created within the Office of the President in 2006, is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of religion, ethics, and public life. Through research, teaching, and service, the Center explores global challenges of democracy and human rights; economic and social development; international diplomacy; and interreligious understanding. Two premises guide the Center's work: that a deep examination...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to design a biorhythm management model for Iranian public school principals with a fuzzy Delphi approach. Methodology: The design of the present study was qualitative with fuzzy Delphi method. Statistical population, professors of organizational behavior management in universities of Mazandaran province and senior managers of education departments in citi...

The public sector has multiple, conflicting, and often intangible goals. It produces "public goods" for problems that should be solved (like crime and poverty), even though these problems may have no known feasible solutions; and it is heavily impacted by politics and bureaucratic red tape. These and other features of the public sector make it potentially a much different setting for IS managem...

Network has become important public platform for the public to express the opinion, to discuss public affairs, to participate in economic social and political life. The spread of information network public opinion geometric progression growth, it is necessary to monitor and analyze network Public Opinion for the government to manage the public opinion information and to timely discover hot spot...

Translation of: Singer, P. 1972. “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 1 (3): 229–243. (Philosophy © 1972 Wiley).

An induced innovations framework was used to develop and test a model of factors affecting county government's decisions to adopt alternative service delivery methods. Size measures of population and tax base, fiscal measures of tax revenues, the share of tax base in •agriculture and access to human capital were significantly related to county use of innovations. Disciplines Economic Policy | E...

The concept of sovereignty currently dominates Indigenous affairs in the United States. The advancement and defense of sovereignty is quite arguably tribal nations' number one agenda, and sovereignty is a persistent focus of tribes' political, economic, legal, and social action. Sovereignty undergirds tribal gaming, natural resource management, and a wide variety of jurisdictional and political...

Democratization, rising literacy, the advent of the information age, and increasing connectedness are resulting in unprecedented opportunities for public participation in public affairs. In addition to promoting transparency and demonstrating inclusiveness, public consultation enhances ownership and resonates with the increasingly common decentralization of responsibility for social services to...