Logic Of Governance Research Articles

The Logic and Practical Path of Resilience-based Emergency Governance in Chinese Universities

The Logic and Practical Path of Resilience-based Emergency Governance in Chinese Universities

Ignoring by complying: How public officials handle hybridity to pursue the goals of new public governance

AbstractThe article draws on insights from the literature on street‐level bureaucracy to analyze how public officials experience and deal with challenges arising from hybrid governance. Empirically, we focus on managerial staff and front‐line workers employed in Danish employment service delivery organizations, respectively. We develop the term “ignoring by complying” to describe how informants pursue ideals associated with new public governance (NPG) in settings dominated by more than one governance logic. They comply with the minimum standards associated with the logics of public administration (PA) and new public management (NPM) in order to ignore such logics most of the time. The article thereby contributes to the growing bodies of literature on cross‐pressures in public bureaucracies, particularly by putting recent street‐level bureaucracy research in touch with literature on hybrid governance.

The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking

Risk theories have dominated research on policing and punishment for the past 30 years, including a growing interest in crime prevention. Drawing on excerpts from court documents of 351 counterterrorism stings, an empirical exemplar in contemporary crime prevention, I demonstrate that these cases both defy the logics of actuarial risk governance and exceed the logics of precautionary risk governance in three ways: (1) who they target; (2) how they assess these targets; and (3) what they target as a sign of dangerousness. Engaging core biopolitical ideas, including the notion of the criminal “other”, I build a theory of threat thinking, speaking to shared cultural beliefs that exceed formal governance. Threat thinking offers fresh insights into criminal justice practices in contemporary terrorism prevention and beyond, while also explaining why both adherence to risk management and rejection of it result in such similar outcomes: future-oriented strategies that disproportionately target minoritized groups.

Green resilience: Securing life through vegetal being

This paper critically examines the concept of “green resilience” – the mobilization of gardens and urban green spaces for enhancing the resilience of communities and cities in the face of increasing uncertainty and risk. Drawing inspiration from seminal work in human-plant geographies, it explores the governmental functions and political implications of green resilience, arguing that these spaces serve as key forms of state rule and biopolitical power.The study employs the notion of green resilience as a “composition,” emphasizing the assembling of diverse human and nonhuman actors in resilience projects. The developed compositional ontology highlights the importance of aesthetic and visual practices in green resilience projects and reveals how these are continuously decomposed and recomposed by the involved actors.The paper develops its arguments through a “paradigmatic case study” of various green resilience projects in New York City – including survivor trees, memorial groves, and community gardens. The study illuminates the multiplicity of green resilience initiatives and the underlying governmental logic by comparing these projects. Through its analysis, the paper contributes to the literature on resilience as an emerging governance paradigm. It reveals how green resilience projects embody a multiplicity of practices, uncovers the first comprehensive comparative analysis of various forms of green resilience, and offers a critique of resilience from within. The study concludes by identifying three tensions or contradictions of (green) resilience as a form of biopolitical government: visibility and invisibility, knowledge and ignorance, and control and emergence.

Dialectic and Life-cycle of Institutional Logics in IT Governance: Insights from Healthcare Context

In a complex organizational setting, various stakeholders maintain and display diverse institutional logics due to the different nature of their professional backgrounds. Prior studies show that the existence of these multiple institutional logics often leads to competing interplay that instills conflict. However, little is known about how these institutional logics change and develop in a broader organizational discourse. To address this knowledge gap, the present study reports empirical findings from six public hospitals in Indonesia, investigating the dynamic interplay between stakeholders with different institutional logics that influence and shape IT governance. Our analyses suggest that institutional logics change and develop in two modes of change: dialectical and life-cycle modes, in which multiple logics contradict and/or evolve in response to their institutional environments. Our study offers a new understanding of the dynamics of the underlying institutional logics of IT governance.

The moral (bio)politics of the abnormal: Situating a Southwest China border town in global AIDS governance

This paper analyses the interaction of two models in the social process of global AIDS governance and explores the possibilities of innovation in the social response to risk. The two moral regimes by which to cope with problematized situations in the contemporary world are conceptualized as the “center” and the “border”. The center promotes a normative discourse in the name of defending society, reifying order and pursuing cost-effectiveness in operations. The border undertakes exploratory social action guided by a specific idea of “goodness”. While the two approaches engage in continuous battles, with integration and penetration between them, in the case of people living with HIV worldwide, they were first degraded into a separated biomedical pariah population, and then were brought under the strict medical regime of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). This shift between abject exclusion and exceptional inclusion indicates the meta-structure of life governance in the contemporary world. China's border cities are key outposts of global AIDS governance that reflect how the institutional deployment of exclusion and inclusion extends from global to local. The “ zuo aizibing” (doing AIDS projects) in Biancheng, a Southwest China border town, embody typically as well as uniquely the complicated “center–border” entanglement. Border-organized “infected peer groups” are embedded in the local official governance system, manifesting as “front-line foot soldiers” serving the center by facilitating a smoother integration of the city's HIV-positive population into the public health monitoring system, where they are disciplined to become docile medical subjects. However, such groups, in adaptable symbiosis with this normative deployment, have also been able to independently open up entirely new fields of social action, allowing a humanitarian vision to be mediated, “translated”, and implemented. Through the transmission of knowledge, affection, and vitality, such groups have freed their HIV-positive peers, otherwise abandoned by the normative logic of AIDS governance, from stigmatization and from being limited by disease and treatment, to start pursuing new forms of life. As a global social experiment, the border, as revealed by AIDS, has far-reaching implications for exploring the inclusive and open potential of society itself.

The Communality of Risk: Differentiating the Logic of Risk Governance Based on Evolutionary Game Theory

The Communality of Risk: Differentiating the Logic of Risk Governance Based on Evolutionary Game Theory

"Duh u svetu bez duha" - Fukoovo tumačenje Iranske revolucije i otpor zapadnoj modernosti

In this article, we analyze Foucault's research of the Iranian Revolution, conducted at the end of 1978. This research has made Foucault the target of numerous criticisms from his contemporaries, while later interpreters of his work have tried in various ways to understand how this research relates to the rest of his oeuvre. A review of the relevant literature shows that there are different currents in interpreting the place that the study of the Iranian Revolution has in Foucault's work. One of these currents argues that Foucault was "seduced" by the "irrational" aspects of Islam because his theoretical and epistemological standpoints inherently contain anti-Enlightenment aspects. A certain number of authors also agree on the interpretation that sees inconsistency in Foucault's study of the Iranian Revolution, as they believe that at this point, he abandons his understanding of power as a totalizing mechanism and introduces the idea of a free acting subject. We will attempt to show that both currents miss the most important aspect of Foucault's research of the Iranian Revolution, which is the way this research fits into his academic interests at that time. Specifically, we will try to locate his study of the Iranian Revolution within the framework of his academic research in the late 1970s, as well as show how the socio-political context of France at that time influenced his work. We will start the article by examining the relationship between French left-leaning intellectuals and the French Communist Party during this period, as well as their stance on the coalition between the French Communist Party and the Socialist Party. We will show that due to the influence of cooperation with Maoist organizations and his participation in the student revolt of 1968, Foucault developed a negative attitude towards the Stalinist orientations of the French Communist Party and therefore at that time tries to develop a theoretical framework for a non-Marxist understanding of macro-social reality. In such a context, Foucault develops his theory of "governmentality", which refers to the specific logic of social relations that regulates the institutions of society in a given historical period. The set of institutions and social relations that governmentality regulates he calls a "dispositive". Foucault's research leads him to the conclusion that the dispositive regulating contemporary society is guided by the logic he calls "pastoral governmentality", claiming that it involves regulating individuals' actions through their dimension of subjectivity, i.e., through the way they relate to themselves and manage their behavior. Furthermore, he demonstrates how this logic, rooted in the Catholic Church, extends to other social institutions from the seventeenth century and becomes associated with the capitalist mode of production in the eighteenth century. It then assumes a role in regulating individuals' subjectivity in accordance with the concept of the individual as homo economicus. Aligning with his concept of governmentality, Foucault develops the notion of "counter-conduct" as a form of resistance to pastoral governmentality. This idea involves rejecting the prescribed model of subjectivity and, consequently, developing practices that transcend the power relations shaped by pastoral governmentality. We will demonstrate that Foucault's research of the Iranian Revolution serves as a real-time, practical test of his idea of counter-conduct. Namely, he claimed that the reforms of the Iranian Shah aimed at establishing a dispositive guided by the pastoral logic of governmentality. Therefore, he sees the Iranian Revolution as a collective revolt against the dispositive that has been dominant in Western countries since the seventeenth century. In his study of the Iranian Revolution, he is particularly interested in the role of Shia Islam in regulating practices of resistance. He sees Shiism as the discourse through which the Iranian Revolution as a collective form of counter-conduct is coordinated and argues that this form of Islam allows revolutionaries to transform their subjectivity by rejecting the model of subjectivity prescribed by pastoral governmentality. Finally, the article concludes with a review of two ways in which the study of the Iranian Revolution fundamentally affects Foucault's work. The first way involves a shift in the focus of his research, which from 1979. becomes centered on the phenomenon of subjectivity. Thus, during the 1980s, Foucault's work involves exploring various models of subjectivity in the history of Western culture. The second influence of the Iranian Revolution can be observed in Foucault's renewed focus on the concept and phenomenon of the Enlightenment.

Employee share ownership and human resource management: between shareholder and partnership approaches to governance

Using a novel dataset built from the REPONSE 2017 and the FEAS databases, this article highlights the links between employee ownership, HRM practices and industrial relations in French listed companies. We explore the effects of employee ownership intensity (proportion of capital held) and extent (proportion of employee shareholders), as well as the effects of their interaction. Our results suggest contrasting governance logics depending on whether we consider the intensity or the extent of employee ownership, between a shareholder approach on the one hand and a partnership approach on the other.

An Exploration of the Governance Logic of Internet Platform Autonomy

An Exploration of the Governance Logic of Internet Platform Autonomy

Economy of Nature as the Logic of Government

The aim of this paper is to show that Foucault’s genealogy of liberal governmentality necessitates reconsideration in light of the history of biology and its societal implications. In his lectures at the Collège de France in the late 1970s, Foucault argued that the natural growth of the market is what ultimately verifies or falsifies the excellence of liberal governmentality. Liberal governmentality recognizes the intimate correlation between the physical and social dimensions in order to adapt its political action to the natural processes of the market. It follows that liberal governmentality rests upon a certain kind of naturalism and the knowledge that defines this form of naturalism is political economy, which explicates both the foundations and the limits of governmental action in the name of the nature of the market. Foucault thus accords significant importance to the concept of nature in liberal governmentality. However, his genealogy is confined to an inquiry into the naturalism of classical political economy, without considering the economicism of the emerging biological sciences. To expand upon Foucault’s genealogy, the present paper focuses on the influence of political economy in the development of the theory of evolution by natural selection. The locution “economy of nature” is introduced to denote the discursive formation that brings together the naturalism of classical political economy and the economism of early evolutionary biology. This study contends that this construct played a critical role in shaping liberal governmentality.

Reimagining net metering: A polycentric model for equitable solar adoption in the United States

Disparities in renewable energy deployment disproportionately afflict marginalized communities and slow the clean energy transition necessary to combat climate change. Most solutions focus on top-down government initiatives to subsidize renewable energy. However, this approach has had mixed efficacy, raises questions about the durability of support, and lacks political feasibility in certain contexts. We propose a new energy development model that leverages the logic of polycentric governance, which refers to having multiple centers of decision-making as opposed to one. Our model rethinks the practice of net metering, where households and organizations can sell excess power back to the grid. Rather than pocketing the proceeds, our model taps into individual altruism by allowing households and organizations to donate some of this money to build renewable energy for underserved communities. This could accelerate clean energy development by providing resources and fostering collaboration between communities and power companies. Our framework represents a novel decentralized approach to a “just energy transition” that complements government-led initiatives. This paper describes the program, discusses design issues, and presents proof-of-concept survey research from the United States.

A Community of Shared Future for Mankind and the Logic of Chinas Global Governance in the Post-COVID-19 Era

The concept of a community with a shared future has emerged as a guiding principle in global governance, emphasizing humanitys interconnectedness and shared interests. In the post-pandemic era, global governance faces unprecedented challenges and changes, impacting health security, economic recovery, and social stability. Amidst these changes, Chinas approach to international management has evolved, presenting innovative solutions and injecting new dynamics into the global landscape. This paper explores the relationship between a community with a shared future and Chinas global governance logic in the post-pandemic era. It examines the challenges of global governance in this new context and delves into Chinas specific practices within the framework of a community with a shared future. The study reviews Chinas efforts in global health governance, economic cooperation, development assistance, climate change, and sustainable development. Through qualitative and quantitative research methods, this study analyzes Chinas role in shaping the global landscape and the impact of a community with a shared future on international relations. The research draws from primary data collected through official documents, international agreements, and statements from relevant stakeholders. The findings reveal that Chinas emphasis on a community with a shared future has fostered increased cooperation and collaboration in various global governance areas. Chinas contributions to global health initiatives, economic partnerships, and sustainable development demonstrate its commitment to multilateralism and inclusive approaches to addressing global challenges.

Research Focuses and Evolution Trends of River Chief System: A Review of Papers Published from 2009 to 2022

This article presents a systematic review of studies of the River Chief System (RCS). It utilizes a dataset comprising 363 high-quality papers published between 2009 and 2022, sourced from the Web of Science and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), as the foundation for analysis. The primary research method employed is a literature review. Additionally, CiteSpace bibliometric software (v6.2.R2) is used to perform keyword analysis of RCS research. The key research findings include the following points. Firstly, research into RCS has undergone two phases. Secondly, the review presents several points emergent in the literature that have been the focus of much study, including governance logics, theoretical foundations, operational mechanisms, policy effects, and current challenges. Furthermore, the author identifies key trends in the evolution of RCS, such as public participation, the utilization of information technology, and the implementation of the Lake Chief System, Forestry Chief System, and Field Chief System, as well as the construction of a rule of law. Finally, the author suggests that international comparative studies and an inquiry into long-term mechanisms for the implementation of the RCS are needed. This paper provides the first systematic review of the growing literature on RCS, based on papers written in both Chinese and English. It maps out key research points, identifies research trends, and provides a deeper understanding to guide future research.

Administrative Authority-driven Public Engagement: A Case Study of Local Government’s Commendation Governance in China

In recent years, China’s central government has focused strategically on motivating local governments to allocate more administrative resources to enhance performance in non-economic areas, such as environmental and cultural services. As a governance practice, the central government has initiated “evaluation and commendation” campaigns among local governments. The main governance objective of these local government campaigns is to solicit public engagement, including public participation, support, and actions. Based on a case study of the campaign to establish a National Civilised City, this paper presents the local government’s governance logic, operating mechanism, and governance performance in soliciting public engagement in “evaluation and commendation” activities. We find that in “evaluation and commendation” campaigns, characterised by short-term authority commendation incentives and shortage of governance resources, the local governments adopted the unusual governance mechanism of “administrative authority-driven public engagement”, using both flexible and mandatory strategies. The flexibility strategy leads to the active participation of citizens, but the mandatory strategy makes public engagement stay at the superficial level, characterised by surface-level cooperation and inner rejection, causing partial exclusion and separation between the government and the public, in turn exhibiting a “ratchet effect” in governance performance.

The education of international educators: A personal view

Background“Que voyager c’est apprendre à vivre”. This is how Montaigne starts one his essays, “traveling is learning to live”. It was certainly my story. And this story begins in the 1970s. I went to the U.S. for graduate education, my interests have always been the psychology of learning and its practical implications for education. During my doctoral studies, I had the opportunity to engage in international projects led by my thesis advisor, Robert Morgan. At the time he was one of the principal advisors of the educational reform in Korea. In the early seventies there was great optimism about the potential of "new technologies," including emerging ones like Educational Radio, Educational TV, and Computer-based education. Ronald Gass was leading CERI – a Center for Educational Innovation at the OCDE, sponsored a tour which provided me with a taste of educational developments in Europe and also gave me to opportunity to evaluate a distance-learning program in Portugal. This is how I entered the world of international education.Returning to Brazil after completing my doctorate in the USA – I think I was the first Brazilian to obtain a doctoral degree in Education - I actively participated in various initiatives in Brazil between 1973 and 1986, including the Ministry of Education, in the area of distance education, in the Ministry of Planning, in the areas of Science and Technology and in a special non-portfolio Ministry in charge of “De-bureaucratization”. These experiences in my own country provided me with valuable insights into the possibilities and limitations of change, innovation, technology, and reforms in general.Three significant experiences shaped my understanding of change processes and their impact.First and more important, I learned that implementing educational technology projects was an attractive proposition, innovations are always welcome, but scaling up and interfering with regular school operations remained a chimera.Second, I witnessed the launching and implementation of policies and institutions in the fields of science and technology, the major push came from the Ministry of Planning. This effort taught me the importance of a strong start, selecting competent leaders and individuals with appropriate credentials. I also learned to recognize the significance of institution-building as a foundation for sustainable change.A third, and pivotal experience, was related to large-scale administrative reform.A special ministry was created to simplify rules and regulations in a highly bureaucratic and formalistic culture. I learned how power, bureaucracy and corruption were deeply interwined. I also learned that while initiating change may be relatively straightforward, the resilience of bureaucracies often undermines the best intentions. Bringing about and sustaining change requires addressing both structural and attitudinal transformations. Leadership, continuity, and accountability are essential. Chance can also play a role.These experiences led me to delve into the study of organizations and organizational change. A post-doc at Stanford Business School gave me the opportunity to study, learn, and exchange ideas with various experts on the sociology of organizations, such as Jim March (bounded rationality), Richard Scott (formal organizations), Judith Tendler (Inside Foreign Aid), Aaron Wildawsky (Implementation), and John Meyer (Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony), among many others. Despite the warnings, knowledge, and experience, hope prevailed.Despite being based in Brazil, throughout this period, I was engaged in numerous consultancy activities over the years, collaborating with organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS), UNESCO, OECD, and USAID in various countries. I learned a great deal from Dean Jamison and François Orivel about economics and cost/effectiveness studies, and also learned how evidence played such a minor role in actual decision-making. I also learned a great deal about implementation of large-scale projects in several consulting missions with Emile McAnany and John Mayo. Throughout these experiences, I learned far more than I contributed.Just before joining the World Bank in 1986, I sought to understand how Brazil interacted with the institution. In a conversation with the Brazilian Minister of Planning at the time, I obtained an extremely valuable piece of information: Brazil was primarily interested in obtaining "hard currency" rather than specific projects. This revelation made me realize that the logic and intentions of the local government differed significantly from those of financiers or even sectoral ministries. This early insight made me aware of the limitations of project-based change. With this background, I could not be accused of naivety. And so, my international journey continued.

Governance Logic and Action Path of Chinese off-campus Training Institutions under the Double Reduction Policy

Governance Logic and Action Path of Chinese off-campus Training Institutions under the Double Reduction Policy

Juridical Analysis of Requirements for Candidates for Village Apparatus Based on Bojonegoro Regency Regional Regulation Number 4 of 2019 concerning Village Apparatus Juncto Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 67 of 2017 concerning Appointment and D

Completion of village officials is a routine agenda that is usually held in a democratic system in village governance. This is a form of local democracy, namely the implementation of democracy at the village level, the democratic appointment of village officials promises the establishment of a representative government. Law No. 6 of 2014 requires that the appointment of village officials in Article 50 letter (c) is domiciled in the local village or at least resides at least 1 (one) year before registration. Whereas in the Regional Regulation of Bojonegoro Regency Number 4 of 2019 the appointment of village officials does not require that they have to live in the local village. Based on the elaboration above, the authors take the following formulation of the problem: What are the arrangements for filling in village officials according to Law Number 6 of 2014 and Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 67 of 2017? The purpose of this study was to find out the filling arrangements for village officials according to Law Number 6 of 2014 and Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 67 of 2017. normative law in the form of literature review which is carried out by tracing primary and secondary legal materials, which is carried out through a study of statutory regulations and other legal materials. Law Number 6 of 2014 and Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 67 of 2017 have the same conditions for appointing village officials, namely they must be registered as villagers. As explained in Article 50 paragraph (1) letter c of Law Number 6 of 2014 and Article 2 paragraph (1) of the Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 67 of 2017. This requirement is intended to ensure that prospective village officials understand the character and culture of village communities. Article 2 Paragraph (1) Bojonegoro Regency Regional Regulation Number 4 of 2019 is not in line with the aforementioned Law and Permendagri. As a community that is given the right to govern, village government should not be equated with the logic of regional or national head government. In addition, there are concerns about the potential for exploitation of village resources for the personal interests of village elites if government positions or village officials are filled by people who do not come from or live in the village and do not know the ins and outs of the village.

Institutional boundaries and the challenges of aligning science advice and policy dynamics: the UK and Canada in the time of COVID-19.

This comparison of institutions of science advice during COVID-19 between the Westminster systems of England/UK and Ontario/Canada focuses on the role of science in informing public policy in two central components of the response to the pandemic: the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and the procuring of vaccines. It compares and contrasts established and purpose-built bodies with varying degrees of independence from the political executive, and shows how each attempted to manage the tensions between scientific and governmental logics of accountability as they negotiated the boundary between science and policy. It uses the comparison to suggest potential lessons about the relative merits and drawbacks of different institutional arrangements for science advice to governments in an emergency.

Towards a new era in the governance of integrated activation: A systematic review of the literature on the governance of welfare benefits and employment‐related services in Europe (2010–21)

AbstractThis article presents the results of a systematic literature review of research articles (N = 72) to study the governance logic of integrated activation policies and the problems relating to reintegrating welfare benefits with services. The inductive study of the problems indicated in the literature demonstrates both the vertical and horizontal aspects of the governance of integrated activation at the street level: challenges are tied to the top‐down activation policy; requirements and strategies of delivering benefits and services; collaboration and coordination in delivery chains; and risks and inequality that streel‐level bureaucrats are trying to deal with in their work. The results point primarily to flaws in the vertical governance of activation, such as frontline work problems and collaborative practices between different actors and agencies. Moreover, some problems relating to collaboration and coordination, pointed towards the challenges in horizontal governance of activation. The article, however, demonstrates how the governance of integrated activation requires a coupling of these different streams of governance and understanding governance as a complex network of interdependencies and causal connections between institutions, organisations, and co‐production with end users.