In the last decade, governments all around the globe have commissioned hundreds of wind farms automation projects, turning wind into a more powerful asset and promoting it as a clean and innovative source of energy. The current public interest and enthusiastic governments’ investments ensure that this emerging industry’s activities will only be increasing in the upcoming years and proves that t...

The current economic and social environment is pushing governments to transformational change in order to meet increasing public expectations of public-sector value and cost effective outcomes. Modern information and communication technology (ICT) has shown its potential to enable government service availability and delivery, but governments are relying on their agencies to create their own val...

this paper is an attempt to examine, with narrative explanation technique, the notion of the “other” in the history of iran’s foreign relations from the perspective of historical sociology in international relations. it covers the historical period following the founding of the safavid state in 1502 a.d. through the first decade of the islamic republic (1989 a.d.).from the perspective of how th...

This spring the US Congress proposed devastating cuts to the e-Government Fund, an essential source of support for data.gov, usaspending.gov and a variety of other vital resources in the US Gov 2.0/Open Data space. Sunlight was at the front lines of the fight to stop those cuts. In the process we learned important lessons about how the crisis arose, how it could be stopped, and what it means fo...

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the implementation of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) (the ‘WR Act’) and the potential impact of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) (the ‘Work Choices Act’) within the Australian Public Service (‘APS’) — where the Coalition government has the greatest opportunity to influence the working conditions of its own employee...

*David S. Johnson is with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Timothy M. Smeeding is the Maxwell Professor of Public Policy at Syracuse University. The opinions and conclusions are solely those of the author and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policies of SSA or any agency of the Federal Government or of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. The authors ...