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How to Lay a Solid Foundation for Modernizations

GovLoop

Since the cloud-first policy came out in 2011, the federal government has pushed for the use of cloud technologies as a foundation to IT modernization. Updating IT infrastructure and servers can make agencies more efficient and cost-effective, enabling them to do more with less while meeting constituents’ 21st century needs. “In

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. This must be stronger than factionalism in the constituent population. It is likely to be polycentric (hoping that I am not taking too metropolitan view of the phenomenon). It may be therapeutic or it may be dysfunctional.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Image: Wikipedia. Retrieved from [link]. Overeem, Patrick (2012). doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02430.x.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In this case, that means that primary market lenders, a very important constituency in the U.S. mortgage financing system, would be heavily impacted by such a 20 bp increase (or even a five bp one) as it is a high percentage of their spread. 22] See the G-fee Report, pp. 12 and 13, for a summary of G-fee actions over the years. [23]

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Power is a difficult concept to study but if you are tracking outcomes, it becomes a little bit easier as James Battista (2011) states in his paper Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. Battista, James (2011). State Legislatures: Power in general has been notoriously difficult to pin down at even a conceptual level.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. 7) Meeting people where they are is not just a metaphor for social media but I think an extension of how the Obama administration has attempted to operate a particular type of constituent outreach. Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. Look out world.