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Zhuoyu Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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proposal to establish the federal civil grand jury system in america effective civic oversight of federal agencies and Government Personnel
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Hiroshi Fukurai, Zhuoyu WangAbstract:French jurist and philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville once declared that trial by jury is the instrument of the sovereignty of people and contributes to insure the best administration of justice in the Government. However, the U.S. Government has never created an effective civic investigative institution to directly check and monitor the function of Government agencies and their Personnel. This paper then examines the possible establishment of a federal civil grand jury system in America. The proposal to institute the civil function of the federal grand jury is extremely important and timely, especially given the fact the former CIA IT consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden recently exposed massive illegal surveillance of hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and around the globe by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence sources in the federal Government.Today, the criminal function of the grand jury system at both state and federal levels has been firmly established by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Nonetheless, the civil function of the federal grand jury has lost its ability to inquire into non-criminal matters, to investigate political corruption or state inefficiencies, or to issue official reports on their civil investigation of officers and agencies in the federal Government. Similarly, the overwhelming majority of the individual states have also lost much of their civic oversight role of the grand jury. Today only handful of states, including California and Nevada, continue to require the annual impanelment of the grand jury to conduct the civil investigation of the actions of local Governments and their officials. The paper begins with the historical genealogy of the grand jury system in England and the U.S. and chronicles citizens’ historical struggles against the Government’s abuse of power and authority. The second section examines the important socio-legal function of civil grand juries in California and their democratic impact on citizen empowerment in local communities. Finally the paper provides a set of recommendations and proposals to establish the federal civil grand jury system in the U.S.
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proposal to establish the federal civil grand jury system in america effective civic oversight of federal agencies and Government Personnel
Journal of civil and legal sciences, 2014Co-Authors: Hiroshi Fukurai, Zhuoyu WangAbstract:French jurist and philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville once declared that trial by jury is the instrument of the sovereignty of people and contributes to insure the best administration of justice in the Government. However, the U.S. Government has never created an effective civic investigative institution to directly check and monitor the function of Government agencies and their Personnel. This paper then examines the possible establishment of a federal civil grand jury system in America. The proposal to institute the civil function of the federal grand jury is extremely important and timely, especially given the fact the former CIA IT consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden recently exposed massive illegal surveillance of hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and around the globe by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence sources in the federal Government. Today, the criminal function of the grand jury system at both state and federal levels has been firmly established by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Nonetheless, the civil function of the federal grand jury has lost its ability to inquire into non-criminal matters, to investigate political corruption or state inefficiencies, or to issue official reports on their civil investigation of officers and agencies in the federal Government. Similarly, the overwhelming majority of the individual states have also lost much of their civic oversight role of the grand jury. Today only handful of states, including California and Nevada, continue to require the annual empanelment of the grand jury to conduct the civil investigation of the actions of local Governments and their officials. The paper begins with the historical genealogy of the grand jury system in England and the U.S. and chronicles citizens’ historical struggles against the Government’s abuse of power and authority. The second section examines the important socio-legal function of civil grand juries in California and their democratic impact on citizen empowerment in local communities. Finally the paper provides a set of recommendations and proposals to establish the federal civil grand jury system in the U.S.
Hiroshi Fukurai - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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proposal to establish the federal civil grand jury system in america effective civic oversight of federal agencies and Government Personnel
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Hiroshi Fukurai, Zhuoyu WangAbstract:French jurist and philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville once declared that trial by jury is the instrument of the sovereignty of people and contributes to insure the best administration of justice in the Government. However, the U.S. Government has never created an effective civic investigative institution to directly check and monitor the function of Government agencies and their Personnel. This paper then examines the possible establishment of a federal civil grand jury system in America. The proposal to institute the civil function of the federal grand jury is extremely important and timely, especially given the fact the former CIA IT consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden recently exposed massive illegal surveillance of hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and around the globe by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence sources in the federal Government.Today, the criminal function of the grand jury system at both state and federal levels has been firmly established by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Nonetheless, the civil function of the federal grand jury has lost its ability to inquire into non-criminal matters, to investigate political corruption or state inefficiencies, or to issue official reports on their civil investigation of officers and agencies in the federal Government. Similarly, the overwhelming majority of the individual states have also lost much of their civic oversight role of the grand jury. Today only handful of states, including California and Nevada, continue to require the annual impanelment of the grand jury to conduct the civil investigation of the actions of local Governments and their officials. The paper begins with the historical genealogy of the grand jury system in England and the U.S. and chronicles citizens’ historical struggles against the Government’s abuse of power and authority. The second section examines the important socio-legal function of civil grand juries in California and their democratic impact on citizen empowerment in local communities. Finally the paper provides a set of recommendations and proposals to establish the federal civil grand jury system in the U.S.
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proposal to establish the federal civil grand jury system in america effective civic oversight of federal agencies and Government Personnel
Journal of civil and legal sciences, 2014Co-Authors: Hiroshi Fukurai, Zhuoyu WangAbstract:French jurist and philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville once declared that trial by jury is the instrument of the sovereignty of people and contributes to insure the best administration of justice in the Government. However, the U.S. Government has never created an effective civic investigative institution to directly check and monitor the function of Government agencies and their Personnel. This paper then examines the possible establishment of a federal civil grand jury system in America. The proposal to institute the civil function of the federal grand jury is extremely important and timely, especially given the fact the former CIA IT consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden recently exposed massive illegal surveillance of hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and around the globe by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence sources in the federal Government. Today, the criminal function of the grand jury system at both state and federal levels has been firmly established by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Nonetheless, the civil function of the federal grand jury has lost its ability to inquire into non-criminal matters, to investigate political corruption or state inefficiencies, or to issue official reports on their civil investigation of officers and agencies in the federal Government. Similarly, the overwhelming majority of the individual states have also lost much of their civic oversight role of the grand jury. Today only handful of states, including California and Nevada, continue to require the annual empanelment of the grand jury to conduct the civil investigation of the actions of local Governments and their officials. The paper begins with the historical genealogy of the grand jury system in England and the U.S. and chronicles citizens’ historical struggles against the Government’s abuse of power and authority. The second section examines the important socio-legal function of civil grand juries in California and their democratic impact on citizen empowerment in local communities. Finally the paper provides a set of recommendations and proposals to establish the federal civil grand jury system in the U.S.
John A Hamman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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images and reality in local Government Personnel practices investigating the quiet crisis among illinois city officials
Public Administration Review, 1994Co-Authors: Uday Desai, John A HammanAbstract:In recent years, the public administration community and political leadership have expressed increasing concern that the conditions and status of public service are declining. It has been called a "quiet crisis" in American Government (Levine and Kleeman, 1992). Beside the widely publicized Volcker Commission that focused on the federal civil service, especially at the senior executive level, several other commissions or task forces have also been created to examine the state of the public service more generally. A task force on Revitalizing the Public Service, created by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), issued its report in 1991, and the Commission on the State and Local Public Service is scheduled to issue its report in 1993. At the individual state level, mini-Volcker commissions have been set up in Illinois and Ohio. The Illinois Commission on the Future of the Public Service has already completed its work and issued three reports outlining specific reform proposals for the Government of the state of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago (Illinois Commission on the Future of Public Service, 1992). Several other states have similar activities in studying "Workforce 2000" issues as they affect their public service (Sherwood, 1992). These commissions and task forces raised several important issues such as politicization and patronage. The Volcker Commission expressed considerable concern about the increasing politicization of the higher civil service jobs in the federal Government. Similar questions have been raised by both the Illinois commission and by the commission on American State and Local Public Service (Thompson, 1992).[1] Another major issue has been compensation. The salary and benefits of public employees, especially professional and administrative level employees, have not kept up with inflation and the private sector (Goodsell, 1985; National Commission on the Public Service, 1989). It is argued that this has already made it difficult for the public sector to attract the best and the brightest (Marzotto, 1991). Increasing managerial discretion and decentralization are seen as important issues in the debate about improving Government performance, productivity, and accountability, and in combating bureaucratic rigidity. The traditional civil service system, characterized by detailed job descriptions and salary schedules, elaborate grievance and disciplinary procedures, and highly formalized, time-consuming recruitment processes, appears to leave public managers with very little discretion in managing their human resources (Ingraham and Rosenbloom, 1992). Public sector collective bargaining simply adds to the concern about the inability of public managers to manage. Some see the state of the merit system, at least in the federal Government, as confused even beyond repair (Ingraham and Rosenbloom, 1992, p. 291). The Findings Perhaps one of the most enduring of concerns in the debate on the American public service has been about the role of political partisanship and patronage in our public service. This concern about patronage and partisanship has greatly diminished over the last half a century as far as the federal Government is concerned. However, in recent years, some alarm has been raised about politicization of the senior levels of the federal civil service under the Reagan administration (National Commission on the Public Service, 1989). Concern about the influence of patronage and political partisanship on public service at the state and local level, especially the local level, has remained high despite great strides made in the professionalization of public service, including the widespread adoption of council-manager form of Government. It is widely assumed that patronage is endemic in smaller cities, especially nonmanager cities (Sharp, 1990). However, that assumption does not seem to hold in Illinois according to our respondents. …
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competing for talentand diversity in local Government Personnel recruitment practices in illinois local Government
Review of Public Personnel Administration, 1993Co-Authors: John A Hamman, Uday Desai, Thomas MitchellAbstract:This article analyzes recruitment practices in a variety of local Governmental contexts in Illinois. The analysis is based, in part, upon a statewide survey of cities with populations over 5000. As...
Uday Desai - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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images and reality in local Government Personnel practices investigating the quiet crisis among illinois city officials
Public Administration Review, 1994Co-Authors: Uday Desai, John A HammanAbstract:In recent years, the public administration community and political leadership have expressed increasing concern that the conditions and status of public service are declining. It has been called a "quiet crisis" in American Government (Levine and Kleeman, 1992). Beside the widely publicized Volcker Commission that focused on the federal civil service, especially at the senior executive level, several other commissions or task forces have also been created to examine the state of the public service more generally. A task force on Revitalizing the Public Service, created by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), issued its report in 1991, and the Commission on the State and Local Public Service is scheduled to issue its report in 1993. At the individual state level, mini-Volcker commissions have been set up in Illinois and Ohio. The Illinois Commission on the Future of the Public Service has already completed its work and issued three reports outlining specific reform proposals for the Government of the state of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago (Illinois Commission on the Future of Public Service, 1992). Several other states have similar activities in studying "Workforce 2000" issues as they affect their public service (Sherwood, 1992). These commissions and task forces raised several important issues such as politicization and patronage. The Volcker Commission expressed considerable concern about the increasing politicization of the higher civil service jobs in the federal Government. Similar questions have been raised by both the Illinois commission and by the commission on American State and Local Public Service (Thompson, 1992).[1] Another major issue has been compensation. The salary and benefits of public employees, especially professional and administrative level employees, have not kept up with inflation and the private sector (Goodsell, 1985; National Commission on the Public Service, 1989). It is argued that this has already made it difficult for the public sector to attract the best and the brightest (Marzotto, 1991). Increasing managerial discretion and decentralization are seen as important issues in the debate about improving Government performance, productivity, and accountability, and in combating bureaucratic rigidity. The traditional civil service system, characterized by detailed job descriptions and salary schedules, elaborate grievance and disciplinary procedures, and highly formalized, time-consuming recruitment processes, appears to leave public managers with very little discretion in managing their human resources (Ingraham and Rosenbloom, 1992). Public sector collective bargaining simply adds to the concern about the inability of public managers to manage. Some see the state of the merit system, at least in the federal Government, as confused even beyond repair (Ingraham and Rosenbloom, 1992, p. 291). The Findings Perhaps one of the most enduring of concerns in the debate on the American public service has been about the role of political partisanship and patronage in our public service. This concern about patronage and partisanship has greatly diminished over the last half a century as far as the federal Government is concerned. However, in recent years, some alarm has been raised about politicization of the senior levels of the federal civil service under the Reagan administration (National Commission on the Public Service, 1989). Concern about the influence of patronage and political partisanship on public service at the state and local level, especially the local level, has remained high despite great strides made in the professionalization of public service, including the widespread adoption of council-manager form of Government. It is widely assumed that patronage is endemic in smaller cities, especially nonmanager cities (Sharp, 1990). However, that assumption does not seem to hold in Illinois according to our respondents. …
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competing for talentand diversity in local Government Personnel recruitment practices in illinois local Government
Review of Public Personnel Administration, 1993Co-Authors: John A Hamman, Uday Desai, Thomas MitchellAbstract:This article analyzes recruitment practices in a variety of local Governmental contexts in Illinois. The analysis is based, in part, upon a statewide survey of cities with populations over 5000. As...
Martin S Wolfe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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epidemiology of malaria among united states Government Personnel assigned to diplomatic posts
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2007Co-Authors: Priya Joy Rathnam, Joe P Bryan, Martin S WolfeAbstract:The epidemiology of malaria among U.S. Government Personnel attached to diplomatic posts has not been reported. We reviewed malaria surveillance reports on persons with onset of symptoms between January 1988 and December 2004. Among 684 slide-proven cases, the median age was 36 years. There were 565 (82.6%) cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and 56 (8.2%) of P. vivax malaria. A total of 89.9% were infected in Africa and 5.8% were infected in Asia; 95% of the P. falciparum cases originated in sub-Saharan Africa. One-fourth of all cases were reported in 1990-1991. The average annual incidence (per 1,000 Personnel) of Plasmodium between 1995 and 1999 was highest in west Africa (8.96), followed by central Africa (8.08), and east Africa (4.27). No or irregular chemoprophylaxis was reported by 58.5%. Among those who indicated regular prophylaxis, 78% took regimens no longer considered adequate. In sub-Saharan Africa, cases were reported in every month. There were three deaths. Prevention of malaria among U.S. Government employees attached to diplomatic posts should particularly focus on those serving in sub-Saharan Africa and malarious areas of Asia.
