Public Health Events Emergency Management Supervision Strategy Considering New Media and Citizen Participation

Public health events endanger the citizen health, economic development, social stability and national security seriously. Emergency management requires the joint participation of multiple parties. Therefore, we construct an evolutionary game model involving government department, pharmaceutical enterprises, citizens and new media, analyze the evolutionary stability, solve the stable equilibrium points using the Lyapunov first method and conduct the simulation analysis with Matlab 2020b. The results show that, firstly, the greater the probability of citizens making true evaluation, the more inclined the government department is to strictly implement the emergency management system, and when true evaluation causes the government department to bear more punishment, the probability that the government department doesn't strictly implement is smaller; secondly, when the probability of citizens making true evaluation decreases, new media are more inclined to report after verification, and when new media lose more pageview value or should be punished more for reporting without verification, the probability that they report without verification is smaller; thirdly, the greater the probability of citizens making false evaluation, the less enthusiasm of pharmaceutical enterprises to participate in emergency management, which indicates that false evaluation is detrimental to prompt pharmaceutical enterprises to participate; what's more, the greater the probability of new media reporting after verification, the greater the probability of pharmaceutical enterprises actively participating, which shows that new media's verification to citizens' evaluation is beneficial to emergency management. So, this paper provides suggestions for the emergency management and supervision.

The South African Constitutional Court Decides Against Statelessness and In Favour of Children: Chisuse v Director-General, Department of Home Affairs [2020] ZACC 20

The 2020 Chisuse case of the Constitutional Court of South Africa comes at a crucial moment in South Africa’s post-apartheid trajectory where the circle of citizenship is ‘shrinking’ The Constitutional Court decided in favour of four of the five foreign-born applicants, all children with one citizen parent, who had sought an order to be registered as citizens by the relevant government department, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). The applicants argued that the DHA’s interpretation of the amended citizenship law violated their constitutional rights. Not deciding the matter on a constitutional basis, the Constitutional Court creatively and authoritatively interpreted the statutory regime in favour of the applicants. An example of the Court’s important national role in upholding a human rights-based vision of South African citizenship against persistent and potentially growing bureaucratic opposition, Chisuse also displays an interpretive approach both mindful of the risks of child statelessness and supportive of the place of civil birth registration in the global provision of legal identity for all.

Political Science at the LSE: A History of the Department of Government, from the Webbs to COVID

This monograph traces the emergence and evolution of the LSE Government Department from 1895 to 2020, focusing on the personalities that guided the development of the Department, the social and political contexts the Department existed within, its research agenda and course structure, and the location of the Department in British politics. It also charts the evolution of the discipline of political science in Britain itself. The volume is divided chronologically into four chapters, each covering roughly similar time periods in the Departments’ history and focused on the events that shaped it: personalities, events, and location. Key themes are the development of political science in Britain, the impact of location on the LSE Government Department, the professionalisation of academia in Britain, and the microcosm the Department presents of British political life during each time period. The conflicts between progressive and conservative forces is a recurring theme which helps to link the internal dynamics of theDepartment with the wider social and political contexts that occurred from the beginning of the School to its 125th anniversary. The volume uses detailed archival research, particularly in the early chapters, as well as over thirty interviews with a range of individual with unique perspectives on the Department. These include current and former faculty and students (ranging from academics such as Christopher Hood and Tony Travers to graduates who have subsequently become politicians, such as Anneliese Dodds, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer), as well as others with strong links to the Department, such as Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai and Andrew Bailey, Bank of England Governor. This monograph offers a wealth of insights on the history of political science not only at the LSE, but in British academia more broadly. It speaks to a wide historical and social science audience concerned with Fabian and socialist history, the history of politics and education, and the development of British political science. Of course, it will also appeal to more immediate audiences, such as prospective and current students, alumni and others throughout the wider LSE community. As a history of the LSE, as well as of the development of British higher education, it serves as both a specific case study and a general representative of wider trends within universities during the twentieth century. A unique feature of this monograph is that it represents the collective efforts of students from the LSE Government Department (including undergraduate, MSc and PhD), who worked under the leadership of Dr Gordon Bannerman (British Historian) and Professor Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (Head of Government Department). This unusual collaboration has enabled a richer array of perspectives on the history of the Department, but has also brought the monograph to life with personal ties to the Department itself.

Suitability of human capital for better results of supply chain management: Lessons from national government department

Background: The establishment of supply chain management (SCM) throughout the public service promised better outcomes due to improved processes and governance. However, since inception, SCM has been criticised for inefficiency in achieving its mandate. As a system, it has been labelled as ‘yet again’ another failed government initiative, because communities at large believe that this system too is associated with a number of flaws.Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the role that human capital plays in SCM in fulfilling end customer services in the public sector.Setting: The study focused on the national government department, South Africa.Method: To achieve the above objective, a quantitative research methodology was used to ascertain the adequacy of human capital dimensions as a factor of SCM in ensuring good customer service in the public sector.Results: Findings indicate that there is: (1) a notable shortage of human resources; (2) scanty knowledge on the processes employed within SCM; (3) a lack of suitable training; (4) performance that is somewhat not in order and (5) the results of SCM, although with some desire, were also found not to be in good standing.Conclusion: This study revealed that reasonable care has not been taken to make a favourable environment, through human capital, to achieve better results of SCM in the public sector, and when human capital is not set accordingly, performance of SCM is likely to be negatively impacted.

Government department leads successful change challenge: national voluntary health organizations plan for future state

{Paragraph 1 of Introduction]: The last decade of this century has been a difficult one for the public sector. Budgets have been cut, programs merged or eliminated, and operational staff downsized. There have been societal changes including shifts in attitudes and values, and excessive consumerism. During the decade, the 'victim' phenomena has become a prevailing force with well organized special interest groups demanding recompense for perceived injustices. And days of universal entitlements have been under critical review, if not coming to an end. All government levels have been under increased pressure for services, yet have had fewer resources with which to respond and a less clear mandate with which to work. Statements such as "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you," are met with wry smiles as many government programs' credibility has waned. New and creative responses are required to meet the challenges of responding to these 'new realities'. This article is a report of a government department that radically altered its service delivery and pioneered an experimental program based on the latest understandings from the field of organization development. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

THE DASGUPTA REVIEW: SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON INVESTMENT IN CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION, FAMILY PLANNING, AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Three broad categories of transformative changes have been recommended in The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review (henceforth Review): (i) The need to address the imbalance between our demands on Nature and its supply. (ii) The need to change our measures of economic success. (iii) The need for institutional change. However, what the private citizen would like to find in the Review differs from what someone in a government department or an international agency or a private company seeks. These notes have been prompted by the many virtual meetings I have had since the Review’s launch and they further explore aspects of the Review’s recommendations.