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About: White paper is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3852 publications have been published within this topic receiving 51169 citations. The topic is also known as: White paper & White papers.


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TL;DR: In Nigeria, a great deal of the debate concerning the country's political future has resolved around the requisites for an equitable federal system as discussed by the authors, which is not surprising given the legacy of conflict engendered by the competition for resources between ethnically-defined constituencies.
Abstract: GIVEN THE LEGACY of conflict engendered by the competition for resources 'between ethnically-defined constituencies'1 in Nigeria, it is not surprising that a great deal of the debate concerning the country's political future has resolved around the requisites for an equitable federal system. Larry Diamond's splendid essay in the April 1987 number of the Zournal addresses quite a number of the prominent themes in this debate2 and my aim in this comment is to elaborate on some of them by exploring their key dimensions. The release of the Federal Government's White Paper on the Report of the Political Bureau appointed to coordinate a debate on Nigeria's future politics,3 simultaneously with the announcement, on 1 July 1987, of the guidelines for transition to civilian rule4 will also enable me to discuss some of the choices that have already been made regarding Nigeria's federalism in the Third Republic.

16 citations

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TL;DR: The paper argues that, notwithstanding the change of government, the 1997 NHS (Primary Care) Act and the White Paper “The New NHS” are both integral to the achievement of wider strategic health policy objectives, such as improving the quality and coherence of services, and increasing professional accountability for the financial consequences of clinical decisions.
Abstract: This paper argues that the terms on which GPs entered the NHS, as self-employed contractors, have proved remarkably resistant to the managerial pressures which have come to dominate other sections of the National Health Service. However, this traditional mode of financing and organizing the delivery of a key element of the National Health Service has become increasingly incompatible with wider health policy objectives—the development of an integrated network of good-quality, equitable and well-coordinated primary and community health services which are responsive to local needs. Furthermore, primary health services have themselves come to play a crucially important role in securing other strategic changes in the wider health policy arena, such as securing and sustaining a shift in the traditional balance between hospital and community-based health services and controlling expenditure in a needs-led service. The paper argues that, notwithstanding the change of government, the 1997 NHS (Primary Care) Act and the White Paper “The New NHS” are both integral to the achievement of wider strategic health policy objectives, such as improving the quality and coherence of services, and increasing professional accountability for the financial consequences of clinical decisions. However, the greatest significance of these and other related measures is that they shift the emphasis of health policy from commissioning and purchasing by primary care to commissioning and contracting for primary care. They thereby extend the exposure of GP-based services to managerialist scrutiny and control.

16 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors deconstruct interpretive discourses in South Africa's recently published White Paper on Special Needs Education and construct objects, agents, actions and binaries constituted by social constructionist discourses as well as the voices these discourses marginalize.
Abstract: We (de)construct interpretive discourses in South Africa\'s recently published White Paper on Special Needs Education. In particular, we (de)construct objects, agents, actions and binaries constituted by social constructionist discourses as well as the voices these discourses marginalize. We discuss the implications that interpretive discourses, as we deconstruct them in White Paper 6: Special Needs Education, have for inclusion / exclusion. (South African Journal of Education: 2003 23 (2): 152-156)

16 citations

07 Jul 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the potential role of cultural transformations in the United States traffic safety system by treating the origin of risk behaviors and identify potential hazards and recommended strategies for implementation.
Abstract: Traffic safety culture is a powerful concept which helps explain differences in international, regional and demographic crash risk as well as the propensity to commit high risk behaviors. If it were possible to define and apply this concept within a relevant social psychological theory of behavioral choice, it may be possible to develop a new paradigm for traffic safety interventions. This culture-based approach would be fundamentally different, but complementary to traditional strategies for reducing traffic fatalities which focus on education, enforcement, and engineering. This paper describes the potential role of cultural transformations in the United States traffic safety system by treating the origin of risk behaviors. It also identifies potential hazards and recommended strategies for implementation. This paper estimates an annual savings of $28 billion in crash reductions and a $6 billion annual cost for implementation. The resulting cost to benefit ratio of greater than 4:1 is encouraging.

16 citations


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202395
2022203
202159
2020101
2019115
201899