The scandal of intermediary: acknowledging the bothand dispensation for regulating hybrid actors

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-174
Author(s):  
Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon ◽  
Robert Thorburn
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Actors

Budgetary control of Australian police services and the new governance of security

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Dupont
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Police Services ◽  
New Public ◽  
Budgetary Control ◽  
Hybrid Actors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Police Activity

Through the example of the Australian police services, this article examines the impact of the New Public Management tools on strengthening administrative accountability. Governments, faced with increasing social demand for security, have launched into political auctions on the themes of police activity and social control. Relationships between the authorities and the police administrators have been redefined, mainly through more rigorous budgetary control. After a rapid examination of the administrative context that led to the implementation of programme budgeting — the main government tool in this area — the article examines the tensions that resulted from its introduction. Particular emphasis is placed upon the limitations of such a tool in the field of security, which is undergoing profound reconfiguration as a result of increasingly frequent cooperation between public, private and hybrid actors.

scholarly journals Coexistence of Cooperative Models as Structural Answer to Lock-Ins in Diversification Pathways: The Case of the Walloon Dairy Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique De Herde ◽  
Philippe V. Baret ◽  
Kevin Maréchal
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Dairy Cooperatives ◽  
The One ◽  
Hybrid Actors ◽  
Cooperative Models

Drawing on an analysis of the Walloon dairy sector, this paper aims at bringing novel insights on the coexistence issue in agrifood transition studies. Whereas most studies explore the coexistence of farm models, our study focuses on value chains, in particular on cooperatives. In the Walloon Region, new dairy cooperatives emerged, as substitute or as complement to the incumbent vertically integrated dairy cooperatives. This paper focuses on the coexistence of dairy cooperative models as enabler of transition toward product diversification. Dairy cooperatives are hybrid actors: economic agents on the market on the one hand, structure of collective agency on the other hand. Williamson's framework of New Institutional Economics acknowledges that the allocation of resources by cooperatives depends on governance processes and on the wider institutional context in which the cooperatives evolve. Within the broader frame of the Multi-Level Perspective, this approach allows to consider the socio-technical coherence in which the cooperatives evolve, the effects of this coherence on their pathways of development, and the complementarity of the cooperative models. This qualitative analysis builds on semi-directed interviews with actors of the Walloon dairy sector. The results outline distinctions between the new cooperative models and mainstream dairy cooperatives in market approach, definition of milk quality, distribution of added value, governance, and interactions with partners. Both models evolve within a distinct socio-technical coherence, holding, in the case of the mainstream dairy cooperatives, lock-ins to diversification related to the relationship with the farmer-members and the milk they produce in the industrial vertically integrated model. The new cooperative models circumvent these lock-ins through de-integration and externalization of initiatives, remuneration, and risk. They allow specific groups of actors—still related or unrelated to the mainstream dairy cooperative—to explore new market pathways in accordance with their potential, and to mutually agree on criteria qualifying milk. This research draws the picture of a possible reconfiguration of the dairy landscape toward a more diversified ecosystem of actors and invites to consider structures of governance in collective action as a cornerstone issue, because of their significant role in terms of enablement, coexistence, and complementarity throughout the transition process.

System innovations in the making: hybrid actors and the challenge of up-scaling

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirkku Kivisaari ◽  
Eveliina Saari ◽  
Juhani Lehto ◽  
Lauri Kokkinen ◽  
Niilo Saranummi
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Actors ◽  
Up Scaling

scholarly journals Atsakomybės subjekto steigtis technikos amžiuje: Hansas Jonas ir Bruno Latouras

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Danutė Bacevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Hans Jonas ◽  
Collective Control ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Hybrid Actors ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Perspectives

This article opposes the attempts to marginalize ethical issues and defend the thesis of technosphere as an autonomous phenomenon in the Anthropocene. The author points out that by evading the question of ethical perspective and responsibility, the technological activity and its trace are naturalised, and any ethical decision is therefore turned into a technical decision. The comparison of the positions of two philosophers of technology (Hans Jonas and Bruno Latour) enables us to reflect on how technology mediates the constitution of the subject of responsibility in the tension of global and local perspectives. The article shows that Jonas’ “heuristics of fear” leads to the conscious practice of asceticism and the collective control of technical power, while Latour leaves open a possibility of talking about the shared action of a multitude of hybrid actors, in which both the ethical solution is already “contaminated” with the technical and the technical solution retains the trace of the ethical. By using the example of the reverse vending machine, it is shown how ethical motivation is inscribed into technical media, which uses the technological accumulation to link global and local perspectives for environmental purposes.

scholarly journals PREDSTAVITEV MODELA ZA PREPOZNAVANJE HIBRIDNIH GROŽENJ

2018 ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
DAVID STONIČ
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Security System ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The North ◽  
Hybrid Threats ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Hybrid Actors ◽  
Output Information

Povzetek V spremenjenem varnostnem okolju moramo razviti ustrezne koncepte in orodja za pravočasno prepoznavanje in opredelitev hibridnih groženj, da bi se lahko uspešno odzvali. Oblikovali smo model, ki grožnje poveže z akterjem. Ovrednoteni obveščevalni podatki so vstopne informacije v izdelan model za ocenjevanje hibridne ogroženosti nacionalne varnosti. Izhodna informacija je identificirana hibridna grožnja. Ob izpolnitvi pogoja hibridne ogroženosti lahko nacionalnovarnostni sistem začne izvajati ukrepe, ki bi zmanjšali zmožnosti delovanja hibridnega akterja. Zavedanje o obstoju hibridnih groženj in njihovo identificiranje bo spodbudilo odločevalce v nacionalnovarnostnem sistemu, da bodo zagotovili ustrezno hibridno odpornost države, saj je primarna odgovornost za spoprijemanje s hibridnimi grožnjami predvsem odgovornost države. Nujen je celostni vladni pristop v povezavi z Evropsko unijo in Severnoatlantskim zavezništvom. Ključne besede: hibridne grožnje, indikatorji konvencionalnega ogrožanja, indikatorji nekonvencionalnega ogrožanja. Abstract In the changed security environment, we have to be able to develop appropriate concepts and tools for timely identification and definition of hybrid threats. We have developed a model, which relates threats with actors. The evaluated intelligence then serves as input information for the national security hybrid threat evaluation model. The output information is an identified hybrid threat. When a hybrid threat is identified, the national security system can take adequate measures to hinder the operational ability of hybrid actors. The awareness of hybrid threats and their identification will encourage decision makers in the national security system to ensure adequate hybrid resilience of the country, since countering hybrid threats is a state’s primary responsibility, which requires a comprehensive governmental approach in cooperation with the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance. Key words: Hybrid threats, conventional threat indicators, unconventional threat indicators

Hybrid Actors, Tactical Variety: Rethinking Asymmetric and Hybrid War

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 862-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Schroefl ◽  
Stuart J. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid War ◽  
Hybrid Actors

scholarly journals Admission Control in Home Energy Management Systems Using Theatre and Hybrid Actors

Modelling ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-307
Author(s):  
Franco Cicirelli ◽  
Libero Nigro
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Admission Control ◽  
Timed Automata ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Actor Model ◽  
Cumulative Energy ◽  
Home Energy Management ◽  
Hybrid Actors

The goal of a Home Energy Management System (HEMS) is that of purposely shaping the cumulative energy consumption curves of domestic appliances by imposing suitable monitoring and control policies. The development of HEMS, like the development of general Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), is challenging, as it requires the exploitation of suitable methodological approaches which are able to deal jointly with the continuous and discrete behaviours of a CPS. In this paper, a methodological approach for HEMS is advocated which relies on the use of the Theatre actor system with hybrid actors. As a key feature, Theatre enables the same actor model to be used during the analysis, design, prototyping and implementation phases of the system. For property assessment, a Theatre model is reduced to Uppaal hybrid timed automata for analysis by statistical model checking. As a significant modelling example, a HEMS is proposed which implements an admission control strategy able to maintain the in-home energy consumption under a given threshold. Instead of reacting to an overload condition, the strategy is able to prevent an overload upfront by predicting the effect that the admission of a new load will have on the consumption curve of the whole system.

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