This piece is an edited extract from Ian Cobain's study of official secrecy in the UK, The History Thieves (Portobello, £20).
A study of official sources by Schools Week last month showed that at least 17 academy trusts had been given thousands of pounds to prepare for sponsorship but had not taken on or opened any school.
"Interpreting their statements may not be as much a science as an art," said Changyong Choi, a North Korea scholar at Syracuse University in New York State who has made a study of official news reports from the North.
In a study of official data and newspaper reports of the Olympic host city, the civil rights groups found that almost one in six homicides were carried out by on-duty policy officers as part of a "strategy of fear" in favela communities.
Another study of official records of in-custody deaths in Oklahoma found multiple inconsistencies between the number of deaths reported via federal and state records (Hampton 2016).
Studies of official statistics in theBook of Wei show that among the 123 northern non-Han surnames, 60 were already absent in the official records.
We have also used the checklist as a training tool for evaluators, because it was the sole available material at the commencement of this study for official training of the ICF.
GAZA — The Islamist group that governs Gaza barred a group of students this week from traveling to the United States for a year of study, officials of the group, Hamas, said.
Page A7 NO TRIP FOR GAZA STUDENTS The Islamist group that governs Gaza, barred a group of students this week from traveling to the United States for a year of study, officials of the group, Hamas, said.
Lui (1986) uses an overlapping-generations approach to study the behavior of officials who maximize their expected payoff due to corruption.
