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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

State law requires each board of county commissioners to levy and collect taxes as necessary to meet the county’s allocated share of the cost of mandated social services programs. Counties may also levy property taxes for any purpose for which the county is authorized by law to appropriate money, subject to voter approval.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures. Bilham 2011. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. Register 2007. Ambraseys, N. Corruption kills.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.

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How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

But with their falling into conservatorship while generating roughly one-quarter of a trillion dollars of net income losses from 2007 through 2011, faith in that business model understandably evaporated among policymakers.