The Merit System Under President Trump

Concientization among People in Support and Opposition of President Trump

Civic engagement in the United States has increased since the election of President Trump. This increase is evident online as people are using Twitter to assert their digital citizenship by voicing their opinions regarding President Donald J. Trump and demonstrating solidarity with various civic movements. President Trump’s election has caused many people to recognize how policies impact their ...

District Creation in Kenya Under President Moi

In this chapter, I look at one form of decentralization that has been gaining popularity since the early 1980s – administrative unit proliferation, or the creation of new administrative units at higher rates than traditional administrative reasons suggest. Existing literature posits a local demand or patronage logic to explain this phenomenon. One overlooked aspect, however, is the effect of re...

Merit System Objectives and Realities

T HE effective administration of the various grant-in-aid programs for welfare, health, and employment security has been recognized by the States and by the Congress to depend, in substantial measure, on the quality of personnel administration in these programs. The merit system applying to the programs is designed to promote emciency through a plan for selection and development of the best ava...

The President:

Web services are software components that can be exposed on the internet and invoked using standard internet protocols. The syntactic properties of the interfaces of Web services are described using the Web Service Description Language WSDL [W3C, 2002a]. Research in semantic Web services aims at developing methods to describe the semantic and pragmatic aspects of Web services in addition to the...

Tracking the merit of merit pay