Integrating the Economic and the Social

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Betteley ◽  
David Valler
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
Local Government Policy

Since the mid-1990s policy “integration” has become an increasingly salient theme within central government and local government policy-making. In this paper we report survey findings tracing the recent emergence of explicitly “integrated” local economic and social strategies, and the evolving position of ostensibly social themes in local economic strategies. These highlight some of the more important policy and institutional changes that have characterised local economic strategy in the post-Thatcher era. Subsequently, in the light of this initial data we outline a number of possible directions for further research.

A Note on “Public Policy”

1973 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vaison
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Government Body

Normally in political studies the term public policy is construed to encompass the societally binding directives issued by a society's legitimate government. We usually consider government, and only government, as being able to “authoritatively allocate values.” This common conception pervades the literature on government policy-making, so much so that it is hardly questioned by students and practitioners of political science. As this note attempts to demonstrate, some re-thinking seems to be in order. For purposes of analysis in the social sciences, this conceptualization of public policy tends to obscure important realities of modern corporate society and to restrict unnecessarily the study of policy-making. Public policy is held to be public simply and solely because it originates from a duly legitimated government, which in turn is held to have the authority (within specified limits) of formulating and implementing such policy. Public policy is public then, our usual thinking goes, because it is made by a body defined somewhat arbitrarily as “public”: a government or some branch of government. All other policy-making is seen as private; it is not public (and hence to lie essentially beyond the scope of the disciplines of poliitcal science and public administration) because it is duly arrived at by non-governmental bodies. Thus policy analysts lead us to believe that public policy is made only when a government body acts to consider some subject of concern, and that other organizations are not relevant to the study of public policy.

Facing the Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-216
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Science Journal ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Networks ◽  
Negative Income Tax

This chapter examines Young’s work as founding chair of the Social Science Research Council between 1965 and 1968 in the Labour government led by Harold Wilson. It describes how Young responded to increasing anxieties about the nature of planning and expertise in the British civil service by arguing that the social sciences should play a more prominent role in government policy making. The chapter focuses mainly on Young’s Committee on the Next Thirty Years, and his proposals for an Institute of Forecasting Studies, which he unsuccessfully sought to develop as part of a transnational forecasting movement with the support of foreign intellectuals such as the American sociologist Daniel Bell and the French futurologist Bertrand de Jouvenel. The chapter also discusses the intellectual networks associated with the popular social science journal New Society, showing that this group promoted libertarian and state-critical perspectives on urban planning, and radical economic ideas like negative income tax. While the Next Thirty Years Committee was short-lived, it reflected Young’s career-long conviction that public policy should be guided by interdisciplinary social science.

scholarly journals Local Government Policy in BPHTB Tax Picking Up On the Transaction Sale and Purchase of Land And / Or Building

Jurnal Akta ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Catur Agung Bintoro ◽  
Amin Purnawan
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Verification Process ◽  
Financial Income ◽  
Fair Market Value ◽  
Local Government Policy

The purpose of this study were 1) For the Local Government Policy in BPHTB Tax Picking Up On the Transaction Sale and Purchase of Land and / or Building 2) To know Constraints faced by the Notary and PPAT in Tax levy BPHTB Purchase Transactions Over Land And / Or Building method used is empirical juridical approach in order to obtain adequate results. Specifications research used in this study is a descriptive analysis, from this study is expected to obtain a detailed and systematic description of the problem to be studied. Based on data analysis concluded that: 1) The policy conducted by the Central Government is to give broad authority to manage their own household, including the authority to explore potential financial income areas one of which is the local tax. BPHTB tax requires that the buying and selling prices reported are approaching the fair market value of that property. It is sometimes difficult to implement given the magnitude of the price of the transaction will affect the costs associated with the transaction. 2) Some of the obstacles faced by the Notary and PPAT The BPHTB levying taxes as dishonest taxpayers to include the value of the transaction, the clerk is still difficult and takes a long time in the field verification process, lack of transparency in the market price of land, lack of good ithikad the seller, as well as the lack of public knowledge about this BPHTB tax.Keywords: Policies; Local Government; Tax; BPHTB; Transactions.

scholarly journals Mapping of Local Government Policy in Sharing Operational Costs for Basic Education in the Pandemic Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 887 (1) ◽  
pp. 012011
Author(s):  
S. Suroso ◽  
N. Aeni
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Operational Cost ◽  
Adequate Funding ◽  
Local Government Policy

Abstract Adequacy of operational cost for basic education becomes the responsibility of the central and local government. Adequate funding is necessary for the success of compulsory basic education. The research aims to analyze and develop a framework for the local government policy in sharing operational cost adequacy for basic education in the study area. This research used a descriptive-quantitative approach. Data collecting was conducted by observation and interviews. The analysis used a descriptive one. There are findings in the research. Firstly, at the beginning of the year 2021, adequate funding for the elementary school in Pati regency is IDR 869,017 per student and it has been fulfilled with School Operational Assistance (BOS) IDR 900,000 provided by the central government but to cope with inflation during 2021, the local government should provide sharing operating cost IDR 38,538 per student yearly. Secondly, adequate funding for junior high school in Pati regency is IDR 1,063,797 per student at the beginning of the year 2021 and available funding from School Operational Assistance (BOS) is less than the needed funding. To satisfy adequate funding, the local government should provide sharing operating cost IDR 148,901 per student in 2021. To alleviate worsening problems in the pandemic era (Covid-19), local governments must take higher responsibility for boosting basic education by allocating more funds. It is useful to alleviate worsening problems such as dropping out of students in basic education.

scholarly journals Performance agreements to ensure societal legitimacy in the social housing sector; an embedded case study of implementation in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. J. Plettenburg ◽  
T. Hoppe ◽  
H. M. H. van der Heijden ◽  
M. G. Elsinga
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
The Social

AbstractIn 2015 the Housing Act was revised in order to further regulate the social housing sector in the Netherlands and thereby improve the steering possibilities for the central government to coordinate housing associations. This included local performance agreements for social housing policy obtaining a legal status. By introducing this policy instrument central government seeks to facilitate and ensure the tri-partite cooperation between municipalities, housing associations and tenants’ organisations in order to release funds by housing associations for social benefit. This should improve the position of municipalities and tenants’ organisations in social housing, and improve legitimate policy making. In this paper the main research question is: How are local performance agreements implemented targeting increased societal legitimacy in local social housing policy making, and what are its strengths and weaknesses in three selected cases in the Netherlands? A case study research design was used involving three local embedded case studies. As a theoretical framework the Contextual Interaction Theory was used. Data collection involved expert interviews and review of policy documents. Results reveal several weaknesses that impede the implementation of performance agreements, including issues in the broader governance regime and context, as well as issues with the inter-organisational structure and stakeholder interaction regarding the tri-partite cooperation between the key actors. This has to do with the precarious role of the tenants’ organisations in the process, and the local housing policy as the basis of local performance agreements. Results also show that implementation of performance agreements is more difficult in cities with dense urban areas.

scholarly journals Conversations with...Hannah Jones

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Amy Hinterberger ◽  
Amy Hinterberger
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Home Office ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Community Sector ◽  
Local Government Policy

Hannah Jones has conducted research on multiculture and multiculturalism, local government policy-making, community cohesion policy, migration policy, voluntary and community sector organising, regeneration and urban studies, and diversity and inequality. She is currently leading one of the first research projects funded by the ESRC Urgency Grants Mechanism, entitled '"Go Home": Mapping the unfolding controversy of Home Office Immigration Campaigns', working with colleagues at six other universities across the UK.

Introduction: Themed Section on Social Capital, Families and Welfare Policy

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Economic Nature

Social capital has become a key concept in Government policy-making and in academic circles. Broadly, social capital concerns norms and networks: the values people hold and the resources that they can access, which both result in and are the result of collective and socially negotiated ties and relationships. Where people share a sense of identity, hold similar values, trust each other and reciprocally do things for each other, then this is felt to have an impact on the social, political and economic nature of the society in which we live. Across the political spectrum, there are concerns that levels of social capital are being eroded in contemporary society.

Growing Pains: The Sustainability of Social Enterprises

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
The Social ◽  
Growing Pains ◽  
The Uk

This paper establishes the growing perception of the importance of the social enterprise sector in the UK, and notes that it is currently government policy to encourage growth. However, social enterprises, in common with many small businesses, find growth difficult, and this could impact negatively on their sustainability. The author goes on to explore the reasons for that difficulty, and concludes by suggesting how best to support social enterprise. It is suggested that orthodox growth stimulated by further marketization of this sector could be to its detriment. The paper aims to contribute to knowledge of the social enterprise sector and to the evidence base required by the policy-making community.

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