Private Forms Research Articles

A tale of two cities: regulating lobbying through public and private instruments in Brussels and Washington D.C

AbstractThis article explores the relationship between public (i.e. government-led) and private (i.e. industry-led) forms of lobby regulation, by inquiring over the conditions that render a mix between these two regulatory forms more likely. Drawing on the governance of professions scholarship, it presents a theoretically informed comparison between two jurisdictions—the US (federal level) and the EU (supranational level)—where the public regulation of lobbying is built on different models, namely a command-and-control model based on legally binding rules in the US and a cooperative model based on incentives and rewards in the EU. Findings show that, although formal public–private regulatory mixes are not present in either jurisdiction, the EU regulators have hewn closer to this arrangement by coopting lobbyists’ professional associations as semi-permanent but unofficial governance ‘allies’. This outcome is due to an amalgam of factors, chief among which is the severity of political scandals involving lobbyists, which affects policymakers’ reputational incentives for framing the public regulation of lobbying as a punitive or cooperative intervention. Methodologically, the article uses a combination of documentary analysis and expert interviews with lobby practitioners and public regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.

Shadow banking, macroprudential regulation and redistributional effects*

ABSTRACT This paper studies the implications of increasing the size of the shadow banking sector for economic activity, financial stability, and welfare. I consider a DSGE model in which lending can come from two different sources; a formal bank or private lending. Banking regulation, in the form of capital requirements, only applies to the formal banking sector. Private lenders represent the shadow banking system. Results show that an increase in shadow banking leads to a higher amount of credit in the economy, which in turn implies higher consumption by borrowers. However, after a certain threshold, a large proportion of shadow banking is welfare decreasing. Moreover, the presence of an unregulated banking sector can lead to unintended effects of macroprudential policy. That is, stricter regulation in the traditional banking sector by the authorities may result in an increase in credit flows to those banks with lower regulatory levels, especially when this regulation comes from borrower-based instruments. Thus, macroprudential authorities should take into account these redistributional effects of shadow banking when considering their regulatory perimeter.

Teachers’ challenges encountered in the marketisation of education systems at primary schools in the Mbare-Hatfield district

Different forms of markertisation and privatisation have encircled the teaching profession. Internet sites that offer to produce academic work for a fee make academic work into a commodity that can be bought and sold. Most schools in Zimbabwe, the Southern African Development Community region, Africa, and beyond cannot easily afford internet services. This study explored the teachers’ challenges in understanding the educational systems due to the marketisation of education. This study utilized the mixed methods approach and the case study design because of its strength in discovering more about unexplored problems. Two school head participants and forty teachers were selected from schools in the district. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were used to get data from the research participants. The results unearthed that the education system is one such tool for perpetuating class divisions and social inequality. Contemporary literature has provided evidence in the exploration of teachers’ challenges encountered in the marketisation of education. To the extent that I have reviewed the literature, I found a substantial gap in knowledge about the impact of the challenges encountered in the marketisation of education. The study's objective was to determine the challenges teachers face in giving equal opportunities to poor and minority students due to the marketisation of education. There are some gaps caused by digital divides and government withdrawal from funding for public schools since the early 1990s when ESAP was embraced as an economic blueprint. The marketisation of education has negatively affected teacher integrity, sometimes leading to teacher misconduct. In recent years, the professional status of teachers seems to have been compromised. This is probably due to the changing nature of teacher professional work. Modern-day teaching practices are embroiled in an increasing struggle for private gain. Teachers must learn to cross social boundaries to make learning meaningful and relevant for all students.

Wittgenstein’s Movements of Thought and the Socratic Tradition of Philosophy

By situating Wittgenstein's handwritten manuscripts in the Socratic tradition of philosophy, I argue that contrary to Wittgenstein's misjudgement about the role and impact of the Socratic conception of philosophy, his own way of doing philosophy has much in common with that of philosophers in the Socratic tradition in terms of orientation and rhetorical style. Focusing on Movements of Thought, the latest edition of Wittgenstein's Koder Diaries, I argue that the convergence of philosophical and personal remarks in Wittgenstein's handwritten manuscripts is the result of writing in the form of hypomnemata or private notes or exhortations to the self with the intention of capturing the movements of thought and working on oneself. Reading the Socratic dialogues, one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing & clarify nothing. (Wittgenstein 1980: 14; 1998: 21)

Benefits and Challenges of Shadow Education in Mathematics Learning

Shadow education is known as the education which is given or received in the form of private tutoring at home or at some other place and other than regular school. This has now a days remarkable effects on the society and school going students. This has gained so much popularity that students want to join it so that they can gain some conceptual knowledge about the subject. In schools mathematics knowledge plays an important role in the growth and development of the child and so for the nation. There is a strong connection between the mathematics subject and shadow education. Mathematics is one way easy, simple, conceptual and practical but on the other hand for some it is just the opposite. The students and even many parents feel that it is hard, complicated and its language is different and also some chapters and topics of the higher classes are difficult to understand and of no use ever. It is said that everything has its good and bad aspects. So there are challenges associated with shadow education and mathematics education. Among all the subjects taught in schools, mathematics plays an important role in us. The data for this research was collected through interviews with the children who participated in shadow education for improvement and good scores in mathematics. The researcher applied phenomenological approach for the study. There is an involvement of three students of class 10th grade waiting for class examination results, purposive sampling was used. Data collection was done keeping in mind that there is an impact on personal growth and gaining conceptual knowledge of mathematics, for personality development and also mental development. This study provides insights for educators, students and policy maker and parents. It aims to develop the needs and concerns of students who are engage in shadow education.

The national myth in S. Clarke’s novel “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell”

The purpose of this article is to study the constituent elements of the English national myth, embodied in the novel “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” by Susanna Clark (2004). The work gained genuine success immediately after its appearance, but the reasons for this success have not been investigated to date. The literary criticism focused mainly on the way S. Clarke followed the English literary tradition associated with the names of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Walter Scott and other writers of the 19th century. The article traces S. Clark’s skill to handle different sides of the national myth, presented in the novel, by creating characteristic images, typical forms of private and public existence, images of English ethnopsychology, etc. S. Clark introduces into the narrative the oppositions characteristic of the national myth: “we – they”, “friend – foe”, defining the plot conflicts. The result of this is an absolute harmony of the novel pathos with the hypostases of modern English consciousness and an artistic summation of England’s place in the world, its role in human history.

Management consultants and university futures: Academic capitalism and the capture of UK public higher education

IMPACT STATEMENT This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple areas of governance and management. Aided by legislative changes designed to promote competition and enable for-profit providers to capture the rents provided by public higher education, these firms promote forms of marketization and privatization that are radically re-purposing the mission of the public university. Unbundling and financialization of university assets is central to that project. The article reveals how consultancy firms used the Covid 19 crisis not only to increase their influence but, through a series of ‘crisis narrative’ reports, to advocate strategies for fundamentally altering the entire public university system, locking in permanent changes and structures of managerialism that are anathema to the principles of public higher education. The article is a warning to policy-makers to beware the free-market fantasies and self-serving scenarios that these consultancy firms advocate.

The Ethics of Commons Organizing: A Critical Reading

AbstractIn this article, we seek to explore the different normative claims made around commons organizing and how the advent of the digital commons introduces new ethical questions. We do so by unpacking and categorizing the specific ethical dimensions that differentiate the commons from other forms of organizing and by discussing them in the light of debates around the governance of participative organizations, the cornerstone of commons organizing (Ostrom in Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990). Rather than contesting commons organizing or endorsing it blindly, our goal is to critically reflect on its deontological and instrumental assumptions, and analyze the arguments upholding that it possesses ethical qualities that render it fairer, more equitable and sustainable than other centralized or hierarchical models—as well as any forms of privatization. We conclude by assessing the definitional dislocation of the digital commons where, unlike traditional commons, extractability can be endless and generate unintended consequences such as commodification or alienation. Taking stock of recent debates around the digital commons, we open the debate for future possible research avenues on normative claims, particularly under rapidly changing technological conditions.

Time and title deeds in post-reform agrarian Kenya

AbstractThe ‘title deed fix’ – resurgent globally since the 1990s – is part of a wave of market-led agrarian reforms whose outcomes have been mixed. Kenya was the first African country to experiment – starting six decades ago and continuing today – with state-mandated formal land registration and private titling. Today it is among a handful to begin a transition to a digitized land registry. Behind both paper and electronic land documents, however, is a persistent temporal fiction that undergirds state-backed title registries – namely, a constructed present that is out of sync with intersecting biographical and structural temporalities, and that can efface socially recognized pasts, commitments or testimonials. We analyse some consequences of those temporal dissonances, unstable rights durations, and an ensuing limbo that can last decades, through family land stories shared with us during long-term ethnographic research in Kenya’s fertile central highlands. Especially vulnerable to temporal erasure and dispossession when title deed limbo spans decades are divorced or single women and their children, particularly as farmland and non-agricultural employment become more scarce and land markets overheat. Multitemporal family narratives powerfully illustrate why title deeds of any age are best taken as provisional truths rather than legal certainties, and why tenure security is an unstable and reversible process rather than a present or absent condition.

Fidelity of implementation of national guidelines on malaria diagnosis for children under-five years in Rivers State, Nigeria

BackgroundMalaria is still a disease of global public health importance and children under-five years of age are the most vulnerable to the disease. Nigeria adopted the “test and treat” strategy in the national malaria guidelines as one of the ways to control malaria transmission. The level of adherence to the guidelines is an important indicator for the success or failure of the country’s roadmap to malaria elimination by 2030. This study aimed to assess the fidelity of implementation of the national guidelines on malaria diagnosis for children under-five years and examine its associated moderating factors in health care facilities in Rivers State, Nigeria.MethodsThis was a descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted in Port Harcourt metropolis. Data were collected from 147 public, formal private and informal private health care facilities. The study used a questionnaire developed based on Carroll’s Conceptual Framework for Implementation Fidelity. Frequency, mean and median scores for implementation fidelity and its associated factors were calculated. Associations between fidelity and the measured predictors were examined using Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test, and multiple linear regression modelling using robust estimation of errors. Regression results are presented in adjusted coefficient (β) and 95% confidence intervals.ResultsThe median (IQR) score fidelity score for all participants was 65% (43.3, 85). Informal private facilities (proprietary patent medicine vendors) had the lowest fidelity scores (47%) compared to formal private (69%) and public health facilities (79%). Intervention complexity had a statistically significant inverse relationship to implementation fidelity (β = − 1.89 [− 3.42, − 0.34]). Increase in participant responsiveness (β = 8.57 [4.83, 12.32]) and the type of malaria test offered at the facility (e.g., RDT vs. no test, β = 16.90 [6.78, 27.03]; microscopy vs. no test, β = 21.88 [13.60, 30.16]) were positively associated with fidelity score.ConclusionsThis study showed that core elements of the “test and treat” strategy, such as testing all suspected cases with approved diagnostic methods before treatment, are still not fully implemented by health facilities. There is a need for strategies to increase fidelity, especially in the informal private health sector, for malaria elimination programme outcomes to be achieved.

Doing enactment within the logics of policy privatisation: how inclusion policy can be interpreted and translated for English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) students

The logics of policy privatisation in schooling, including decentralisation, school autonomy, and discretionary funding mechanisms, shift responsibility for particular types of students onto individual schools and their staff. Burch (2021) asks to what extent the most disadvantaged students in government schools are able to access services most beneficial to them, under these emerging forms of privatisation. With this question in mind, this paper considers the delivery of English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) services under the umbrella of the Queensland Department of Education Inclusion policy, in two Queensland government secondary schools. We tease out how the Inclusive Education (IE) policy, of which EAL/D is a subset, is interpreted and translated (Ball et al. 2012) in the situation of privatisation practices. We found that inclusion was understood as primarily targeted at students with disabilities, and that mainstreaming of all learners was considered unsustainable for teachers. In interpreting and translating inclusion for EAL/D, both schools pushed back against the ‘mainstreaming’ discourse, and instead, EAL/D service was provided through targeted programs, staffed with key specialist personnel. In both cases, privatisation logics enabled the ‘EAL/D aware’ principals to justify and enact specialised EAL/D services. In this policy context, there is a need for widespread professional development to ensure all principals understand and apply appropriate supports for EAL/D learners.

Associations between interconnectedness, compassion, and participation in collective action for people with mental illness: A random-intercept cross-lagged panel modeling approach.

The present study aims to prospectively investigate the relationships between interconnectedness, compassion, and participation in private and public forms of collective action for people with mental illness. Public form refers to collective action at the macrolevel such as large-scale protests and demonstrations going on in the communities. Private form refers to collective action happening at the microlevel that targets promoting awareness of social inequalities and positive changes among personal social circles, such as calling out microaggressions or correcting others' stigmatizing language. Eligible responses from 501 participants were collected at baseline, with 345 and 318 participants retained at 6-month and 12-month follow-up assessments, respectively. Random-intercept cross-lagged panel models were conducted to investigate the mediating role of compassion in the relationships between interconnectedness and participation in private and public forms of collective action. Interconnectedness was consistently associated with a higher frequency of participation in private form, but not public form, of collective action at subsequent time points. Contrary to the hypothesis, results showed the nonsignificant mediating effect of compassion between interconnectedness and participation in both forms of collective action. The present study highlights the potential of interconnectedness in promoting a private form of collective action for the rights of people with mental illness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

What do private providers of home care want? An analytical framework

ABSTRACT Private for-profit home care providers are key participants in European long-term care regimes. Yet, their policy preferences toward market making and market development remain under-researched. We present an analytical framework that identifies and explains those preferences. It outlines three key types of policies that shape home care markets: regulatory, financial and labour policies. We illustrate private providers’ views on those policies by reference to Ireland’s home care regime. Irish home care is a compelling case for this study. A major package of regulatory reforms is currently being introduced and private providers have outlined clear preferences about it. Our paper is based on interviews with 14 leading individuals involved in the home care sector. We find and explain how private providers wish to increase regulation over their activities; to split purchaser and provider roles; to reduce private forms of financing; and to expand the pool of labour available to them. We discuss how those preferences shed light on the political economic power dynamics that shape the Irish care regime. Our analytical framework may be applicable to other welfare markets at different stages of development and in other institutional contexts.

SOCIALISATION CONTEXTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITALIZATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND WAR: STATUS AND PROBLEMS (based on the materials of the empirical research)

The article presents the materials of a research aimed at identifying the peculiarities of the socialization of students of general secondary education institutions of communal and private forms of ownership in the conditions of digitalization of the educational environment and war, collected through an online survey. Based on the data of the empirical research, the socialization contexts of the development of students of the 5th – 11th grades were singled out; its interpretation was carried out in relation to the actual needs of schoolchildren and satisfaction in the conditions of the educational environment. Socialization contexts are structured into ten lines of development of schoolchildren, namely: social-emotional development, social-communicative interaction, social behaviour, sociallyoriented activity, social activity and initiative, social competence, social well-being, social experience, social (digital) identification, social expectations, which are revealed in an integrative relationship and with a certain penetration of the socio-emotional. Using examples of the features of the socialization contexts of schoolchildren’s development in the conditions of digitalization of the educational environment and war, signs of the manifestation of tendencies are outlined and possible risks of their development are predicted. The study reflects the age-specific peculiarities of thinking and skills of adolescent and senior schoolchildren, their assessment of the situation of social development in the educational environment and the possibilities of their own participation in its optimisation, as well as their idea of an ideal educational environment. The data of the experimental section can also be interpreted in terms of the state of the social component of learning losses in its individual characteristics, and can be used to optimise educational practice, in particular, to design the educational and developmental environment of general secondary education students during the war and in post-war reconstruction.

The Gendered Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Employment in Argentina: The Mediating Role of the Public vs. Private Sectors

This study examines the COVID-19 pandemic’s immediate and long-term impact on Argentina’s labor market with a focus on gender disparities and the mediating role of the public vs. private sectors. Using household survey data, we assess men and women’s employment trends before, during, and after the pandemic. Our findings reveal gender-specific recovery patterns that interact with the employment sector. The most prominent short-term effect of the pandemic was a dramatic increase in inactivity for both men and women. However, men recovered their level of labor force participation sooner than women, and one of the mechanisms behind this disparity was sector employment. While men predominantly benefitted from quicker reintegration in both the formal and informal private sectors, women leaned toward the public sector for stability during and after the pandemic. The heightened feminization of public sector employment is a further indication that the sector is critical for sustaining women’s employment and promoting gender equity in the labor market.

Public Provision in Democratic Societies

If we hope to see values of equality and democracy embodied in our societies’ institutions, then we have a range of good reasons to favor expansive public provision of goods and services, and to oppose many forms of privatization. While Joseph Heath is right to argue that there are at least some forms of ‘anodyne privatization’, and while he is also right to argue for a more nuanced philosophical debate about the different dimensions of choice between forms of public and private provision, Heath fails to register various regards in which private provision can undermine these central public values. We often have strong egalitarian and democratic reasons to protect zones of decommodification; to resist the imposition of user-charges; and to favor insourcing and direct public procurement over various forms of outsourcing of public services. Public libraries provide a totemic illustration of some of the deep virtues of collective public provision in democratic societies. Overall, our reasons to reject privatization are stronger and more diverse than theorists such as Heath might have supposed.

Социально-психологические особенности внутриличностных конфликтов

The category of intrapersonal conflicts combines psychological conflicts, consisting in the collision of various personal formations, represented in the mind of a person by corresponding experiences. The conflict, which manifests itself in local, private forms, performs a complex diverse load, both positive and negative, precisely at the level of intrapersonal manifestation. One of the causes of intrapersonal conflict can be considered a high level of subjective control over emotionally positive events and situations, on the one hand, and the inability to achieve the desired level, on the other.

Investigation of the Problems of Vocational Education in China

With the rapid development of China's industrialised society, the state has actively carried out vocational education-related courses and policies, however, there are still serious problems to overcome. This study focuses on analyzing and reflecting on the dilemmas and challenges of vocational development in China, such as the lack of teachers and the high dropout rate in today's vocational education by presenting appropriate views and conducting research. The paper suggests that the low quality of teachers is due to the public's elitist ideology, where good teachers prefer to go to formal schools or private institutions to gain higher social status and salary. The high dropout rate is because more Chinese students choose vocational schools. After all, they do not get into high school and the curriculum is unsatisfactory. In addition, Sweden and Finland, as leading countries in vocational education, were used as a control study, China can learn from the appropriate policies to improve the current dilemma of vocational education in China. However, due to differences in national systems and policies, China still needs to consider its situation while adopting the recommendations.

FORMS AND FACTORS CAUSING MORAL DECADENCE OF THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION IN SOCIAL COMMUNITY

This research is motivated by the moral decadence in the current millennial era when the flow of modernization is able to present everything that has an impact on the moral decline of the Indonesian population, especially among the youth. The moral crisis experienced, especially among youth, has become widespread and could threaten the future of the nation. The aim of this research is to describe the forms and factors causing the moral decadence of the millennial generation in society's social life. This research was carried out using library research , which is research whose objects are searched for using various library information such as books, scientific journals, magazines, newspapers and documents . If researchers do not have their own reading sources, they can look in libraries, both formal institutional libraries and private libraries. The results of the research show that cultivating character in the family environment is not enough for moral construction because when they grow up the child will find a new environment which will also shape his personality. Cultivating character in the family environment will become the foundation for further character, but quite a few experience setbacks due to the influence of the new environment. In constructing the moral generation of the nation, three elements of the state which include society, government and the private sector must build synergy in creating Indonesia's golden generation. Meanwhile, the government, with its main duties as a policy maker, can create educational regulations that are oriented towards instilling noble values, as well as developing the character of young Indonesian intellectuals. Character development in formal education institutions has not achieved the expected output. Much of character education is in the form of theory, without any room for implementation of character or moral values. Furthermore, the presence of human rights (HAM) also becomes a pathology in character development, because human rights indirectly limit the domination of teaching staff over students.

Развитие высшего образования в России: парадигма фундаментальности

The subject of the study is the fundamental problems of the development of higher education in Russia, due to the need to neutralize the destructive reforms implemented in the 1990s, ensuring a return to the basic principles of fundamental, rather than competence–based education. The purpose of the work is to identify the needs for a reverse transition from competencies to fundamental education with the deployment of personnel planning at the macroeconomic level of management of the Russian state. The research methodology consists of comparative institutional analysis, conceptual approaches to assessing the impact of higher education on economic development. It is concluded that the application of the Bologna education system has caused the undermining of the competitiveness of Russian universities, reducing the effectiveness of training highly qualified specialists. There was an effect of emasculating the procedures for training highly qualified personnel, and dysfunction in the activities of higher education in Russia increased. This was facilitated by the lack of planning at the federal level for the training of personnel for the national economy. The result of the analysis boils down to the fact that in relation to Russia, the doctrine of socialization of higher education should be implemented in full accordance with the Constitution as the basic source of the Russian legal system, where Russia is called a social state. This means equal and free access to higher education, which ensures the reproduction of national personnel (and not the provision of services), regardless of the level of personal income. Thus, in the strategic dimension, it is necessary to strengthen public higher education, which provides for the elimination of private forms of organization of this activity that have shown their inefficiency, and the establishment of a common vector for the de-elitization of higher education. It is concluded that the main emphasis in personnel training should be placed on increasing the knowledge intensity and research component of higher education in various specialties. It requires the training of a significant layer of specialists in each field with the strengthening of their general fundamental training. It is useful to recreate the system of employment of specialists in the public and private sectors of the economy.