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31Public sociology — is an approach to the discipline which seeks to transcend the academy and engage wider audiences. Rather than being defined by a particular method, theory, or set of political values, public sociology may be seen as a style of sociology, a way of …
32Public works — (or internal improvements historically in the United States)[1][2][3] are a broad category of projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community. They include… …
33Public-private partnership — (PPP) describes a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. These schemes are sometimes referred to as PPP or P3.In some types of PPP …
34Public services — is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. The term is associated with a social consensus (usually expressed through… …
35Public Company Accounting Oversight Board — The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (or PCAOB) is a private sector, non profit corporation created by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, a 2002 United States federal law, to oversee the auditors of public companies. Its stated purpose is to… …
36Public law — is a theory of law governing the relationship between individuals (citizens, companies) and the state. Under this theory, Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are sub divisions of public law. This theory is at odds with the… …
37Public — is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. Public is also defined as the people of a nation not affiliated with the government of that… …
38Public Ivy — is a term coined by Richard Moll in his 1985 book Public Ivys: A Guide to America s best public undergraduate colleges and universities to refer to universities which provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price. Richard… …
39Public goods game — The Public goods game is a standard of experimental economics; in the basic game subjects secretly choose how many of their private tokens to put into the public pot. Each subject keeps the tokens they do not contribute plus an even split of the… …
40Public value — is the equivalent of shareholder value in public management. Public value can be instituted as an organising principle in a public sector organisation, providing a focus in the context of which individual employees are free to pursue and propose… …
