scholarly journals Factors on Community Livability and Local Government Policy in the Rural Area in Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. p10
Author(s):  
Michiko Miyamoto ◽  
Hayato Iwano

This study examines how Akita citizens view their local government policy on 1) Industry and Production, 2) Medical/Welfare, 3) Education, 4) Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, 5) Regional activation, 6) Transportation/Conveniences, and their relationships with community livability by using data from “Citizens Awareness Survey” conducted by Akita local government in 2016. Results show that Akita citizens feel that policy on “Depopulation”, “Medical/Welfare”, “Education” and “Industry/Production” have influence on community livability. However, policies on Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Regional activation, and Transportation/Convenience are negative influence on community livability.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B Goodman

This article discusses the influence of state legislative ideology on the legislative preemption of local ordinances in the area of worker rights. States define the powers of local governments within their purview and states may use this power to restrict local governments from pursuing certain policies. Using data on state legislative activity and ideology from 1993 to 2016, I find within-state increases in legislative ideology, indicating increased legislative conservatism, associated with an increased risk of preempting local government policy, all else equal. This finding is robust to a number of alternate specifications and hypotheses. Ideology appears to play an important role in the decision to involve the state in the affairs of local governments.


Author(s):  
Emilio J. de la Higuera-Molina ◽  
Marc Esteve ◽  
Ana M. Plata-Díaz ◽  
José L. Zafra-Gómez

Author(s):  
Bayu Panji Aji

The increasing rate of population growth and economic development occurring in the Curup Tengah District, Kab. Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu has led to the increasing waste generated. This can lead to declining environmental quality in the region, especially the situation is aggravated by inadequate handling and waste management systems are implemented by the Regional Government. Therefore, the required real effort in resolving the existing problems of waste such as by increasing community participation in waste management.  This study aims to determine how community participation in waste management in the Curup Tengah District. This participation may take the form pasrtisipasi community in local government policy decisions about waste management. Pasrtisipasi other forms of society can be seen by taking out the trash in the space provided, do not throw garbage in open dumps, as well as by not burning waste not in accordance with the technical requirements for waste management.  Results of analysis showed that public participation in policy-local government on waste management in the Curup Tengah District, Kab. Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu was well with the average value of respondents' answers to the questionnaire was 3.83, Participation of the community by removing trash in places that have been prescribed or provided in the Curup Tengah District, Kab. Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu was well with the average value of respondents' answers to the questionnaire was 3.91, with community participation does not throw garbage in the open field in the Curup Tengah District, Kab. Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu was well with the average value of respondents' answers to the questionnaire is 3.77, and the participation of the community by not burning waste not in accordance with technical requirements for waste management in the Curup Tengah District, Kab. Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu was well with the average value of respondents' answers to the questionnaire was 3.69. This shows that the general public's Participation in the Waste Management at Curup Tengah District, Kab. Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu was well with the average value of the respondent's answer was 3.8.  Keywords: participation, community, garbage


Soundings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (74) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Bertie Russell

Although the end of 2019 will be remembered by many as a time of failure, the last few years have also been a time of hope. This article draws lessons from the internationalist municipalist movement, and frames these experiences through the concepts of autogestion and the Right to the City. Municipalist political strategies can provide a radical re-articulation of this hope: to argue for a municipalist politics is to argue for place-based strategies that transform our relationship to our territories, with a focus on making new forms of power emerge. It is not an alternative to national and international perspectives, but rather the development of new ways of acting on these perspectives. Establishing the difference between progressive local government policy and a municipalist agenda, the article concludes by offering five propositions for the development of a municipalist coordination in one British city - Manchester.


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