scholarly journals Dynamics of Contention in the Gig Economy: Rage Against the Platform, Customer, or State?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Wood ◽  
Nicholas Martindale ◽  
Vili Lehdonvirta
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
European Survey ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Perceived Costs

Protest in the gig economy has taken many forms and targets (platforms, customers, and state officials). However, researchers are yet to adequately account for this diversity. We use a European survey of Upwork and PeoplePerHour platform workers in the remote gig economy to investigate worker orientation towards different forms of protest. Results reveal that worker anger, dependence, and digital communication shape contention in the remote gig economy. Support for collective organisation is associated not only with anger at platforms but also workers’ dependence on the platform and communication with other workers. Whereas individual action against clients is associated only with anger and communication but not communication and support for state regulation is associated only with anger but not dependence or communication. We conclude that despite the novelty of these emergent social relations, the relational approach entailed by Mobilisation Theory can aid explanation of contention in the gig economy by shedding light on the dynamic process by which solidarity and dependence alter the perceived costs and benefits of particular remedies to injustice

PRINCIPLES OF STATE REGULATION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF BODIES OF THE STATE EXECUTIVE SERVICE AND PRIVATE EXECUTORS

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Mariіa Konstantinovna Kulava
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Executive System ◽  
The Right

Within the presented article, taking into account already existing achievements of scientists, the concept, the main features of the principles of state administration of the executive system of Ukraine are defined. The principles of activity of executive bodies bodies according to the current legislation of Ukraine are determined. A brief description of the principles is presented, namely: the rule of law, legality, compulsory, independence, justice, impartiality and objectivity, discretion, transparency and openness of executive proceedings and its fixation by technical means, the reasonableness of the time limits for enforcement proceedings, the proportionality of enforcement measures and the amount of claims for decisions, the right to appeal decisions, actions or omissions of state executives, private performers. It is established that in general the principles of executive proceedings in the investigated normative acts are duplicated, in addition to the principles of independence and the right to appeal decisions, actions or inaction of state executives, private performers. The actual vision of the principles of public administration of the executive system of Ukraine is determined. The opinion on the need to supplement the list of principles with the following: the principle of equal competition between state and private performers through the balance between them; the principle of responsibility of the executive system bodies, their officials and private executors for damage caused as a result of violations of regulatory requirements; the principle of introducing effective incentives for voluntary implementation of decisions; the principle of professionalism and competence. Also, within the submitted article, it is stated that the use of the terms “principles” and “principles” in the Laws of Ukraine “On Bodies and Officials Performing Enforcement of Court Decisions and Decisions of Other Bodies”, “On Enforcement Proceedings”, which are adopted simultaneously and regulated, are unjustified, identical social relations.

Why Municipal Cooperation Matters

2016 ◽  
pp. 140-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipe Teles ◽  
Pekka Kettunen
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Negative Side Effects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Perceived Costs

It is a common phenomenon that municipalities cooperate with each other. Cooperation eventually brings about the gains of efficiency or makes it possible to deliver services. We can however assume that cooperation may also fail, cause unwarranted negative side-effects and diminish the democratic capacity of the participating municipalities. The aim of this paper is to present the literature and available scholarship on the topic, and discuss the research agenda on inter-municipal cooperation, especially through the analysis of its scope, motivations, and perceived costs and benefits. The approach to the problem will be based in multidisciplinary contributions of existing research, which involves theoretical arguments related to the advantages of cooperation, the impact on democracy and accountability, as well as the discussion of public vs private provision of services. The conclusions should enable a serious reflection about Inter-Municipal Cooperation state of the art.

scholarly journals Do costs and benefits of children matter for religious people? Perceived consequences of parenthood and fertility intentions in Poland

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Christoph Bein ◽  
Monika Mynarska ◽  
Anne H. Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Intentions ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Childbearing Age ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
Perceived Consequences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Perceived Costs

Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the positive relationship between religiosity and fertility from the perspective of perceived consequences of parenthood. Previous studies in Germany have found that highly religious people ascribe higher benefits and lower costs to having children. Furthermore, the impact of costs and benefits on fertility is less pronounced among the highly religious. This study tested these mechanisms for fertility intentions and in the context of Poland – a country with a low fertility rate and high religiosity in comparison to other European countries. A sample of 4892 men and women of childbearing age from the second wave of the Polish version of the Generations and Gender Survey conducted in 2014/2015 was used. First, the extent to which perceived costs and benefits mediate the impact of religiosity on fertility intentions was analysed. Second, whether religiosity moderates the impact of perceived costs and benefits on fertility intentions was investigated. The results show that part of the positive effect of religiosity on fertility intentions can be explained by more-religious people seeing higher benefits of having children. Furthermore, but only in the case of women, religiosity moderates the impact of perceived costs on fertility intentions, suggesting that the effect of perceived costs decreases with increasing religiosity.

scholarly journals Food preferences determine human–elephant coexistence in African woodlands

Oryx ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
María Montero-Botey ◽  
Alfonso San Miguel ◽  
Ramón Perea
Keyword(s):  
Water Availability ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Loxodonta Africana ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Crop Damage ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Sweet Potatoes ◽  
Crop Types ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Perceived Costs

Abstract Human–elephant coexistence remains a major conservation and livelihood challenge across elephant Loxodonta africana range in Africa. This study investigates the extent of elephant crop damage on 66 farms in the Selous–Niassa corridor (Tanzania), to search for potential management solutions to this problem. We found that the relative abundance of highly preferred crops (area covered by preferred crops divided by the total area of each farm) was by far the most important factor determining crop damage by elephants. Eighteen crop types were ranked according to their preference by elephants. Sweet potatoes, bananas, peanuts, onions, pumpkins and maize were the most preferred crops, with maize the most common crop among those highly preferred. On average elephants damaged 25.7% of the cultivated farmland they entered. A beta regression model suggests that a reduction in the cultivation of preferred crops from 75 to 25% of the farmland area decreases elephant crop damage by 64%. Water availability (distance to the nearest waterhole) and the presence of private investors (mostly hunting tourism companies) were of lower importance in determining elephant crop damage. Thus, damage by elephants increased with shorter distances to waterholes and decreased in areas with private investors. However, further studies are required, particularly of the perceived costs and benefits of elephants to local communities. Farm aggregation and the use of non-preferred crops that also require less water would potentially reduce elephant damage but would be a major lifestyle change for some local communities.

U.S. Policy toward Foreign Direct Investment

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Kudrle ◽  
Davis B. Bobrow
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Capacity ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Process Factors ◽  
Perceived Costs

Foreign investment policy is an increasingly important part of overall foreign policy. The authors investigate the substance of U.S. outgoing foreign direct investment (OFDI) and incoming foreign direct investment (IFDI) policy in terms of a small set of policy values and process factors. The policy values are domestic prosperity, national autonomy, and national security. The process factors are ideological consonance, impact transparency, the diffusion and concentration of perceived costs and benefits, and the political capacity of groups and institutions. These considerations illuminate the relative stability in both areas of policy since World War II, and help to explain the changes that did take place. The paper concludes with a forecast that, despite the oft-heard prediction that economic nationalism is on the increase, U.S. policies toward foreign investment will remain much the same during the eighties as they have been Since World War II.

scholarly journals Pig Farmers' Perceptions of Economic Incentives to Control Salmonella Prevalence at Herd Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Vesterlund Olsen ◽  
Tove Christensen ◽  
Jørgen Dejgaard Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Herd Level ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Farmer Behavior ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
Net Benefits ◽  
Perceived Costs

This paper investigates how perceived costs and benefits of Salmonella control among Danish pig farmers affect the farmers' choice of action toward reducing the prevalence of Salmonella in their herds. Based on data from an online questionnaire involving 163 Danish pig farmers, we find a considerable uncertainty among pig farmers about the perceived effects of the Salmonella reducing actions. The results indicate large variations in the perceived costs of implementing different types of Salmonella reducing actions (management-, hygiene- and feed-related). For some cases, farmers associate net benefits and positive productivity effects with implementation of the actions while studies by the industry indicate net costs to the farmers. Differences among farmers support the idea of an outcome-based Salmonella penalty scheme but the large uncertainties about costs and effects of actions toward Salmonella control might hamper the effectiveness of such a penalty scheme as a regulatory instrument to affect farmer behavior.

scholarly journals Legal Regulation, Legal Impact, and Legal Support: An Index of Indeterminacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Onishchenko N. M.
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Legal Security

Introduction. One of the tasks of the general theory of law is the development of a categorical-conceptual apparatus. All the more, so when it comes to mutually consistent and mutually evolving categories. In our case it is “legal regulation”, “legal influence” and “legal support”. It is clear, that these categories are not synonymous, but it is also clear that they are interdependent in the context of the current regulatory processes. The aim of the article. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the correlation of the categories of “legal regulation”, “legal influence” and “legal support”, to point out their non-identical, but interrelated nature. Results. Modern law in a democratic state is not only directly regulating certain social relations, by fixing in the norms their specific patterns of behavior, rights and obligations of their participants, etc., but also influences their further development, to a certain extent determines the trends of their evolution in the future, thereby ensuring the interests of the subjects of law and the possibility of foreseeing their prospects for their further activity. Legal regulation can be characterized as a special formalized method of state regulation of actions of legal entities in order to direct their behavior in accordance with the interests of citizens, society and the state, it requires a comprehensive study of the relevant constituents in their inseparable interaction, that is, as a coherent system, consisting of certain links that interact and each of them follows from the previous one. Any regulation at the same time is, certainly, a certain influence, but not any influence is a regulation, normalization of social life. Legal influence can be characterized as comprehensive and multifaceted (psychological, state-willed, formal, regulatory, etc.) action of law, and legal regulation is a special action of law, which differs in form and content, which is exercised through the subjective rights and obligations of the subjects of law acting as subjects of specific legal relations. The essence of the category “legal security” must be considered in view of the meaning of the term “security”, the multidimensional meaning of which organically follows from the verb “to provide”, that is, to provide sufficient means for something, to make something real workable, to create the necessary conditions for the implementation of something, to guarantee something. Legal support can be seen as a process that guarantees the effective fulfillment of the objectives of legal regulation; legal support includes not only the relevant legal components, but also specific social factors, circumstances, processes, etc., which mediate the effect of legal rules and constitute a link between law and certain social relations. Conclusions. Legal support includes: 1) legal regulation; 2) legal influence; 3) a set of measures and guarantees that ensure the reality and effectiveness of the implementation of legal rules. Legal support includes a certain set of phenomena accompanying it, which give legal regulation quality of real efficiency, achievement of the last socially useful and significant results. Legal support is impossible without legal regulation and legal influence, which are its original prerequisites or bases. However, legal regulation and legal influence often take place outside the context of legal support (for example, when formally certain relationships are regulated by law, but there is no effectiveness of legal regulation, so the socially beneficial effect to which it was directed is not achieved).

scholarly journals DOMINANTS OF DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCTION OF HUMAN CAPITAL AS A STRATEGIC COMPONENT OF CHANGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Nadiia Benko
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Capital Development

The subject of the study is the conceptual, theoretical, methodological and applied provisions of state regulation of development and reproduction of human capital for the national economic system management. Methodology. General scientific methods were used in the research process. The method of comparison was used for generalizing the approaches of different researchers on the main dominants of development and reproduction of human capital. Analysis was used to determine the quantitative and qualitative parameters of the dominants of human capital. Syn-thesis was used to determine the methodological principles of labour market regula-tion and human capital development. Induction and deduction were used for deter-mining approaches to the main dominants of human capital. The aim of the article is to generalize various approaches to the main dominants of development and reproduction of human capital on different bases and purposes, to develop a modern theoretical basis for the development of human capital in the country’s economy. The results of the study have shown that to ensure the effectiveness of state regulation of the development and reproduction of human capital, it is necessary to create an appropriate social environment and conditions that promote the fullest use of knowledge and intellectual, creative potential of individuals. Conclusion. The composition of the bases and goals of the dominants of development and reproduction of human capital in Ukraine, in contrast to the existing one, should include labour market regulation policy, national model of combating unemployment, working capacity, cost of human capital and human development index. This will ensure investment, development and human capital management in Ukraine. Analysis of the methodological principles of labor market regulation and human capital development of the European Union and Ukraine, and problems of human capital development in Ukraine allowed us to conclude that they differ significantly. Their difference is explained by different levels of economic and social situation of countries and other factors, in particular the low speed of dissemination and implementation of progressive results of investment in education and science. The practical significance lies in increasing the scientific substantiation of theoretical provisions and practical measures to ensure the mechanism of state regulation of development and reproduction of human capital is in accordance with transformational changes in social relations and market conditions, processes of globalization.

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