Modern Government Research Articles

Transformation of Ade' Pitue Leadership Values in Government in Bone District

Apart from being influenced by the leadership system, the leadership style is also influenced by the legacy of sociocultural values that were good practices of past administrations. Ade’ Pitue is a system of government that was implemented when Bone was still a monarchical form of government, considered the best model of government in its time. This study aims to obtain an overview of: (1) Leadership values in Ade’ Pitue, (2) Forms of leadership in modern government, and (3) Factors that influence the transformation of Ade’ Pitue leadership values in government. The method used is descriptive qualitative. Data were collected through literature study and analyzed through data reduction, data display, verification, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show: (1) Leadership values in Ade’ Pitue, are Macca (intelligent), Lempu (honest), Warani (brave), Getteng (steadfast) on the truth (tongeng); (2) The form of leadership in modern government as a transformation for the values of Ade’ Pitue leadership is the application of representation of the people’s interests through the customary council (Ade’ Pitue) based on the results of deliberations; (3) The factors that influence the transformation of Ade’ Pitue leadership values in government are the Siri’ na Pacce culture. In addition, according to Kajalilddong, factors for enlarging the kingdom are: (1) Seuwani, temmatinroi matanna Arung Mangkau’E mitai munrinna gau’e, which means that the king’s eyes are not closed thinking about the consequences of all actions; (2) Maduanna, maccapi Arung Mangkau’E duppai ada, meaning the king must be smart in answering words, (3) Metelunna, maccapi Arung Mangkau’E mpinru ada, which means that the king must be good at making words or answers, and (4) Maeppa’na, tettakkalupai surona mpawa ada tongeng, which means that the four kings don’t forget to convey the correct words.
 Keywords: Ade’ Pitue, governance, leadership, transformational, Values

Implementation Path of Legalization in Rural Governance in China

The rule of law serves as the foundation for constructing modern rural governance mechanisms and stands as an essential avenue toward achieving modern governance. Influenced by unique natural environments and diverse cultural customs, remote rural areas in China still face challenges in the construction of rural legal foundations, the inadequacy of legal systems in rural governance, insufficient public legal services in rural areas, and a lack of institutional mechanisms for diverse participation in the legalization of rural governance. To address these issues, there is a necessity to prioritize the most pressing needs of farmers. This necessitates focusing on building a comprehensive legal system in agricultural domains, emphasizing the status of village regulations and customary laws, strengthening rural public legal service systems, innovating methods of legal education, and fostering a legal atmosphere. This approach aims to expedite the process of legalizing rural governance.

Гипермодерн “инженера” Гарина и преодоление постмодернизма Владимиром Сорокиным

SUMMARY: The article discusses the two latest novels by the modern Russian classic writer Vladimir Sorokin: Legacy (2023) and especially Doctor Garin (2021). Based on his interpretation of Sorokin’s aesthetical and philosophical program developed elsewhere, Ilya Gerasimov reads Doctor Garin as a literary work that did not go as planned. Dismayed by the unexpected result, Sorokin wrote Legacy as a follow-up meant to explicate Doctor Garin ’s message and explain it to himself and his readers. Therefore, Legacy develops to the extreme only one aspect of the 2021 novel. According to Gerasimov, Doctor Garin was planned as a postmodernist satire on the Russian intelligentsia, modernist literature, and the very society of modernity that produced them. Doctor Garin and his miraculous method of hypermodernism is an obvious reference to Aleksey Tolstoy’s The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1926–1927) about an impostor and adventurist seeking world domination. Sorokin mocks the modernist belief in “certain schemes to improve the human condition” (to quote this belief’s famous academic critic, James C. Scott) and Russian modernist literature, from Vladimir Mayakovsky to Vasily Aksenov, as well as modern governments’ failed political leadership. For over half of the book, Sorokin sustains his original rational design, channeling all his trademark spontaneous prose into “subtexts” – more or less extensive citations of imagined books or diaries introduced in the main text every 20–30 pages of the book. However, at some point, these subtexts disappear, and the protagonist fully immerses himself in Sorokin’s irrational narrative driven by the logic of language rather than ideological considerations. This change of narrative mode transforms everything – from the protagonist’s personality to the novel’s central message. Gerasimov argues that Sorokin chose time as a central argument of his antimodernist criticism, vindicating postmodernism as a condition of multiple isolated chronotopes, with each subculture or identity group living in a unique temporality of its own – contrary to modernism’s belief in progress and the normative universality of time. However, the spontaneous narrative of the novel’s second half produces a different effect. It models social reality as multidimensional and yet fundamentally interconnected. In any of the very distinctive chronotopes, social reality acquires its stable characteristics only situationally in the eyes of an active subject rather than by some preset, anonymous and objective factors, such as temporality or identity. This message is communicated by the narrative independently of its author, who attempted to produce a different conclusion in the follow-up novel Legacy . Inadvertently, instead of affirming a postmodernist worldview – relativist but static – and mocking the old modernism and some hypothetical “metamodernism” anticipated since the late 2010s, Sorokin outlined a program for a truly new, “post-postmodernist” modernism. It combines postmodernism’s multifaceted, multidimensional view of reality with modernism’s ability to produce a coherent narrative anchored in an unequivocal moral position. It embraces multiple temporalities, but also the idea of the future as a condition radically different from the past and present. Gerasimov uses the difference in conceptualizing temporality as the main criterion differentiating the modernist and postmodernist epistemes, in any of their aesthetic versions, as well as the hypothetical new modernism as spontaneously outlined in Sorokin’s Doctor Garin .

Study on the Construction of Evaluation Indicator System and Level Measurement of Rural Governance Modernization in the Information Age

Abstract In the context of the information age, accelerating the modernization of rural governance has become the focus of social attention. This paper adopts the coupled coordination degree model. It applies the coefficient of variation method to standardize the evaluation index data, thus establishing a spatial measurement model for in-depth analysis of rural governance. This paper constructs a modernization evaluation index model, including five main evaluation indexes, including industrial modernization, ecological excellence, cultural modernization, effective governance, and affluent life, to form a comprehensive rural governance modernization evaluation system. Hunan Province in China is the case study, and this study explores its rural governance modernization level in detail. The results show that the development level of rural governance modernization in Hunan Province is higher than the average value of the composite index of the six central provinces, which is 0.4701. In developing rural governance modernization indicators, the indicators generally show an upward trend, with an increase of 8.7%, 5.66%, 16.43%, 4.79%, and 13.84%, respectively. However, the indicators of effective governance and cultural modernization have become the main obstacles to the modernization of rural governance in Hunan Province, with the combined obstacle degree of these two indicators reaching 67.92%. This study not only provides a practical evaluation tool and method for rural governance modernization, but also provides specific data support and policy recommendations for developing rural governance modernization in Hunan Province, which helps to promote the process of modernizing regional rural governance.

Translating governance and legal compliance: Exploring the role of translation in facilitating corporate reporting and policy implementation

Translation plays a crucial role in ensuring legal compliance and effective policy implementation in today’s digitized and globalized era. This paper aims to highlight the significance of translation in modern governance by examining the challenges, best practices, and impact of translation in rule-making, policy implementation, and stakeholder engagement. By conducting an in-depth scan of literature concerning policymakers, translators, and other key stakeholders to collect rich qualitative data on governance documents, the paper demonstrates how translation enhances transparent communication and facilitates meaningful engagement with stakeholders. In light of Gilmetdinova’s (2019) research, the paper addresses various challenges in translation, including timing, accuracy, handling legal and technical terms, cultural references, equipment, and the use of target languages. Furthermore, the paper showcases best practices in translation, such as thematic analysis, communities of practice, multilingual approaches, and the utilization of translation software to expedite high-quality translations. Ultimately, the paper emphasizes how translation contributes to refining governance processes in rule-making, policy implementation, and stakeholder engagement, fostering inclusivity, transparency, and accountability. It is anticipated that future research will explore the role of translation in healthcare systems and organizations.

Research on the innovation of government public opinion management under the perspective of the modernization of national governance

Research on the innovation of government public opinion management under the perspective of the modernization of national governance

Research on the Path of Promoting the Modernization of Rural Governance by New Rural Elites under the Perspective of Rural Revitalization

Research on the Path of Promoting the Modernization of Rural Governance by New Rural Elites under the Perspective of Rural Revitalization

The Construction of Teacher’s Teaching Quality Evaluation System Based on the Teacher-Student Cooperation Model

Within the framework of advancing educational evaluation reform in the modern era, establishing a scientific and rational assessment system for the quality of teacher’s instruction holds immense importance. This contributes to the further development of autonomous evaluations within colleges and universities, fosters enhancements in higher education evaluation systems, and supports the modernization of higher education governance. Considering the evolving demands for cultivating excellence in higher education, the assessment of teachers’ instructional quality continues to face challenges, encompassing evaluation criteria, categorization guidelines, system enhancements, digital adaptation, and more. In the construction of a quality assessment system for teacher’s instruction in higher education, continuous optimization of the evaluation system for teaching quality is essential. This optimization should be driven by scientific principles, grounded in collaboration between teachers and students, and aligned with fundamental principles, including categorized assessment, process orientation, digital integration, and more.

Study on the Effectiveness of Public Participation in Urban and Rural Grassroots Governance Based on a Big Data Platform

Abstract Urban and rural grassroots governance is the cornerstone of the modernization of national governance, and strengthening effective public participation is also the continuation and sublimation of the strategy of poverty alleviation. This paper utilizes gene structure for expression, constructs the RMUGS model, and then constructs a three-level retrieval algorithm based on the various levels of the model to analyze big data on the results achieved by public participation in urban-rural grassroots governance in Z town of Guangdong province. Town Z has been able to achieve good results in urban-rural grassroots governance, as shown in the data analysis results. Significant results have been achieved in the improvement of infrastructure, with the overall degree of improvement reaching more than 75%, and the highest improvement of public lighting reaching 90% of the degree of improvement. The number of people actively participating has gone up from 60.33% in 2020 to 77.95% in 2022, with general residents without positions experiencing the greatest increase. The above data analyzed by the RMUGS model clearly shows that public participation in urban and rural grassroots governance has a very high degree of effectiveness, which provides effective directions and ideas for future grassroots governance.

Improvement Path of the Convergence Mechanism of Execution and Punishment in the Context of Modernization of Environmental Governance

Improvement Path of the Convergence Mechanism of Execution and Punishment in the Context of Modernization of Environmental Governance

Research on Legal Safeguards for the Modernization of Municipal Social Governance in Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Border Regions

Research on Legal Safeguards for the Modernization of Municipal Social Governance in Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Border Regions

治理现代化导向下的社区法治文化研究

治理现代化导向下的社区法治文化研究

Empowering Government Services in the Digital Age: A Comprehensive Study of Information Science Performance Evaluation

This academic paper conducts an in-depth investigation into the intricate domain of performance evaluation within information science as applied to government services. It meticulously examines the various methodologies and criteria employed for the meticulous assessment of the efficiency and efficacy of information-centric procedures within the public sector. Throughout the study, a profound emphasis is placed on the pivotal significance of data-driven decision-making, elucidating how information science serves as the linchpin for enhancing the delivery of government services. This research serves as a comprehensive exploration of the symbiotic relationship between information science and government services, shedding light on the pivotal role they play in shaping modern governance. By scrutinizing these aspects, we gain valuable insights into optimizing the functionality and impact of government services through the lens of data-driven decision-making.

STATE TREASuRy AS A SuBjECT OF COLLATERAL LEGALRELATIONS IN THE XIXth — EARLy XXth CENTuRIES

The article deals with the legal norms for real estate pledge under the contracts with the State Treasury in the XIXth — early XXth centuries. The Treasury, as one of the parties to the contracts for work and labour or supplies, made rather high demands on the pledged property. The key interest was economic (business), because the contracts were designed to serve the interests of various governmental administrations, including Military, Engineering, etc. State institutions, both then and now, serve the needs of the state and society at a particular historical moment. In parallel, the develop-ment of contract law is taking place. This leads to an expansion of the range of collateral for real estate. Simultaneously the subject of pledge became broader gradually, primarily due to the need to provide landlords and property owners with new incentives for eco-nomic activity. This leads to an expansion of the range of collateral for real estate. One of the main reasons for expanding the list of real estate objects was the need to provide land-lords and property owners with new incentives for economic activity. At the same time, the location and market value of real estate was put at the forefront, because in case of a party’s failure to fulfill obligations to the Treasury, the subject of pledge was to be sold at the auction, which was supposed to help compensate for the damage caused to the trea-sury. The development of legal norms for real estate pledge under the contracts with the Treasury in the Russian Empire is closely related both to state institutions’ functioning within the bureaucratized management system and to huge geographical diversity with multinational specifics. In a certain sense, the system of contracts for work and labour or supplies in the Russian Empire demonstrates the groundwork for modern government contracts.

Transformation of Public Service: Rise of Technology, AI and Automation

The rapid advancement of technology has proven beneficial for enhancing efficiency, transparency, responsiveness, and effectiveness in the administration of public services. The internalization of technological innovations, including AI and automation, has become imperative to address the increasing needs and expectations of citizens in modern governance. Various developed and developing countries have revolutionized public services through the adoption of AI and automation. Nepal has made strides in digital governance, advancing from a paper-based form of governance to digital governance. Moreover, the Digital Nepal Framework aspires to restructure the economy through increased service delivery, production, and productivity by harnessing digital technology. The issues of the digital divide, ethical and responsible adoption of AI, citizen engagement and participation, and inclusiveness have been challenging. The government should prioritize investments in digital infrastructure, encourage tech innovations, and promote capacity development in the field of technology.

Blockchain technique for fair competition evaluation

In the new era characterized by the modernization of national governance, fair competition is the inherent requirement of building a modern market system. However, the abuse of administrative power by administrative organs to excessively interfere in free-market competition is widespread, seriously damaging the market competition order in China. To avoid the unreasonable intervention of administrative organs in the market economy, restrain the administrative acts of administrative organs, and form a highly “competitive” market environment, the fair competition review system came into being. With the rapid development of blockchain technology, new ideas are provided for the research of fair-trade protocols. Aiming at the system performance bottleneck and high-cost problems caused by centralized processing in traditional fair transaction schemes based on trusted third parties, a fair transaction scheme based on fuzzy signature is proposed. In the proposed scheme, the signature model uses concurrent signature, and both parties hold their own key numbers, which are released through blockchain transactions to bind their signatures. In the whole process, both parties can complete the contract signing without the assistance of a centralized third party. Based on analyzing the security of the proposed scheme, the performance of the proposed scheme is further compared with other similar schemes of the same kind, which shows that the proposed scheme has higher computational efficiency.

Two Watersheds of Major Global Public Health Emergencies: History, Reality and Response

The 1918-1919 pandemic influenza and the COVID-19 are the watershed of major global public health emergencies in the industrial age and the digital age. The latter has generality and particularity. The problems faced in the process of coping with the COVID-19 mainly include: prejudice hinders international cooperation; Extreme egoism of some countries and personnel reduces the effectiveness of responding to incidents; Rigid governance system; The theoretical support is insufficient. The causes of the problems are: many problems are long-term; The modernization speed of some countries and personnel is slower than the speed of environmental change; In the process of modernization, the modernization mode of the industrial age is adopted. The macro way to deal with the COVID-19 is to promote the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity, and give birth to the combination of "new system, new capacity - new environment". The micro approaches are: strengthening international cooperation and optimizing the international governance system; Enhance the modernization of national governance and the modernization of people; Effectively innovate the concept and method of governance.

The Relationship Between Political Leader’s Personalities and Regional Social Governance Modernization

The study aims to investigate the relationship between the personalities exhibited by party and government leaders and the modernization of regional social governance. It aspires to offer novel insights to empower the local governments of Chinese provinces, thereby assisting them in augmenting the modernization of social governance.Led by upper echelons theory, we proposed an analytical framework to explore the relationship. We firstly collected the texts of the activity reports of the leaders in 31 provinces of mainland China during the years 2018 to 2020. Their personalities were discerned through the application of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling and principal component analysis. Integrating the dimensions of processes and outcomes, we then devised an evaluation system to assess the level of regional social governance modernization. The system underwent a comprehensive evaluation employing principal component analysis. Finally, we employed regression analysis and the Quadratic Assignment Procedure (QAP) regression analysis to quantitatively assess the effect of political leader’s personalities on the modernization level of regional social governance.According to our results, the personalities exhibited by political leaders could be classified into six dimensions, aligning with the framework proposed by Holland vocational interest theory. We revealed that the six types of personalities indeed exert influence on the modernization of regional social governance. However, compared to the effect of environmental factors such as economic conditions and the availability of skilled personnel, their explanatory power is relatively weaker. Among the identified personalities, the leaders displaying realistic and research-oriented personalities demonstrate a heightened capacity to yield substantial positive impacts on social governance modernization. Additionally, social personality also plays a discernible role in the context. Furthermore, the amalgamation of political leaders’ personalities illuminates a nuanced picture marked by moderate influence and intricate complexity.

The Fragility of Merit: Erosion of the Foundation of Public Service Under Trump

A professional civil service resting on principles of merit is widely considered an essential and well-established feature of modern government. Nevertheless, the foundation of merit upon which the U.S. federal service is erected is not secure. Indeed, the system is quite fragile. It presumes the presence of a President who understands and is committed to the concept of merit and who has the political will to secure its preservation. This fact was made abundantly clear during the Presidency of Donald J. Trump from January of 2017 to January of 2021. This article describes events during the Trump Presidency that illustrate the fragility of the merit system in the U.S. federal government.

What Is Minimalist Governance?*

“Informality” and “semiformality” are the primary characteristics of minimalist governance. The operation of minimalist governance assumes a boundary between state and society and some amount of autonomous space between them at the ground level. Whether in a traditional or modern form, minimalist governance stands in contrast to the formal, hierarchical bureaucracy of the state. Minimalism is a pragmatic approach to governance tailored to local conditions, a form of semiformal or informal government that emphasizes operational effectiveness over elaborate bureaucratic procedures. Since minimalist governance does not rely entirely on the hierarchical power of the state apparatus, this semiformal approach is simple and effective, hence its “minimalist” appearance. The key to solving the problem of formalism at the basic level of government lies in managing the relationship between “a thousand threads above” and “a single needle below.” Autonomy and self-governance must be granted to the basic level of the government so that party committees may fulfill their integrative political functions and their role in minimalist governance. Ultimately, this will allow the “needle” of grassroots organizations to connect with “a thousand threads above” while also penetrating deeply into local society. There is significant practical and theoretical importance in understanding the uniqueness of Chinese-style modernization, and the modernization of rural governance, from the perspective of “social foundations,” but to achieve this Chinese-style modernization we must learn from the West and from China’s own traditional and contemporary experiences.