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The Russian Flat Tax (and possible lessons for the United States during the debt crisis) | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. July 31, 2011 / fredrikcoulter. The Russian Flat Tax (and possible lessons for the United States during the debt crisis). But one country of the top ten countries in the world (ranked by GDP) does not use progressive tax rates. Rather, they tax income using a flat tax. But what is a flat tax? A single flat rate. Elimination of special preferences. No double taxation of savings and investment. During the time of the Soviet Union,...
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Thoughts on Studying International Public Administration | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. August 1, 2011 / fredrikcoulter. Thoughts on Studying International Public Administration. The Russian Budget System. While allowing non-budgetary expenditures to make up the majority of expenditures such as in Russia is probably excessive, a case may be made for certain non-emergency expenditures being allowable. The current debt crisis is due to the federal government reaching a self-imposed limit on the total amount of debt t...
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Textbooks versus Lifelong Learning | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. December 28, 2011 / fredrikcoulter. Textbooks versus Lifelong Learning. I just recently received my first two text books for the Masters in Management Information Systems. James A. O’Brien and George M. Marakas’ Management Information Systems Tenth Edition. And James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross’ Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Fifth Edition. Supposed to be the end all and be all of network knowledge? Hopefully the instr...
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Toastmaster’s Competent Leader – a Presentation | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. August 6, 2011 / fredrikcoulter. Toastmaster’s Competent Leader a Presentation. I’ve been a member of Toastmasters. Since 2006. I haven’t accomplished as much as I should, but I have completed the Competent Communicator manual, and am partly through the speeches necessary for Advanced Communicator Bronze. Recently I was elected the Vice President for Education. It won’t be enough to complete the award requirements, but it should...
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Comment Policy | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. In order to cut down on the amount of spam, all comments are moderated. This does not mean I will delete contents that are critical of my posts. There are a couple of other ground rules for comments. First, the comment must pertain to my post. If you want to say something else, email it to me. If it’s interesting to me, I may post it separately. Join 8 other followers. Skype Name is Fredrik.Coulter. Enjoyed friendly queues. ...
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Courses | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. Masters of Management Information Systems – Nova Southeastern University. MMIS 620 Management Information Systems. MMIS 653 Telecommunications and Computer Networking. Masters of Public Administration – University of Central Florida – GRADUATED DECEMBER 2011. MAN 6395 Leadership Development and Coaching. PAD 5041 Ethics and Values in Public Administration. PAD 6035 Public Administration in the Policy Process. MGT 595 Strategic M...
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Attention Teachers! – Toastmasters for Teenagers | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. July 27, 2011 / fredrikcoulter. Ndash; Toastmasters for Teenagers. I was reading the latest issue of Toastmasters magazine. And I saw an article by Beth Black describing the new youth communication program. Toastmasters has had a long history of being an educational resource for adults, with both public speaking and leadership training available. For a long time, they offered a public speaking for teenagers module. For ten stude...
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. July 24, 2011 / fredrikcoulter. Not just a question about Russia and America. In the most recent issue of Public Administration Review. July/August 2011), there were two articles comparing civilian control of the military in both Russia and the United States. The main article is. Creating Shared Responsibility through Respect for Military Culture: The Russian and American Cases. I think that these articles, together, are pointi...
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Critical Thinking in the Schools? | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. November 3, 2011 / fredrikcoulter. Critical Thinking in the Schools? One of the items that schools are supposed to teach is critical thinking. At least, that’s what I keep hearing. But critical thinking isn’t something that’s easily tested using a multiple choice test. 160; In history, the question who were Henry VIII’s children and which one(s) took the throne? Has a meaningful answer. Is typical. Steven Maranville ...He say...
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Citations | A Scholar's Quest
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A Scholar's Quest. Exploring the intersections of governance and technology. While it would be very nice if every document, report, and study were available for free on the internet, that isn’t the case. To make matters worse, even if the referenced document, report, and study was available online when I wrote the post, it may no longer be available at the linked address when you try to access it. So, what to do. If I’m dealing with a book, I’ll link to a version of the book on Project Gutenberg. I guess...
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