Government

Anthropology at the Centre: Reflections on Research, Policy Guidance and Decision Support

by Mils Hills

This chapter offers something of an insight into the application of anthropology in government in terms of its... more This chapter offers something of an insight into the application of anthropology in government in terms of its contribution to research, and wider uses in the development of policy, doctrine, strategy, and decision support within and without the context of crises. I hope this contributes something distinctive to the range and breadth of writing in this book

Call for papers: FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CUTBACK MANAGEMENT: GLOBAL ISSUES FOR PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS

by Denita Cepiku

Papers are encouraged on long term financial sustainability and cutback management as emerging critical issues faced... more Papers are encouraged on long term financial sustainability and cutback management as emerging critical issues faced by Public Sector Organisations. Serious questions surround the ongoing viability of States, Universities and Local Governments both in terms of financial sustainability, financial as well non-financial performance.
Papers will be selected for publication in one Special Issue of Public Money & Management. The goal of the conference and special issues is to advance the knowledge on a world-wide phenomenon to all public organisations’ stakeholders (academic researchers, practitioners, state and local government organizations, international organisations - such as EC, IMF, WB and OECD - and rating agencies, media and the public, among others) due to its significant implications on the political, social, and economics state of affairs.

Deadline for submission of papers for the Euram Mini-Conference: October 1, 2012

"Naturaleza y función del gobierno en Hume"

by Ana Marta González

Revista de Filosofía, vol. 33, nº. 1, pp. 161-196, 2008. ISSN 0214-4921

autorizzazione all'attività di intermediazione finanziaria Commentario al testo unico bancario a cura di Capriglione

by Luca R. Perfetti

Reviewing Italian Bank Law provision on authorisation to be provided by Banca d’Italia to professional broker or... more Reviewing Italian Bank Law provision on authorisation to be provided by Banca d’Italia to professional broker or financial operators, the paper proposes a general framework of State regulatory powers on financial and bank system focused on consumer protection instead of public interest or Economic policy

Guidelines on Procurement

by Historically Digitized

Book three of the Local Government Code of the Philippines

Borderzones of Enforcement: Criminalization, Workplace Raids, and Migrant Counterconducts

by Jonathan Xavier Inda

Government Service Project April 21, 2012 Nicholas Woyshner

by Nicholas Woyshner

Justice and Power: Understanding the linkages among Society, Economics and Politics from a Multi-Level Perspective

by Nathan Andrews

This paper discusses the interconnections among society, market, and the state (politics). The argument is that such an analysis should begin with a re-definition of 'power'. Please read on....comments are welcome!

DEMOCRATIZATION, LEGITIMIZATION, AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING, 1870-1938

by Jari Eloranta

Co-authored with Svetlozar Andreev.

See paper. See paper.

Strategic organizational communication - A case study on the Danish cartoon controversies

by Fabian Bethge

The author of this article suggests a model to analyze strategic organizational communication and applies it for the... more The author of this article suggests a model to analyze strategic organizational communication and applies it for the case of the Danish cartoon controversies, 2005 – 2008. The model consists
of the four dimensions timeline, meaning (connotative vs. denotative), actors (radical other vs. self) and policy (communicated policy vs. executed policy). According to that strategic organizational communication was defined as an intentional set up plan that integrates activities along these dimensions and between them to control the outcomes in a way that enables future success.

Keywords: Strategic communication, Denmark, cartoon controversies

The Super-committee Collapse and America’s health care Future – Impact on Providers, Households and the 2012 Elections, The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health presented in Collaboration with Reuters December 16, 2011

by Adrian Toader-Williams

Keywords. Social Contract Human Rights Health Freedom Economy Economics Equilibrium TEKT Triangular Ecokinematics Theory Webcast Romania Retirement Law Education Security Sustainable Development Government Finances Banks Money Inflation Attribution.
Harvard Webcast intervention: Social Contracts? One of the main problems I see is that the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the entire health system, absorbs lots of profits. Healthcare is at the foundation of human rights, and all people should benefit. How do you see the health care system regulated as to respect human rights? The instability found in the social contract has to do with healthcare and retirement being secured for people. If there’s instability, it can lead to “civil unrest at different levels.” I think maybe we have seen a little bit of that with the Occupy Wall Street feelings about how society is ordered. Full transcript at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/forum/files/transcript-20111216.pdf

Harvard Webcast Authors: ROBERT BLENDON, DAVID CUTLER, GAIL WILENSKY, JOHN ROTHER, ROS KRASNY, ROBIN HERMAN.... more Harvard Webcast Authors: ROBERT BLENDON, DAVID CUTLER, GAIL WILENSKY, JOHN ROTHER, ROS KRASNY, ROBIN HERMAN. Intervention Adrian Toader-Williams: Social Contracts? One of the main problems I see is that the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the entire health system, absorbs lots of profits. Healthcare is at the foundation of human rights, and all people should benefit. How do you see the health care system regulated as to respect human rights? The instability found in the social contract has to do with healthcare and retirement being secured for people. If there’s instability, it can lead to “civil unrest at different levels.” I think maybe we have seen a little bit of that with the Occupy Wall Street feelings about how society is ordered. Full transcript at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/forum/files/transcript-20111216.pdf

How Far Central Government Can Push Local Government to Reflect State Policy? : The Case of Social Forestry in Bangladesh

by Saber Chowdhury

The Journal of Local Government, National Institute of Local Government (NILG), 34(1), January-June 2005, (Published in June 2009)

The main role of local government institutions in any country is to implement state policies. In Bangladesh, local... more The main role of local government institutions in any country is to implement state policies. In Bangladesh, local government was not successful as an implementation organization of Social Forestry (SF) policy of early 1980s though the central government and the donors were very much interested in its implementation. Forest
management was in very poor condition in our country under the state control due to the inadequacy of the bureaucratic-custodian approach to the forest management. There was an uncompromising zeal of the forest department to regulate their territories from local people. Keeping this in mind, local government body mainly Union Parishad was included as an implementing organization in the policy to solve those problems. The main responsibility of this local body was to bring the farmers together and helped them to form groups. But lack of periodic assessment of performance of the farmers, the role of the local elites, the role of the bureaucrats and patron-client relationship of different actors, i.e. the Union Parishad members, bureaucrats, local elites and farmers have made the implementation of the policy an unsuccessful one. It indicates that the strong willingness
of the central government does not always mean that a policy will be implemented properly.

The Limits of Expertise

by Will Davies

Published in Renewal Vol 16 No 3/4 2008 - http://www.renewal.org.uk/

In the Integrating Europe: What Should Governments Know of the Futures

by Guido Viik

a Master Thesis in Future Studies

The aim of the research is to explore the driving forces and major trends that are influencing the future of national... more The aim of the research is to explore the driving forces and major trends that are influencing the future of national statehood in the European integration context. In addition, the study aspires to  analyse policy and strategy questions that these drivers are likely to present for European national governments within the next few decades, and to suggest some solutions thereto.
To begin, the large trends and driving forces influencing the future of society in general are examined. Then, a search effort on the smaller scale is carried out to look for emergent issues, the ones that might yet rise to influence our environment. Finally, based on the above, the study concentrates on exploring and creating strategy options that a national European government could pursue to align and harmonise their nation’s growth efforts with the EU strategic goal of becoming the most dynamic knowledgebased economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and
better jobs and greater social cohesion.

Should environmental issues be securitised?

by Owais Rajput

Environmental issues
The variables that have defined national security for the most part of the World’s history... more Environmental issues
The variables that have defined national security for the most part of the World’s history have largely been military in nature. Security was primarily made up of the physical defence of the country, its people and whatever they possessed. Profound factors outside the traditional area of military operations have been realised that could affect the securities of many countries.
It is within this background that environmental issues have raised to importance, and the term ‘Environmental Security’ has entered the language of environmentalists, policy makers and security planners. With the ending of the cold war, the usual concepts of the nature of national security and the methods to achieve it have changed. The global powers at the time were engaged in military containment of each other, as in the case of America and the Soviet Union containment of each other.

Framing the War on Terror: The Internalization of Policy in the U.S. Press

by Seth Lewis

Reese, S. D., & Lewis, S. C. (2009). Framing the War on Terror: The Internalization of Policy in the US Press. Journalism, 10(6), 777-797.

The War on Terror was the label assigned by the Bush administration to the national security policy, launched in... more The War on Terror was the label assigned by the Bush administration to the national security policy, launched in response to the attacks of 9/11. The cultural construction and political rationale supporting this slogan represent a powerful organizing principle that has become a widely accepted framing—laying the groundwork for the invasion of Iraq. We examine this framing where its sponsors intersect with U.S. journalism, as illustrated by news texts. Broadly, we examine trends in how news reports refer to the War on Terror and provide an interpretive analysis of stories in USA Today. From the period of September 2001 to early 2006, these news texts suggest that the frame was internalized by the U.S. press. News and editorial reports went beyond “transmitting” the label as shorthand for administration policy, to “reify” the policy as uncontested, and “naturalize” it as a taken-for-granted common sense.

Between the People and the Constitution The Constitutional Role(s) of the Legislature

by Phil Dines

Aruna Sathanapally

This paper analyses the different senses in which the legislature’s relationship to the constitution can be... more This paper analyses the different senses in which the legislature’s relationship to the constitution can be understood. While broader recognition of the role that legislatures can play in relation to constitutions is valuable, there are other matters of concern relating to the realities of legislatures, in relation to representation, accountability, and deliberation, which merit greater consideration in constitutional literature.

Online engagement from the grassroots: Reflecting on over a decade of ePetitioning experience in Europe and the UK

by Panos Panagiotopoulos

Book chapter to appear at: Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance
Editors: Yiannis Charalabidis and Sotirios Koussouris

Publisher Springer, expected March 2012
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/book/978-3-642-27218-9

Extensive debate on Internet and formal politics has concentrated on whether authorities should focus their efforts on... more Extensive debate on Internet and formal politics has concentrated on whether authorities should focus their efforts on high-volume activities such petitioning or crowdsourcing. Those engagement tools seem to be consistent with the ambition of many networked citizens to influence policy making through ad hoc and mostly single-issue movements. Therefore, certain interesting questions emerge: can authorities organise their engagement activities to respond and act upon this call? Can citizens in-deed influence policy making in a few clicks? This chapter draws together material from different uses of ePetitioning tools in Europe, mainly focusing on the integrated UK experience at national and local level. The analysis suggests that those initiatives can provide valuable feedback to authorities and be effectively complemented by other forms of deeper engagement. Yet, political organisations should pay close attention on how the public views such exercises and be prepared to support partici-pants in different ways and on a regular basis.

Analytics of the Modern: An Introduction

by Jonathan Xavier Inda

This is the introduction to Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005).

Phillips J - Privy Council EM Curriculum

by Jennie Phillips

Developed during internship with the Privy Council Office

Emergency Management (EM) & Business Continuity (BC) Training program developed for the Privy Council / Prime... more Emergency Management (EM) & Business Continuity (BC) Training program developed for the Privy Council / Prime Minister's Office complete with research background, findings, program competencies, appendices for the needs assessment documents used, terminology and acronym dictionary