. In January 2006, the legislative election resulted in a period of ‘cohabitation’ between the Hamas government and President Mahmoud Abbas from Fatah. In 2007, following the civil war between the two forces, governance structures in the PA all but collapsed. This artic…
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- Volume 63, Number 1. Mar-April 2010. Pp. 22-40
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Why Do Parties Merge? The Case of the Conservative Party of Canada
This article presents a case study of the recent merger between the Progressive-Conservative Party and the Reform/Canadian Alliance parties. The selection of this case serves to illustrate the current limits of existing party organisational change and party coalition theories when it comes to explaining party mergers. We propose an alternative theoretical framework that introduces some minor ad…
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- Volume 63, Number 1. January 2010. Pp. 41-65
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A Question of Expertise: the House of Lords and Welfare Policy
The expertise of its members is often cited as one of the distinctive features of the House of Lords. It is frequently argued that, in particular, because of its composition, and in particular the existence of the Crossbench Peers, debates in the Lords are more informed than in the Commons. Peers, it has been claimed, bring professional experience and expertise to the scrutiny of legislation, a…
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- Volume 63, Number 1, January 2010. Pp. 66-84
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Ten Years of Devolution
The Scottish Parliament's operation and work over its first decade has been informed by the principles of openness, inclusivity and participation, cooperation and accountability. These principles stood it in good stead in dealing with public confidence and Parliamentary expenses. They have also informed the process of legislative and policy development as well as the policies pursued. A new sta…
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- Volume 63, Number 1, January 2010. Pp. 89-97
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The Narcissism of Small Differences: Scotland and Westminster
Apart from issues of representation, the new Scottish Parliament resembles Westminster more than its founders had hoped. It was influenced by the same reform agenda that has animated debates on reform of the Commons. The most significant changes from the Westminster model are evident in the voting system, though less than anticipated. Westminster continued to reform itself, albeit in limited wa…
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- Volume 63, Number 1, January 2010. Pp. 98-116
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Wales and the Westminster Model
This article discusses the significance of the ‘inward’ and ‘outward’ faces of the ‘Westminster model’ for the institutions of devolved government in Wales. In 1997–1998, the objective was to create something that resembled Westminster as little as possible. Subsequently, the ‘inward’ face has seen an increasing assumption of key features of the Westminster model, notably a separation between t…
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- Volume 63, Number 1, January 2010. Pp. 117-133
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