Public trust in mega event planning institutions: The role of knowledge, transparency and corruption

This article reviews recent scholarship on the urban politics of mega-events. Mega-events have long been promoted as drivers of urban development, based on their potential to generate beneficial legacies for host cities. Yet the mega-event industry is increasingly struggling to find cities willing to host. Political arguments that promote mega-events to host cities include narratives about mega-event legacy—the potential for events to generate long-term benefits—and mega-event leveraging—the idea that cities can strategically link event planning to other policy agendas. In contrast, the apparent decline in interest among potential host cities stems from two political shifts: skepticism toward the promises made by boosters, and the emergence of new kinds of protest movements. The article analyzes an example of largely successful opposition to mega-events, and evaluates parallels between the politics of mega-events and those of other urban megaprojects.

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Political Participation Convergence in Indonesia: A Study of Partisan Volunteers in the 2019 Election

Jurnal Politik ◽

10.7454/jp.v4i2.225 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 263

Author(s):

Ari Ganjar Herdiansah

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Political Participation ◽

Research Method ◽

Political Process ◽

Public Trust ◽

Library Research ◽

And Function

This paper offers an analysis of convergent political participation in Indonesia, which is represented by the strengthening role of partisan volunteers in elections. Using the library research method, this paper explains why partisan volunteers present strategic positions in elections, especially in 2019. The results of this research reveal that the strengthening of the positions of partisan volunteers in elections is driven by the level of public trust in weak political parties in a strict and complex multiparty system, the emergence of flexible and civic-style political participation, and the co-optation of the voluntary understanding and function by political parties to reach undecided voters. The existence of volunteers was initially based on the antithetical spirit of an elitist political process, but later became a complementary element for political parties in the effort to win elections. Consequently, the involvement of partisan volunteers can lead to transactional politics and signifies a shift in the meaning of volunteers to that of a pragmatic arena.

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Branding Ideas for the Tokyo Olympics 2020

Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry - Global Place Branding Campaigns across Cities, Regions, and Nations ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0576-1.ch015 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 304-322

Author(s):

Erica Liu

Keyword(s):

Planning Process ◽

Olympic Games ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Event Tourism ◽

Mega Event ◽

The City

Tokyo successfully won the bid for the 2020 Olympic Games. When planning for mega event tourism such as the Olympics, cities reorder public spaces and arenas often with a long term vision, a legacy. This vision expresses the role of the event in achieving the desired future and goals of the hosting city. The planning process involves not only animating the city for staged spectacles; but also rebranding the city and managing how tourism is consumed - the planned and unplanned experience of consumption. Leisure motivated event tourists are seeking unique, personal and socially rewarding experiences (Getz, 2010). These experiences may be managed through the context in which people act. By altering the context, people's experience of the event changes; hence the perception of the host city and the Olympics' brand may also change. The author is therefore proposing branding directions to enhance these experiences.

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