Fiscal illusion of the stated preferences of government officials regarding interministerial policy packages: A case study on child labor in Afghanistan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nematullah Hotak ◽  
Shinji Kaneko
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Stated Preferences ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Fiscal Illusion

Food Security as Correlate of Interstate Conflict: A Case Study of the State of Qatar

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Farukh Mohammad Azad ◽  
Dr. Tim Frazier ◽  
Erik Wood
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Interstate Conflict ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods

The literature indicates that conflict can result in food insecurity due to economic or political crisis. However, few studies have investigated the effects that nonviolent interstate conflict has on food security in the Middle East. Evidence from this study, based in Qatar, indicates that conflict can result in food insecurity due to economic or political crisis. This research critically examines the lingering political and economic blockade of the State of Qatar and the extent to which this blockade has impacted food security of residents. The study employed a sequential mixed methods approach to gain better insight into the nature of food security in Qatar. A focused qualitative review of the relevant literature was followed by a quantitative analysis which revealed that there was no significant effect of interstate conflict on food security, while the economic and political blockade correlated significantly with food security. Three groups were sampled, including government officials, regulatory agencies, and food suppliers.

Preventing post-disaster population losses and recovery policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-244
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Richmond, LPD, MPA
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Business Officials ◽  
Recovery Processes ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Design Case Study ◽  
The City

Objective: On May 22, 2011, an EF-5 tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, leaving behind 161 fatalities and $2.8 billion in economic impacts. This case study of the 2011 disaster was an attempt at determining if and how economic recovery occurred following the disaster through the lived experiences of government officials, local policymakers, and business officials. Design: Case study using in-depth, semistructured, one-on-one interviews and a qualitative design and analysis.Setting: Joplin, Missouri/2011 Joplin Tornado Participants: Seven local government officials, policymakers, and business officials from the city of Joplin that were directly involved in the response and recovery from the 2011 tornado.Interventions: N/AMain outcome measure(s): N/AResults: Policies and actions that were the most effective focused on housing, personal financial resources of the survivors, and ensuring that the recovery processes were expedited as much as prudently possible.Conclusions: Specific policy measures are not recommended through the un-generalizable findings of this case study; however, this case study places a foundation for future research to develop specific policy measures related to disaster recovery.

Privacy and Public Access in the Light of E-Government

2010 ◽  
pp. 206-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Palm ◽  
Misse Wester
Keyword(s):  
Public Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Information Availability ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Individual Value

This chapter addresses the competing interests of privacy versus public access to information. The chapter explores the collective and individual value of privacy and public access in a manner that considers information at the macrosocial and macroethical level. By using Sweden as a case study, we exemplify the classic and irresolvable tension between issues of information availability and confidentiality, integrity, and privacy. Given that privacy and public access interests will constantly need to be rebalanced, we present the views of government officials due to their unique role in implementing this balance. We conclude with an analysis of the reasonableness of this conduct.

Integrating De Jure Independence

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-168
Author(s):  
Brad Epperly
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Regime Type ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Out Of Sample

Chapter 4 addresses the disconnect between the results in Chapter 3 and existing case studies of competition and independence. It argues that in democracies, changes in the competitiveness of the electoral arena should primarily be associated changes in the formal, de jure provisions for courts. This is because the costs and benefits of infringing on de jure vs. de facto insurance vary across regime type. In democracies, the stronger effects of constitutionalism mean that flouting the rules has a greater likelihood of producing public backlash. The main test of this argument is an in-depth case study of the de jure attacks on the independence of the judiciary in Hungary after the 2010 election. This case study draws on extensive expert interviews with leading legal scholars, government officials, and Hungarian Constitutional Court justices. Recognizing that theories should be tested “out of sample” whenever possible, it ends by assessing the argument cross-nationally, and demonstrates that in democracies changing levels of competition are associated with changes in de jure rather than de facto independence.

scholarly journals Communist heritage representation gaps and disputes

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Sima
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Recent Trends

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore how different stakeholders represent communist and revolution heritage for tourism, with a case-study on Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. The research attempts to identify gaps and tensions between representation makers on communist heritage tourism. Design/methodology/approach The research employs a range of qualitative methods in order to explore communist heritage tourism representation from different perspectives: content analysis of secondary data in the form of government, industry and media destination promotional material; interviews with a range of representation producers (government, industry and media); focus groups with potential tourists; and content analysis of user generated content under the form of blogs by actual visitors to Bucharest. Findings Findings reveal that there are gaps between the “official” or government representations of communism and revolution heritage and “unofficial” or industry, media and tourists’ representations. The research confirms and builds on Light’s (2000a, b) views that communist heritage is perceived as “problematic” by government officials and that attempts have been made to reinterpret it in a different light. The process of representation is made difficult by recent trends such as the increase in popularity of communism heritage tourism in countries such as Germany or Hungary. The potential of communist and revolution heritage to generate tourism is increasingly being acknowledged. However, reconciliation with “an unwanted” past is made difficult because of the legacy of communism and the difficulties of transition, EU-integration, economic crisis or countless political and social crisis and challenges. The “official” and “unofficial” representations successfully coexist and form part of the communism and revolution heritage product. Research limitations/implications The research attempts to look at the representation of communism heritage from different angles, however, it does not exhaust the number of views and perspectives that exist on the topic. The research only records the British and Romanian perspectives on the topic. The topic is still in its infancy and more research is needed on communism heritage tourism and representation. Originality/value The research identifies and explores gaps, agreements and disagreements over the representation of communist and revolution heritage in Bucharest, Romania.

The Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India: The Case Study of Ahmedabad in the 1980s

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 861-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
ORNIT SHANI
Keyword(s):  
Hindu Nationalism ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Communal Violence ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Shed Light

The massacre of Muslims in Ahmedabad and throughout Gujarat in February 2002 demonstrated the challenge of Hindu nationalism to India's democracy and secularism. There is increasing evidence to suggest that government officials openly aided the killings of the Muslim minority by members of militant Hindu organisations. The Gujarat government's intervention did little to stop the carnage. The communalism that was witnessed in 2002 had its roots in the mid-1980s. Since then, militant Hindu nationalism and recurring communal violence arose in Ahmedabad and throughout Gujarat. This study aims to shed light on the rise and nature of communalism since the mid-1980s.

scholarly journals Recruitment into the Nigerian Federal Public Service: Constraints and Agenda for Reform

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Ademola Pius Adebisi
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Federal Public Service

It has been observed that the Nigerian Federal Public Service has been bedeviled by over blotedness, low productivity, ineffectiveness, cronism and manpower lopsidedness. These challenges have been traced to the flawed recruitment into the service. This research work investigated the recruitment process into the Nigerian public service using primary and secondary sources of data and the Federal public service as a case study and discovered that, both exogenous and endogenous social pressures have been the banes of recruitment into the Nigerian Federal Public Service. The study therefore proposed an agenda for reform which among others include: re-orientation of public officials handling recruitment process; establishment of Bureau of Employment Monitoring (BEMO) to perform oversight function over recruitment process; sanctioning of erring government officials handling recruitment into the service and reforming the Nigerian economy with a view to stimulating more jobs in the private sector and thereby reducing the social pressures on public service jobs.

No Exaggeration: Truthfulness in the Lobbying of Government Agencies by Competing Interest Groups

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
HYOUNG-GOO KANG ◽  
THOMAS T. HOLYOKE
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Strategic Behaviors ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Government ◽  
Present Case Study

AbstractIntense competition can compel lobbyists to exaggerate the benefits the government would see in tax returns and social welfare if agency officials allocate such resources to the lobbyist's members. This incentive to misrepresent grows when information asymmetry exists between lobbyists and government officials. A large body of literature has investigated how interest groups compete and interact, but it disregards the interdependency of interests between competing groups and associated strategic behaviors of other players. Our signaling model of lobbying reveals ways in which agency officials can compel lobbyists for competing interests to lobby truthfully and what the policy implications of this compulsion can be. We also present case-study evidence of how this works in practice.

Diagramming development for a base camp and staging area in a humanitarian logistics base airport

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunkyung Choi ◽  
Shinya Hanaoka
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Humanitarian Logistics ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bubble Diagram ◽  
Staging Area ◽  
Base Camp ◽  
Emergency Workers ◽  
Architectural Planning

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a method for diagramming a base camp or space for emergency workers and a staging area to be used during sorting, storing, loading, and unloading of relief goods in a humanitarian logistics base airport. Design/methodology/approach A method is developed based on a synthesis of the relevant literature and current practices of airports. This provides a means for estimating the area required for each facility and visualizes the layout of the base through an adjacency diagram and a bubble diagram. The method is applied to the Shizuoka Airport in Japan as a case study. Findings The proposed method can be used to determine the approximate size and layout of a humanitarian logistics base in an airport based on the affected population and the number of emergency workers. Research limitations/implications Airport operation regulations and mathematical models from architectural planning need to be reflected further. Practical implications The method provides potential operational improvements for policies and standards for airport operations and enables government officials and humanitarian logistics organizations to identify concerns in facilitating and managing constraints in existing airports. Originality/value This study addresses the detailed phases in a diagramming for a humanitarian logistics base airport by integrating an architectural approach and airport disaster management. The results highlight the importance of managing the flexible use of space to improve effective humanitarian logistics.

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