Understanding the Needs of Children Following Large-Scale Disasters and the Role of Government

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian W. Flynn ◽  
Mary Elizabeth Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Role Of Government

Lessons from CODI on co-production

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 444-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somsook Boonyabancha ◽  
Thomas Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Development Institute ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Somsook Boonyabancha, former director of CODI (the Community Organizations Development Institute in Thailand) and now an advisor to the CODI board and chairperson of the Baan Mankong Program Committee, reflects on the evolution of CODI, the management of its fund, and the community-driven activities it has supported since 1992. The paper explains how substantial and large-scale changes can be brought about in the lives of the poor by supporting a community-driven process that opens space for negotiation and collaboration with government and other partners on housing and other aspects of community development. It describes the transitions that have had to be managed, as both the community networks and the support institution have navigated various challenges and opportunities. A centrepiece of this co-production is the Baan Mankong Program, which represents a dramatic change in the role of government – from a provider of housing to facilitator of community-driven local housing co-production.

Contractual Constitutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 417-430
Author(s):  
Albert Weale
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
International Public Goods ◽  
Mutual Advantage

Arendt pointed out that social contract theory identified some elementary truths of democratic politics. What might be those elementary truths? The first is the need for public goods; the second the role of a two-level theory; and the third is the essential role of government in providing the conditions for social cooperation. Democratic contracts need to respect the requirements of political equality. However, this still leaves us with the problem of knowing what could be agreed among agents reciprocally situated. The empirical method suggests that we need to look to social conditions that embody the circumstances of impartiality. One such set of conditions is found in common property resource regimes, where power is roughly equal. Such regime exhibit various forms of equality, but they also suggest the need for participation as well as monitoring and sanctions. Large-scale societies need to incorporate conditions of open representation and effective deliberation if they are to exhibit the circumstances of impartiality. International contracts are best understood if the Grotian norms of traditional international relations are regarded as equivalent to the individualistic minimum of a domestic order, which needs a social contract to deal with externalities and provide international public goods. It is plausible to think that, in an interdependent world, mutual advantage may exhibit the logic of a universalization to humanity as an end in itself.

Corruption and its Impact on Protest Activities in Post-communist Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Milan Školník
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Public Protest ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Impact

Corruption is a phenomenon that affects societies. It lowers trust in public institutions, lowers trust among people, undermines economic development, undermines democracy, and has implications for political participation. This article contributes to current debates on the impact of corruption by looking at other possible consequences of corruption. Specifically, this article looks at the impact of the perception of corruption on the approval of public protest meetings and demonstrations because, if corruption leads to these non-institutionalized forms of political participation, this may lead to security problems or a direct outbreak of violence. This study analyses this relationship by using seven post-communist countries that have undergone specific developments in terms of corruption. These developments were largely due to large-scale privatizations, politicized state administration, and the linking of politicians to the private sector. This research was conducted with individual-level data. The module ‘The Role of Government V’ from the International Social Survey Programme was used. Descriptive charts have revealed that in six out of the seven countries, most respondents considered politicians to be very corrupt. Around 80% of respondents in all seven countries approve of the organization of public protest meetings. Around 70% of respondents in all seven countries approve of demonstrations. Regression analysis revealed that there is a relationship between the perception of corruption among politicians and the approval of protest activities. Specifically, the more politicians are corrupt, the more people approve of holding public protest meetings and demonstrations.

scholarly journals Space, the Final Economic Frontier

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Weinzierl
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Shared Goal ◽  
Space Economy ◽  
Near Future

After decades of centralized control of economic activity in space, NASA and US policymakers have begun to cede the direction of human activities in space to commercial companies. NASA garnered more than 0.7 percent of GDP in the mid-1960s, but is only around 0.1 percent of GDP today. Meanwhile, space has become big business, with $300 billion in annual revenue. The shift from public to private priorities in space is especially significant because a widely shared goal among commercial space's leaders is the achievement of a large-scale, largely self-sufficient, developed space economy. Jeff Bezos, has stated that the mission of his firm Blue Origin is “millions of people living and working in space.” Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has laid out plans to build a city of a million people on Mars within the next century. Both Neil deGrasse Tyson and Peter Diamandis have been given credit for stating that Earth's first trillionaire will be an asteroid-miner. Such visions are clearly not going to become reality in the near future. But detailed roadmaps to them are being produced and recent progress in the required technologies has been dramatic. If such space-economy visions are even partially realized, the implications for society will be enormous. Though economists should treat the prospect of a developed space economy with healthy skepticism, it would be irresponsible to treat it as science fiction. In this article, I provide an analytical framework—based on classic economic analysis of the role of government in market economies—for understanding and managing the development of the space economy.

Policy Uptake as Political Behavior: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMY E. LERMAN ◽  
MEREDITH L. SADIN ◽  
SAMUEL TRACHTMAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Insurance Plan ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Government Benefits ◽  
Primary Predictor

Partisanship is a primary predictor of attitudes toward public policy. However, we do not yet know whether party similarly plays a role in shaping public policy behavior, such as whether to apply for government benefits or take advantage of public services. While existing research has identified numerous factors that increase policy uptake, the role of politics has been almost entirely overlooked. In this paper, we examine the case of the Affordable Care Act to assess whether policy uptake is not only about information and incentives; but also about politics. Using longitudinal data, we find that Republicans have been less likely than Democrats to enroll in an insurance plan through state or federal exchanges, all else equal. Employing a large-scale field experiment, we then show that de-emphasizing the role of government (and highlighting the market's role) can close this partisan gap.

scholarly journals Testing Negative: The Non-Consequences of COVID-19 on Mass Ideology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Blumenau ◽  
Timothy Hicks ◽  
Alan Jacobs ◽  
Scott Matthews ◽  
Tom O'Grady
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Mass Ideology ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Ideological Change ◽  
Study Panel

Responding to COVID-19, governments implemented large-scale economic and social policies of unprecedented scale. This highlighted the state's capacity to guarantee economic and health security, and affected demographic groups that are less commonly beneficiaries of state support. We hypothesise that exposure to the pandemic and these policy responses caused change in attitudes to the role of government in the economy and redistribution. We test this expectation using data from the (2014–present) British Election Study panel, together with a unique panel survey fielded to existing BES respondents in April and September, 2020. We find virtually no evidence of any effect on ideological beliefs. Moreover, using a survey experiment, we find exposure to cues linking the pandemic to greater roles for government has no impact on ideological beliefs. We conclude that such elite rhetoric, even if it had been present in the field, would not have yielded ideological change.

scholarly journals FROM CONFLICT TO ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION: A CASE STUDY OF LOCAL INHABITANTS’ RESISTANCE TO TIN MINING IN SELINDUNG VILLAGE, BANGKA BARAT

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-214
Author(s):  
Sarpin Sarpin ◽  
Ibrahim Ibrahim ◽  
Herza Herza
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Observation Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Verbal Violence ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

The sea and the cost with the abundant resources frequently become the competition among the groups of interest. The competition is close to the conflict and ends up with the physical and verbal violence. Selindung village located in the coast area of Muntok, West Bangka is the area of the abundant resources, marine biota, and tin commodity. The contradiction of the economic interest causes the emerge of longer conflict. This study aims to map these conflicts and offers to the best alternative to cope with. This study is a qualitative research with the interview and observation strategy as the data collection. The result of the conflict mapping shows that the conflicted area shows the social tension. The pro and anti tin mining groups clash each other with the company interest, the local government, and the impact of the local people’s occupation interfere that causes a conflict. The conflict itself has experienced up and down however the various tin mining moduses stand still. The conflicts that have been mapped are the competition of resource access, the social jealousy, the policy of the maritime politics that does not accommodate the fishermen’ interest, as well as the issue of identity. There are four alternatives to get over these conflicts by referring to Galtung’s perspective namely supporting the role of government to be more accommodating and communicative to the majority interest, ensuring no extending licence of a large scale mining in the future, mediating by having two neutral parties, and finding new economic alternative to the local people who have already been depended on the mining activity.

Virtual Repository Development in Canada

2011 ◽  
pp. 1834-1842
Author(s):  
Rocci Luppicini
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Virtual Resources ◽  
Resources Development

The development of large-scale networked resource and virtual repository initiatives in Canada from 1995 to 2005 is interwoven with the availability of new communications technologies, the role of government sponsorship, and the commitment of various Canadian organizations to extend virtual resources development in Canada and internationally. This article provides an overview of key networked resource projects in Canada and addresses major challenges to developing large-scale networked resources in a vast and diverse country.

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