Giorgio Blundo, Jean-Pierre Oliver de Sardan, N. Bako Arifari and M. Tidjani Alou, Everyday Corruption and the State: citizens and public officials in Africa. London: Zed Books (pb £16.99- 1 84277 563 4; hb £55 - 1 84277 562 6)2006, 298 pp.

Africa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-610
Author(s):  
Laura Mann
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Public Officials

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF DECLARING PROPERTY, ASSETS AND PRIVATE INTERESTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Anna Tytko ◽  
Hanna Stepanova
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Control ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Private Interest ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Practical Implications

The aim of the article. To analyse the specificities of asset and private interest declaration by public officials and representatives of political power, as well as to suggest the author’s original differentiation of declarations of assets, income, private interests, and gifts. The subject of the study is the procedure for submitting declarations by persons entrusted with functions of the state and local self-government bodies in some countries of Western Europe. Methodology. In the article, the method of deduction and induction enabled to study the features of violating the requirements of financial control through the procedure for submitting a declaration by persons entrusted with functions of the state and local authorities. The methods of deduction and synthesis enabled to define the concept of “asset and interest declaration”, practiced in some countries of Western Europe. A comparative legal analysis enabled to study the procedure for submitting an income and expenditure declaration in some Western European countries, identifying the main types of conflict of interest and income declarations, as well as differentiating persons obliged to submit declarations. The results of the study revealed that the foreign experience of asset declaration is closely intertwined with the private interest declaration. Practical implications. In the study: first, the specificities of foreign declaration practice, according to the subjects of such declaration submission, are outlined; second, the procedures for submitting declarations of income and expenditures, as well as interests, are analysed and compared; third, the author’s perspective on the differentiation of declarations and declarants is substantiated. Relevance/originality. The comparative legal analysis enabled to study the procedure for submitting a declaration of public officials in some countries of Western Europe, empowering to form perspective areas of legislation development in this sphere.

Is Being Perceived as Sustainable a Means to Achieve a Differential Advantage?

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Avinash Kapoor ◽  
Chinmaya Kulshrestha
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Brand Promise

Sustainability has been a concern of activists, organizations, and public officials for several decades. The chapter discusses an important issue: whether consumers purchase sustainable products because they perceive them to be higher in quality or because it makes them feel good. Finally, it submits that the sustained efforts of the organizations can fulfill a brand promise dedicated to enhancing the lives of citizens in the state, nation, and world!

scholarly journals Decision Making at the State and Local Level: Does Science Matter?

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (01) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan G. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
State And Local

ABSTRACTScience is believed to be an important part of public policy decision making because of its inherent characteristics of measurability, rigor, objectivity, replication, and peer review. The purpose of this research was to explore the linkage of science to public policy decision making. The research explores what state and local public officials know about science and how much they actually use science in their decision making. Interview results with public officials in the State of Idaho demonstrate that policy makers ultimately see science as only one element in the mix. Findings suggest that equal attention and debate should be given to how science interacts with all of the other factors that affect the public policy making process.

scholarly journals Fighting Imagined Invasions with Administrative Violence.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-221
Author(s):  
José-María Arraiza ◽  
Phyu Zin Aye ◽  
Marina Arraiza Shakirova
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Citizenship Laws

Discriminatory policies have the capacity to create statelessness on a massive scale and the majority of stateless persons around the world belong to impoverished minority communities. The intentionality of such discrimination is guided by xenophobia, racism and particularly nativism: the belief that an internal minority with foreign connections is a threat to the nation. Hence, target communities are re-imagined as an enemy invader. This article analyses and compares how such ideologies have resulted in statelessness in the cases of Myanmar, the Dominican Republic and the State of Assam in India. These three scenarios have internal minorities (Rohingya in Myanmar, ethnic Haitians in Dominican Republic and Bengalis in India) that have been represented, based on kinship lines with neighbouring states, as enemy intruders by public officials and institutions. The authors compare how in the three scenarios nativist policies, the erosion of jus soli in citizenship laws and administrative violence have been used to ‘fight’ these imagined invasions and identify common trends

scholarly journals Legalność stosowania środków przymusu bezpośredniego w kontekście gwarancji konstytucyjnych Studium proceduralno-prawne

2018 ◽  
pp. 175-189
Author(s):  
Anita Kubanek
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Physical Force

State bodies have a right to resort to state compulsion, i.e. to a group of compulsion means which are an attribute of the state only. One of the most severe forms of state compulsion is direct compulsion which is applied predominantly by public officials in order to protect the rights and liberty of an individual and to ensure public safety. These means are designed to force a person to subordination to the commands based on law, which may entail the use of physical force. The purpose of this paper is to present the procedure and rules of using direct compulsion means and to discuss the level of legal interference in the individual’s rights and liberty.

scholarly journals Entre políticos y criminales: corrupción política en Colombia 2013-2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Pedro Piedrahita Bustamante ◽  
Ana Lucía Ponce
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Public Power ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
Relationship Of

Corruption is a crime that generates political hardships, particularly to the construction of the State and democracy. The latter, since it restricts the ability of institutions to promote the general welfare through the creation of secret powers that hinder the idea of democracy as a public power that performs before the public. Thus, political corruption creates a secret power, controlled by public officials and professional politicians who favor diverse criminal networks associated with other crimes; affecting like this the institutions and the principle of publicity in democracy. The objective of the research is to analyze political corruption in Colombia between 2013 and 2018 from the perspective of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC). For this purpose, to address political corruption as a transnational crime, it is necessary to overcome the phenomenon of the narcotization of crime and recognize that political corruption is also a relevant crime; which functions in a network and is associated with other criminal dynamics to seek economic benefits for the State or to affect it. The methodological approach was qualitative and, the phenomenological-hermeneutical method was used in the analysis of historical information collected since the 16th century that served as a context to establish the relationship of corruption with other crimes in the country and the different cases of corruption analyzed in the period of study. Only those cases that fit the analysis of transnational corruption, because of links to other networks are considered. It is evident that between 2013 and 2018 there were cases of political corruption with criminal links associated with drug trafficking, money laundering, and prostitution, among others. However, several of these facts do not seem to have the same informational relevance as typical cases of bribery, illegal campaign financing, or contracting cartels. This is understood as an opportunity to continue deepening these types of investigations.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP PIHAK PEMBELI MENGENAI PEMBUATAN SALINAN AKTA PENGIKATAN JUAL BELI YANG DIBUAT TANPA MINUTA AKTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riska Amalia Indahsari ◽  
Khansa Muafa ◽  
Ita Fattumah
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Criminal Sanctions ◽  
Legal Consequence ◽  
Legal Consequences

AbstractNotaries are public officials appointed by the State to carry out the duties of the State in legal services such as making authentic deeds. In carrying out its duties and responsibilities making authentic notarial deeds sometimes make mistakes that affect civil, administrative and criminal sanctions. If seen in Article 16 paragraph (1) letter b of the UUJN that minuta deed must be made and kept as part of the Notary protocol. The purpose of this research is to analyze the importance of a notary to make a certificate of minutes in making a copy of the deed. What is the juridical effect on the deed of minutes not owned by a Notary in making a copy of the deed, then what is the legal consequence for the Notary who did not make the deed of minutes in making a copy of the deed. This legal research is a normative legal research approach that is carried out is the statutory approach and conceptual approach. The legal consequences for the minutes of the deed not possessed by the Notary in making a copy of the deed will cause the deed to be null and void by law because it violates the formal aspects in making the deed and the Notary does not carry out any of the obligations contained in Article 16 paragraph (1) letter b of the UUJN. The legal consequences for the Notary will be given a sanction as a responsibility, namely civil, administrative and criminal sanctions.Keywords: notary obligation, minuta deed, copy deedAbstrakNotaris merupakan pejabat umum yang diangkat oleh Negara untuk melakukan tugas-tugas Negara dalam pelayanan hukum seperti membuat akta otentik. Dalam menjalankan tugas dan tanggung jawabnya  membuat akta otentik notaris terkadang melakukan kesalahan yang berdampak kepada sanksi perdata, aministratif dan pidana. Jika dilihat dalam Pasal 16 ayat (1) huruf b UUJN bahwa minuta akta wajib dibuat dan disimpan sebagai bagian dari protokol Notaris. Tujuan dari penilitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis pentingnya notaris untuk membuat minuta akta dalam pembuatan salinan aktanya. Bagaimana akibat yuridis terhadap minuta akta yang tidak dimiliki Notaris dalam pembuatan salinan aktanya, kemudian apa akibat hukum untuk Notaris yang tidak membuat minuta akta dalam pembuatan salinan aktanya. Penelitian hukum ini merupakan penelitian hukum normatif pendekatan yang dilakukan adalah pendekatan perundang-undangan dan pendekatan konseptual. Akibat hukum untuk minuta akta yang tidak dimiliki Notaris dalam pembuatan salinan aktanya akan menyebabkan akta tersebut batal demi hukum sebab melanggar aspek formil dalam pembuatan akta dan Notaris tidak melaksanakan salah satu kewajibannya yang ada di dalam Pasal 16 ayat (1) huruf b UUJN. Akibat hukum bagi Notaris nantinya akan diberikan  sanksi sebagai pertanggungjawabannya yaitu sanksi perdata, administratif dan pidana.Kata kunci: kewajiban notaris, minuta akta, salinan akta

State Responsibility for State Organized Crime

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henri Decoeur
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
The State ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
International Obligation

Chapter 2 discusses whether the involvement of senior public officials in organized crime may amount to an internationally wrongful act of the state. It shows that the conduct of state officials using the resources of the state to commit of facilitate the commission of organized criminal activities may in most cases be considered attributable to the state, discusses the situations in which the participation of the organs or agents of a state in organized crime may constitute a breach of an international obligation of the state, and outlines the conditions under which other states may be entitled to invoke the responsibility of a state involved in state organized crime where that state may be considered to have committed an internationally wrongful act.

scholarly journals The Role of Bureaucracy in Democratic Governance in Nigeria: Relevance and Evidence from Akwa Ibom State (1999-2017)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor E. Ita ◽  
David A. Titus
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
Reasonable Evidence ◽  
State Bureaucracy

The paper examined how bureaucracy, as the legitimate organ for the implementation of state policies and programmes, has enhanced democratic governance in Nigeria using Akwa Ibom State as a reference point. The paper attempted to analyze the interplay between the political concept of democracy and bureaucratic practice in the State. The basic assumption of the paper was that democratic governance can be enhanced through effective and efficient bureaucracy. Based on documentary analysis with a tinge of survey (interview) method, it was observed that bureaucracy in Akwa Ibom has shown reasonable evidence of involvement in the implementation of government policies and programmes towards the welfare of the citizenry in demonstration of good governance. Moreover, the paper noted that the State bureaucracy needed to be repositioned to tackle some negative tendencies such as poor attitude to work, improper postings and placement of employees to positions of responsibilities and corrupt practices among public officials. Given these findings, it was recommended, among others, that the principles of transparency, probity and accountability should be made paramount as a norm and in praxis within and without the State bureaucracy; that meritocracy should constitute the basis for recruitments/appointments and postings within the civil service. These would enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the bureaucracy towards democratic governance.

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