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The Ethics of Lobbying

Organized Interests, Political Power, and the Common Good

By: Woodstock Theological Center

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The Ethics of Lobbying

Organized Interests, Political Power, and the Common Good

By: Woodstock Theological Center

Woodstock launched this project on lobbying in 1998 for three reasons. First, lobbying has grown exponentially during the past twenty years to exercise enormous influence on American politics. It has almost become a new profession in that time, and therefore deserves a new review and evaluation. Second, lobbying has simultaneously fallen under suspicion and engendered critical resentment in some quarters. Its critics would say it supports "special" (i.e. narrow and well-funded) interests and is oblivious to the general well-being of our democratic life and process. Third, reputable lobbyists have called, therefore, for a clarification of standards and principles for use within their own ranks and as an explanation to the general public of the goals, objectives, and methods of lobbying to forestall misunderstanding and misjudgment. This clarification would provide the lobbying profession with a normative statement parallel to the codes of conduct and ethical practice of the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association.

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Georgetown University Press

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087840905X

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Essential Practices for Creating, Strengthening, and Sustaining Process Safety Culture

By: CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

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Essential Practices for Creating, Strengthening, and Sustaining Process Safety Culture

By: CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

An essential guide that offers an understanding of and the practices needed to assess and strengthen process safety culture Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening and Implementing Process Safety Culture presents a much-needed guide for understanding an organization's working culture and contains information on why a good culture is essential for safe, cost-effective, and high-quality operations. The text defines process safety culture and offers information on a safety culture’s history, organizational impact and benefits, and the role that leadership plays at all levels of an organization. In addition, the book outlines the core principles needed to assess and strengthen process safety culture such as: maintain a sense of vulnerability; combat normalization of deviance; establish an imperative for safety; perform valid, timely, hazard and risk assessments; ensure open and frank communications; learn and advance the culture. This important guide also reviews leadership standards within the organizational structure, warning signs of cultural degradation and remedies, as well as the importance of using diverse methods over time to assess culture. This vital resource: Provides an overview for understanding an organization's working culture Offers guidance on why a good culture is essential for safe, cost-effective, and high quality operations Includes down-to-earth advice for recognizing, assessing, strengthening and sustaining a good process safety culture Contains illustrative examples and cases studies, and references to literature, codes, and standards Written for corporate, business and line managers, engineers, and process safety professionals interested in excellent performance for their organization, Essential Practices for Developing, Strengthening and Implementing Process Safety Culture is the go-to reference for implementing and keeping in place a culture of safety.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119515149

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Public Enterprise in an Era of Change

By: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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Public Enterprise in an Era of Change

By: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

On 6 December 1996, the public consultation committee Talking About Saskatchewan Crowns (TASC) and the University of Regina held a one-day conference to examine the historic role of Saskatchewan Crown corporations and the future of public enterprise in a new world economy. The conference brought together renowned academic, business, and labour leaders, all contributing their input to a major review of Saskatchewan Crowns. The conference was divided into four sections: "Public Enterprise Developments: An International Perspective"; "Changing Attitudes and Expectations Regarding Public Ownership and Investment"; "Public Enterprise: In Whose Interest?"; and "Government Control: Ownership, Regulation, or Market Pressure?" The papers from the conference are included in this publication.

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University of Regina Press

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088977112X

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Godwinian Moments

From the Enlightenment to Romanticism

By: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies

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Godwinian Moments

From the Enlightenment to Romanticism

By: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies

In association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442642432

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Performance Management in the Public Sector

By: Wouter Van Dooren,Geert Bouckaert,Professor of Public Management Director of Public Management Center and Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Social Sciences Geert Bouckaert,John Halligan

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Performance Management in the Public Sector

By: Wouter Van Dooren,Geert Bouckaert,Professor of Public Management Director of Public Management Center and Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Social Sciences Geert Bouckaert,John Halligan

Tackling the key topics of reform and modernization, this important new book systematically examines performance in public management systems. The authors present this seminal subject in an informative and accessible manner, tackling some of the most important themes. Performance Management in the Public Sector takes as its point of departure a broad definition of performance to redefine major and basic mechanisms in public administration, both theoretically and in practice. The book: situates performance in some of the current public management debates; discusses the many definitions of ‘performance’ and how it has become one of the contested agendas of public management; examines measurement, incorporation and use of performance information; and explores the challenges and future directions of performance management. A must-read for any student or practitioner of public management, this core text will prove invaluable to anyone wanting to improve their understanding of performance management in the public sector.

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Routledge

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1134197020

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9781134197026

Public food procurement for sustainable food systems and healthy diets – Volume 1

By: International Center for Tropical Agriculture,Editora da UFRGS

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Public food procurement for sustainable food systems and healthy diets – Volume 1

By: International Center for Tropical Agriculture,Editora da UFRGS

Sustainable Public Food Procurement (PFP) represents a key game changer for food systems transformation. It can influence both food consumption and food production patterns. It can deliver multiple social, economic and environmental benefits towards sustainable food systems for healthy diets. This publication aims to contribute to the improved understanding, dissemination and use of PFP as a development tool in particular in the case of school meals programmes. In Volume 1, researchers, policymakers and development partners can find evidence on how PFP can be used as a development tool and deliver multiple benefits for multiple beneficiaries. It argues that PFP can provide a market for local and smallholder farmers, promote the conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity, and improve the nutrition and health of children and communities. Volume 2 of this publication, available at https://doi.org/10.4060/cb7969en, presents further analysis of the instruments, enablers and barriers for PFP implementation. It also provides case studies with local, regional and national experiences from Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America.

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251354758

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9789251354759

Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite

The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation

By: Jarol B. Manheim,Professor of Political Communication and Political Science and Director of National Center for Communication Studies Jarol B Manheim

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Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite

The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation

By: Jarol B. Manheim,Professor of Political Communication and Political Science and Director of National Center for Communication Studies Jarol B Manheim

The book captures, in just a few pages, one of the least known but most important political trends of the last quarter century--the rebuilding of the American political Left through the reverse engineering of the power structure; the use of attacks on co

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Psychology Press

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1135610002

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9781135610005

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

By: ABA Center for Professional Conduct,American Bar Association. Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility

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Model Rules of Professional Conduct

By: ABA Center for Professional Conduct,American Bar Association. Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct offers timely information on lawyer ethics. The black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules help lawyers identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the lawyer's relationship with clients, colleagues, and the courts.

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American Bar Association

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1604425172

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9781604425178

Dealing with Aging Process Facilities and Infrastructure

By: CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

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Dealing with Aging Process Facilities and Infrastructure

By: CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

Examines the concept of aging process facilities and infrastructure in high hazard industries and highlights options for dealing with the problem while addressing safety issues This book explores the many ways in which process facilities, equipment, and infrastructure might deteriorate upon continuous exposure to operating and climatic conditions. It covers the functional and physical failure modes for various categories of equipment and discusses the many warning signs of deterioration. Dealing with Aging Process Facilities and Infrastructure also explains how to deal with equipment that may not be safe to operate. The book describes a risk-based strategy in which plant leaders and supervisors can make more informed decisions on aging situations and then communicate them to upper management effectively. Additionally, it discusses the dismantling and safe removal of facilities that are approaching their intended lifecycle or have passed it altogether. Filled with numerous case studies featuring photographs to illustrate the positive and negative experiences of others who have dealt with aging facilities, Dealing with Aging Process Facilities and Infrastructure covers the causes of equipment failures due to aging and their consequences; plant management commitment and responsibility; inspection and maintenance practices for managing life cycle; specific aging asset integrity management practices; and more. Describes symptoms and causal mechanisms of aging in various categories of process equipment Presents key considerations for making informed risk-based decisions regarding the repair or replacement of aging process facilities and infrastructure Discusses practices for managing process facility and infrastructure life cycle Includes examples and case histories of failures related to aging Dealing with Aging Process Facilities and Infrastructure is an important book for industrial practitioners who are often faced with the challenge of managing process facilities and infrastructure as they approach the end of their useful lifecycle.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119430755

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Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes

By: CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

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Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes

By: CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

Increased automation reduces the potential for operator error, but introduces the possibility of new types of errors in design and maintenance. This book provides designers and operators of chemical process facilities with a general philosophy and approach to safe automation, including independent layers of safety.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470938242

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Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety

By: Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)

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Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety

By: Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)

Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety provides guidelines for industries that manufacture, consume, or handle chemicals, by focusing on new ways to design, correct, or improve process safety management practices. This new framework for thinking about process safety builds upon the original process safety management ideas published in the early 1990s, integrates industry lessons learned over the intervening years, utilizes applicable "total quality" principles (i.e., plan, do, check, act), and organizes it in a way that will be useful to all organizations - even those with relatively lower hazard activities - throughout the life-cycle of a company.

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0470925116

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9780470925119

Montessori Assessment Playbook

By: National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector

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Montessori Assessment Playbook

By: National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector

Can we measure what we treasure? Can we build and sustain truly excellent schools focused on the ambitious goal of human flourishing? And can we hold ourselves accountable to the children and families we serve in ways that harness data to advance that goal? The National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector says “yes”! The Montessori Assessment Playbook shows us how to do it. Organized around 33 discrete tools, the Playbook provides a clear and actionable scaffold for building an assessment protocol that captures compelling student outcomes, such as perseverance, compassion, and creativity, and that links those outcomes to the investments we make to classrooms and schools. Emphasizing both coherence and precision, the Montessori Assessment Playbook shows us how to develop and implement a comprehensive assessment framework focused on human flourishing and, just as important, why such a framework is urgently needed.

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National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector Press

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1733869115

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Recognizing and Responding to Normalization of Deviance

By: CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

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Recognizing and Responding to Normalization of Deviance

By: CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

An essential guide for recognizing and responding to normalization of deviance to help organizations improve their process safety performance This book provides an introduction and offers approaches for finding and addressing normalization of deviation both in operational and organizational activities. It addresses the initial and long-term effects of normalization of deviations as seen in reduced efficiencies, reduced product quality, extended batch run time, and near miss process safety incidents which can lead to loss of containment of hazardous materials and energies. Recognizing and Responding to Normalization of Deviance addresses how to recognize and respond to the normalization of deviation that can, and almost certainly will, occur in any ongoing operations that involves humans. The book’s primary focus is on reducing the incidence of normalization of deviation and the associated increased risk exposure due to its effects when operating chemical or petrochemical manufacturing facilities. It contains an introduction to the concept and offers approaches for finding and addressing normalization of deviation when it presents itself in both operational and organizational activities. Contains guidance to assist facilities in recognizing and addressing the phenomenon of normalization of deviation Provides techniques for addressing normalized deviations and techniques to eliminate waste in all manufacturing processes Describes methods for identifying normalized deviation as well as where to find deviations Includes techniques to reduce operational normalization of deviance and to reduce organizational normalization of deviance Aimed at process safety professionals and consultants applying process safety risk reduction efforts in manufacturing areas, Recognizing and Responding to Normalization of Deviance is an important book for any organization that has seen its process safety performance deteriorate over time.

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1119506700

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The Ethics of Lobbying

The Ethics of Lobbying

Essential Practices for Creating, Strengthening, and Sustaining Process Safety Culture

Essential Practices for Creating, Strengthening, and Sustaining Process Safety Culture

Public Enterprise in an Era of Change

Public Enterprise in an Era of Change

Godwinian Moments

Godwinian Moments

Performance Management in the Public Sector

Performance Management in the Public Sector

Public food procurement for sustainable food systems and healthy diets – Volume 1

Public food procurement for sustainable food systems and healthy diets – Volume 1

Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite

Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Dealing with Aging Process Facilities and Infrastructure

Dealing with Aging Process Facilities and Infrastructure

Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes

Guidelines for Safe Automation of Chemical Processes

Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety

Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety

Montessori Assessment Playbook

Montessori Assessment Playbook

Recognizing and Responding to Normalization of Deviance

Recognizing and Responding to Normalization of Deviance

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