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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Foreword by Ronald Reagan -- Foreword by Nikki R. Haley -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Federalism and the American Experiment: The Intention of the Constitution -- 2. Guidelines for Pro-Growth Tax Reform for the States -- 3. A Commonsense Guide for the States: The Texas Model -- 4. Making American Health Care Great: A Conservative Agenda for States to Create Innovative Health Care Markets -- 5. Religious Liberty and the Human Good -- 6. Three Cheers for the Electoral College -- 7. Labor Unions and the Public Sector -- 8. Our Energy Future -- 9. God's Green Earth -- 10. Choosing the Best for Our Children -- 11. Restoring Public Universities as the Marketplace of Ideas -- 12. Getting Right on Crime -- 13. The Texas Model of Tort Reform -- 14. The U.S. Infrastructure Crisis: Enough Talk Already -- 15. The Conservative Path to Immigration and Border Security Reform -- 16. From Serving the Nation to Coming Home: How State and Local Governments Can Assist in Veteran Transition -- 17. Legislative Aftershock -- 18. Defending the Second Amendment -- 19. America's Greatest Asset: The Family -- 20. Every Life Matters -- 21. Addressing the Social Fabric of Our Society -- 22. The Media: "Goodbye, Iphigene" -- 23. Revitalizing Low-Income Communities-from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out -- Contributor Biographies -- About the Editor -- Notes -- Copyright.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Challenges of Transparency and Accountability -- 'Transparency' and 'accountability' -- Government transparency and accountability -- Accountability and transparency in practice -- Dealing with open government -- 2 The Evolving Context -- The post-war rise of the 'monitory' society -- The rise of information and communication technology (ICT) and e-government -- The new public management -- The 'new governance' and the rise of horizontal accountability -- Present and future challenges -- 3 Dealing with Politicians -- Assisting the politicians' accountability: tendering advice -- Public officials in the front line: sharing accountability with politicians -- Conclusion -- 4 Dealing with Freedom of Information -- Freedom of information legislation -- What does FOI cover? -- Exemptions -- Administering FOI -- Handling FOI -- Conclusion -- 5 Dealing with the News Media -- Government and the news media -- The continuous news cycle -- Professional media staff -- Media professionals and government communication -- Direct contact with the media -- Conclusion -- 6 Dealing with the Legislature -- Annual accounts -- Performance reporting -- Appearing before legislative committees -- The political context of legislative committee inquiries -- Disclosing and withholding information from committees -- Conclusion -- 7 Dealing with Regulators -- Government auditors -- Inspectors and inspectors-general -- Other regulators, monitors and auditors -- Ombudsmen -- Conclusion -- 8 Dealing with Courts and Judicial Review -- Principles of administrative law -- Standing commissions -- Public inquiries -- Conclusion -- 9 Dealing with Stakeholders -- Who are stakeholders? -- Types of stakeholder engagement -- Conclusion -- 10 Dealing with Contractors and Partners.

In his report to the Second Session of the Ninth National People's Congress Premier Zhu Ronji reviewed the government's work in 1998 and laid out the general requirements for its work in 1999. Themes are: expanding domestic demand, a positive financial policy, development of agriculture and the rural economy, reform of state-owned enterprises, efforts to expand exports, effective utilisation of foreign funds, science and education, a plan of running the country according to law, promoting the peaceful reunification of China, diplomatic work. (DÜI-Alb)

Abstract
This study accounts for how parody enters such official political discourse as Chinese Government Work Reports (GWRs). It quantitatively and qualitatively studies parodies from 44 GWRs (1978–2021) via the convergence-economy, variation-effectiveness, and relevance model. Our findings are: 1) parodies have appeared more and more frequently in GWRs over the last 44 years; 2) word parodies occur more frequently in GWRs than phrase, sentence, and paragraph parodies; 3) brand-new parodies, of higher pragma-rhetorical values, are used in GWRs; 4) parodies tend to reoccur mimetically once utilized, for ready-made security and effectiveness; and 5) the increasing frequency of parodies is caused by the politicians' quest for their identification-oriented "markedness effects."