Interdependence Of Governments Research Articles

Why AI is a Threat to the Rule of Law

This paper will argue that recent developments in AI technology and its role in digital capitalism threaten the rule of law. AI (or the companies who control it) promotes and monetizes free speech, political competition, and other aspects of democracy, while our societies have been shifting towards a “rule of code,” i.e., a system in which source code is able to put meaningful restraints not only on any individuals and institutions within a society, but also on law and the State. Based on Lawrence Lessig’s “Code is Law,” this paper will draw a more elaborated picture of “regulating AI” according to which AI is not only something that is to be regulated but also something that actively regulates individual and institutional behavior. From this background, it will be argued that, given the interdependence of governments and big tech corporations, free and open societies need to regain control over source code and the critical digital infrastructure to avoid being regulated by private companies that develop, control, and promote AI.

The Real World of Interdependence of Governments and Corporations: What We Know vs. What We Teach

The conventional wisdom we encounter in public discourse is that governments and the private sector in the United States are separate and hostile. We are told every day that a core political conflict of our time is between governmental and private power, and that these run on incompatible worldviews: politics versus markets. Governments, we are told, are the opposite of markets, and only one of these worldviews offers the best way to organize our lives and solve our problems. Many, perhaps most, Americans share this belief that governments and the private sector have inherently conflicting roles in American society. Textbooks and journalism reinforce this belief by presenting politics and government as sharply separate from private and economic activity. Because of this misunderstanding, much of American public debate is stale and dysfunctional, bickering about symbols and illusions rather than focusing on real choices about the exercise of power. This pattern is likely to continue to 2020 and beyond unless we challenge it and offer more realistic and constructive alternatives. A clearer understanding of the real nature of public and private can lead to revitalized politics and policy agendas at all levels.

Business-local government Interdependence and Corporate Social Responsibility Intention in China

This research examines how business-local government interdependence influences firm corporate social responsibility (CSR) intention. Specifically, based on resource dependence theory, we propose that when firms are more dependent on political resources possessed by local government, firms would be more intent to use CSR as a political instrument to restructure their interdependence with local government; when local government is more dependent on firm economic resources, firms may shirk CSR opportunistically. Moreover, we suggest that the above relationship be contingent on firm pollution visibility, political connections, and the claim urgency of the local government. We use a nation-wide survey of 1,268 firms to test these hypotheses and obtain supports from the statistical analysis.

Business and government interdependence in emerging economies: Insights from hotels in Ghana

AbstractAlthough social science research is replete with scholarly works on capacity building, relatively few studies have focused on how government can induce capacity building among privately owned enterprises in emerging economies. We seek to fill the lacuna in our understanding by examining how a government can induce capacity building among privately owned enterprises. The study adopted a qualitative approach using semi‐structured interviews with hotel owners, employees, and managers, as well as government officials in Ghana to examine the issue. We identified three unique stages through which such capacity‐building initiatives unfold encompassing diagnosing, renewal, and customer centricity. The study revealed that capacity building through collaborative partnership was partly motivated by desire to overcome societal resistance to services seen as “tainted.” The concluding section outlines a number of theoretical and practical implications.

High School Civics Textbooks: What We Know Versus What We Teach about American Politics and Public Policy

Scholars of American politics and public policy recognize the interdependence of governments and corporations in the United States. This article presents research findings that high school civics textbooks, where most Americans first encounter the research and theories of political science, have little to say about this interdependence. This challenges our civic education aspirations and leaves many Americans without means of understanding or effectively engaging important current public policy controversies. One possible remedy: include interdependence in textbook treatments of the separation of powers.

Multi-level fiscal system in Bosnia and Herzegovina: evolution and coping with economic crisis

Fiscal federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina is characterized by multi-level asymmetric architecture of government sector and a high degree of fiscal decentralization. Reform of indirect taxation has resulted in centralization of the major part of the revenues in B&H and induced a high degree of fiscal interdependence of governments. In the absence of national economic and fiscal goals and fiscal coordination required during the global economic crisis, strong autonomous activities of the Entities and District have been expressed. Uncoordinated and divergent responses to the crisis in addition to distorting the achieved degree of tax harmonization within B&H has led to a widening fiscal deficit and the rapid growth of borrowing at all levels of government. The aim of this paper is to propose a new model of fiscal coordination in B&H that would mitigate the negative effects of fiscal decentralization on macroeconomic management. The key hypothesis is that, in given political constraints, only a concept of fiscal federalism that includes comprehensive, institutionalized and obligatory fiscal coordination can ensure a coherent response to the crisis.

Business and government interdependence in China: Cooperative goals to develop industries and the marketplace

Although government withdrawal from business has traditionally been considered a key reform in developing a market economy, the Chinese government remains active. This study uses the social psychological theory of cooperation and competition to analyze the interdependence between government and business. Structural equation results of interviews of specific incidents collected from 105 government officials and business people in Shanghai, China, support the model that cooperative, but not competitive or independent, goals induce open-minded discussions that in turn strengthen their relationships, accomplish tasks, foster confidence they will work productively in the future, and develop their industry and the marketplace.

Business-government relations and interdependence: a managerial and analytic perspective

Business-Government Relations and Interdependence: In Search of an Exploratory Framework The Impact of Regulatory Cooperation on Business-Government Relations Private Sector Managerial Attitudes in Business-Government Relations Informed Public Managerial Perceptions of Business-Government Relations A Comparative Perspective on Public and Private Attitudes Relating to Business and Government Interdependence The Grace Commission Controversy: An Exemplar of Nonproductive Government and Business Relations Conclusions, Implications, and Recommendations Relevant to Cooperative, Adversarial, Accommodative, and Systematic Approaches to Business-Government Relations Bibliography Index