scholarly journals The Triad of Governance, Devolution, and National Prosperity

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (4II) ◽  
pp. 629-640
Author(s):  
Syed Tanwir Husain Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
The State ◽  
Durable Good ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
National Reconstruction

I am privileged to have the opportunity to speak to this august audience of distinguished development economists very briefly, on what I have called the ‘Triad of Governance, Devolution and National Prosperity’. This, triad, I believe, lies at the heart of what constitutes the theme of this conference, namely ‘Institutional Change, Growth and Poverty’. The National Reconstruction Bureau which I was privileged to create and lead for all the three years of General Musharraf’s tenure as Chief Executive of Pakistan, was meant to transtate into reality the vision we crystallised for addressing the persistent failure of the institutions of state to provide solutions to the ever growing political, administrative, financial, judicial and social problems that the people of Pakistan faced since independence. The vision was ‘Reconstruction of the Institutions of State for Establishing Genuine and Sustainable Democracy to ensure Durable Good Governance for an Irreversible Transfer of Power to the People of Pakistan as soon as possible’. I will first give you a fleeting birds eye view of the wide spectrum over which our National Reconstruction endeavour in pursuit of this vision was spread. In the second part of this talk, which will contain the core of what I want to put across today, I will talk about financial devolution of the state. The third part of my talk will deal briefly with the burning issue of what we should do for turning our common citizens’ poverty into prosperity.

scholarly journals Governance, Violence and the Challenge of Internal Security in Rivers State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Destiny Eze Agwanwo ◽  
Ibrahim Bello
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Rivers State

Governance, the world over, has become the main framework for assessing the effective utilization of human and material resources for the development of a nation or an organization. This paper explores the link between governance failure, violence and its implication for internal security in Rivers State. The level of violence in the state is high and increasing particularly since 1999 when the nation returned to civil rule. Violence such as inter and intra communal conflicts, cult violence, armed robbery, kidnapping, political violence among others, now writ large in the state. The study utilized the qualitative and content analysis. The paper reveals that the pervasive nature of violence with negative effect on the internal security is the fall out of the failure of the governance in the state. The paper recommends, among other things that, good governance is a tool for empowering the people, which in turn, will reduce unemployment, poverty, marginalization and the recourse to violent aggression in the state.

Government, Governance and Good Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ninad Shankar Nag
Keyword(s):  
Open Economy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Legitimate Authority ◽  
Universal Model ◽  
Local Constraints ◽  
The People ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
The Government

It is proposed that government, being the tangible expression of the legitimate authority within an organised society, has undegone a long transformational journey since its very emergence. The various evolutionary forms and features of the government have been the product of its meaningful and viable responses to the changing expectations of the people as well as to the challenges they faced in an ever-changing environment. The exclusive domain of the state over the period became a shared space with inclusion of other actors and stakeholders, and an era of governance was ushered in since the 1980s. The much celebrated success of the liberal democracy and its market-led open economy heralded as an era of good governance. However, the universal model of good governance fails to take into account the local constraints of a society. Thus, the idea of good governance has to face various types of challenges in the developing as well as underdeveloped societies.

scholarly journals “The Soldier's Wife Who Ran Away with the Russian”: Sexual Infidelities in World War I Germany

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Todd
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Court Records ◽  
The Third ◽  
Immoral Behavior ◽  
The People ◽  
The Common

In May 1917 twenty-seven residents of Landau (Württemberg) sent a long petition to the German Reichstag. The group, which included doctors, pastors, teachers, and industrialists, demanded that the state put an end to the “immoral” behavior of women who had romantic relationships with foreign prisoners of war. The petition included more than one hundred examples of such affairs, gleaned from newspapers, court records, and eyewitness accounts. The petitioners lamented the “sinking morality” of the countryside and the damaged reputation of German women. They also had more immediate concerns. These affairs were threatening the happiness of families, “complicating” the feeding of the nation, weakening the strength of the people, and heightening the fear of espionage. The petitioners went on to warn the Reichstag deputies that “good German citizens are full of anger at such events,” and that the common person's “sense of sacrifice” was dwindling now, in the third year of the war.

scholarly journals EXECUTIVE/LEGISLATIVE RELATIONSHIP IN BAYELSA STATE UNDER GOVERNOR HENRY SERIAKE DICKSON’S ADMINISTRATION: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

2015 ◽  
pp. 318-329
Author(s):  
Okoko Sinizibe ◽  
Frank Ogbomah ◽  
Kakatei Juanita
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
The People ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions

The administration of any democratic state revolves around the three constitutionally recognized arms of government; the legislature, executive and the judiciary. Their relationship is very important for the actualization of the goals of the state. However, this relationship is more pronounced between the executive and the legislature as both appear to belong to political parties and are elected by the electorates. Executive/legislative relationship most times appears conflictual and in some cases cooperative. The study examines the executive/legislative relationship in Bayelsa State to determine the nature and the issues and challenges in their relationship during Henry Seriake Dickson administration. To achieve the objective of the study, two research questions were formulated to guide the study. System theory was used as framework for analysis. The study draws its arguments basically from secondary source hence content analysis research design was used to analyze the secondary data. The findings revealed that the executive dominated the legislature in their relationship under Henry Seriake Dickson’s administration which weakened the ability of the legislators to effectively perform their duties as the representatives of the people. It was also revealed that the unprofessional and inexperience of the legislators also affected their ability to effectively perform their duties which affected the social, economic and political development of the state. In the light of the above, the study recommends amongst others that the legislature should wake up to their responsibility as the watchdog of the executive and effectively monitor the activities of the executive in order to ensure good governance in Bayelsa State. More experienced people should be elected to the legislature to curtail the excesses and the continued dominance of the executive on the legislature and other institutions of government.

scholarly journals Future Direction of Korean Defense Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Jongsoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Defense Policy ◽  
National Defense ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Expectation Effect

The article is organized as follows. The first clarifies research questions, the purpose of study and methodology about Ori’s national defense policy analysis. Japanese invasion of Korea happened in 1952(壬辰倭亂) & 1597(丁酉再亂). The second deals with methods of study, literature review, previous research and theoretical background of Ori’s national defense policy analysis. The third presents cases of national defense policy implementation of Ori’s national defense policy analysis. The forth shows the effect storytelling of Ori’s national defense policy analysis. The core of Ori’s national defense policy are the people & nation, and imperturbable mind. The last concluded research effect & limitations for fostering Ori’s national defense policy analysis and that there are few alternativesof national defense policy, imperturbable Mind(不動心), Ori storytelling and some suggestion & expectation effect, so forth.

scholarly journals DASAR WAJIB MEMATUHI UNDANG-UNDANG PERKAWINAN (UUP): STUDI PEMIKIRAN MUHAMMAD ‘ABDUH

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Khoiruddin Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Legal Thinking ◽  
The Government

One reason why the Marriage Law (UUP) is not obeyed is related to the status of compliance. According to the majority of Muslims, the status of obeying the contents of the UUP is related to and is a matter of the State, not related to the legality of religion, not related to the validity of marriage. Instead Muhammad 'Abduh is a thinker who believes that obeying the UUP is part of an obedient obligation to the government (uli al-amr), the same status as being obliged to obey Allah and His messengers, as required in al-Nisa' (4): 59 and 83. Thus, obeying the UUP is part of implementing compliance with the government. So obeying UUP is an obligation for every Muslim. Likewise, the UUP as a decision of people's representatives is an expression of the agreement of all the people. The people are represented by people who are elected by the people (people's representatives), because to gather all the people, at present, is impossible. So the decision of the people's representatives is positioned as the decision of all the people. The decision of the people's representatives for now becomes ijmâ ‘, the third source of Islamic law after the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad SAW. The final basis stipulates the obligation to obey the Marriage Law, compared to fiqh, fatwa, interpretation, and jurisprudence, as a product of Islamic legal thinking, the UUP occupies the most authoritative and comprehensive position, because the UUP is the result of the minds of many scholars and expertise. This paper tries to explain the concept of ‘Abduh.

scholarly journals ASURANSI SYARIAH SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF INVESTASI

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Humaeroh Humaeroh
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
General Fund ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Muslim Intellectuals ◽  
Protection Property

Insurance takes the leading sectors in modern economic world. Most economic theorists argue that the core of insurance is formed on eliminating uncertain risk of loss for a group of people facing similar problems, and paying premiums on a general fund that is a compensation of losses caused by any member and all risks do not get the same costs in insurance. The Uncertaintychance and speculation caused a reaction among religious scholars and Muslim intellectuals. The beginning of Sharia insurance in Indonesia is a phenomenon that should be raised, in view of theinsurance development in the country isgenerally still under the progress achieved in other countries, especially the ratio of Muslims populationin Indonesia with the number of policyholders are still less balanced. Awareness of the importance of insurance for the people of Indonesia is not evenly distributed. They still think that saving in the bank is much more secure than being an insurance participant.Lack of socialization about insurance by the state and insurance institutions is one of the factors of infamous insurance that can provide life protection, property protection, health protection, protection of education, protection of old age and so forth..

scholarly journals Scaling the State: Egypt in the Third Millennium BC

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bussmann
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
Central Administration ◽  
Local Models ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Third Millennium Bc ◽  
The Relationship

Discussions of the early Egyptian state suffer from a weak consideration of scale. Egyptian archaeologists derive their arguments primarily from evidence of court cemeteries, elite tombs, and monuments of royal display. The material informs the analysis of kingship, early writing, and administration but it remains obscure how the core of the early Pharaonic state was embedded in the territory it claimed to administer. This paper suggests that the relationship between centre and hinterland is key for scaling the Egyptian state of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2,700-2,200 BC). Initially, central administration imagines Egypt using models at variance with provincial practice. The end of the Old Kingdom demarcates not the collapse, but the beginning of a large-scale state characterized by the coalescence of central and local models.

scholarly journals CIVIL SOCIETY DI INDONESIA: SUATU KONSEKUENSI LOGIS TERWUJUDNYA GOOD GOVERNANCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Adriani Adnani
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
State Government ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Logical Consequence ◽  
The State ◽  
The People ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
Government Bureaucracy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Community Cooperation

Civil society is one of the three important sectors of society, along with government and business. Civil society is one of the important elements of the democratization process in Indonesia. In accordance with the problems formulated above, the purposes of this discussion are to find out the description of civil society in Indonesia, and to find out efforts to strengthen civil society as a logical consequence of the realization of Good Governance in Indonesia. The development of civil society involves all aspects and dimensions of life. Therefore, efforts and commitment are needed to strengthen the community. Cooperation is needed because no party, organization, institution or anything even the government can carry it out alone. The relationship between civil society and good governance is symmetrical between the two. This is because the two concepts were born from the concept of democracy that upholds the values of justice, freedom, individual and group rights. Furthermore, democracy requires the state in carrying out its activities to be open to the public. Strengthening civil society in the flow of democracy must be realized as an absolute necessity for the implementation of a 'strong' and 'clean' government. The weakness of civil society in Indonesia is marked by widespread rejections of state/government policies by the people and these rejections have not received a meaningful response from the state/government. In the process of determining policies, the government bureaucracy still feels that citizens are used as objects of policy. This kind of narrow view will make the government anti-suggestions from citizens in determining policies.

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