Moral Governance Research Articles

The Combination of Virtue and Law in the Political Thought of Le Thanh Tong

To solve the urgent problems of Vietnamese social history in the 14th - 15th centuries, which is the requirement to consolidate and build a unified and strong Dai Viet nation, with a centralized autocratic state apparatus; on the basis of absorbing and inheriting the premises of political and social thought in the cultural tradition of the Vietnamese people as well as the political thought of Confucianism and Legalism, the thought of Le Thanh Tong was formed and developed. In the rich and unique political ideology of Le Thanh Tong, the outstanding and meaningful issue is the idea of combining moral governance and legal governance, which he expressed in great works such as: National Dynasty Penal Code, Chau Co Thang Thuong Thi Tap, Chinh Tay Ky Hanh, Van Minh Co Suy,...

Constructing Moral Governance in China Today: The Law‒Morality‒Self-Governance Connection

Abstract This paper asks how moral governance [dezhi 德治] infrastructure has expanded under Xi Jinping. The Xi leadership has designed this expansion by framing moral governance activity within what it calls the Three Governances (law-based governance, moral governance and self-governance), which, in turn sits under the Chinese Communist Party Political-Legal Committee’s social governance regime. Moral governance has expanded as part of the Xi leadership’s efforts to enhance the Party’s governance capacity-building in the area of social governance in three main ways: through ideology, social governance plans, and community engagement. The Party has broadened the boundaries of what elements of social relations it considers risky or capable of inducing social disorder, and in so doing, it has broadened the boundaries of its response to its own perceived expansion of risks. The Party has integrated moral governance into its overall comprehensive social governance ambitions to enhance its capacity to securitize the grassroots, which is the Xi leadership’s number one governance priority.

*Thinking on the Delisting of ST Collin due to Financial Fraud

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced 2022 financial fraud cases are common, but because of the professional managers of false manipulation is rare, so this paper selected Collin environmental protection equipment Co., Ltd. based on business ethics and professional ethics perspective on its delisting due to financial fraud analysis, respectively, on the company's accounting staff and professional managers to reflect on the perspective, and to address the problem of the corresponding solutions and recommendations, hoping for the current corporate moral governance imbalance in the reality of the problem of reflection, the company's accounting staff and professional managers. We also propose corresponding measures and suggestions to solve the problem, hoping to provide reflection and reference for the reality of the imbalance of corporate moral governance, and expecting practitioners to improve the quality of professional ethics and to be alert to the ethical edges.

Research on the Judicial Confirmation Procedure of Civil Mediation Agreements

After the revision of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China in 2021, the scope of application of judicial confirmation has been expanded, but the effective application of this procedure has not been increased from the actual effect. As a non litigation procedure, it plays an irreplaceable role in the context of the reform of complex and simple separation and the establishment of a sound and diversified dispute resolution mechanism. However, since its establishment, this procedure has been controversial in terms of its nature, effectiveness, and other issues. Although it was ultimately included in the Civil Procedure Law as a non litigation procedure, there are still many shortcomings in its legal norms in terms of application subjects, initiation methods, review standards, etc. Analyze the inherent legal support and practical difficulties of these issues, and improve the connection between moral governance, rule of law, and social governance. The trinity of judicial confirmation procedures maximizes the release of the value of judicial confirmation procedures, which is of great significance for promoting the development of mediation systems, thereby promoting the governance of litigation sources to alleviate court litigation pressure, and improving diversified dispute resolution mechanisms.

党建引领“三治结合”背景下的城市民族社区共治实践研究

The governance model of “three governance combination” guilded under Party Building is an important part of the co-governance practice of urban ethnic communities in the new era, and it is also a new requirement for building a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. Taking Ala Yi Ethnic Group Street in Kunming as an example, this paper investigates and analyzes the practice path, effectiveness, deficiencies and countermeasures of the governance model of “three governance combination” in urban ethnic communities, aiming to clarify the main relationship and practical contents of the “three governance combination” governance model in urban ethnic communities, and provide theoretical and practical support for improving the governance level of urban ethnic communities. The research shows that under the “three governance combination” grassroots governance model in urban ethnic communities, the three relationships should be nested with each other, and its specific practice should be centered on the guidance of party building, while strengthening the cultivation of autonomous subjects, improving the legal guarantee system, strengthening the role of moral governance and education, and improving the coordination mechanism of multiple co-governance, so as to stimulate the endogenous impetus of the community and to realize the joint governance of urban ethnic community affairs.

Moral Governance Failure in Olympic Games: Manifestations, Causes, and the Practices of Paris

Moral Governance Failure in Olympic Games: Manifestations, Causes, and the Practices of Paris

When democratic deliberation encounters Confucian moral governance: Rethinking consultative politics in rural China

The last decades have witnessed the flourishing of consultative democracy (xieshang minzhu, a concept similar to deliberative democracy) in China, with ambitions for implementing consultative politics and governance. In the West, mainstream deliberative democracy studies largely overlook the fact that deliberation is an elusive and polysemic notion, which develops into various practices in different social and cultural contexts. Therefore, a non-Western-centred approach needs to be adopted to further investigate deliberative experimentation in rural China. Based on the four months of fieldwork conducted in several villages in rural China, this paper argues that China’s rural villages have inherited a strong Confucianism-based idea of deliberation and consultation. With case studies from the sociological–political perspective, this paper also aims to shed some new light on the compatibilities between modern democratic governance approaches and the informal, hierarchical and highly moralised forms of public order in the rural Chinese acquaintance society. Incorporating these empirical observations could bridge the gap between Western and Chinese perspectives on the theory and practice of deliberative democracy.

An Examination of the Historiographic Record in Light of Emperor Wuzong’s Military Defense of Yingzhou, as well as an Assessment of the Special Characteristics of the Veritable Records of the Wuzong Reign

<p>正德十二年，明武宗親征應州，逼退蒙軍。《明武宗實錄》的修纂者認為此戰所費不償、戰功甚少且「乘輿幾陷」。但綜合《實錄》的自相矛盾及各方材料所記，可知「乘輿幾陷」並非事實，其傷亡情況亦有諸多疑點。由於武宗等人要為正德朝的「失德」負責，且應州封功確有冒濫，加上京城曾有皇帝被俘的訛言，於是文官們順此思路，淡化了前者的功績。而世宗為塑造新政及其父子的權威，文臣們又欲借此清洗政敵、重拾威望，使得《明武宗實錄》以揭露武宗的負面形象、批判各類「改制」之事、強調文官的正直與遠見為主要傾向。這體現《實錄》主、客觀性交織的特點，也反映出正、嘉兩朝的政治變動，以及世宗和文官集團所欲塑造的前朝記憶。</p> <p> </p><p>In the twelfth year of the Zhengde reign, the Wuzong Emperor personally led his troops to Yingzhou in defense against the nomadic tribes. However, the editors of the Veritable Records of the Wuzong Reign thought that this war was unremunerative, presented few achievements, and put the emperor in danger. After a comprehensive investigation of the contradictions in the Veritable Records of the Wuzong Reign and other historical sources, we can conclude that the assertion, “Emperor Wuzong was nearly captured by the enemy” is not factual and that there remain many doubts about the level of casualties. Moreover, Emperor Wuzong was deemed responsible for the “lack of moral governance” during his reign, and there were rumors in the capital that the emperor had been captured. Thus, the compilers followed this line of thinking and downplayed Wuzong’s accomplishments.<br />In shaping new policies and assuming power from his father, Emperor Shizong directed his ambitious officials who themselves desired to purge their political opponents, to expose Wuzong’s negative image and criticize his every reform in their writing of the Veritable Records, during which they emphasized their own integrity and vision. In this respect, the Veritable Records embody the simultaneous interweaving of subjective and objective views and reflect the political changes of the Zhengde and Jiajing reign as well as the attempts of Emperor Shizong and his officials to shape the memory of the previous reign.</p> <p> </p>

Exploring the Optimization Path of Rural Governance in the Perspective of Three Governance Integrations

With the implementation of the new eras rural revitalization policy, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has explicitly set the goal of building a modern rural governance system, emphasizing the integration of self-governance, rule of law, and moral governance in the grassroots social governance system. Rural governance plays a crucial role in grassroots governance, serving as the foundation and key to social governance, and it holds significant importance in advancing the national governance system and governance capacity building. Therefore, this paper discusses the issues in rural governance from the perspective of Three Governance Integrations. Currently, the pain points of grassroots governance are particularly evident in three aspects: the inadequate effectiveness of rural self-governance, the hindered operation of rural rule of law, and the limited role of rural moral governance. Based on this, the paper innovatively proposes three solutions: deepening villagers self-governance, strengthening rural rule of law, and enhancing rural moral governance. By consolidating the foundation of rural governance systems, enhancing safeguard mechanisms, and establishing a robust support system, further development and improvement of the rural governance system in the perspective of Three Governance Integrations can be achieved.

Abortion as healthcare: The adaptability of medicalization and legalization in post‐repeal anti‐abortion politics

AbstractAfter a 35‐year‐long constitutional ban on abortion, the Eighth Amendment was repealed in May 2018 and the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 was introduced in the Republic of Ireland. Although “Repeal” and the legalization of abortion marked a significant transformation in reproductive governance, many aspects of the new abortion policy continue to complicate abortion care access and provision. In this article, I explore the mobilizations of health and rights in political discourses on abortion after legalization. In doing so, I identify how moral governance operates in post‐Repeal abortion politics. I critically consider restrictive strategies in abortion politics in Ireland and compare these to a number of recent key anti‐abortion tactics in the United States. As such, I situate post‐Repeal and post‐Roe abortion debates within parallel temporalities of abortion governance and highlight the adaptability of discourses on health and rights in shifting legal contexts.

The Administration of Moral Governance in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Government


 The study aimed to analyze the administration of moral governance in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao government. A descriptive case study using interview guide questions to gather the responses from the 14 participants utilizing purposive sampling to members of the parliament, ministers, religious and tribal leaders, and academic and business sector representatives. The data were refined and clarified by grouping ideas or concepts to form clusters using thematic analysis. As analyzed, moral Governance in Islam is based on the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.). It considers a governance of conscience coupled with good action and right behavior for the day-to-day operations and processes of the Bangsamoro government that must be duly implemented as the general habitual practice of all employees. It is the blend result of correct creed (aqeedah), good character (akhlaq), values (qiyam), integrity (nazaha), accountability (mas’ooliya), transparency (shafaafiya), and excellence (tamyeez). However, participants have confided that traditional politicians, leaders, and some professionals with secular knowledge having no or less background in Islamic laws and philosophies were some challenges they would encounter. Thus, to effectively administer moral governance, leadership should be based on Ibadah (worship), Ikhlas (sincerity), Hamd (praise), Sabr (patience), Taqwa (piety), Shura (consultation), Maslaha (public interest) and Tawakkul (reliance to God).

Explaining the Nursing Students' Lived Experience of Moral Courage in Clinical Environments

Background and Objective: Moral courage is considered a part of the requirements of the nursing profession, and its prerequisite is the training and strengthening of this characteristic during student’s study period. Therefore, this study aimed to explore nursing students' lived experiences of moral courage practiced in clinical settings. Materials and Methods: The current research was conducted using hermeneutic phenomenological approach. purposeful sampling method was performed among the 7th and 8th semester nursing students who had completed their theoretical courses. Data collection continued using semi-structured interviews until data saturation, and finally 10 individuals participated in this study, and data analysis was done based on Dickelmann approach. Results: The obtained results indicated two main themes, including moral conscience (decisiveness in correcting actions and moral governance) and ethical strategy development (personal commitment and moral evolusion). Conclusion: The findings of this research showed that students with moral courage have moral conscience, including determination to correct actions and moral governance, and this characteristic enhances professional ethics. Considering that the main mission of nursing education is to train capable and competent nurses who have the necessary knowledge and skills to provide quality nursing care, maintain and improve the health of society, educational systems can use the results of this study to evaluate their educational programs and correct their defects.

Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia

Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia

'Don't lose it on the bus!': Casting the normative biosexual citizen in early Scottish pre-exposure prophylaxis provision.

The introduction of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) raises important questions around how new biotechnologies are negotiated within contemporary settings and how they can shape the moral governance of biocitizens, or as we explore, biosexual citizens. This article draws on qualitative interviews and focus groups to consider how the normative biosexual citizen was cast at the start of provision in Scotland by clinical and community practitioners. Our findings show how practitioners navigated ideas around who was deserving of support and access to PrEP in the context of limited resources, interpreted what legitimate risk narratives might look like for different groups and translated particular gendered, sexualised and racialised risk profiles in the context of PrEP provision. This draws attention to how normative biosexual citizenship was not determined through meeting a set of clinical criteria and adhering to a prophylaxis regime but cast through ongoing negotiations with clinical and community practitioners in relation to normative ideas of essential care, constrained resources, risk narratives and gendered and racialised bodies. Our research indicates how access to PrEP will continue to demand particular enactments of normative biosexual citizenship that may well be at odds with the experiences and needs of communities affected by HIV.

Methods Of Teaching Islamic Values Education Amid Conflict Situation: The Case Of Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA) In Mindanao

Teaching Islamic values education is considered by Muslim educators as the solution to moral crisis encountered by contemporary Muslim society including the Bangsamoro in the conflict-affected area of Mindanao, Philippines. The purpose of the present paper is to re-examine the Bangsamoro Development Agency's (BDA) methods of teaching Islamic values education among its Muslim stakeholders in Mindanao. Through the use of the qualitative method of study, like content analysis of data gathered through library research and participant observation, the researcher found out that the BDA-tasked to determine, lead and manage development projects in conflict-affected areas of Mindanao-had successfully integrated Islamic values by applying the traditional Islamic method of education such as ta'lim, tarbiyyah, and ta'dib but through the language of modern education theory, adapted to the kind of situation they are in. Instead of using Islamic terminologies as such, the BDA used such term as experiential-learning method (lecturette, workshop, reflection and demonstration, and follow-through scheme). With this, the BDA had able to play its assigned role with the acceptance of its different stakeholders including government and non-government organizations. The present Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), which is established as a product of the MILF’s struggle, may also consider BDA’s experience to institutionalize its moral governance initiative to address the perceived corruption, manipulation, and ill-governance in this government. Keywords: Bangsamoro Development Agency, teaching methods, Islamic values, Values education, Mindanao (Philippines)

Searching for the Elusive “Covidiot”: Moral Governance, Policing and the Social Production of Ignorance in a (Post-) Pandemic World

This comment piece examines the social figure of the “covidiot”, which emerged at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and has been used for social and political purposes since then. We argue that the covidiot is a somewhat elusive figure whose formation actualizes wider symbolic struggles over moral and epistemological issues that speak to contemporary social anxieties. Firstly, the paper suggests that the covidiot is typically imagined as a figure of blame through which certain individuals and groups are moralized for their failure to follow social distance regulations. The covidiot is thereby constructed as a threat to the moral social order and subjected to forms of policing and governance. In these processes, attributions of covidiocy and their contestations can be read as struggles for moral hegemony which serve to construct moral boundaries between deserving and undeserving citizens. Secondly, the paper offers a preliminary critique of the social production of ignorance, pointing out how the political uses of the covidiot obscure the societal processes that produce systemic ignorance, allocate blame in individuals while undervaluing the responsibility of corporations, media outlets or the nation-state. This figure is therefore implicated in struggles over epistemic authority characteristic of our present post-truth era.

Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes

AbstractRegulatory intermediaries have received attention in the analysis of different policy fields recently. Yet, their role in morality‐based national governance arrangements is hardly addressed, neither is the question of how regulators incorporate stigmatized private actors. The current special issue contributes to closing this research gap by examining the three‐party relationship between public regulators, private intermediaries, and targets in prostitution policy implementation. This introduction presents a typology of indirect moral governance, which is based on two dimensions: (1) the extent to which regulators perceive intermediaries as being trustworthy and (2) their operational capacities. Leveraging examples from the papers in the special issue, we elaborate on how the two dimensions lead to four forms of intermediation. Thus, the typology offers an innovative analytical tool to systematizes regulators' responses to governance and implementation problems in the case of morality policies and value‐laden issues more generally, including the responsibilization of stigmatized actors.

Moral Testimony and Collective Moral Governance

ABSTRACT I suggest that a moderate version of pessimism about moral testimony succeeds. However, I claim also that all major pessimist accounts—Understanding, Affect, Virtue, and Autonomy—fail. Having argued for these claims, I propose a new pessimist alternative.

Editors' Note

Our current issue opens with a special section titled “Word, Image, Sound,” edited by Matthew Engelke, which charts new directions in the study of religious life and experience. Each of the essays in this section move beyond considerations of doctrine and belief to build on a phenomenological appreciation of concrete practices and their social consequences as these impact the category of religion and the embodiment of religious life.The section brings into focus religion's sensory domain, examining the power of sound, song, spoken word, image, and infrastructure to enhance and alter the affective register of religious practice and performance. The essays examine communities of Muslims—the pageantry of preaching in Egypt and the politics of loudspeakers in Senegal—and of Christians—plans for a “National House of Prayer” in Zambia, Pentecostalist singers' claims to be the “Rwandan voice,” and controversies over religious tracts in Myanmar—to demonstrate that religious belief cannot be disentangled from the materiality and embodiment of its practices. “Word, Sound, Image” thus contributes to a powerful set of perspectives on the tangled relationship between communities of faith and public imaginaries.In “Morality and Freedom” Alyssa Miller investigates Manish Msamah's recent anticorruption campaign in Tunisia, titled “I Do Not Forgive!,” to highlight the dilemmas posed by coercive forms of reconciliation oriented around claims of transitional justice and forms of procedural democracy. Meanwhile, Jairan Gahan examines the red-light district of Tehran in 1922 in the essay “The Sovereign and the Sensible” as a site from which to rethink the relationship between ideas of sovereignty and Islam too often eclipsed by ideas of moral governance in Iran in the longue durée.Finally, our Kitabkhana considers Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires, which argues for a renewed look at intra-imperial politics through a consideration of Afghanistan as a crucial if underexplored borderland. Contributors to the book forum approach Afghanistan—and Kabul in particular—as a key geohistorical terrain for the study of Islamic intellectual history and of the twentieth-century transformation of networks of social thought and political practice. They explore both the interconnections and the novel socio-technological constraints that have rendered Afghanistan a fulcrum for broader shifts in anticolonial thought, new formations of practical solidarity, and the reconceptualization of “Islamic law” well into the postcolonial present.

The Sovereign and the Sensible

AbstractThis article investigates the history of the formation of the red-light district of Tehran in 1922, to tackle larger questions about the genealogy of the constitutional Islamic state in Iran in the twentieth century. Through an engagement with the Islamic local campaign against prostitution and the state's subsequent sovereign decision to form the district, this article demonstrates how Islamic public sensibilities moved to the forefront of analytics of governance, under postconstitutional state formations (1911–). This revisionist narrative remaps the force of religion in Tehran, a city that is so often glossed as a case of state-oriented top-down secularization and subsequent Islamization in the twentieth century. The aim is not to question the process of secularization or to render it incomplete, but to demonstrate how secularism in Iran negotiated and consolidated a particular relationship between Islam and sovereign modern rule. As such, this work reads the history of the district against the grain of the grand narrative of the Islamic Revolution's (1979) moment of rupture to trace the genealogical roots of moral governance in the Islamic Republic today, within the postconstitutional state formations in the early twentieth century.