Politics and Ideology in Migration Policy Formulation: The Case of Kuwait

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Stanton Russell
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Political Events ◽  
International Labor

Theoretical approaches to international migration for employment largely ignore the role of government policies in shaping both migratory flows and the functioning of international labor markets, despite empirical evidence that such policies exist. To facilitate considerations of policy in migration theory this article examines politics and ideology in the evolution of migration policy in Kuwait. Policy determinants are found to include not only changes in economic conditions, but also shifts in power among political actors and the salience of issues on the political agenda: security issues, regional political events, demographic changes and perceived social costs of immigration. Future prospects for the Gulf are also considered.

scholarly journals Impact of National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) on the Private Sector: A Case Study of Power Sector

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Modinat Olaitan Olusoji ◽  
Olusegun O. Oloba
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The Impact

The paper examines the impact of the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) on the private sector by looking at the contribution the power sector had made in realizing the goal of making private enterprise the engine of growth in Nigeria. NEEDS reform is to  transform the power sector into one led by the private sector, with the role of government  restricted primarily in policy formulation and establishment of an appropriate legal and regulatory framework.  The paper discusses among many things: an overview of power supply in Nigeria; the effect of power sector on private sectors; challenges of the sector; as well as the ways forward. The paper concludes that there is   need to put concerted effort to generate adequate power supply to enable the private sector thrives and serves as engine of growth in Nigeria.

THE ADOPTION OF LANGUAGE POLICIES IN THE REPUBLICS OF POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: ACTORS, DEBATES, DECISIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin Zamyatin
Keyword(s):  
Political Agenda ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Early National ◽  
Conflicting Interests ◽  
Soviet Russia

In the early 1990s, political actors in Russia’s republics proposed alternative, and sometimes mutually exclusive, solutions to language issues for their adoption as a public policy. The purpose of this paper is to understand how and why it was still possible, despite the conflicting interests, to build a coalition and adopt the policy in the republics. I use the method of discourse analysis of official documents and political debates. I analyse the data on the circumstances of the policy adoption in republics in order to understand the general trends in what and how compromises were reached. The official designation of state languages came to Russia’s republics as the main policy devised “from above”, the central authorities, but it had to be specified and adapted locally. From an instrumentalist perspective, some Russian scholars have argued that the adoption of such a language policy of designating state languages compulsory for use should be seen as a milestone in power struggle. Yet, I argue in this paper that a much wider range of issues were on the table and the compromise had to be reached on what the designation of state languages meant in different contexts. The fi ndings of the study should contribute to the debate about the role of language in politics during the USSR disintegration and the early national-state building in Russia and its republics. When at some point in the future Russia enters another circle of political transformation, the issues in focus would again become highly topical on the political agenda.

scholarly journals Religion, Political Actors, and Democratization: The Turkish Case

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-612
Author(s):  
Luca Ozzano
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Turkish Case ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religious Actors

AbstractThis article is part of a special issue on the five Muslim democracies. It aims at understanding the role played by religion, and particularly by religiously oriented actors, in Turkey's democratization processes. The first section analyzes the different theoretical approaches to the role of religion in democratization. The second section analyzes the different phases of Turkey's political history since the 1980 coup, taking into account both democratization processes and the role played by religious actors in the political system, and trying to understand the possible relations between the two phenomena.

scholarly journals THE EMERGENCE OF STATE SPHERE IN SOCIAL MEDIA: A POLITICAL BALKANIZATION IN MALAYSIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 811-819
Author(s):  
Badrul Mohamed ◽  
Mohammad Agus Yusoff ◽  
Zawiyah Mohd Zain ◽  
Dori Efendi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Ruling Party

Social media has phenomenally replaced the traditional media. Blogs have transformed news reporting; YouTube has reinvented talent sourcing; and the trinity (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube) have revolutionary changed the rules of the game of regime change. Enabling commoners to be producers and its interactiveness are the two most important characteristics that grant the ordinary citizens to be extra-ordinary. From Tinseltown to Alexandria, the roles of social media has been unstoppably growing. The world political events in the recent times, particularly the Arab Spring have shown a strong correlation between social media and democratization. Malaysias political experience in recent years, in particular the 12th General Election (GE-12) in 2008 is comparable to the Arab Spring in view of the alluring role of social media and its gladiatorial impacts in politics. The failure of Barisan Nasional (BN or National Front, the only ruling party since independence) to retain its customary two-third majority in GE-12 is a proof of peoples growing desire to enjoy democracy that among others offer free and fair elections, good-governance, and social justice which are dissimilar to existing communalism and strong government. At a glance, GE-13 in 2013 produced similar results as GE-12 which displayed fortification of democracy among citizens. In contrast, further analyses toward the details of GE-13 surfaced the revival of communalism and autoritarinism which have shown signs of decay in GE-12. Thus, this article explores the conflictual roles of social media which (has been functioning as an ideal public sphere) when the ruling party together with the state machinery invade the sphere of social media to satisfy their political agenda. This investigation showcases the anarchic sphere in social media is not only capable in catalyzing democratization, but also undermining democracy by propagating political Balkanization that propels disjointed feelings among multi-racial citizens.

Media Coverage of International Climate Summits and Negotiations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Wolling ◽  
Dorothee Arlt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Character

The annual climate summits (Conferences of the Parties, or COPs) are major political events that receive considerable media attention. In this way, the topic of climate change returns regularly to both the media and the political agenda. It makes sense, therefore, that communication research regards COPs as occasion to investigating how the media cover climate change. Nevertheless, this strategy has two shortcomings: On the one hand the focus on the conferences might provide a distorted picture—because of the political character of the conferences, the role of political actors and policy-related frames might be overestimated. On the other hand, the political character of the conferences is not always considered appropriately. Most research is mainly interested in the coverage on climate change in the context of the conferences and not in the political discussions taking place at the summits. Future research should address these discussions more intensively, giving more attention especially to the debates in the various online media.

scholarly journals Public Policy Timing in a Sustainable Approach to Shaping Public Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Korenik ◽  
Maria Węgrzyn
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

This study addresses the problem of optimal public policy timing and the relation to public health policy. Ways of recognizing this problem are presented, as well as the role of public policy timing, which is perceived or can be performed from various economic theories and concepts, mainly: regulation theory; the concept of adaptive public policy; and the theory of policy timing based on the concepts of option value and the transaction costs of the political process. The approach of methodological pluralism adopted by the authors made it possible to reach for various cognitive inspirations borrowed from numerous theoretical approaches, in order to create a comprehensive and coherent theoretical foundation for the purposes of analyzing the role of timing in applied public policies. Next, an attempt was made to define the role of public policy timing in the applied approach, i.e., the case of Polish policy towards the public hospital care sector. The final conclusion is that the role of timing is marginalized in Polish public health policy. The time dimension of its creation was ignored or treated as an exogenous event in relation to the rest of the policy formulation process. There is no political approach that adaptively links the right combination of resources and regulatory activity to timing for specific stages of development or growth in public hospital care.

scholarly journals The Deployment of Broadband Internet in Australia: Areas for Attention and Implications from Canada and Korea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chang ◽  
H. Lee ◽  
Catherine A. Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Attention Demand

Broadband Internet connectivity is currently seen as a means to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of an economy. The deployment and use of broadband capabilities is high on the current political agenda in many developed and developing countries, including Australia. But despite ongoing efforts to promote broadband in Australia, deployment has been much slower than expected. This paper aims to identify areas that have been holding up the broadband development in Australia. In examining four areas for attention (demand, competition, price and the role of government), we refer to experiences in Canada and Korea, both leaders in broadband deployment, to show the differences in each area. Although each country discussed here has its own policy agenda and some unique circumstances related to broadband deployment, implications from this paper will provide valuable input for policy makers and industry leaders in Australia (and elsewhere) as they develop strategies to encourage more widespread broadband deployment.

‘Neutrality: A really dead concept?’ A reprise

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Agius ◽  
Karen Devine
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Mass Publics ◽  
Domestic Values

This article approaches ‘neutrality’ as an essentially contested concept and traces its meaning and purpose over centuries-long historical timelines and situated political, societal and security contexts. It distinguishes neutrality from other concepts such as ‘neutralization’ ‘non-belligerency’, ‘non-alignment’, ‘military non-alignment’, ‘military neutrality’ and ‘non-allied’. The article explains the politics of defining neutrality in the current European political and legal landscape and in the context of shifting definitions and practices of war, peace, security and state sovereignty. This episteme-based analysis focuses on changes to neutrality in accordance with the rise and fall of particular empires and international actors over time, and changes to its status linked to the development and reification of particular meta-theoretically-based subfields of International Relations and Political Science, setting the background to this special issue of Cooperation and Conflict. A renewed emphasis on the normative aspects of neutrality (i.e. the role of domestic values, politics, preferences, history and mass publics in foreign policy formulation) is achieved by employing a range of perspectives, characterized by increased pluralism in levels of analysis and theoretical approaches. Through this pluralism, authors engage with (1) the strategic and normative drivers underpinning the norm of neutrality, (2) the potential for neutrals to serve as norm entrepreneurs in the field of peace promotion, (3) the tenuous legal status of elites’ quasi-neutral foreign policy constructions underpinned by tensions between discourses and practices and (4) the discursive strategies underpinning the move from neutral states’ traditional forms of neutrality to what is termed ‘post-neutrality’ in the current politico-legal context.

scholarly journals PERANAN EKOLOGI PEMERINTAHAN DALAM MENINGKATKAN DAYA SAING KEBIJAKAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Afriadi Sjahbana Hasibuan
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library Research

Role of Government Ecology in Increasing Regional Government Policy Competitiveness. Government ecology as a basis for policy making will follow various processes for preparing policy analysis with various resources obtained from both natural resources, artificial resources and human resources. These resources are a reference in the formulation of government policies in building regional competitiveness. This study aims to discuss the role of government ecology in enhancing competitiveness through local government policies to improve services to the public. The method used in this study is library research. Data is collected from a variety of materials in the library such as documents, books, magazines, journals, both offline and online. The results show that local government policies will be more effective when policies are implemented in policy formulation with government-based knowledge or ecology. The Regional Government seeks to have competitiveness that adheres to commitment and is consistent in implementing regional government processes. The process of increasing competitiveness goes hand in hand with increasing knowledge and capabilities of apparatus in public service optimally. Keywords: government ecology, policy, competitiveness.

scholarly journals REALITAS KEKERASAN PEKERJA PEREMPUAN DAN KONSEKUENSI PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM

Populasi ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Bagoes Mantra ◽  
Kasto Kasto ◽  
Abdul Haris
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Female Migrants ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Is Design

This study deals with Indonesian female workers migration especially on the case of workers security and workers violence. The study is carried out at Cilacap Regency with the research samples in Donan, Jojog and Kuta Waru Vilage in the area of Central Cilacap sub-district. This study is design to explore the phenomena of international female workers migration regarding the security and violence issues in the whole of migration process. The value of this research is desired to be raw material, which is, can be a positive requirement in formulating the role of international migration policy. The facts shows that the program of international labor sending since 1980s was lacked of security that can be protecting migrant workers, especially female migrants. This condition causes that Indonesian (female) migrants tend to be marginal workers in destination countries.

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