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Performance policies aim to use provisions such as competitive recruitment packages, performance pay, outcome‐based tenure decisions, and sanction to enhance the quality of the public sector workforce. Federal Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind policies have promoted the adoption of such principles among the states by linking funding to their implementation. While all 50 states have developed performance policies, the policies vary in strength and rigor. This research uses fiscal federalism and other state characteristics to assess factors affecting commitment to performance workforce development policies among the states. It finds that state need and commitment to federal initiatives influence the strength of voluntary state performance policies. It also finds that performance workforce development policies influence the dismissal of underperforming educators and the retention of highly qualified employees. However, a negative relationship is reported between policy strength and the retention of highly qualified teachers.Related Articles
Webber, David J. 2010. "." Politics & Policy 38 (): 81‐95. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2009.00229.x/abstract

Roch, Christine, and Amanda Wilsker. 2010. "." Politics & Policy 38 (): 1187‐1210. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2010.00274.x/abstract

Brill, Sam, and Abby McCartney. 2008. "." Politics & Policy 36 (): 750‐774. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2008.00133.x/abstract
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Las políticas basadas en el desempeño tienen como objetivo usar incentivos como contratos de reclutamiento competitivos, salario en base al desempeño, asignación de puestos permanentes en base a resultados, y sanciones para mejorar la calidad de la fuerza laboral del sector público. Las políticas de Federal Race to the Top (Camino federal a la cima) y No Child Left Behind (Que ningún niño de quede atrás) han promovido la adopción de estos principios entre los estados americanos al enlazar fondos para su implementación. Mientras que los 50 estados han desarrollado políticas basadas en el desempeño, las políticas varían en fuerza y rigor. Este estudio hace uso del federalismo fiscal y otras características estatales para evaluar los factores que afectan el compromiso con las políticas de desarrollo de la fuerza laboral entre los estados. Se encuentra que las necesidades estatales y el compromiso con las iniciativas federales tiene un efecto en el esfuerzo voluntario para las políticas estatales basadas en el desempeño. También se encuentra que las políticas para aumentar el desempeño de la fuerza laboral tienen un efecto en la destitución de educadores de bajo rendimiento y la retención de empleados altamente calificados. Sin embargo, se reporta una relación negativa entre el esfuerzo de las políticas y la retención de profesores altamente calificados.

Is Supreme Court legitimacy affected by the way justices explain their decisions to the public? Existing work shows a link between legitimacy and case outcomes but often overlooks the impact of opinion content. Using a novel experimental design, the author measures the effect of three different types of judicial arguments on public support for the Court. The results suggest that the rationales used by justices in their opinions can affect institutional legitimacy, but to a lesser degree than conventional wisdom suggests. Taken together with other recent legitimacy research, these findings have important implications and set the stage for follow-up research.

Current scholarly understanding of information security regulation in the United States is limited. Several competing mechanisms exist, many of which are untested in the courts and before state regulators, and new mechanisms are being proposed on a regular basis. Perhaps of even greater concern, the pace at which technology and threats change far outpaces the abilities of even the most sophisticated regulators.My Ph.D. dissertation focuses on understanding these laws - how we can classify them, what effects they have, and what are the implications of these effects for organizations and professionals. I explore these concepts through a mixed methods approach, utilizing both qualitative semi-structured interviews and quantitative data on breach incidence. The qualitative interviews inform the development of my hypothesis in addition to providing a basis for empirical analysis. The quantitative data is limited, but promising both in results and in the potential for the future analysis. In this Dissertation, I report preliminary results as to the effect certain of certain laws on information security practices. I develop a system for classifying information security regulation, and develop hypotheses as to the effect certain types of regulation have on organizations and information security professionals.Two notable conclusions result. First, the combination of Security Breach Notification (SBN) laws and management-based "regulatory delegation" models together is better at preventing breaches of personal information by organizations in the United States than is either model alone. Second, compliance-oriented prescriptive legislation such as SBNs weakens the role of security professionals within organizations, while management-based regulatory delegation models such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act (GLBA) strengthen the role of professionals within organizations.

PurposeThe paper is set in the context of the impact of new public management (NPM) on the police service in the UK. Specifically, it aims to describe a modelling based approach to targeted police performance improvement within a specific area of measured operational policing namely sanction detection levels. It draws upon nationally available crime statistics, which have been utilised in a novel way in order to provide the police with an additional performance management technique.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses secondary data and the PROMETHEE ranking technique to exposit performance rank improvement of a police force amongst their most similar forces group.FindingsThe modelling approach is a proven tool that could be used in partnership with other police performance management techniques in their attempt to meet the public interest and Home Office demands for improvements in base sanction detection levels.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper presents a theoretical approach that seeks to address a complex and multifaceted operational issue affecting all police forces. The theoretical nature in itself presents a potentially idealistic scenario.Practical implicationsThe paper demonstrates that innovative modelling has the potential to add value to techniques that are currently used in the area of police performance improvement, in this case sanction detection levels. At the fundamental level this could be viewed in terms of "Where to start first, and from there?" with respect to targeting certain types of crime.Originality/valueThis paper uses a modern ranking technique previously unused in this area.

The International Health Regulations (IHR) remain the primary international legal treaty specifically focused on infectious disease control. In the mid-1990s, international public health officials recognised the need to overhaul the IHR to make them more relevant to the modern world. In revising the IHR, the treaty vastly expanded the scope of reportable conditions, strengthened and widened reporting requirements, and sought explicitly to incorporate human rights considerations – all in the name of reducing transborder risks associated with infectious disease. In this article, I trace the development of the IHR as a tool for mitigating infectious disease risk and examine how well the revised version of the IHR responds to contemporary infectious disease concerns. In particular, I focus on how the IHR have expanded surveillance requirements while also recognising the need to respect international human rights.

Die Schrift untersucht die ärztliche Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag einer eingehenden Untersuchung. Die allgemeine Systematik der GoA und deren Streitpunkte werden in Bezug gesetzt zu den speziellen rechtlichen Bedingungen, unter deren Geltung ärztliche Leistungen erbracht werden. Es erfolgt eine Abstimmung der GoA-Dogmatik mit dem Recht der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung, dem Arztstrafrecht, dem Recht des Notarzteinsatzes wie auch dem Krankenhausrecht. Vor dem Hintergrund dieses komplexen Normengefüges werden die Gerichtsentscheidungen zur Ärzte-GoA erläutert und unter Abgrenzung zum Vertrags- und Bereicherungsrecht systematisiert. (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag)