has stated that cigarette smoking is the major preventable cause of death and disease in the United States.

In the preceding chapter, Carl Jensen reviewed the final reports issued by commissions investigating Pearl Harbor, the 9/11 attacks, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. These inquiries paint a grave picture of the ability of government to consistently recognize and understand looming threats and to respond to large-scale critical incidents. We must, of course, recognize that all three documents he...

Drawing on insights from social networks, social cognition and the study of emotions, this conceptual article offers a set of ideas and a series of predictions on how systematic variation in two sets of relationships may bear on agency behavior. The first is the agency-audience relationship which revolves around how and what multiple audiences think about public agencies, how these thoughts imp...

Transitioning from waterfall to agile processes can be difficult especially for organizations lacking toplevel management support. To explore this topic, we collected qualitative and quantitative data about three projects at a government agency transitioning from a waterfall process to the IBM Rational Unified Process. The results of our analysis of this data identify some of the challenges org...

Scholarship on regulating global finance emphasizes the importance of national and bureaucratic interests, but less attention has been devoted to epistemic sources regulatory conflict. We address this by analyzing failure regulators agree tougher rules for large investment funds after 2008 crisis. The article suggests outcome was result contestation between prudential securities regulators, roo...

This article studies the role of political distortions in driving economic growth and development Africa. We first discuss how existing theories based on long-run structural factors (e.g., pre-colonial colonial institutions, or ethnic diversity) may not capture new data patterns region, including changes to regimes, patterns, their variation across regions with similar historical experiences. t...

The purpose of this paper is to find out the implementation SE OJK number 6 2017 concerning Determination General Insurance Premium Rates, which has been implemented and carried by PT. Jasindo Syariah Medan. This research method uses a descriptive qualitative approach. Through observation instruments, interviews documentation studies. data analysis using analysis. results are expected show that...

BACKGROUND District level health system governance is recognised as an important but challenging element of health system development in low and middle-income countries. Accountability is a more recent focus in health system debates. Accountability mechanisms are governance tools that seek to regulate answerability between the health system and the community (external accountability) and/or bet...

khwaja nasīr al-dīn tūsī is accused, by many, of collaborating with the mongol invaders and legitimizing their domination (power). using the identity theory of manuel castells and discourse theory, the present essay hypothesizes that khwaja nasīr has tried to create iranian identity utilizing the archetypes of iranshahr and has founded a programmed identity that was later followed by other bure...