Examining performance in state-owned organizations
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An Open Balance Sheet concept of evaluating performance measurement in state-owned organizations supports the need of transparency and access to relevant information. The approach develops composite performance indicators to evaluate organizational goals, objectives, workload, and modes of resource acquisition and uses. Lack of transparency, resource crunch, privatization of state assets and complex financial problems led to erosion of confidence in state-owned companies. Causes of nonperformance of these companies include factors such as protectionism and lack of taxpayer's control over management.
Publication Name: The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-839X
Year: 1996
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Understanding state disintegration: the case of Nicaragua
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Nicaragua is facing an insurmountable constitutional crisis as political instability threatens state disintegration. The Chamorro government's has failed to arrest the endemic political and economic decline and prevent violence. The elite's inability to coalesce on state policies has impelled a stalemate in the political process which is threatening the state's legitimacy. The decline of the party system and partisan attitudes have added to the crisis situation. The anarchic conditions have led to a disenchantment with formal politics and the preference for a delegated autocrat.
Publication Name: The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0278-839X
Year: 1996
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Totalitarianism in Sandinista Nicaragua
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A study employing the totalitarian model of analysis developed by Hannah Arendt was carried out to prove that Nicaragua's Sandinista regime was in reality a totalitarian state. The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) showed signs of traditional authoritarianism when it took over Nicaragua's government in 1979. However, there are strong evidences that FSLN was a Marxist-Leninist regime that wanted to transform Nicaragua into a communist state.
Publication Name: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1057-610X
Year: 1992
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