Explanatory trajectories: the level of administrative decentralization

2021 ◽  
pp. 264-284
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Decentralization

scholarly journals Entre la descentralización y la desconcentración de la gestión ambiental: alcances y límites en la actuación de consejos municipales de medio ambiente en el Semiárido Nordestino

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wagner José de Aguiar ◽  
Ricardo Augusto Pessoa Braga
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
Bibliographical Survey ◽  
Administrative Decentralization ◽  
Semi Arid ◽  
Analytical Reference

The Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 had an important role in the induction of political-administrative decentralization as in the elevation of municipalities as a federated entity. In environmental policy, these results have been expressed through the dissemination of municipal environmental councils. In the Northeast of Brazil, a region that has the fewest municipalities with established environmental councils and researches focused on their dynamics, new collegiate instances have been created, without a critical evaluation, among other factors, of the institutional capacity of small municipalities. In this sense, this article discusses the reaches and the limits identificated   in the perfomance of municipal councils of environment in the Northeastern Semiarid, taking as an analytical reference the logics of the decentralization and the desconcentration. Through a bibliographical survey and a case study carried out in the semi-arid municipalities of Pernambuco, it is possible to identify reaches but, above all, limits that hinder the deliberative autonomy of the councils, even in large and economically dynamic municipalities. New studies are suggested, considering the pioneering and new environmental councils, especially in the northeastern states that exhibit the lowest levels of environmental management instruments implemented.

The Paradox of Administrative Decentralization Reform in Young Asian Democracies: South Korea and Indonesia

World Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 181 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inhye Heo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Reform Policy ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Decentralization Reform ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Administrative Decentralization ◽  
Preventive Policy

It is generally perceived that administrative decentralization reform in young democracies is a promise to improve democracy from below. Yet, in terms of democratic development, the impact of this process is ambivalent, and can be described as a paradox of reform. This article argues that preemptive countermeasures that offset problems predicted to emerge as the reform proceeds should be formulated as part of the reform through introducing a preventive policy paradigm in the area of democratic reform policy. This is to alleviate or prevent the creation of the paradox and to contribute to democratic development through enhancing people’s satisfaction with the newly democratized government. To this end, this study examines administrative decentralization reform in South Korea and Indonesia and uncovers these reforms’ paradoxes. These two cases are particularly worthy of study, since their young democratic governments lack countermeasures against predictable reform problems, intensifying the paradox. I argue that the implications drawn from these two cases for methods of enhancing democratic development in other young democracies are worth heeding.

scholarly journals Shelf life: Identifying the abandonment of online digital humanities projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. i129-i134
Author(s):  
Luis Meneses ◽  
Richard Furuta
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Life ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Distributed Resources ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Administrative Control ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Administrative Decentralization

Abstract A large portion of the research carried out in the digital humanities has an online digital object (usually referred as a project) as one of its components. In turn, these online digital objects can be catalogued as distributed resources, which implies that the administrative control of information related to a topic may be spread across online resources and/or collections maintained by multiple scholars in different institutions. This administrative decentralization can lead to changes in content that are often unexpected by a researcher, which can be caused by different factors or circumstances. This reasoning led us to formulate the following question: When can online digital humanities projects be considered abandoned? In this article, we carry out a study on the persistence and average life span of online projects in the digital humanities. More specifically, we will elaborate on their reliance on distributed resources and methods for measuring their shelf life: the average length of time that a digital project can endure without updates until it can ultimately be considered abandoned by its researcher.

Ridley's Prefectoral Administrative Function and the Case of Environment Canada

1991 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-719
Author(s):  
M. Paul Brown
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Type ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Environment Canada ◽  
Regional Director ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
Type Concept ◽  
Administrative Decentralization ◽  
Administrative Theory ◽  
Regional Board

This study tests the relevance of Ridley's ideal-type concept of the prefectoral administrative function in a departmental setting in Canada. It follows the pursuit of administrative decentralization within Environment Canada, a complex department which has thus far introduced three prefectoral administrative mechanisms – a Regional Board, a Regional Director and a Committee of Regional Executives – for this purpose. The sliding scale of authority which Ridley associates with the prefectoral administrative function makes eminent sense of the Environment Canada experience. The wider analytical reach of Ridley's concept of the prefectoral administrative function, and hence the greater theoretical relevance of the system in administrative theory and practice, is confirmed.

scholarly journals Territorial Development – Managing for Sustainability in Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Osvaldo Martins ◽  
Arnoldo José De Hoyos Guevara ◽  
Diego De Melo Conti ◽  
Telma Gonçalves Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Territorial Unit ◽  
Administrative Decentralization

In this study, emphasis will be given to the challenge of the organizational management process within a development model that considers the territorial possibilities and necessities as a basis for the process of sustainable, endogenous development. The territorial unit considered in the study is the municipality, highlighting the existing possibility in Brazil of implanting a model of participatory management on taking into account the large number of small municipalities existing in the Country. The problematic of large cities is also analyzed, recognizing, however, the greater difficulty of articulation among the representative players of society, based on the exogenous forces engaging within these regions. In order to study the management process, the contexts that support the concept of sustainable development and the form of organizing the economic activities will be defined. In the discussion of management properly stated, emphasis will be given to administrative decentralization and to articulation, to planning process and to dissemination of information.

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