The Lady Moves to the Bronx

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-226
Author(s):  
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Keyword(s):  
Chief Engineer ◽  
The Public ◽  
Opening Up

This chapter talks about the Parks Department chief engineer John Natoli, who was tasked to move the barge from the Bayonne shipyard to the Bronx. It notes Natoli's announcement on May 29, 2008 that his men have loaded the work barge with the anchors, gangways, platforms, and chains to accompany the Floating Pool Lady to the Bronx. It also recounts the soft opening of the floating pool at Barretto Point Park to guarantee that the arrival was incident-free. The chapter refers to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who presided the ribbon-cutting event that gave evidence to the public of his commitment to opening up the waterfront. It details how the author focused on the children that piled up at the edge of the pool as they waited for the dignitaries to join them in the jump.

Beyond Anthropology A level: opening up anthropology education

Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Ford
Keyword(s):  
Social Anthropology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Opening Up

The Anthropology A-level has achieved a great deal despite its failure to be redeveloped as a qualification. In this article I discuss what this means and why this matters for anthropology education. I show how the Anthropology A level was just one component of a much wider movement to engage new audiences with anthropology. I demonstrate how the A-level brought biological and social anthropology into schools and colleges that had never offered the subject before. The A-level diversified the community of anthropology educators and increased links between local schools, colleges and university anthropology departments. The campaign to widen access to anthropology for students, teachers and the public continues to grow, regardless of the AQA decision.

scholarly journals How Rational Is the Greek Plan for Opening up Tourism?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Lazaridis ◽  
Estelle Clark
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Greek Economy ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Executives And Managers

The issue of when and how to return to business following COVID-19 lockdown is occupying the minds of policymakers, C-Suite executives and managers the world over. We are concerned by the extent to which it appears that these decisions are being taken on a wing and a prayer, while being pitched to the public as though they shouldn’t be questioned. In this paper, we compare the likely impact of COVID-19 infections from travellers coming from the main countries that visit Greece, to the revenues they generate for the Greek economy. We find that arrivals from some countries should be excluded but aren't, while arrivals from other countries that are excluded perhaps shouldn't be. We show that a rational choice around limitations on the reopening of tourist markets depends on the demand for travel to Greece. We conclude that the current policy is largely economically rational, with some exceptions, but also speculate that Greece may not be ready to handle the resulting infection load.

Open Government

2021 ◽  
pp. 667-682
Author(s):  
Gary Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
European Central Bank ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Central ◽  
Public Policy Decisions ◽  
The International Monetary Fund ◽  
Opening Up

Since Irish independence in 1922, governance structures have been excessively secretive. Political and civil service elites operated on a presumption of secrecy and a principle that the public did not need to know about decisions being taken in their name. In the last two decades, a number of policy innovations have gone some way towards providing for a more open polity. These include Ombudsman, regulation of lobbying, and freedom of information legislation, enacted over concerns about payments to politicians and a series of catastrophic public policy decisions that led to the bailout of the Irish economy by the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank. This chapter assesses the importance of the principle of open government in modern Irish politics. It examines the nature of secrecy, assesses the tentative opening up of government since the 1980s, and analyses the open government proposals introduced since 2011.

Public Representation of Ubiquitous ICT Applications in the Outpatient Health Sector

2013 ◽  
pp. 212-232
Author(s):  
Stephanie Moser ◽  
Susanne Elisabeth Bruppacher ◽  
Frederic de Simoni
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Opening Up

ICT advances will bring a new generation of ubiquitous applications, opening up new possibilities for the health sector. However, the social impacts of this trend have largely remained unexplored. This study investigates the public representation of future ICT applications in the outpatient health sector in terms of their social acceptance. Mental models of ICT applications were elicited from inhabitants of Berlin, Germany, by means of qualitative interviews. The findings revealed that the interviewees felt ambivalent about anticipated changes; only if ICT use were to be voluntary and restricted to single applications and trustworthy institutions did they expect individual benefits. Concerns about data transmission to unauthorized third parties and widespread technological dissemination forcing compulsory participation led people to feel averse to such technology. Implications for potential implementation of future ICT applications in the outpatient health sector are discussed.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Charles Halvorson
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Environmental Goods ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Space ◽  
Monetary Approach ◽  
Opening Up

From its creation in 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) played a key role in struggles over the responsibility, authority, and capacity of the federal government to safeguard the public welfare against the ills of industrial society. But despite this centrality, the EPA largely remains a cipher in modern American history. In opening up the EPA’s history through an examination of the agency’s governance of air pollution from 1970 to the 1990s, this book shows how administrative agencies came to structure core aspects of our everyday lives. The enduring power of the EPA depended on its adoption of a monetary approach to environmental goods, and this book explores the translation of different notions of environmental value into policy as a key space in the evolution of core ideas about the environment and the public welfare.

scholarly journals Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Kean
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Distinctive Role

This issue of Public History Review discusses aspects of the distinctive role of public historians that goes beyond an approach simply aimed at bringing in people to exhibitions or making historical knowledge ‘accessible’. As James Gardner argued in the last issue of Public History Review, ‘We are often our own worst enemy, failing to share what we do. If we want the public to value what we do, we need to share the process of history’. Opening up the premises underpinning different forms of historical representation can assist in widening the historical process and facilitate a way of understanding and making meaning.

scholarly journals Public Consultation: Collaboration of Government and Citizens in The Local Requirements-Based Policy Processing

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 09014
Author(s):  
Sunu Astuti Retno ◽  
Maros Asra'i
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recess Period ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Opening Up

Public consultation is an appropriate means for engaging the public in policy-making and opening up opportunities for every citizen to have their option in following various governance processes. The collaboration of government and citizens as a form of public consultation is a process of strengthening the capacity to build sustainable cooperation among various interest groups. The benefits of collaboration are reducing conflicts of interest and improving the quality of policies. Deliberative democracy is a democratic concept which is based on a mechanism of discussion and prioritizing dialogic ways as a foundation of public consultation. Deliberative democracy allows citizens to discuss public issues and provide lessons to government to act democratically and get legitimation to important issues. DPRD as a legislative body that has the obligation to accommodate the aspirations of the community as the embodiment of public consultation implemented in the recess time. The qualitative research method used in the Bungo district case study showed that the recess period had not been fully utilized. DPRD had not been able to respond to the needs of the community so it was found that the development done in Bungo Regency is not as needed.

Norwegian Approach to Private Internal Investigations: An Empirical Study of Mandates for Fraud Examiners

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Petter Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Principal Agent ◽  
Financial Crime ◽  
Opportunistic Behavior ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Principal Agent Relationship

This article applies principal–agent relationship theory through an empirical study of private investigators’ mandates for fraud examiners in Norway. The business of private internal investigations by external fraud examiners has grown remarkably in the recent decades. Law firms and auditing firms are hired by private and public organizations to reconstruct the past when there is suspicion of misconduct and potential financial crime. Most reports of investigation are kept secret to the public and often also to the police, even when there is evidence of financial crime by white-collar criminals. For this study, we were able to identify and retrieve a total of 49 investigation reports in Norway for the 10-year period from 2006 to 2016. Reports are studied in terms of mandates defining the motive, purpose, scope, tasks, and goals. We find that mandates are deficient, thereby opening up for opportunistic behavior by both parties in the principal–agent relationship.

Democratic Representation and Legislative Theatre

Theoria ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (164) ◽  
pp. 26-47
Author(s):  
Gustavo H. Dalaqua
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Augusto Boal ◽  
Democratic Representation ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Opening Up

This article seeks to contribute to the debate on how political representation can promote democracy by analysing the Chamber in the Square, which is a component of legislative theatre. A set of techniques devised to democratise representative governments, legislative theatre was created by Augusto Boal when he was elected a political representative in 1993. After briefly reviewing Nadia Urbinati’s understanding of democratic representation as a diarchy of will and judgement, I partially endorse Hélène Landemore’s criticism and contend that if representation is to be democratic, citizens’ exchange of opinions in the public sphere should be invested with the power not only to judge but also to decide political affairs. By opening up a space where the represented can judge, decide, and contest the general terms of the bills representatives present in the assembly, the Chamber in the Square harnesses political representation to democracy.

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