MENDORONG PERTUMBUHAN INDUSTRI KECIL DAN MENENGAH MELALUI FASILITAS KEMUDAHAN IMPOR TUJUAN EKSPOR

Globalization is an opportunity for small and medium industries (IKM) in Indonesia to be able to market various products they produce. One of the facilities provided by the government is the Ease of Import for Export Purposes (KITE IKM). This study aims to identify some issues that arise, conduct analysis, and provide alternative solutions to those constraints that occur in the utilization of KITE IKM in the KPPBC TMP B Yogyakarta. This research uses a qualitative research approach in the form of case studies. Based on the results, there are still some obstacles in fostering the growth of IKM. Internal is related to the efforts to disseminate KITE IKM, good governance practices particularly in archiving of customs documents, technical competence of employees, and implementation of risk management. External consist of the IKM’s compliance with the procedures or provisions and strategic coordination between related agencies or institutions. This research implies that some policies need to be made to improve governance and risk mitigation. The object of research is limited to IKM at KPPBC TMP B Yogyakarta which conducts import and export activities through the nearest port. Subsequent research can be carried out on other customs offices with different characteristics. Keywords: duty drawback, export, facility, good governance Dengan adanya globalisasi, luasnya jangkauan pasar menjadi peluang bagi para industri kecil dan menengah (IKM) di Indonesia dalam memasarkan berbagai produk yang dihasilkan. Salah satu fasilitas yang diberikan pemerintah kepada IKM adalah Kemudahan Impor Tujuan Ekspor (KITE). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi kendala-kendala yang timbul, melakukan analisis, dan memberikan alternatif penyelesaian atas permasalahan yang terjadi atas pemanfaatan fasilitas KITE IKM di wilayah kerja KPPBC TMP B Yogyakarta. Studi ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif berupa studi kasus. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, masih ditemukan beberapa hambatan dalam mendorong tumbuhnya IKM. Permasalahan internal terkait kurang gencar dan luasnya upaya sosialisasi dan edukasi fasilitas KITE IKM, lemahnya tata kelola atau pengarsipan dokumen kepabeanan, belum meratanya pengetahuan dan kompetensi teknis pegawai, dan kurang optimalnya penerapan manajemen risiko. Permasalahan eksternal terkait kurangnya pengetahuan dan pemahaman pelaku usaha atas prosedur atau ketentuan dan belum efektifnya sinergi dan koordinasi strategis antarinstansi atau lembaga. Penelitian ini memberikan implikasi kebijakan terkait perlu dilakukan upaya perbaikan tata kelola pemerintahan dan optimalisasi penerapan manajemen risiko. Objek penelitian terbatas hanya terhadap IKM terdaftar penerima fasilitas KITE di KPPBC TMP B Yogyakarta yang melakukan kegiatan impor dan ekspor melalui pelabuhan terdekat. Penelitian berikutnya dapat dilakukan terhadap objek penelitian yang berbeda karakteristiknya. Kata Kunci: ekspor, fasilitas, KITE, tata kelola, UMKM

Blended Preparation in Early Childhood and Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education: Reflecting on the Past, Paving a Path Forward

The movement toward collaborative models of preservice early childhood preparation, those that attempt to “blend” preparation for both early childhood education (ECE) and early intervention/early childhood special education (EI/ECSE), is entering its fourth decade. This position paper presents a historical analysis of the blended movement through a conceptual framework based on a social foundations perspective that highlights how sociopolitical and foundational influences have affected blended preparation over time. Although blended models were first explored as a means to reconceptualize early childhood preservice preparation for inclusion, the recommendations shared in this article center on the need to reconceptualize blended preparation itself. A call to action is proposed for the development of a robust research agenda and the strategic coordination of advocacy to ensure current and future blended preparation meets the needs of the increasingly diverse contexts, roles, and responsibilities of ECE and EI/ECSE practitioners.

Neurosurgery residency and fellowship education in the United States: 2 decades of system development by the One Neurosurgery Summit organizations

The purpose of this report is to chronicle a 2-decade period of educational innovation and improvement, as well as governance reform, across the specialty of neurological surgery. Neurological surgery educational and professional governance systems have evolved substantially over the past 2 decades with the goal of improving training outcomes, patient safety, and the quality of US neurosurgical care. Innovations during this period have included the following: creating a consensus national curriculum; standardizing the length and structure of neurosurgical training; introducing educational outcomes milestones and required case minimums; establishing national skills, safety, and professionalism courses; systematically accrediting subspecialty fellowships; expanding professional development for educators; promoting training in research; and coordinating policy and strategy through the cooperation of national stakeholder organizations. A series of education summits held between 2007 and 2009 restructured some aspects of neurosurgical residency training. Since 2010, ongoing meetings of the One Neurosurgery Summit have provided strategic coordination for specialty definition, neurosurgical education, public policy, and governance. The Summit now includes leadership representatives from the Society of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Board of Neurological Surgery, the Review Committee for Neurological Surgery of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, and the AANS/CNS Joint Washington Committee. Together, these organizations have increased the effectiveness and efficiency of the specialty of neurosurgery in advancing educational best practices, aligning policymaking, and coordinating strategic planning in order to meet the highest standards of professionalism and promote public health.

Game-Theoretic Strategic Coordination and Navigation of Multiple Wheeled Robots

Multiple robots negotiating in a dynamic workspace may lead to collisions. To avoid such issues, multi-robot navigation and coordination becomes necessary but is computationally very challenging, particularly when there are many robots. This article addresses the problem of multi-robot navigation where individual robots require coordination. Although a few such attempts for modeling multi-robot coordination and navigation have been studied, this work proposes a game-theoretic coordination strategy, also referred to as strategic coordination. We make use of a genetic algorithm tuned fuzzy logic–based motion planner. The proposed strategic coordination strategy has been pitted against a basic potential field-based motion planner, also referred to as the heuristic method, for performance comparison. Results are compared through computer simulation with 8 to 17 robots at different rounds. From the obtained results, it was observed that the proposed coordination scheme’s efficacy is strong for a larger number of robots. In addition, the proposed strategic coordination scheme with the genetic-fuzzy-based motion planner was found to outperform other combinations as far as the quality of solutions and time to reach the goal positions. The computational complexity of different methods has also been compared and presented.

Local-Level Democratic Backsliding? The Consolidation of Aspiring Dominant-Party Regimes in Hungary and Poland

Aspiring dominant-party regimes often institute major institutional and political reforms at the national level to ensure they retain control. However, subnational politics is an important, under-studied, component of regime consolidation. This study uses mayoral races in Hungary and Poland from 2006 to 2018 to examine two factors that may inhibit dominant-party regime consolidation in local politics: the use of two-round, i.e. runoff, electoral systems and strategic coordination among opposition parties. While we find little evidence that strategic coordination can lead to widespread opposition success in single-round systems, we do find that increasing the number of candidates decreases the likelihood of the nationally dominant party winning in the first round while not affecting the second round. As such, two-round mayoral elections may be an important buffer to dominant-party regime consolidation and may provide a training ground for the future opposition.

Progress and Prospects: Sino-Russian Strategic Coordination in Multilateral Mechanisms

As China and Russia face a complex international and neighborhood environment with many uncertainties and real security threats, it is of special significance to strengthen cooperation within the multilateral framework at the regional and higher level, including leading the establishment of new regional cooperation mechanisms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). China and Russia are interacting in global and regional frameworks such as the United Nations (U.N.), BRICS, G20, APEC, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, and jointly promoting cooperation between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union. All of these add more connotations and richer levels of cooperation in the Sino-Russian comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era. The two countries share the same or similar views on many international and regional issues and have extensive common interests in security, economic and political fields, which is an important prerequisite and basis for multilateral cooperation. There are inevitable differences between the two major powers in goals on regional issues, yet those differences haven’t become substantial obstacles to multilateral cooperation. Looking forward, with the complex changes in the international situation, especially in the post-pandemic era when there will be significant adjustments in the economic, political and security landscape, close cooperation between China and Russia within multilateral mechanisms can play an increasingly important role in improving the global and regional governance system, maintaining multilateralism and steering the international landscape in a more just and rational direction.

The role of universities in regional development strategies: A comparison across actors and policy stages

The emergence of collaborative approaches in innovation policy and regional governance has increased expectations for universities to engage in strategy making and assume broader roles and responsibilities. Nonetheless, complexities inherent to the policy process, regional context and universities’ own institutional and organisational capacity are often ignored or under-explained when framing universities’ roles. Although these roles are frequently introduced, they have been superficially conceptualised in the literature. This study develops a deeper theoretical and empirical understanding of universities’ contributions in the different stages of regional innovation strategy processes. Through a comparative case study of four European universities, it explores the variation of these roles by policy stage and university actors involved in the strategies. Findings suggest universities have expanded to perform new planning-related roles (e.g. consultation, mediation) and that diverse factors (e.g. the regional context, such as urban versus peripheral) determine their participation in regional strategies. However, strategic coordination within universities and with regional bodies is needed for the optimisation of their engagement in the regional governance process. JEL Codes: I23, I25, O20, O30, R58

The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite and Power-over

There are two rival conceptions of power in modern sociopolitical thought. According to one, all social power reduces to power-over-others. According to another, the core notion is power-to-effect-outcomes, to which even power-over reduces. This article defends seven theses. First, agential social power consists in a relation between agent and outcomes (power-to). Second, not all social power reduces to power-over and, third, the contrary view stems from conflating power-over with a distinct notion: power-despite-resistance. Fourth, the widespread assumption that social power presupposes the capacity to overcome resistance is false: social power includes the capacity to effect outcomes with others’ assistance. Fifth, power-with can be exercised via joint intentional action, strategic coordination and non-strategic coordination. Sixth, agential social power is best analysed as a capacity to effect outcomes, with the assistance of others, despite the resistance of yet others. Seventh, power-over and power-with are not mutually exclusive: each can ground the other.

Countering the “Sweep Effect”

One of the well-known properties of multimember plurality systems is their propensity toward producing the so-called “sweep effect,” manifesting itself in that the strongest party in a majority of districts sees its full slate of candidates elected even if the margin of plurality is small. Despite this property, and mostly for technical reasons, this system remains rather widely employed for conducting local elections both in democracies and in electoral authoritarian regimes. This article employs the evidence from the 2019 municipal elections in St. Petersburg to examine how increased strategic coordination of opposition voters became instrumental in countering the sweep effect and thus reducing the scope of political monopoly in an overtly authoritarian context. The analysis shows that this goal was achieved primarily by enabling opposition-minded voters to cast a greater number of votes than it otherwise would have been.