scholarly journals MEASURES FOR THE BETTER MANAGEMENT OF AWQAF

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Khalid Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Present State ◽  
State Control ◽  
Treasure Trove ◽  
Administrative Action ◽  
Administrative Policy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Condition Today

This article identifies six of such problematic issues which are globally confronting awqaf and hampering their utilization for the community’s betterment. These issues are: (1) An urgent need of conducting a survey of awqaf to determine their number, valuation, income, object, expenditure etc for devising an effective administrative policy. (2) Democratisation of waqf administration to allow muslim public participation to dilute the present state control. (3) To revisit the status of family awqaf and its pathetic condition today. (4) To search for alternatives to the colossal waste of waqf income on litigation. (5) The need to replace litigation with administrative action for the recovery of encroached properties. (6) To find ways of developing millions of dormant waqf properties, as this is the key to the treasure trove that remains untapped.

The Status of Sense Data

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
D.J. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Ambiguous Word ◽  
Sense Data ◽  
General Theme ◽  
The Status ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

In the present state of philosophy in the English-speaking world, to choose to talk about sense data may seem perverse. What could be more boring for one's audience than to attempt variations on so threadbare a theme? And worse, what could be more unfashionable in the aftermath of Wittgenstein and Austin? My reasons for selecting this unpromising topic are twofold. First, the general theme of this series of lectures is empiricism. And whatever meanings we put upon that ambiguous word, it is clear that as a matter of history the problems of perception have been important problems for nearly all those philosophers who would consider themselves to be empiricists. And however unsatisfactory sense datum theories of perception may now be held to be, such theories have been central to the empiricist tradition. Secondly, it is important not to be too much impressed by the fact that a particular philosophical opinion is fashionable or unfashionable. The former certainly does not guarantee its truth nor the latter its falsity. It has often been remarked that philosophical opinions are very rarely refuted. Instead they fall out of vogue only to return some years later in another guise. It is perhaps time to take another look at the notion of sense data. The most ingenious and persistent attacks on analyses of perception in terms of sense data have been at best indecisive, as Professor Ayer showed in his reply to Austin's Sense and Sensibilia.

Analytical study of crowdsourced GLAM digital repositories

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Dinesh K. Gupta ◽  
Veerbala Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
The Status ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out the status/levels of using crowdsourcing in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) around the globe and to give suggestions on how Indian GLAM can take the benefit of this global trend. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on the analytical study of the literature available on the embracing crowdsourcing for diverse tasks with special emphasis on the efforts of GLAM domain regarding the development of digital repositories. Findings Meticulous analysis of literature and case studies give an overview of the diverse practices of public participation/crowd collaboration in the development of digital repositories around the globe. However, Indian GLAM are far behind in adopting such practices. Practical implications With the rapid growth in digital information and Web-based technology, GLAM around the world encourage and engage public participation in various digitization projects to enrich and enhance their digital collections and place them on the Web. However, Indian GLAM still refrain to accept and adopt such practices. Thus, this paper will encourage and motivate the Indian GLAM to enrich and enhance their collection with crowd contribution and uploading them on Web. Originality/value This is an original paper and has great implementation value. During the study, enormous literature was available on crowd participation in various areas around the globe, as well as in India. International examples of crowd participation in GLAM creation are found in the literature; however, not sufficient evidences are found regarding crowd contribution in Indian GLAM. Hence, the paper, by presenting the evidences of crowd participation in GLAM domain, proposes the Indian GLAM to exploit the benefits of this practice for Indian digital repositories to expedite the creation and development of various national digital repositories.

An update on the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with description of seven new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4341 (4) ◽  
pp. 475 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. N. LOTZ
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Present State ◽  
Taxonomic Key ◽  
Afrotropical Region ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time

In this paper the present state of knowledge of the genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 from the Afrotropical region is discussed. The distribution of nine of the 16 described Afrotropical species of Loxosceles is updated and the status of the types of L. bergeri Strand, 1906b and L. pilosa Purcell, 1908 are discussed. A further four new species from South Africa: L. cederbergensis sp. nov.; L. dejagerae sp. nov.; L. haddadi sp. nov.; L. makapanensis sp. nov.; and three from Namibia: L. griffinae sp. nov.; L. irishi sp. nov.; and L. maraisi sp. nov., are described. The female of L. smithi Simon, 1897 is described for the first time. A new taxonomic key to all the Afrotropical species is given. 

Credible Governance? Transparency, Political Control, the Personal Vote and British Quangos

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Bertelli
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Strength Increase ◽  
Fire Alarm ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Administrative Policy ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
Governance Transparency

This article claims that special-purpose independent agencies such as quangos provide an avenue for understanding the ‘personal vote’ and political control of administrative policy making in Britain. Quangos make policies that directly influence particularistic concerns in an MP's constituency, generating incentives for MPs to meddle with their independence in order to capture the personal vote. A division of labor within the governing party relies on back-bench MPs to sound ‘fire alarms’ when their constituents find fault with quango activities. Once the alarms are sounded, the government has the incentive to manipulate quangos' independence, for example, by making their decision making transparent to provide information for the fire alarm mechanism in the future. This manipulation draws from the government's stock of political capital gained from a supportive electorate. Statistical analysis of transparency in British executive non-departmental public bodies from 2002 to 2005 suggests that increases in back-bench salience (personal vote) and public satisfaction with government (government strength) increase the transparency by which quangos make decisions, thus decreasing their independence. Public satisfaction with the status quo of public service provision, by contrast, decreases transparency, increasing independence. These results suggest that far from being fully independent, quasi-governmental organizations are subject to political control.

scholarly journals Democracy, Complexity and Participation

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Patrick O’Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
The Status ◽  
The 1960S

The contemporary crisis of democratic governance, heralded in opposing political philosophies since the 1960s, carries on into the present. One response is simply to maintain the procedural core of a liberal-pluralist model of democracy. The essay, drawing inspiration from ideas of responsibility emerging from the civil societal periphery, instead follows more radical democratic models in proposing that the status and role of public participation, and with it deliberative democracy, should be rethought. The paper concludes with some reflections on the empirical-theoretical implications for social and political theory.

scholarly journals Administrative-legal regulation of proactive forms of public administration: current state and prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Artem Vladimirovich Mazein
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Municipal Services ◽  
State Control ◽  
Administrative Action ◽  
Current State ◽  
Domestic Practice

This article examines the legal regulation of proactive form of exercising administrative activity. In the domestic practice, proactive activity became widespread in 2019–2020. Leaning on the analysis of scientific literature, the author underlines that the content of the principle of proactivity, defined in the existing normative legal acts, reflects the well-known scientific approaches. As a result of the content analysis of normative legal acts, the conclusion is drawn that the principle of proactivity is currently applied in the spheres of social security, public health, tax administration, and state control. The author offers to extend application of the principle of proactivity to the spheres of enforcement of public order, uninterrupted supply of public utilities, and road management. The article summarizes the provisions of legal acts that regulate proactive administrative activity and proposes the structure of elements of its legal consolidation. Among the elements that should be defined by law, the author suggests to include the subjects and objects of activity, as well as the content of administrative action, including technologies and instruments that ensure proactive administrative impact. The normative legal acts that may establish the corresponding elements are the administrative regulations for ensuring state (municipal) services. At the time of carrying out the research, out of 103,000 administrative regulations effective on the regional and municipal levels, only 575 ( 0.6%) indicate the ability or inability of proactive rendering of services. The conclusion is made that in the future the number of such legal acts would increase.

scholarly journals Strategic environmental assessment as an instrument for enhacement of public participation in planning

Spatium ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 72-76
Author(s):  
Tijana Crncevic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Legal Obligation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Way

The paper presents an overview of experiences of public participation within planning, summarized in the "ladder of citizen participation". Further, considering that Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is seen as an instrument for operationalizing the sustainable development strategy, the stress is on the place, role and scope of public participation in SEA within planning. Special attention is given to the status of SEA regarding public participation in planning in Serbia. One of the conclusions of the paper is that by introduction of the "Plan for public participation" as a legal obligation, it could be the way for operationalizing pubic participation and further, enhancement of participation in planning. .

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