Areas Of Government Regulation Research Articles

Социологическое обеспечение деятельности органов внутренних дел

Modern realities of the information society actualize the problem of sociological support for the activities of Internal affairs bodies, since they oblige the latter to pay maximum attention to the issues of searching, analyzing and using various, including sociological, information, which today has turned from an auxiliary tool into the main component of the organization’s activities. As for representatives of other areas of government regulation, the objective field of activity of heads of internal affairs bodies includes a huge number of social aspects that require continuous study and analysis. Moreover, the specificity of the sphere of regulation of internal affairs is determined primarily by its social context, which requires, in most cases, sociological tools corresponding to it. Under these conditions, ignoring or reducing the importance of the role of sociological knowledge deprives the possibility of high-quality information and analytical support for management activities, which is the key to an effective solution to a huge range of emerging law enforcement problems. The article analyzes current trends in sociological support for the activities of internal affairs bodies and its current problematic state, mainly from the position of production in educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Recent Judicial Developments of Interests to Oil and Gas Lawyers

The purpose of the article is to provide a brief review of recent Canadian judicial decisions of interest to oil and gas lawyers. The authors have surveyed Canadian case law in the areas of government regulation, conflicts, creditor’s rights, surface rights, contracts and tax.

Legal framework for religious activity in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: from liberal to prohibitive approaches

Abstract Religious activity is a very sensitive area of government regulation in Kazakhstan. After some post-soviet years of liberalization, the government has decided to return to soviet-style relations with a large amount of attention on the control and supervision of religious areas. The Law ‘On Religious Activity and Religious Associations’ adopted in 2011 was the result of such a decision. This article analyses the legal framework for religious activity, the model of relations between state and religious associations in modern Kazakhstan, the public attitude towards regulation in the religious field, the legal and social consequences of the adoption of current law, as well as the problems of its implementation and the government’s administration of religious activity in Kazakhstan. The author reaches the conclusion that more liberal legislation and law-enforcement practice is unlikely without changes in the political system, the public attitude towards religion and views on secularity.

Scenario approach in forecasting tax revenues of the state budget of Ukraine

Introduction. State revenue management stands first in the areas of government regulation, which is provided by the regulation of fiscal policy. It is achieved by optimizing the amount of nationwide taxes and their tax rates, with the least amount of tax evasion. It is also important to ensure the implementation of the budget process, which is based on budget planning and forecasting, the effectiveness criterion of which is the reliability of the forecast. The compulsory component of extrapolation of time series – the most used forecasting method – is the scenario approach, so the research of possibilities of its implementation is relevant.
 Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is to introduce a scenario approach in forecasting tax revenues of the state budget of Ukraine. The main tasks set to achieve this aim are: modeling the dependence of tax revenues on macroeconomic indicators; trend analysis and extrapolation of time series of macroeconomic indicators; development of forecast scenarios of state budget revenues from state taxes.
 Results. It is proved that comprehensive stimulation of the production of gross value added, especially in the sphere of material production, as a basis for economic growth, will have a positive impact on the growth of output of goods and services, as well as will provide an increase in the revenues from value added tax (VAT) and excise tax to the state budget. Provision at the state level of further growth of the minimum wage and the deployment of social programs, as well as stimulating the legalization of shadow incomes of individuals in order to stimulate incomes of the population will lead to revenue increase from the personal income tax to the state budget. Creating favorable conditions for doing business by creating a business environment free from corruption, legalizing the shadow income of legal entities in order to maximize the profit of gross profit, mixed income will lead to an increase in corporate income tax revenues and subsoil use fee to the state budget of Ukraine.
 Conclusions. Over the next 5 years, aggregate tax revenues to the state budget will increase, regardless of the forecast scenario. The largest contribution to tax revenue growth can be provided by excise tax. The dynamics of the remaining taxes will also be increasing. Because the extrapolation of time series and scenario analysis are applied and universal methods of forecasting, they can be used in forecasting tax revenues of both consolidated and local budgets of Ukraine. Prospects for further research of the author will be relevant to these areas.

Possible Focus Areas of Government Regulation of the Real Estate Market

The housing problem is relevant for many countries, including Russia. The solution of this problem is impossible without active and meaningful participation by the state. The residential real estate market has specific characteristics that significantly distinguish it from other markets. The article highlights the features of the residential real estate market as an object of government regulation. The author describes specific features of the government as a subject of management of the residential real estate market, substantiates rationale for the active participation of the state in the management of the real estate market, and outlines possible directions of government regulation of the residential real estate market. The author also describes the Russian experience of implementing certain measures in the framework of direct and indirect forms of government regulation of the residential real estate market as well as the results of such events.

DAMPAK ALIH FUNGSI LAHAN PERSAWAHAN TERHADAP PRODUKSI PADI DI DESA MANARAP BARU KECAMATAN KERTAK HANYAR KABUPATEN BANJAR

Economic growth requires a demand availability of land for infrastructure development. Though an increase in land productivity is strongly influenced by the amount of land used. Another factor that will disrupt food production is the conversion of agricultural land that led to the environmental degradation such as soil degradation of water quality, air pollution and other environmental damage. This research aims to determine the level of change that occurred in the area of land to non-agricultural paddy fields, determine the level of change in rice production, and to determine the factors that cause the occurrence of paddy land conversion to non-agricultural in Manarap Baru Village. This research is a survey which aims to test the hypothesis that there is data in the field by digging through direct interviews with farmers. The data analysis using questionnaires. The results showed that the Manarap Baru Village paddy fields decreased by 64.78 ha or about 3.47% per year and did not experience a reduction in rice production despite reduced their land. Rice production increased by 2.86% per year due to increased productivity of rice from 3.14 tons / ha in 2008 to 4.43 tons / ha in 2012. Major cause of rice land conversion to non-agricultural residential development that is driven by the dynamics of urban growth, increasing population growth, the state of the economy, and no area of government regulation.

БЮДЖЕТНО-ПОДАТКОВА ПОЛІТИКА: ТЕОРІЯ ТА ПРАКТИКА ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ В УКРАЇНІ

Стаття присвячена визначенню теоретичних засад, інструментів, механізмів бюджетно-податкової політики та відповідності заходів бюджетно-податкової політики України існуючим теоретичним положенням і практиці проведення даного напряму державного регулювання економіки у розвинутих країнах. Виділено основні етапи еволюції кейнсіанської стратегії макрорегулювання. Узагальнено основні заходи стимулюючої бюджетно-податкової політики, яку проводили розвинуті країни для подолання наслідків фінансово-економічної кризи 2008-2009 рр. Розкрито зміст бюджетно-податкової політики України в сучасних умовах, систематизовано фактори, що є визначальними для проведення бюджетно-податкової політики.

Recent Judicial Developments of Interest to Oil and Gas Lawyers

This article is intended to provide a brief review of recent Canadian judicial decisions of interest to oil and gas lawyers. The authors have surveyed Canadian case law in the areas of government regulation, conflicts, creditor's rights, surface rights, contract, tax. and other areas. Portions of many of thesesummaries have previously been published in the Cox Hanson O 'Reilly Matheson Oil and Gas Netletter on the Quicklaw service operated by LexisNexis Canada Inc.

Recent Judicial Developments of Interest to Oil and Gas Lawyers

This article is intended to provide a brief review of recent Canadian judicial decisions of interest to oil and gas lawyers. The authors have surveyed Canadian case law in the areas of government regulation, contract, employment, rights of first refusal, royalties,injunctions, freehold leases, and other areas.

Understanding emerging discourses of Marine Spatial Planning in the UK

This paper investigates the emergence of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) through Rhetorical Analysis of three UK marine policy documents. The analysis focuses on the rhetorical presentation of key MSP policy documents located within the previous Government period and seeks to reveal the rationality of how MSP was constructed at that time. This highlights the assumptions and ideologies emerging from this area of Government regulation and suggests that MSP reveals a discourse that may be aligned with New Labour and that bears the hallmarks of post-political environmental consensus. The findings of the analysis allow us to understand the significance of MSP's emergence and to question the future of MSP within a new political context.

Self-Regulation and the Not-for-Profit Sector

This paper examines the notion of self-regulation and whether, and how, it can be applied to the Not-for-Profit (NFP) sector in Australia in the context of the Victorian Government's 2007 review of NFP regulation undertaken by the State Services Authority. The focus of this review is on NFPs that perform services for government or are in receipt of government grants. The paper argues that effective, efficient and legitimate government regulation will encourage, enable, and enforce open self-regulation by entities and sectors wherever possible. 'Open self-regulation' is the situation where an entity or sector regulates itself in a way that also achieves democratically defined objectives or standards and is open to public accountability. Part 1 of the paper points that all individuals, organizations, and sectors regulate themselves, whether formally or informally, to some extent. The issues are whether they do so in a way that is open and responsive to democratically defined objectives and community values or not, and to what extent governments should seek to shape and influence the way they self-regulate. This part of the paper summarises the notion of open self-regulation as a policy goal, and its advantages and disadvantages. Part 2 provides a brief overview of the principles by which government can encourage, enable and enforce open self-regulation in practice by reference to various examples used in different sectors and areas of regulation in Australia. It shows that there is movement in a range of areas of government regulation towards seeking to catalyse open self-regulation at the entity and sector level rather than relying solely on command and control regulation. Part 3 argues that the principles of open self-regulation are equally if not more applicable to the NFP sector as to the commercial sector. It goes on to set out some ideas as to regulatory mechanisms that governments might use to encourage and enforce open self-regulation in that sector including the need for principle-based regulation and for harmonisation and consistency of regulation of NFPs to enable meta-regulation, and the possibilities of a responsive multi-track regulatory approach to NFPs with different capacities for open self-regulation, the setting and monitoring of standards for self-regulation processes and the opportunity for government to help build skills and capacity for open self-regulation in the sector.

Issues Associated with Clinical Trials in Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury

The purpose of this article is to discuss the issues associated with conducting clinical trials in pediatric spinal cord injury (SCI). The discussion will be limited to the areas of government regulation of pediatric participation in clinical trials, calcium metabolism, and the potential concerns for neurological and hormonal compromise in children with SCI. The guidelines regarding ethics and consent will be highlighted as recommended by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) section of pediatrics.

Green-Amber-Red-graded environmental permits and environmental stewardship

A new environmental management instrument is proposed in the area of government regulation. A Green-Amber-Red permitting system is a synthesis of the ‘command-and-control’ and incentive systems. It rewards proactive industrial operators and at the same time maintains strict environmental standards. It sets a direction towards cleaner production in the short term and zero pollution in the longer term. The new system provides encouragement for Environmental Stewardship and establishes Environmental Stewardship Awards.

Biases in Appraising Creditworthiness

In the mid 1970s two psychologists, Kahneman and Tversky, isolated three major aspects of heuristics which induce biases in our decisions, which they termed as: (1) representativeness, (2) availability and (3) anchoring. An example of the bias within the representativeness heuristic is the underutilization of base rates. Decision makers tend systematically to overweigh current information and underweigh background information (prior probabilities) relative to what Bayes′ theorem implies. Bias in the availability heuristic is observed for instance in the area of government regulation. Proponents of increasing government regulation of business consider the benefits of eliminating the relatively small number of observed abuses but do not consider the large number of cases where the current system has worked. Decision makers exhibit a tendency to concentrate on extremes rather than means. This is because extremes are more readily available to retrieve from our mental set (mind) than means. On the anchoring heuristic, it is noticed that people allow their decisions to be distorted by the presence of points of reference that should be irrelevant. Discusses biases associated with one particular activity which is important to bank marketing officials, i.e. assessing creditworthiness, and substantiates such a bias using empirical findings.

The Changing Competitive Environment for the Australian Banking/Finance Industry: Review of a Forecasting Study

The banking/finance industry in Australia is on the verge of rapid and fundamental change in the areas of government regulation, industry structure, EFT technology and payment systems, marketing innovation and merchant/wholesale banking. Such a changed environment will cause organisations to engage in continuous strategic planning and new adaptive strategies which focus on the changing relationships between the institution and its customers and competitors. The marketing function will assume new and increased responsibilities. Marketing management will require a far more strategic approach than before. The viability of some institutions may be threatened by these changes. These views are the result of a long‐range Delphi forecasting study conducted in 1982. Although rapid developments have invalidated some of the findings, the forecast of a less regulated, more competitive, open, dynamic and responsive industry remains valid.

Rate Variations among Suppliers of Automobile Insurance: Comment

The purpose of Allen F. Jung's article in a recent issue of this Journal is to analyze the price differences among certain categories of automobile insurers.2 While it is less than completely successful in achieving this goal, the article unintentionally provides important evidence in a different area -the area of government regulation. Professor Jung and a colleague obtained by telephone seventy price quotations for automobile insurance. The quotations were then categorized in an attempt to show differences in the prices secured from companies, agents, and automobile dealers. The thirty companies contacted were classified by size, type, location, and distribution system.