Official Governance Research Articles

The Will to Integrate: South Africa's Responses to Regional Migration from the SADC Region

AbstractThis paper surveys frameworks of labour migration in southern Africa and determines South Africa's policy responses to inflows of migrants from seven neighbouring countries. Legislations, policy reports and scientific publications on migration were thoroughly reviewed and interviews and correspondence with key policymakers were conducted. Statistical analyses of data on foreign worker recruitments and permits issued by South Africa's Department of Home Affairs were also performed. The absence of a migration protocol in southern Africa suggests SADC Members have not implemented the African Union's migration policy basic guidelines. Two systems coexist in southern Africa that complicate migration governance: a South Africa‐managed bilateral migration policy, and aspirations for a formal SADC‐managed migration policy. Bilateral agreements between South Africa and neighbours have established a labour migration system that dims prospects for a regional migration policy. SACU Members could establish a two‐tier policy to achieve free movement while maintaining managed migration policy outside SACU. An official multilateral migration governance mechanism would serve SADC better than the current ad‐hoc measures.

Revolutionary Maoism and the Production of State and Insurgent Space in Eastern and Central India

This article situates India’s Maoist insurgency within longer term processes of state expansion in the east and centre of the country. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s work on space, its core claim is that since the onset of colonialism the region has been produced as a peripheral area whose primary function has been as a zone of settlement and a source of natural resources. Consequently the state has been simultaneously thin and repressive, leading to the creation of an oppositional insurgent space in which the Maoist guerrillas are only the most recent and visible actors. Currently new patterns of hyper-state and hybrid state/insurgent spaces are emerging: the former structured around the forced relocation of entire populations into tightly controlled and regulated camps and the latter around an emergent system of dual authority in which the demarcation between official and insurgent governance is blurred.

EMBEDDING THE VULNERABLE INTO THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: SOCIAL PROTECTION IN POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS

AbstractSocial protection and equity are missing elements of the Millennium Development Goals. Both are essential to redress the situation of the most vulnerable. This study provides a comprehensive review of social protection packages in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and devises an index to evaluate the extent of a country's level of social protection in its development strategy. The findings show that the social protection agenda in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers is more pronounced in countries with higher levels of income and lower levels of ethnic diversity and that social assistance packages are more aligned to higher levels of official development assistance and governance. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

PENGARUH EFEKTIVITAS PENERAPAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI TERHADAP KUALITAS LAPORAN KEUANGAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH

This research has purposes to know how the impact of the effectiveness of the technology information application to the quality of financial report in the regency area governance. This methods used into this research is verification descriptive. The data collected by spreading questioners that use semantic defferensial scale on its scoring. To assess the impact of effectiveness of the application of information technology (X) to the quality of financial report (Y), then used simple linear regression. Where as to know how much the impact that is given to the variable of independence, then use coefficient of determination. The result of the analysis shows that the applied of effectiveness information technology has positive impact to the quality of financial report in regency governance. Effectiveness of the application of information technology give impact 53,0% to the quality of financial report of the official regency governance, the agency and office in the environment of Sukabumi regency. While the rest 47,0% is the impact of another factors outside effectiveness of the application of information technology.

To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico

To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico

The Need for New Statistical Legislation for the UK

SummaryThe paper is written to inform public discussion on whether or not statistical legislation for the UK is needed and, if so, on its nature and content. A brief account of the background to the current position is given. The Government's stated intention is to create an ‘independent statistical service’ and a discussion of the meaning of independence in the context of official statistics and governance arrangements is provided. Recent international experience is described and the Statistics Acts of some other countries are used to distil the key features of Statistics Acts in other countries. The arguments for and against possible legislation are described. Whether or not a Statistics Act is desirable for the UK depends strongly on the legislation being well framed. There are several key issues on which Parliament would need to develop an informed view and these are set out towards the end of the paper.

Official Statistics and Economic Governance in Interwar Germany

Official Statistics and Economic Governance in Interwar Germany

Official Statistics and Economic Governance in Interwar Germany

Official Statistics and Economic Governance in Interwar Germany

Official Governance Actions CEC'S 68th Annual Convention April 23–27, 1990

Official Governance Actions CEC'S 68th Annual Convention April 23–27, 1990