Pinera will struggle to govern Chile in coming months

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Constitutional Tribunal

Significance The previous week it tried to block a similar congressional initiative by sending it to the Constitutional Tribunal for review. Its own initiative aims to order the ranks of its centre-right coalition and appease public opinion in a marathon election year. Impacts The volatile political scenario will foster social unrest, especially in an election year. Governability will be an issue for the remaining eleven months of Pinera’s presidency. The Executive-Congress power balance will be a key discussion of the constitutional convention.

New constitution will extend uncertainties in Chile

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Content Type

Significance They also voted for the new constitution to be drawn up by a fully elected constitutional convention. The process will mean at least another 18 months of uncertainty, with elections on April 11, 2021, for the 155 members of the convention. Impacts Protests for change, marred by violence on the sidelines, will likely continue, although on a smaller scale. Coupled with uncertainty, protests may hamper efforts to revive an economy hit both by COVID-10 and social unrest. The convention will have to reach a two-thirds majority to approve each new clause of the constitution, to be drafted from scratch.

Confidence vote could see Peruvian Congress dissolved

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Congressional Elections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Constitutional Tribunal

Significance President Martin Vizcarra’s latest challenge to Congress raises the possibility of its dissolution and fresh congressional elections. It follows a recent downturn in executive-legislative relations arising from congressional decisions wholly unacceptable to the executive. Dissolution is the strongest weapon in the constitutional armoury that a president can deploy against a recalcitrant legislature. Impacts The current legislature would normally end on June 15, but Vizcarra could request emergency sessions. Public opinion is supportive of the president’s reform agenda. There is a possibility that the Constitutional Tribunal will deny the legality of a vote of confidence.

Dual leadership in a hospital practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Ravnborg Thude ◽  
Svend Erik Thomsen ◽  
Egon Stenager ◽  
Erik Hollnagel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Hospital Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Danish Hospital

Purpose Despite the practice of dual leadership in many organizations, there is relatively little research on the topic. Dual leadership means two leaders share the leadership task and are held jointly accountable for the results of the unit. To better understand how dual leadership works, this study aims to analyse three different dual leadership pairs at a Danish hospital. Furthermore, this study develops a tool to characterize dual leadership teams from each other. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. Six leaders were interviewed to clarify how dual leadership works in a hospital context. All interviews were transcribed and coded. During coding, focus was on the nine principles found in the literature and another principle was found by looking at the themes that were generic for all six interviews. Findings Results indicate that power balance, personal relations and decision processes are important factors for creating efficient dual leaderships. The study develops a categorizing tool to use for further research or for organizations, to describe and analyse dual leaderships. Originality/value The study describes dual leadership in the hospital context and develops a categorizing tool for being able to distinguish dual leadership teams from each other. It is important to reveal if there are any indicators that can be used for optimising dual leadership teams in the health-care sector and in other organisations.

The economic costs of protests and policy recommendations for preventing them: the case of Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anson Cheuk-Ho Au
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Institutional Policy ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Transformations

Purpose This paper aims to examine the economic costs of protests at micro-to-firm, market sector and aggregate levels. This paper then develops institutional policy recommendations for allaying these costs. Design/methodology/approach This paper conducts a case study of the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong by examining news articles, online discussions and economic indices from the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department. This paper further develops policy insights from an analysis of the Hong Kong Basic Law (the city’s mini-constitution) and insights from economic research. Findings This paper discovers that the protests may have caused overall volatility in firms, market sectors and the overall economy, measured in production disruptions, revenue losses and declines in employment. Among Hong Kong’s four major industries, the most severely stunted market sectors were tourism and retail, as well as trading and logistics, whereas financial services and professional and producer services experienced mixed effects. This paper develops two institutional policy recommendations for government and corporate policymaking for reducing volatility and ultimately safeguarding economic growth: the separation of political ideology and economics; the systematic use of public opinion analytics to pre-test the reception of policies. Practical implications Corporate strategists and policymakers would benefit from and advance the economy by better insulating business decision-making from political biases and by investing in public opinion analytics. Originality/value Much of economic theory treats social transformations as externalities. This paper adopts a different approach by foregrounding the role that social transformations play in shaping the economy. To this end, to the best of the author’s knowledge, this paper is among the first to examine the anti-extradition bill protests of Hong Kong, arguably the most significant and widespread protests in the city’s and the region’s history.

G-GERT network model of online public opinion reversal based on kernel and grey degree

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuli Yan ◽  
Xiangyan Zeng ◽  
Pingping Xiong ◽  
Na Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Average Frequency ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gert Network ◽  
Frequency Probability ◽  
And Control ◽  
Difficult Issue

PurposeIn recent years, online public opinion reversal incidents have been occurring frequently, which has increased the complexity of the evolution of online public opinion, and they have become a difficult issue for public opinion management and control. It is of great significance to explore the regularity of online public opinion reversal.Design/methodology/approachCombined with the grey characteristics of online public opinion information, a grey graphical evaluation review technique (G-GERT) network model is constructed based on kernel and grey degree, and the frequency, probability and time of online public opinion reversal nodes are calculated using C-marking method and Z-marking method.FindingsThroughout the online public opinion reversal events, there are all repeated outbreak nodes occurring, so the authors regard the repeated occurrence of outbreak nodes as reversal. According to the average frequency, probability and time of repeated outbreak nodes in the G-GERT network model, the authors predict the corresponding key information of reversal. It can simulate the evolution process of public opinion events accurately.Originality/valueThe G-GERT network model based on kernel and grey degree reveals the regulation of public opinion reversal, predicts the frequency, probability and time of reversal nodes, which are the most concerned and difficult issues for decision-makers. The model provides the decision basis and reference for government decision-making departments.

Tunisia's risk of default will rise

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social

Significance The social unrest is partly the result of rising unemployment and poverty, worsened by the COVID-19 crisis. Political gridlock has also prevented the country from undertaking difficult reforms. Impacts Unemployment is likely to stay high, and until the informal economy can resume it will remain a cause of unrest. The release of multiple vaccines should lift some pressure from the health crisis before the end of 2021. The presidency and parliament need to solve the current gridlock in order to implement reforms in due course.

Control of inverters in standalone andgrid-connected microgrid using different control strategies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikash Gurugubelli ◽  
Arnab Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Transient Response ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Droop Control ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Simulink Simulation ◽  
Time Simulation ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
First Time

Purpose The share of renewable energy sources (RESs) in the power system is increasing day by day. The RESs are intermittent, therefore maintaining the grid stability and power balance is very difficult. The purpose of this paper is to control the inverters in microgrid using different control strategies to maintain the system stability and power balance. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, different control strategies are implemented to the voltage source converter (VSC) to get the desired performance. The DQ control is a basic control strategy that is inherently present in the droop and virtual synchronous machine (VSM) control strategies. The droop and VSM control strategies are inspired by the conventional synchronous machine (SM). The main objective of this work is to design and implement the three aforementioned control strategies in microgrid. Findings The significant contributions of this work are: the detailed implementation of DQ control, droop control and VSM control strategies for VSC in both grid-connected mode and standalone mode is presented; the MATLAB/Simulink simulation results and comparative studies of the three aforementioned controllers are introduced first time in the proposed work; and the opal-RT digital real-time simulation results of the proposed VSM control show the superiority in transient response compared to the droop control strategy. Research limitations/implications In the power system, the power electronic-based power allowed by VSM is dominated by the conventional power which is generated from the traditional SM, and then the issues related to stability still need advance study. There are some differences between the SM and VSM characteristics, so the integration of VSM with the existing system still needs further study. Economical operation of VSM with hybrid storage is also one of the future scopes of this work. Originality/value The significant contributions of this work are: the detailed implementation of DQ control, droop control and VSM control strategies for VSC in both grid-connected mode and standalone mode is presented; the MATLAB/Simulink simulation results and comparative studies of the three aforementioned controllers are introduced first time in the proposed work; and the opal-RT digital real-time simulation results of the proposed VSM control show the superiority in transient response compared to the droop control strategy.

France’s Macron seeks to relaunch economic reforms

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Fiscal Rules ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mandatory Vaccination

Significance Among those policies are measures targeted at youth unemployment and social care for older people, aimed at attracting left-wing support. Most importantly, Macron has committed to relaunching his controversial pension reforms, which triggered widespread social unrest in late 2019 and early 2020. Impacts Mandatory vaccination could trigger protests and legal action against the government. The centre-right Republicans could take support from Macron if they unite around a strong presidential candidate over the coming months. Macron will likely push for looser EU fiscal rules to facilitate more government spending beyond 2022.

Chile constitutional convention may struggle to agree

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Investor Sentiment ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Hearings

Significance The process of drafting a new constitution is scheduled to be completed by July 4. A period of public hearings is drawing to a close and the convention’s seven permanent commissions are starting to discuss, draft and vote on articles to be submitted to the plenary. Impacts The constitutional process will be one of the defining issues of the new president’s mandate. Investor sentiment will remain cautious until there is more clarity on the new constitution’s impact on business. The right’s lack of representation in the convention may undermine its credibility.

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