Tag: Governance

Free Download Convenient Criticism: Local Media and Governance in Urban China By Dan Chen
2020 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1438480296 | PDF | 5 MB
Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.Why and how does critical reporting persist at the local level in China despite state media control, a hallmark of authoritarian rule? Synthesizing ethnographic observation, interviews, survey and content analysis data, Convenient Criticism reveals evolving dynamics in local governance and the state-media relationship. Local critical reporting, though limited in scope, occurs because local leaders, motivated by political career advancement, use media criticism strategically to increase bureaucratic control, address citizen grievances, and improve governance. This new approach to governance enables the shaping of public opinion while, at the same time, disciplining subordinate bureaucrats. In this way, the party-state not only monopolizes propaganda but also expropriates criticism, which expands the notion of media control from the suppression of journalism to its manipulation. One positive consequence of these practices has been to invigorate television journalists’ unique brand of advocacy journalism.

Free Download The Pragmatist’s Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models (The Pragmatist’s Guide to) by Simone Collins, Malcolm Collins
English | January 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 9798987522516 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 0.38 MB
Any group of people expected to work synergistically needs a system that structures their interactions. That system is "governance." The Pragmatist’s Guide to Governance takes a first principles approach to exploring the ways governance structures affect the humans living under them (and vice versa), with a special focus on how human psychology interacts with the structures that facilitate our interaction with other people.

Free Download Economic Change Governance and Natural Resource Wealth: The Political Economy of Change in Southern Africa
English | 2002 | ISBN: 9781003421399 | 193 pages | True PDF | 19.07 MB
This volume analyzes the ways in which natural resource wealth has shaped authoritarian political regimes and statist economic systems in the countries of southern Africa in the post-colonial period. It consists of five essays. The first sets out the historical framework and emergence of natural resources as the crucial driver of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. Three essays, drawing on in-country research, focus on Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. They show how this explains the economic evolution of those countries – in particular, the impacts of economic and institutional changes on the bulk of the population, the rural poor. The final essay explores the nature of the changes and their neoliberal economic context, and the ways in which their harmful consequences might be relieved.

Free Download Governance of Radioactive Waste, Special Waste and Carbon Storage:
Literacy in Dealing With Long-term Controversial Sociotechnical Issues
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031039017 | 145 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 53 MB

Free Download Corporate Governance for Climate Transition by Carolina Machado, João Paulo Davim
English | PDF/EPUB | 2023 | 265 Pages | ISBN : 303126276X | 7.6 MB
This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

Free Download Local Governance of Peatland Restoration in Riau, Indonesia: A Transdisciplinary Analysis by Masaaki Okamoto, Takamasa Osawa, Wahyu Prasetyawan, Akhwan Binawan
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 337 Pages | ISBN : 9819909015 | 44.7 MB
This book is one in a series of four volumes introducing peatland conservation and restoration in Indonesia. It focuses on local governance, in particular on regional and local perspectives in Riau, the most peat-destructed province of Indonesia. The book fills a vital gap in the existing literature that overlooks social science and humanities perspectives. Written by authors from different disciplines and backgrounds (including scholars and NGO activists), the approaches to the topic are various and unique, including analysis of GPS logs, social media, geospatial assessments, online interviews (conducted due to the Covid-19 pandemic), and more conventional questionnaires and surveys of community members. The chapters cover an interdisciplinary understanding of peatland destruction and broadly offer insights into environmental governance. While presenting combined studies of established fieldwork methodologies and contemporary technology such as drones and geospatial information, the book also explores the potential of long-distance research with rural communities through online facilitation, which was brought about by Covid-19, but that may have longterm implications.

Free Download Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe by Pablo Castillo-Ortiz
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 96 Pages | ISBN : 3031201892 | 2 MB
This Book Amid the growing debate about models of judicial governance and their relationship to democratic quality, this book offers a systematic and empirical study of this relationship. The book thereby contributes to filling in this gap for the European continent. Taking an interdisciplinary politics and law perspective, and combining empirical and theoretical considerations, the book addresses the important link between democracy and judicial governance. In particular, it provides for three interconnected contributions. First, the book provides for a comprehensive classification of European countries into different models of judicial governance. Second, the book analyses empirically the relationship between the design of judicial governance and the quality of democracy. Third, building on those findings, the book presents policy reflections for the reform and improvement of mechanisms for judicial governance in European countries.

Free Download Nasya Sara Razavi, "Water Governance in Bolivia "
English | ISBN: 0367770121 | 2022 | 144 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "public," helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community engagement around water services.

Free Download Federico Fabbrini, "Economic Governance in Europe: Comparative Paradoxes and Constitutional Challenges "
English | ISBN: 0198749139 | 2016 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Euro-Crisis and the legal and institutional responses to it have had important constitutional implications on the architecture of the European Union (EU). Going beyond the existing literature, Federico Fabbrini’s book takes a broad look and examines how the crisis and its aftermath have changed relations of power in the EU, disaggregating three different dimensions: (1) the vertical relations of power between the member states and the EU institutions, (2) the relations of power between the political branches and the courts, and (3) the horizontal relations of power between the EU member states themselves.

Free Download Richard Clément, "Cities and Languages: Governance and Policy An International Symposium"
English | ISBN: 0987757504 | 2012 | 138 pages | EPUB | 203 KB
Proceedings of the international symposium, "Language Planning in Capitals and Urban Environments," held March 25-26, 2010 at the University of Ottawa, with sponsorship from the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute, Canadian Heritage, the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages and the City of Ottawa.