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Ansell and Gash (2008) define collaborative governance as follows: [ 7] 'A governing arrangement where one or more public agencies directly engage non-state stakeholders in a collective decision-making process that is formal, consensus-oriented, and deliberative and that aims to make or implement public policy or manage public programs or assets'.
Business communication is communication that is intended to help a business achieve a fundamental goal, through information sharing between employees as well as people outside the company. [ 1][ 2] It includes the process of creating, sharing, listening, and understanding messages between different groups of people through written and verbal ...
Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent transfer rates regardless of content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication (i.e., without price ...
Basic forms of government. Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. [ 1] Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary ...
Fourth branch of government. In politics of the United States, "fourth branch of government" is an unofficial term referring to groups or institutions perceived variously as influencing or acting in the stead of the three branches of the US federal government defined in the Constitution of the United States ( legislative, executive and judicial ...
t. e. In American law, unitary executive theory is "an expansive interpretation of presidential power that aims to centralize greater control over the government in the White House." [ 1] The concept often comes up in jurisprudential disagreements about the president's ability to remove employees within the executive branch; transparency and ...
Corporatism is a political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together on and negotiate contracts or policy ( collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The term is derived from the ...
Politics portal. v. t. e. A parliamentary democracy is a form of government where the head of government (chief executive) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of a majority of the legislature, to which they are held accountable. This head of government is usually, but not always, distinct ...