Transition to digital television in Nigeria: Challenges and promises

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Femi Abikanlu
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Digital Television ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Communication Policy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Depth Interviews

The article examines the implementation and the challenges of the ongoing digital switchover (DSO) process in Nigeria. The critique of the neo-liberal orthodoxy presents the interplay of interests between political and corporate actors existing within the political economy of the Nigerian digital television environment. It also presents the effect of the existing complexities with the policy framework and approach to the implementation of the DSO process in Nigeria. The two qualitative research methods adopted in this study, communication policy analysis and in-depth interviews, examine the direction of policies and the individual experience of selected participants involved in the DSO process in Nigeria. Drawing on the analysis, inclusive of other factors, the study argues that the implementation of the DSO process in Nigeria has been delayed due to financial limitation, the exclusive approach to implementation and policy-burdened intervention of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

Political investors: Political elite oligarchy and mastery of regional resources in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
pp. 205789112091721
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hidayaturrahman ◽  
Bonaventura Ngarawula ◽  
Kridawati Sadhana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The political investors in the regional head election in Indonesia are an interesting phenomenon to be studied, as not all candidates for regional head, whether governors, regents, or mayors, have the capital to financially support their candidacy. Meanwhile, the nomination fee from has been increasing. For instance, in one of the regencies in Indonesia, the cost has reached 30 billion rupiah. This provides opportunities for regional head candidates to be financed by other people or business groups, known as political investors. This research was conducted to determine the extended role of political investors in regional head elections. This descriptive qualitative research collected data through in-depth interviews and observations as well as online and paper documents. The results showed that political investors play an essential role in enabling regional head candidates to win, and that they in turn benefited from the elections.

scholarly journals How digital media entrepreneurs talk and think about value creation: a study of commodification

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Opportunity Recognition ◽  
Institutional Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Recent Scholarship

Recent scholarship in the discipline of the political economy of communications, specifically on the topic of digital media, has called for further incorporation of theory from other fields. This study takes up this line of reasoning and contributes to the literature by incorporating the concept of customer value from marketing studies and the concept of opportunity recognition from entrepreneurial studies to examine the process of commodification. Drawing upon the customer value framework devised by Brock Smith and Mark Colgate, this study employs qualitative research to examine how entrepreneurs at the Ryerson Digital Media Zone talk about value. The results of this study demonstrate that the digital media entrepreneurs interviewed do in fact favour certain values over others lending credence to entrepreneurial studies theory that opportunity recognition is a result of specific cognitive frameworks and political economy theory that social and institutional policy and practices impact on media content and behaviour.

scholarly journals How digital media entrepreneurs talk and think about value creation: a study of commodification

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Opportunity Recognition ◽  
Institutional Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Recent Scholarship

Recent scholarship in the discipline of the political economy of communications, specifically on the topic of digital media, has called for further incorporation of theory from other fields. This study takes up this line of reasoning and contributes to the literature by incorporating the concept of customer value from marketing studies and the concept of opportunity recognition from entrepreneurial studies to examine the process of commodification. Drawing upon the customer value framework devised by Brock Smith and Mark Colgate, this study employs qualitative research to examine how entrepreneurs at the Ryerson Digital Media Zone talk about value. The results of this study demonstrate that the digital media entrepreneurs interviewed do in fact favour certain values over others lending credence to entrepreneurial studies theory that opportunity recognition is a result of specific cognitive frameworks and political economy theory that social and institutional policy and practices impact on media content and behaviour.

scholarly journals From ‘no cultural policy’ to ‘centralised market orientation’: The political economy of Hong Kong cultural policy (1997–2015)

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Ho
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Chief Executives ◽  
Cultural Policies

This study examines changes in the cultural policy in Hong Kong amid the transformations of political economy in the 1990s, following the handover in 1997, and under the administration of three Chief Executives (and their teams) up to 2015. When reviewing the literature on cultural policies in Hong Kong, this study examines the interaction the policies have with the political-economic development in Hong Kong (within the scope of this study) and subsequently explores changes in the principles of the policies. In other words, this study attempts to understand the conditions under which cultural policies were formulated in Hong Kong (the conditions of the production of local culture). The analytical framework of this study is based on two observations of the political and social changes occurring in Hong Kong (1997–2015): (1) changes in the government’s governance attitude since the handover in 1997, and (2) a series of economic blows Hong Kong has endured since 1998. Differing from the ‘descriptive literature’ defined by Schuster, this study understands that these changes are a result of the influence of a postcolonial state and neo-liberalism on public policy formulation. It is argued that the Hong Kong cultural policy framework has shifted from checks-and-balances towards centralised market orientation.

The political economy of our arable and grassland production

1977 ◽  
Vol 281 (980) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Commodity Price ◽  
The Political ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
New Science ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Grassland Production ◽  
The Individual

The level of production from arable land and grassland is determined by the volume of labour and capital invested in the available agricultural land to exploit current technology. The levels of investment are influenced in turn by the levels of market prices and other institutional arrangements determined, inter alia , by the political economy of the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community (E.E.C.) and of the individual policies of the Member States. The level of production in the United Kingdom will be influenced increasingly by the competitive strength of British agriculture within the E.E.C. as commodity price levels are gradually harmonized. The balance of arable and grassland production will, similarly, be determined by the relative advantages enjoyed by British farmers due to climatic, technological and institutional differences compared with E.E.C. competitors. The speed of development and application of new science and technology will thus be a major determinant of the level and efficiency of British agriculture during the next decade. This is the responsibility and the challenge which has to be accepted by those responsible for national research, development and advisory activities.

scholarly journals The Political Economy of SOE Privatization and Governance Reform in the MENA Region

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Akoum
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Property Rights Protection ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Enterprise Governance

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the political economy aspects of state-owned-enterprises (SOEs) governance and privatization in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In particular, the paper presents an overview of privatization in the region and examines the extent to which SOEs operate at arm's length from the public sector and the motives for this behavior. Showing empirically the region’s relative reticence on privatizing public assets, the paper highlights the political economy aspects contributing to this impasse, offers Lebanon as a case study, and suggests a policy framework for successful reform of SOEs. Highlighting the lack of sustainable drives for SOEs reform and privatization in the region and the need for better governance systems based on the rule of law, property rights protection, and combating corruption, the paper proposes policy options to deal with privatization and improve the governance of SOEs through advocating a state-owned enterprise governance framework. This framework suggests subjecting SOEs to regulation and supervision of more than one government entity as opposed to only one ministry of custody. This should help to ensure a level-playing field in the industry and reduce the pressure on SOEs to heed to political pressures.

scholarly journals The Moluccas' Surviving Aristocracy in Indonesian Politics: Fragmentation and Land-based Political Support

PCD Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-186
Author(s):  
Bayu Dardias Kurniadi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Economic Control ◽  
Internal Fragmentation ◽  
Depth Interviews

The article demonstrates how the Sultanate of Ternate in the Moluccas has survived in post-authoritarian Indonesian politics by analysing the political performances of the Sultan of Ternate and his immediate family members. The success of Sultan Mudaffar Syah in the political arena has contextualised the literature on land-based political economy, something that has largely been neglected. Combining in-depth interviews, observations, and document study, I argue that the Sultan's political achievements were the result of his transforming Ternate's coastal aristocracy into a land-based one, sidestepping the Basic Agrarian Law (BAL) of 1960 by transferring land management and ownership to indigenous communities while still maintaining economic control. However, his wife and children have failed politically, not only because they are not part of the traditional aristocratic structure (and thus have no control over land) but also because of internal fragmentation.

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