Observations and Comments on Reinventing Government

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Masden
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Popular Book ◽  
Reinventing Government ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
The One ◽  
Blue Print

A relatively recent best-selling publication and continuing popular book entitled Reinventing Government has received acclaim on the one hand, and on the other substantial criticism. Various elected officials and administrators of public agencies from Florida to California have suggested the book as a blue-print for the development of more effective and efficient government. A more critical reading of the book suggests that while it does present some noteworthy concepts, it takes liberties with historical fact, makes unsupported assumptions and demonstrates little respect for the country's conscientious, hard-working and productive public sector employees. As a result, the book and many of its recommendations, while being worthy of discussion, cannot be considered a serious piece of scholarly journalism.

From Fieldwork to Research Theory on an Indian Pilgrimage

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Delage
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
South India ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
The One

Using as the example of the pilgrimage to Sabarimala (Kerala, South India), I propose here to explore the links existing between sources, research hypothesis and research theory in social sciences. The choice of research materials in the process of investigation, sources of knowledge about the studied object, is not mere random sampling; it is processed in accordance with the questions of the researcher. It inevitably assumes a selective dimension. After a critical reading of the sources used by Indian studies, I will highlight on the connections between the sources and the methodological tools on the one hand, and the major research hypothesis about pilgrimage on the other. The links between the data taken from the field and the legitimacy of scientific discourse on India will be examined at the end before providing some keys for the interpretation of Sabarimala phenomenon in South India during the contemporary period.

scholarly journals The Interlinking Theorization of Management Concepts: Cohesion and Semantic Equivalence in Management Knowledge

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1284-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus A. Höllerer ◽  
Dennis Jancsary ◽  
Vitaliano Barberio ◽  
Renate E. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
The Other ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Semantic Equivalence ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
The One ◽  
General Business

This article develops the idea of ‘interlinking theorization’ in the context of management knowledge. We explain how management concepts are theorized through their direct co-occurrence with other management concepts, on the one hand, and their embeddedness in general business vocabulary, on the other. Conceptually, we extend a semantic network approach to vocabularies and suggest both cohesion between management concepts (i.e. a clustering in bundles) and their semantic equivalence (i.e. similar patterns of connectivity to general business vocabulary indicating specific types) as core dimensions of interlinking theorization. Empirically, we illustrate and further develop our conceptual model with data collected from magazines targeting management practitioners in the Austrian public sector. Our article contributes to existing literature by extending theorization to include different kinds of relationships between management concepts and focusing on direct and indirect relations across populations of management concepts as characteristics of the overall ‘architecture’ of management knowledge.

Does Demographic Dissimilarity Matter for Perceived Inclusion? Evidence From Public Sector Employees

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwang Bin Bae ◽  
Meghna Sabharwal ◽  
Amy E. Smith ◽  
Evan Berman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Demographic Group ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Influence Perceptions

This study examines the relationship between individual dissimilarity and perceptions of organizational inclusion. Data from a national survey of public agencies conducted in Florida and Texas show that gender dissimilarity is negatively associated with perceptions of inclusion and the negative relationship is more acute for men than for women. In contrast, tenure dissimilarity is positively related to perceptions of inclusion and this positive association is more acute for those with longer tenure than for those with shorter tenure. These results suggest that the effect of dissimilarity on the perception of inclusion depends on both the observability of individual-level characteristics and the status of the demographic group. In particular, dissimilarity along characteristics that are easily observable (such as gender) is more likely to influence perceptions of inclusion and dissimilarity is more influential for higher status groups (such as men or long-tenured employees).

scholarly journals Muzyka jako teofania? Pytania do George’a Steinera

Principia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Trzęsiok
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Musical Aesthetics ◽  
Philosophy Of Music ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The One ◽  
Name Of God

Music occupies a special place in George Steiner’s thinking: “Three areas: the essence and name of God, higher mathematics and music (what is the connection between them?) are located at the limits of language” (Steiner, Errata). The seemingly rhetorical question in parentheses turns out to be a source of deep controversy, the essence of which is revealed in historical-genealogical reflection. Steiner attempts to incorporate Romantic metaphysics within the traditional scholastic symbiosis of Biblical creationism and Pythagoreanism, which reveals his philosophy of music to be entangled in a range of contradictions. On the one hand, a critical reading of Steiner's works uncovers the difficulties posed by the attempt to reconcile pre- and post-Enlightenment culture; on the other hand, the still unused opportunities offered by Romanticism and its modernist continuations are clearly visible. Musical aesthetics, rooted in the idea of infinity, plays a crucial role in these divagations.

scholarly journals MEMBACA PANCASILA: PERSPEKTIF KEARIFAN SUFI JALALL AL-DINN RUMMI

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
Sulaiman Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
The One

Pancasila plays an important role in unifying the various backgrounds in Indonesia. Although it must be noted that today there is a group of Indonesian citizens who still reject Pancasila with reasons not in accordance with Islam. This rejection seems to be caused by a paradigm and a different perspective. Islam is a religion, and Pancasila is an ideology. As an ideology, Pancasila is the objectification of Islam, the religion objective elements exist in Pancasila. Universal values of Islam explicitlyanimating principle of Pancasila which has principles of divinity, humanity, unity, deliberation, and justice. This article will elaborate on these principles from the perspective of wisdom Sufi Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207- 1273). Sufism thought of Rumi will be used as an analysis tool in “reading” the principles of Pancasila, particularly the principle “Belief in God Almighty” (“Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa”). The focus of the first principleis due to the historical fact on serious debate between the nationalist Muslims and secular Muslims on the one hand, and other religious groups, on the other hand, so that led to the compromise. Pancasila memegang peranan penting dalam mempersatukanberbagai macam latar belakang di Indonesia. Meskipun harus diakui bahwa hingga saat ini ada saja sekelompok warga negara Indonesia yang masih menolak Pancasila dengan alasan tidak sesuai dengan Islam. Penolakan ini tampaknya disebabkan oleh paradigma dan cara pandang yang berbeda. Islam adalah agama, dan Pancasila adalah sebuah ideologi. Sebagai ideologi, Pancasila merupakan objektivikasi dari Islam, yakni unsur-unsurobjektif agama ada dalam Pancasila. Nilai-nilai universal Islam secara eksplisit menjiwai muatan Pancasila yang berprinsip ketuhanan, kemanusiaan, persatuan, permusyawaratan, dan keadilan. Artikel ini akan mengelaborasi prinsip-prinsip tersebut dari perspektif kearifan (wisdom) sufi agung Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273). Pemikiran tasawuf Rumi akan dijadikan sebagai pisau analisis dalam “membaca” (“reading”) prinsipprinsip Pancasila, khususnya sila Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa. Fokus terhadap sila pertama ini disebabkan oleh fakta sejarah adanya perdebatan yang serius antara Muslim-Nasionalis dan Muslim sekuler di satu sisi, dan kelompok agama lain, di sisi yang lain, sehingga berujung pada kompromi.

Creativity, Play and Listening: An Auditory Re-Conceptualization of Entrepreneurial Creation in the Context of New Public Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Pallesen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
New Public ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Empirical Context

This article aims to re-conceptualize entrepreneurial creation in the context of New Public Management. While the latter has sought to ‘entrepreneurialize’ public sector employees by creating incentives for greater engagement in optimizing outcomes, the article departs from the premise that such an entrepreneurialization may more precisely be described as an ‘enterprising up’ of employees, placing strong emphasis on predefined outcomes and on eliminating the risk that input will not lead to the prescribed outcomes. Noting that this reasoning is fed by a prescriptive/retrospective logic, which tends to marginalize the openness of the ear-body, the article activates auditory concepts to (re)theorize entrepreneurial creation in the empirical context of a strong outcome focus. From ‘rhythm’, ‘composing’ and ‘crescendo’, entrepreneurial creation is theorized as a playful variation, which stays with process and allows the alterity of the other(ness) to resonate – and hence opens up a space for the qualitatively different to emerge. Hereby, the article seeks to contribute to a processual conceptualization of entrepreneurship as the creation of new in-betweens by providing (auditory) concepts that help us grasp this in-between as an emergent relational field of unactualized potential.

scholarly journals Between survival and relevance: remaking 30 years of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Simon-Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Women's Policy Agencies

Since its establishment in 1984 the Ministry of Women’s Affairs has had a controversial profile.1 What began as a feminist policy agency in the public sector discernibly transitioned, in the course of a decade, into a mainstream policy agency whose function is to focus on issues of relevance to women (Curtin and Teghtsoonian, 2010). The ministry’s distinctive location at the crossroads of policy and gender places it in a maelstrom of contradictory expectations; like other women’s policy agencies elsewhere in the world, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs has historically been caught between expectations from community to be its advocate, on the one hand, and requirements from the public sector to conform to the standards of new public management on the other.

Metropolitan Planning Objectives and Implementation Constraints: Planning in a Post-Fordist and Postmodern Age

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1637-1660 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Filion
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Implementation Context ◽  
The One

Planning faces the predicament that as recommendations become bolder possibilities for implementation deteriorate. This is imputed to society's transition from a Fordist and modern to a post-Fordist and postmodern era. On the one hand, postmodern values account for more public participation and heightened environmental sensitivity, which translate into proposals for alternative forms of urban development. On the other hand, the implementation of these proposals is impaired by reduced public sector resources as a result of the economic instablity associated with post-Fordism. Another impediment is the difficulty to achieve sufficient support for planning objectives in the postmodern context. This context is marked by a fragmentation of values, attachment to the existing built environment, and suspicion between social groups. The empirical focus is on Toronto's bold metropolitan planning proposals. Most recent planning documents call for reurbanization efforts, a compact urban form, and reduced reliance on the car. In this paper I cast doubts, however, on the eventual actualization of these proposals by highlighting weaknesses in the of present and anticipated implementation context. These are tied to factors that are specific to Toronto, but also to a greater extent to the post-Fordist and postmodern environment.

Legitimacy and Public-Sector Quality: How Citizens Judge the Quality of the Police

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Police Performance ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The One

The legitimacy of the Dutch police is under strain. On the one hand, citizens claim that safety has become one of the most important problems in the Netherlands whilst, on the other hand, they criticise government in general and the police in particular for being unable to realise a safe society. During the previous decade, several initiatives were developed in order to relegitimise the actions of the police by improving police performance. Community policing was introduced in order to increase both the effectiveness and availability of the police. This article theoretically and empirically explores the criteria citizens use to judge the police. This article illustrates the discrepancy between the wishes and demands of citizens and the way in which public-sector organizations, such as the police, try to satisfy citizens.

scholarly journals Patriarchal Usurpation of the Modjadji Dynasty: A Gender-critical Reading of the History and Reign of the Modjadji Rain Queens

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabelo O Motasa ◽  
Lilly (S.J.) Nortjé-Meyer
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
African Feminism ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The setting of the Modjadji dynasty is on the one hand in a South African democratic space with an appraisal of women’s rights, and on the other hand in a rural traditionalist setting where women have a designated place under patriarchy. How the queens navigate their rule, in circumstances where the modern and traditional seek to occupy the same space, requires a gender-critical reading. Questions about their ability to autonomously dispense their duties as queens and exercise freedom over their livelihoods in a culture that emanates from a patriarchal rule, inform the core objectives in this article. Diverging from the western form of feminism, which has been suspected of universalising challenges faced by women like Vashti and Esther, to African feminism that is more context-based, helps in unearthing patriarchal traits directly affecting African women. The intention is not to discredit one form of feminism or the other, but to explore how such a fusion can help in the emancipation of women, as this is the goal of African feminism.

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