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  2. New public administration - Wikipedia

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    The new public administration (NPA) is a perspective in public administration that emerged in the late 20th century, focusing on more collaborative and citizen-centric approach. It emphasizes responsiveness to public needs, community involvement, and the integration of management and social science principles in public sector decision-making.

  3. Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering ...

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    NPA-911 is forbidden as 9-1-1 is an emergency telephone number. (This is less restrictive than the rules prohibiting all three-digit N-1-1 codes as exchanges in all geographic area codes.) NPA-555 is reserved in every toll-free area code (except 800) for future information or directory assistance applications

  4. Representative bureaucracy - Wikipedia

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    The term representative bureaucracy is generally attributed to J. Donald Kingsley's book titled Representative Bureaucracy that was published in 1944. In his book, Kingsley calls for a " liberalization of social class selection for the English bureaucracy," due to the "Dominance of social, political, and economic elites within the British bureaucracy" which he claimed resulted in programs and ...

  5. Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ...

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    The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.

  6. Single transferable vote - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] In 1884, Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Caroll) argued for a proportional representation system based on multi-member districts similar to indirect STV, with each voter casting only a single vote, quotas as minimum requirements to take seats, and votes transferable by candidates through what is now called liquid democracy. The difference ...

  7. Church encoding - Wikipedia

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    This list representation can be given type in System F. The evident correspondence to Church numerals is non-coincidental, as that can be seen as a unary encoding, with natural numbers represented by lists of unit (i.e. non-important) values, e.g. [() ()], with the list's length serving as the representation of the natural number.

  8. Interlingual machine translation - Wikipedia

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    In the transfer approach the source language is transformed into an abstract, less language-specific representation. Linguistic rules which are specific to the language pair then transform the source language representation into an abstract target language representation and from this the target sentence is generated.

  9. Direct representation - Wikipedia

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    Direct representation [1] or proxy representation [2] is a form of representative democracy where voters can vote for any candidate in the land, and each representative's vote is weighted in proportion to the number of citizens who have chosen that candidate to represent them. Direct representation is similar to interactive representation.