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  2. Category:Quasi-public entities in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Companies portal; United States portal; Below are U.S. entities that are quasi-public, sometimes meaning they operate like (and are sometimes organized as) private organizations and are run by a board of directors or similar arrangement whose members are appointed by government entities.

  3. Quasi-corporation - Wikipedia

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    A quasi-corporation is [1] an entity that exercises some of the functions of a corporation, but has not been granted separate legal personality by statute. [2] For example, a public corporation with limited authority and powers such as a county or school district is a quasi-corporation.

  4. Quango - Wikipedia

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    The term "quasi non-governmental organisation" was created in 1967 by Alan Pifer of the US-based Carnegie Foundation, in an essay on the independence and accountability of public-funded bodies that are incorporated in the private sector. This essay got the attention of David Howell, a Conservative M.P. in Britain, who then organized an Anglo ...

  5. List of federal agencies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    US Government Manual, official freely downloadable PDFs of annual printed versions. Federal Agency Directory, online database maintained by the Louisiana State University Libraries in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the GPO; A–Z Index of US Departments and Agencies, USA.gov, the US government's official web portal ...

  6. Independent agencies of the United States federal government

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    United States decided that although the president had the power to remove officials from agencies that were "an arm or an eye of the executive", it upheld statutory limitations on the president's power to remove officers of administrative bodies that performed quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial functions, such as the Federal Trade Commission.

  7. Quasi-state - Wikipedia

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    A quasi-state (sometimes referred to as a state-like entity [2] or formatively a proto-state [3] [2]) is a political entity that does not represent a fully autonomous sovereign state with its own institutions. [4] The precise definition of quasi-state in political literature

  8. Administrative state - Wikipedia

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    The administrative state is created when legislative (law-making) bodies, like the U.S. Congress or the U.K. Parliament, delegate their lawmaking powers to administrative or private entities. [8] Nondelegation is a legal principle that a branch of government cannot authorize another entity to exercise powers or functions assigned to itself. It ...

  9. List of government-owned companies - Wikipedia

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    A government-owned corporation is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. Their legal status varies from being a part of government to stock companies with a state as a regular stockholder. There is no standard definition of a government-owned corporation (GOC) or state-owned enterprise (SOE ...