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Government: Ethics & Transparency at the Federal Level (with Shelley Finlayson)

Policy Chats

Office of Government Ethics Chief of Staff & Program Counsel Shelley Finlayson talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about ethics and transparency within the executive branch of the federal government. She is also a member of the UCR School of Public Policy Advisory Board.

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Government: Ethics & Transparency at the Federal Level (with Shelley Finlayson)

Policy Chats

Office of Government Ethics Chief of Staff & Program Counsel Shelley Finlayson talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about ethics and transparency within the executive branch of the federal government. She is also a member of the UCR School of Public Policy Advisory Board.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

while] [o]ther courts simply conclude that the duty to perform is excused or discharged because performance would violate public policy." 3d 724, 735 (2006) (temporary impossibility suspends performance "unless the delayed performance becomes materially more burdensome or the temporary impossibility becomes permanent").

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As GSEs, they were highly limited in their permitted activities but given a preferred market position, along with the subsidies and privileges needed to deliver a public policy benefit to the public. 20] The Federal Reserve Bank’s combined balance sheet in 2006 was just $.81 More political than commercial.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

at with opportunity for direct “horizontal communication” between network peers (Schmidtchen, 2006) and as I would also point out, leaders inspire social action or other participatory behavior. Social media in the public sector field guide: Designing and implementing strategies and policies. San Francisco, CA:Jossey Bass.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). There is no guarantee of public policy change as a result of powerful new social movements. O’Hara (2010, p.