Patricia Byrnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6672623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Byrnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrnes |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois at Springfield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voices of children in the legal process
This paper looks, from the perspective of a practising family law barrister, at how the views of children are taken into account in family law legislation, case law, and the practice of the family courts. Recent Commonwealth Government reviews of the 2006 amendments to the Family Law Act 1975 released in 2010 are considered in this context. The role of international covenants in interpreting and applying the law relating to children’s views is co…
Dimensions and Patterns in Employee Empowerment
Empowerment of public employees has been touted as an important mediating step in improving public organizational outcomes, yet such a relationship depends on an assumption that employees value what is offered as empowerment. This qualitative study explored the assumption through in-depth interviews of streetlevel bureaucrats in a large state human service agency. The interviews support previous research that empowerment is multidimensional; five…
An Equilibrium Model of Tax Abatement
The model of tax abatements includes taxing district and firm characteristics to explain a locality’s abatement generosity. The community-level characteristics are for the school district in the enterprise zone that grants the tax abatement. Firm characteristics include the size, credit rating, number of newly created and/or retained jobs, and the quality of the jobs. Generosity of abatements is measured by the percentage of taxes abated. Firms t…
Efficiency and Ownership
Dimensions and Patterns in Employee Empowerment
Empowerment of public employees has been touted as an important mediating step in improving public organizational outcomes, yet such a relationship depends on an assumption that employees value what is offered as empowerment. This qualitative study explored the assumption through in-depth interviews of streetlevel bureaucrats in a large state human service agency. The interviews support previous research that empowerment is multidimensional; five…
An Equilibrium Model of Tax Abatement
The model of tax abatements includes taxing district and firm characteristics to explain a locality’s abatement generosity. The community-level characteristics are for the school district in the enterprise zone that grants the tax abatement. Firm characteristics include the size, credit rating, number of newly created and/or retained jobs, and the quality of the jobs. Generosity of abatements is measured by the percentage of taxes abated. Firms t…
Voices of children in the legal process
This paper looks, from the perspective of a practising family law barrister, at how the views of children are taken into account in family law legislation, case law, and the practice of the family courts. Recent Commonwealth Government reviews of the 2006 amendments to the Family Law Act 1975 released in 2010 are considered in this context. The role of international covenants in interpreting and applying the law relating to children’s views is co…
Efficiency and Ownership
An Equilibrium Model of Tax Abatement
The model of tax abatements includes taxing district and firm characteristics to explain a locality’s abatement generosity. The community-level characteristics are for the school district in the enterprise zone that grants the tax abatement. Firm characteristics include the size, credit rating, number of newly created and/or retained jobs, and the quality of the jobs. Generosity of abatements is measured by the percentage of taxes abated. Firms t…
Dimensions and Patterns in Employee Empowerment
Empowerment of public employees has been touted as an important mediating step in improving public organizational outcomes, yet such a relationship depends on an assumption that employees value what is offered as empowerment. This qualitative study explored the assumption through in-depth interviews of streetlevel bureaucrats in a large state human service agency. The interviews support previous research that empowerment is multidimensional; five…
Voices of children in the legal process
This paper looks, from the perspective of a practising family law barrister, at how the views of children are taken into account in family law legislation, case law, and the practice of the family courts. Recent Commonwealth Government reviews of the 2006 amendments to the Family Law Act 1975 released in 2010 are considered in this context. The role of international covenants in interpreting and applying the law relating to children’s views is co…
Business (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Child Abuse and Trauma (1 work) · Common law (1 work)