scholarly journals The grid management system in contemporary China: Grass-roots governance in social surveillance and service provision

2021 ◽  
pp. 0920203X2110115
Author(s):  
Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Management System ◽  
Grid System ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Local Variety ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Mode Of Operation ◽  
Elite Level ◽  
Local Grid ◽  
Grid Management

How should we understand the formation of the grid management system (网格化管理) of grass-roots governance in China? In this article, I argue that the grid system is an extension of existing governance structures. Facing conflicting central messaging, local grid development encountered isomorphic pressures, leading grids to resemble higher-level administration and to inherit a top–down and stability-focused mode of operation. To support this argument, I analyse five aspects: shifts in elite-level discourse, the proliferation of the grid system, recruitment standards for grid members, grid members’ tasks, and their assessment. Showcasing wide local variety, the grid system retains a managerial approach while collapsing service provision into security.

Modelling of a thermo‐electric energy management system including heat pumps for an off‐grid system

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 961-972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Sigrist ◽  
Jose Maria Fernández ◽  
Enrique Lobato ◽  
Luis Rouco ◽  
Inmaculada Saboya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Heat Pumps ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Grid System ◽  
Thermo Electric

scholarly journals Mind the gap: Grass roots ‘brokering’ to improve labour standards in global supply chains

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J Kaine ◽  
Emmanuel Josserand
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Whistle Blowing ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
Implementation Gaps

While governance and regulation are a first step in addressing worsening working conditions in global supply chains, improving implementation is also key to reversing this trend. In this article, after examining the nature of the existing governance and implementation gaps in labour standards in global supply chains, we explore how Viet Labor, an emerging grass-roots organization, has developed practices to help close them. This involves playing brokering roles between different workers and between workers and existing governance mechanisms. We identify an initial typology of six such roles: educating, organizing, supporting, collective action, whistle-blowing and documenting. This marks a significant shift in the way action to improve labour standards along the supply chain is analysed. Our case explores how predominantly top-down approaches can be supplemented by bottom-up ones centred on workers’ agency.

Integrated Power Grid Management System based on Micro Service

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Liu ◽  
ChunYang Li ◽  
Zhihang Jiang ◽  
Rui Kong ◽  
Lei Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Power Grid ◽  
Grid Management

scholarly journals Development Policy in Thailand: From Top-down to Grass Roots

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Kelly ◽  
Phattaraphon Yutthaphonphinit ◽  
Sam-ang Seubsman ◽  
Adrian Sleigh
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Grass Roots

scholarly journals Discourses of Institutionalization of Zakat Management System in Contemporary Indonesia: Effect of the Revitalization of Islamic Economics

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Adachi
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Management System ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Top Down ◽  
History Of

In Indonesia, zakat management was trying restructured in a top-down form based on the system followed in Malaysia and, in 1999, a related law was enacted. Although many previous studies have been conducted on zakat for its fundamental spiritual aspects and social roles, macroscopic research on its history of both theory and practice aspects is lacking. The transformation in the administrative reform of zakat, which focuses on not only the discourse of Islamic intellectuals but also the tone of the emerging Islamic economy and attitude of the management organization's practitioners and players, is important to understand the growth of Islam in Indonesia. This paper discusses how the zakat practice, which was an individual practice, expanded to include new objectives such as community development or financial inclusion without losing its original spiritual significance. Further, the paper clarifies how an institutionalized approach to zakat management helps in the development of new theoretical intervention areas and contributes to community development and empowerment, without compromising the original poverty alleviation programs. Keywords: Zakat management, Indonesia, Islamic economics

scholarly journals An Application of Category of Fraternity to the Grass-roots Ecumenism on the Basis of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Fratelli tutti

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Kantyka
Keyword(s):  
Church Leaders ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Grass Roots

Although the encyclical of Pope Francis Fratelli tutti does not speak directly about ecumenism, the category of fraternity developed in it can and should apply in the ecumenical movement, especially in the grassroots contacts of Christians from different Churches. Top-down ecumenism, i.e. doctrinal dialogues and meetings of Church leaders, by themselves – although necessary – are not able to bring about an effective reconciliation of Christians living in different Churches and Ecclesial Communities. The hermeneutical key proposed by Pope Francis in the form of the category of the fraternity has a wider application than ecumenical relations. The article examines the determinants of this category and its possible application to the ecumenical movement. An example of the successful application of the idea of ​​fraternity in the activities of the International Ecumenical Fellowship is also given.

Visualized Narratives

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Top Down ◽  
The Us ◽  
Elite Level

The essays compiled in this volume address the phenomenon of visual(ized) narratives from a multi-actor perspective, ranging from top-down communicated narratives to the realms of public culture and visualizations in the fields of literature and arts. How do social movements make use of symbols and narratives to question the official (elite level) storylines? To what extent do the narratives and visualization strategies applied by East Asian actors differ from those of Europe and the US?

Globally Optimization Energy Grid Management System

2018 ◽  
pp. 194-208
Author(s):  
Abdul Rahman ◽  
Nadeem Javaid ◽  
Muhammad Asad Zaheer ◽  
Maryam Bibi ◽  
Zoha Fatima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Energy Grid ◽  
Grid Management

Developing Multi-Agent Based Micro-Grid Management System in JADE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.V.V. Priyadarshana ◽  
K.T.M. U Hemapala ◽  
W.D.A. S Wijayapala ◽  
V. Saravanan ◽  
M.A. Kalhan S. Boralessa
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Micro Grid ◽  
Grid Management

Shaping the future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cribb
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Delivery Model ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Philosophical Questions

This concluding chapter asks how health policy needs to change character in the light of the transitions and tensions reviewed in the book. The emphasis in health policy has to move more decisively from a delivery model to a deliberative model of healthcare; or, in other words, from an assumed model of ‘top-down’ service provision towards a more diffused and democratic model. Moreover, the philosophical transition explored in the book should, in part, be seen as a transition towards philosophy, because philosophical questions are now manifestly at the centre of healthcare debate and activity. The chapter then presents some substantive conclusions about the key balancing acts that need to be struck in shaping the future of healthcare, including the balance between the responsibilities of policy makers and professionals, on the one hand, and the collective responsibility of patients and publics, on the other.

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