Dr Sally Stansfield is the Executive Secretary of the Health Metrics Network. A citizen of the United States of America, she gained her medical degree at the University of Washington and later studied at Yale. From 1999 to 2006, she was the Associate Director for Global Health Strategies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She draws upon more than 30 years of clinical and public health prac...

This paper presents new data, in the form of four indices, on liberalization policies and the independence of regulators for a cross-section of countries. These indices are combined with a comprehensive set of performance, institutional and political data to analyze both the determinants and the impact of telecommunications policies. We find that liberalization policies are negatively associate...

This paper compares the relative effectiveness of two measures by which the Chinese government attempted to improve the monitoring of listed companies: shifting the ownership of state shares from government agencies (GAs) to the corporate form of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and strengthening corporate governance through statutory regulations and guidelines. The results show that SOEs are be...

nuclear materials. The Committee will undertake studies and activities related to nuclear materials and waste management such as transportation, waste determinations, reprocessing, storage and disposal facilities, in situ leaching mining, mill tailings, enrichment facilities, health effects, decommissioning, materials safety, application of risk-informed, performance-based regulations, and eval...

Scholarship on executive politics provides conflicting views about whether staffing administrative agencies through politicized or (politically) autonomous means is the best method for maximizing bureaucratic competence. We offer a theoretical account which maintains that obtaining a proper balance between both types of personnel systems across the supervisory and subordinate levels of an organ...

The imperative that agencies use “sound science” in developing their regulations has become a major preoccupation of the political branches. In only a few years, Congress passed two appropriations riders that provide extensive new mechanisms for the public to critique the science used by agencies. The executive branch quickly followed suit, promulgating regulations to implement these two laws, ...

BACKGROUND The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) addresses uncontrolled and abandoned hazardous waste sites throughout the country. Sites that are perceived to be a significant threat to both surrounding populations and the environment can be placed on the U.S. EPA Superfund list and qualify for federal cleanup funds. The equitability of the Superfund program has been questioned; the r...

1 During the Bush Administration, OMB served as a "clearinghouse," collecting comments received from other agencies, members of the White House staff and other entities within the Executive Branch and transmitting them to EPA. In the balance of this article, references to OMB should be understood as referring to comments originating elsewhere in the Executive Branch and passed through OMB. No f...

The recommendations of the Council Europe are based on rich European experience execution punishments in field criminal-executive law, as well generalisation positive achievements national legislation most developed countries this respect. In its recommendations, Committee Ministers calls States to improve and practices their respective agencies with a view increasing application alternative sa...

Through the years, social service agencies have gone through tremendous changes and recognized that through shrinking financial resources and increasing workloads, there is also an increasing demand to provide a more efficient means of social service delivery. Every day, employees interact with consumers, and their attitudes and delivery of service speak volumes about an organization’s mission ...