The Politics of Partnership

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-206
Author(s):  
Luis Daniel Gascón ◽  
Aaron Roussell
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Community Politics ◽  
Police Authority ◽  
Police Action

This chapter explores how power struggles with police and racial antagonisms between Blacks and Latin@s problematize the goals of community policing and diminish the influence community leaders could build to shape police action. The crisscrossing conflicts that the authors observed between Black and Latin@ meeting leaders, Vera Fisher and Hector Mendoza, and the conflicts between another Black meeting leader, Julie Coleman, and Captain Himura frame this chapter. The discussion of a community policing “power struggle” between Blacks and Latin@s takes place within a compromised field, premised on the idea that police devolve authority to the community. Together, these characters demonstrate the ways in which members of the CPAB have only a contingent authority in meetings—given to them at the Captain’s behest—and how the local racial order and legal status of many HO participants undermine their authority as well. Leaders, if they choose to remain, must volunteer to comply with police authority. LAPD has erected a community policing apparatus that has provided rhetoric of community accountability, but, at least in Lakeside, has also succeeded in platforming divisive community politics.

scholarly journals BUREAUCRAT-ASSISTED CONTENTION IN CHINA*

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (SI) ◽  
pp. 661-674
Author(s):  
Kevin J. O’Brien ◽  
Lianjiang Li ◽  
Mingxing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
The State ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Local Officials

Bureaucrat-assisted contention in China is a type of collective action in which native-born local officials help socioeconomic elites launch or sustain popular action against outsider party secretaries by leaking information and sabotaging repression. Bureaucrats who assist local influentials are neither elite allies nor institutional activists. Instead, they unleash or support collective action as a weapon in a power struggle against ambitious, heavy-handed or corrupt superiors. Unlike mass demonstrations that are mobilized as a bargaining chip, bureaucrat-assisted contention hinges on a partnership with local elites who have their own grievances and pursue their own goals. Because it combines bureaucratic politics and popular action, this type of contention can help us understand underexplored aspects of political opportunities, framing, and mobilizing structures. In particular, it shows how participants in contention sometimes span the state-society divide, and how collective action can influence (and be influenced by) power struggles within a government.

Achieving Health Equity for Immigrants and Their Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-154
Author(s):  
Alonzo L. Plough
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Deferred Action ◽  
Factors Influencing

This chapter presents a data-based portrait of American immigrants. Nearly 44 million immigrants live in the United States, and their health, and that of their children, is directly affected by their legal status and by U.S. policy. Indeed, public policy at both the federal and state levels—including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), changes in “public charge” rules, and eligibility for driver's licenses and prenatal care—are all significant influences on health status and access to care. As such, ensuring that immigrant families are supported requires health care providers, policymakers, and community leaders to acknowledge the myriad factors influencing the health of their immigrant constituents. It is a path that will improve well-being for immigrants, while offering benefits more broadly as people work toward health equity.

scholarly journals Gaukang and White Coup: Dismantling of Traditional Power

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Nila Sastrawati
Keyword(s):  
Central Point ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
The South ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Bureaucratic Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The South

This paper discusses the concept of power adhered to by the South Sulawesi community and explains the power struggle which had occurred both in the past and present. The South Sulawesi community’s conceptiontraditional power on power signifies a strong, transcendental relationship between themselves and supernatural powers, wherein all objects possessing certain peculiarities are inseparable from the stable and unchanging cosmic world. Thus, gaukang holds a significant position in the life of the South Sulawesi community, particularly pertaining to matters of power struggle. The waxing and waning of traditional power in South Sulawesi is determined by at least three factors: firstly, a change in power patterns with the emergence of new elites having a commoner background; secondly, incessant resistance to feudalistic rule; and lastly, the application of modern bureaucratic model. The general conclusion of this paper emphasizes the position of gaukang as a central point affecting the various power struggles that occurred throughout the history of the South Sulawesi community. The enactment of Regional Regulation (Perda) No. 5 year 2016 on the Organization of Gowa Regency Local Cultural and Customary Institution provides a peek at how bureaucratic power had dismantled traditional power in Gowa Regency, which included, consequently, the transfer of authority over the royal heirlooms or gaukang of the Gowa Kingdom.

scholarly journals A REPORT ABOUT INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RWANDA

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Immaculée Mukashema
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Psychological Harassment

The present paper reports on intimate partner violence (IPV) in 3 districts of Southern Province and Western Province in Rwanda. Qualitative data were obtained via 3 focus group discussions conducted at the headquarters of each district, and 10 individual interviews with key informants, community leaders who worked in the districts. The types of IPV discussed were physical, economic, sexual, and psychological harassment. Community leaders stated that the women in their communities had no hesitation in reporting economic abuse and physical violence, but noted that the women needed support from other people to report sexual violence, and generally did not report psychological harassment, perhaps because they accepted it as the norm. They also noted that men generally did not report IPV and that the main victims of IPV in all its forms were children and women. The community leaders suggested a number of measures to reduce IPV: empowering females so that they are financially independent; educating and sensitizing family members about their responsibilities and community leaders about laws and human rights; educating all community members about gender equality and IPV, including premarital instruction; increasing access to services; putting in place a law that protects free unions by giving them legal status after a period of cohabitation; setting up a specific institution to deal with IPV; improving both support to the victims and follow-up of reported cases, along with instituting punitive responses to deter potential new perpetrators.

scholarly journals Interrogating the Concept of ‘Community’ in Community Policing Operations in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ogadimma Arisukwu ◽  
Tunde Adebisi ◽  
Chisaa Igbolekwu ◽  
Festus Asamu
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
North Central ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Analyze Data

Community is a veritable ingredient for social change and development in a society. The potentials of individuals and groups in the community are a great source or resource for promoting unity, development and patriotism. The general objective of this study is to examine the influence of diversity in community composition, on the operation of community policing style in Nigeria. The study adopted qualitative research approach to collect and analyze data. In-depth interview is the instrument of data collection while content analysis is the method of data analysis. The study took place in Kwara State, North central Nigeria. Twenty community leaders and youth groups heads were purposefully selected through snowball sampling method. Where this great resource or human capital is adequately galvanized by the leaders and community heads, the community becomes formidable and capable of solving her social problems together. However, these benefits of community are hampered by other socio-cultural and economic variables in its members. Community on its own cannot achieve much until members are mobilized to support and partner with government in any developmental projects.

Lebanese Power Struggles and Fashioning “Armenian” Space, 1957-1958

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-227
Author(s):  
Tsolin Nalbantian
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
National Space

In 1957 and 1958, Lebanese Armenian political parties, through the medium of their newspapers, rearranged the Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hamoud and Corniche al-Nahr as Armenian territories, separate from, and often in opposition to, the Lebanese state. These Armenian parties, in vying with one another for authority over this territory, fashioned Armenian enemies of one another. The internal Armenian enemy of the Armenian nation was constructed from within the national space of Lebanon. The power struggle within the Armenian community in Lebanon challenges the placement of Armenians in the historiography of Lebanon, which considers them as refugees and therefore non-Lebanese or temporary residents of Lebanon as well as passive, impossible political actors.

Police

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-124
Author(s):  
Hannah E. Britton
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
South African ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Secondary Trauma ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
The South ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
Victim Support ◽  
South African Police ◽  
High Level

The South African police are widely critiqued for their institutional failures and widespread corruption, but the communities in this project point to the importance of the police in efforts to address violence, punish perpetrators, and protect survivors. This is a chilling finding, given the wide discretion the police exercise in cases of abuse and violence. This chapter examines some of the factors that help police stations become positive community leaders, including sector policing, visible policing, community policing, and victim support. The chapter also reveals their overreliance on contracting out key service delivery to volunteers. Volunteers and police also expressed a high level of burnout and secondary trauma working in this sector.

Transferring Power in the Family Business

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis B. Barnes ◽  
Simon A. Hershon
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Ideas

Should a family business stay in the family? The question is really academic, since families appear to be in business to stay. But, when the management moves from one generation to the next, the transition is often far from orderly. In addition, as the company develops, there is a need for a management style that goes beyond survival thinking, and entrepreneurs tend not to be reorganizes. In fact, while a sometimes bitter power struggle is peaking, the fortunes of the company may be sliding downhill. In other cases, power struggles are part of a healthy transition. According to these authors, family and company transitions will be more productive when they are simultaneous. The eternal problem involves the older generation's making use of the flexibility and new ideas of the succeeding generation. Third party involvement may help to prevent irreparable family rifts and company stagnation. Dialogues between all the parties–family managers, relatives, employees, and outsiders–can also help.

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