Local Government and Local Development

Factors Influencing Effectiveness of the Provincial Administrative Organizations in Providing Infrastructure Public Services

by Voharn Yasarawan

The objectives of this research were: (1) to study the effectiveness of Provincial Administrative Organizations in... more The objectives of this research were: (1) to study the effectiveness of Provincial Administrative Organizations in providing infrastructure public services under the concept of Balanced Scorecard from 4 perspectives, i.e., internal process perspective, financial perspective, learning and growth perspective and customer perspective; (2) to study factors influencing effectiveness of Provincial Administrative Organizations in providing  infrastructure public services under the concept  of  Steers from 4 types, i.e., the organizational structure, the organizational environment, the individuals in the organization and policy of administration and operation; (3) to create forecasting equations to forecast the effectiveness of Provincial Administrative Organizations in providing infrastructure public services; and (4) to study guidelines for developing the provision of  infrastructure public services of Provincial Administrative Organizations. The results revealed that: (1) the effectiveness of Provincial Administrative Organizations in providing infrastructure public services was at a high level; (2) organizational structure factors, organizational environment factors, and the individuals in the organization factors had a positive relationship with the effectiveness of Provincial Administrative Organizations in providing infrastructure public services at a rather high level, and policy of administration and operation factors had a positive relationship with the effectiveness of Provincial Administrative Organizations in providing infrastructure public services at a  rather high level; and (3) the variables of organizational culture, communication, change management, strategic management, organizational structure, conflict management, technology, motivation, personnel quality, and politics and law can jointly interpret the variance of the effectiveness of Provincial Administrative Organizations in providing infrastructure public services at 77%.

Anatomy of the Italian Web TV ecosystem. Current issues and future challenges.

by Valentina Bazzarin

Co-authored with Emiliano Trerè

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the emergent Italian Web TV ecosystem. We begin by sketching a... more The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the emergent Italian Web TV ecosystem. We begin by sketching a summary of the Italian media scenario, focusing on three related aspects: the Rai-Mediaset duopoly, the Berlusconi anomaly and digital revolution of the TV system. We then switch to the Italian digital resistance scenario and describe some of the most interesting experiences developed in the Italian context. In the third part, we dissect and analyze the phenomenon of Italian Web TVs, exploring its roots, legal status, producers and audiences. We conclude by providing a reflection on Italian Web TVs as an ecosystem, both by pointing out some future challenges it will face within the Italian media scenario and by focusing on the role of active citizens and unprofessional producers in changing the scenario and in advocating pluralism and creativeness.

Logistica innovazione tecnologica e sviluppo locale

by marcucci edoardo

An Experiment In Native Self-Government': The Alexandra Health Committee, the State and Local Politics, 1916-1933

by John Nauright

Published in the South African Historical Journal, 43 (2000), 223-243.

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

TOWARDS THE REGULATION OF THE COMPETENCES OF SOUTH AFRICA'S WATER SERVICES MANAGERS

by Mike Muller

Hidden Guildford Volume 1: Social Exclusion and Deprivation in Park Barn and Westborough

by Christian Gilliam

Written on behalf of the Labour Party for Guildford CLP

Guidelines on Procurement

by Historically Digitized

Book three of the Local Government Code of the Philippines

Challenging development priorities: The case for earthquake hazard mitigation as a policy imperative in developing countries

by Gah-Kai Leung

Undergraduate paper submitted to the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, May 2012.

I intend to submit this paper to Volume 5, Issue 2, of "Reinvention: A Journal of Undergraduate Research". I also plan to present this paper at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research 2013, to be held at the University of Plymouth.

The substantive mission of this essay is to provide a case for earthquake hazard mitigation as a policy priority for... more The substantive mission of this essay is to provide a case for earthquake hazard mitigation as a policy priority for earthquake-prone developing countries. I explain why seismic hazard should constitute an issue for development by showing how developing countries suffer disproportionately from the effects of severe earthquakes compared to more advanced economies. I go on to offer reasons for why earthquake mitigation measures have been marginalised within the development community. Finally a series of policy solutions are proposed, casting the earthquake resistance project in terms of a coherent network of knowledge-sharing from the international to the local levels.

Relaciones internacionales subnacionales y desarrollo sustentable

by Horacio Rodríguez Vázquez

Oddone, Nahuel y Rodríguez Vázquez, Horacio (2012), "Introducción", Trabajos de Investigación en Paradiplomacia, ISSN:1853-9939, año 1, no. 2, abril.

Involving local people in local development initiatives

by Suman Chowdhury Mony

People especially youths of a country can play a vital role for development of their country. However, Government of... more People especially youths of a country can play a vital role for development of their country. However, Government of those countries has no sufficient money for do the development work in every sector and every area at a time, than people of those countries can take initiatives for some small types development activities. For that, peoples should be united at first and than take decision what should be done.

Kentsel Yoksullukla Savaşım Noktasında Politik Bir Enstrüman: “Sosyal Belediyecilik” | A Political Instrument in Fighting Against Urban Poverty: “Social Municipality”

by Serhat Ozgokceler

Özet

Günümüz dünyasında önde gelen kentsel sorunlardan birisi kentsel yoksulluktur. Bu nedenle gerek... more Özet

Günümüz dünyasında önde gelen kentsel sorunlardan birisi kentsel yoksulluktur. Bu nedenle gerek merkezî yöntemler gerekse yerel yönetimler, yoksullukla mücadele kapasitelerini artıracak yeni yöntemler bulma arayışındadırlar. Bu bağlamda sosyal belediyecilik, yerel yönetimlerin sosyal risk gruplarına yönelik “eğitim, sağlık, konut” ve benzeri alanlarda hizmetler geliştirme ve özellikle yoksul kesimlere yönelik devlet tarafından belirlenen yoksullukla mücadele politikalarının yerel düzeyde uygulayıcısı olma misyonlarını ifade etmektedir. Bu çalışmada,
(i) sosyal politika perspektifli sosyal belediyecilikle ilgili kuramsal bir arka plan oluşturulması ve (ii) Bursa-Yıldırım Belediyesi örneğinden hareketle bu uygulamaların tüketicileri konumunda olan vatandaşlar tarafından, sosyal belediyeciliğin nasıl algılandığının ortaya konması hedeflenmektedir. Çalışmada, sosyal belediyeciliğin genel olarak belediyenin muhtaç durumda olanları koruması ve yoksulluğun azaltılmasına katkı sağlaması şeklinde “algılandığı” saptanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Sosyal belediyecilik, kentsel sosyal politika, yerel yönetimler, kentsel yoksulluk, Bursa
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Abstract

Urban poverty is one of the leading urban problems at the present day. For that reason both the central and local governments are seeking to find new methods to increase their capacity to fight against poverty. In this context, the social municipality, refers to the missions of local governments to develop services in education, health, housing and other related areas for social risk groups and to be an implementing institution at local level in fighting against poverty policies which are constituted by the state particularly for poor people. In this study it is aimed to (i) develop a theoretical background in social municipality with a social policy perspective and (ii) reveal how the social municipality is perceiced by the citizens which are at the consumer position of these practises,based on the example of
Bursa-Yıldırım Municipality. The research indicated that the social municipality, in general, is understood as the protection of people in need by the municipality and a contribution in order to decrease poverty.

Keywords: Social municipality, urban social policy, local governments, urban poverty, Bursa

Public Liability Insurance - One of the most overlooked and little-known insurance essentials

by J Walker

Data from - www.yourpublicliability.org

Public liability insurance protects you from the costs and legal fees of claims if a member of the public is injured... more Public liability insurance protects you from the costs and legal fees of claims if a member of the public is injured as a result of your negligence.

Social Democracy and Ecological Modernization : Swedish Lessons for Green Industrial Policy

by Brendan Haley

Major Paper - York University - Masters of Environmental Studies

Nothing but a Shepherd and His Dog: Social and Economic Effects of Depopulation in Fetlar, Shetland

by Adam Grydehoj

Published in "Shima"

Branding from above: generic cultural branding in Shetland and other islands

by Adam Grydehoj

'It's a funny thing that they were all bad men': cultural conflict and integrated tourism policy in Shetland, UK

by Adam Grydehoj

Historiography of Picts, Vikings, Scots, and Fairies and Its Influence on Shetland’s Twenty-First Century Economic Development

by Adam Grydehoj

A thesis presented for the degree of PhD in Ethnology and Folklore at the University of Aberdeen, 2009.

Making use of knowledge from a wide range of disciplines, this thesis analyses the interactions of culture and... more Making use of knowledge from a wide range of disciplines, this thesis analyses the interactions of culture and economy, particularly regarding the influence of nineteenth-century historiography, on Shetland’s present-day economic development.

Shetland’s local identity concept is strongly influenced by this North Sea archipelago’s Norse history. This is in part the result of the islands’ late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century national romantic literature, which was inspired by Continental and mainland British trends in anthropology and philology. The theories of fairy origins proposed in the 1890s by the Edinburgh anthropologist David MacRitchie exerted a great influence on Shetland writers. His theories – since shown to be incorrect – led to the historiographic dehumanisation of the islands’ pre-Norse population and permitted the complete valorisation of the Vikings, most notably in the work of the Shetland author Jessie Saxby. Since the 1930s, a variation of MacRitchie’s theory has been repeated in nearly every local book concerning Shetland folk belief.

These conceptions of history continue to inform the sense of local identity felt by many Shetlanders. This has come into conflict with the local government’s efforts at place brand, tourism, heritage, and economic development, all of which tie into a broader struggle between fostering Shetland’s national awareness and expanding Shetland’s jurisdictional capacity. Particular attention is paid to how history is used variously by the community to express exclusivity and by the local government to promote inclusivity.

(2008) Democracia participativa en el nivel local: debates y experiencias en Europa [Participatory Democracy at the Local Level: Debates and Experiences in Europe]

by Eloisa del Pino

Revista Catalana de Dret Públic, 37, 165-201. (CON CÉSAR COLINO).

En los últimos años, el reconocimiento de los defectos de la democracia representativa y la intensificación de la... more En los últimos años, el reconocimiento de los defectos de la democracia representativa y la intensificación de la puesta en práctica de nuevas experiencias participativas, especialmente
en el ámbito local, no han zanjado el debate sobre cómo mejorar las democracias. Incluso los más entusiastas de las virtudes de las nuevas prácticas participativas son capaces también de reconocer sus defectos. Si entre las virtudes pueden reconocerse algunas como su efecto en la mejora de la calidad
de los servicios públicos o el enriquecimiento de la democracia local mediante, por ejemplo, la puesta a disposición de los ciudadanos de un amplio catálogo de instrumentos participativos; del lado de los defectos, se critica principalmente el hecho de que la mayoría de los métodos participativos no
implican la llamada «auténtica participación». Aun así, el desarrollo creciente de estos instrumentos y su análisis cada vez más detallado, hacen que se pueda ser optimista de cara a la mejora de estas iniciativas. En este artículo se trata de ilustrar este argumento mediante el análisis de las experiencias
participativas puestas en marcha por los gobiernos locales de Alemania, Francia, Reino Unido y España en las últimas décadas.

"Community governance as a response to economic crisis"

by Alessandro Sancino