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Quango. A quango or QUANGO (less often QuANGO or QANGO) is an organisation to which a government has devolved power, but which is still partly controlled and/or financed by government bodies. The term was originally a shortening of "quasi NGO", where NGO is the acronym for a non-government organisation. [ 1]
Quasi-state. Map of the British Empire under Queen Victoria at the end of the nineteenth century. "Dominions" refers to all territories belonging to the Crown. A quasi-state (sometimes referred to as a state-like entity[ 2] or formatively a proto-state[ 3][ 2]) is a political entity that does not represent a fully autonomous sovereign state ...
Quasi-corporation. A quasi-corporation is [1] an entity that exercises some of the functions of a corporation, but has not been granted separate legal personality by statute. [2] For example, a public corporation with limited authority and powers such as a county or school district is a quasi-corporation.
The official United States Government Manual offers no definition. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the Administrative Procedure Act definition of "agency" applies to most executive branch agencies, Congress may define an agency however it chooses in enabling legislation, and through subsequent litigation often involving the Freedom of Information Act and the ...
In the United States government, independent agencies are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President. [ 1]: 6 In a narrower sense, the term refers only to those independent agencies that, while considered part of the executive branch, have ...
Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government (the central or federal government) with regional governments ( provincial, state, cantonal, territorial, or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two. Johannes Althusius is considered the father of modern federalism along ...
Category. : Quasi-public entities in the United States. Companies portal. United States portal. Below are U.S. entities that are quasi-public, sometimes meaning they operate like (and are sometimes organized as) private organizations and are run by a board of directors or similar arrangement whose members are appointed by government entities.
Quasi-alliance. A quasi-alliance is a relationship between two states that have not formed an alliance despite sharing a common ally. [1] It is an informal security arrangement that is not based on a formal collective defence pact, but it is instead based on tacit agreements. [2] It is unique from an alliance as the states do not have this ...