Local Government People Research Articles

‘Feeling of despair’ as the leading cluster theme of conceptual descriptive analyses in participatory assessment: Russia Oxfam GB case study

This article provides a case study on participatory assessment based on experience gained from an EU–Oxfam GB project entitled “Empowering Municipalities to Effectively Address Poverty” conducted in five small towns in Russia. Participatory assessment through focus group discussions (FGDs) was the main approach used in the implementation of the project. A participatory assessment was performed through 25 FGDs in five remote areas in central Russia. More than 200 participants representing people living in poverty, such as single mothers, people with disabilities, families with many children, families with disabled children, and pensioners, voluntarily participated in the meetings. Most of the participants were women (75%) aged between 25 and 70 years. We consider that the participants’ representation is relevant in accordance with the official poverty studies. Through identification of patterns of recurrent ideas and opinions, a qualitative method helps us understand social phenomena from the views of and on the basis of the opinions of the participants. The FGDs’ narratives underwent pattern analysis, resulting in the framing of the cluster themes and narrative conceptualization. Cluster analysis of the FGDs’ narratives led to the framing of 10 cluster themes of importance, followed by conceptual descriptions and related narratives. The conceptual description of the leading theme, feeling of despair (theme 1), was described by respondents’ expressions/narratives, such as “Nobody needs us and there is no future for us and our children in this town,” the narrative idea that crosscuts the subsequent themes. The following nine themes are of equal importance, are interlinked, and for the major part constitute the leading theme, feeling of despair (theme 1): state social and family support (theme 2); health care (theme 3); who are those living in poverty? (theme 4); housing (theme 5); living costs (theme 6); employment (theme 7); children’s well-being and future (theme 8); environment and recreation (theme 9); and legal rights (theme 10). Equal importance of these themes is justified by the analysis of patterns and recurrence of the FGDs’ narrative ideas. The assigned numbers from 2 to 10 are given to simplify the references to the corresponding cluster throughout the analysis and do not reflect the ranks of the clusters. The leading theme (theme 1) touches on the psychological status of the FGDs’ participants, while the remaining nine themes (themes 2–10) relate to the state system of social services, including health care. For example, per the conceptual descriptions, the state social and family support (theme 2) is described by the following narrative: “Those who have a family network get their support, for those without family help, state support is crucial but is very little and not everybody can get it. Nobody wants to help or provide decent services – people in local government get fed up with you, you get sent from one place to another.” The frustration (“Nobody wants to help or provide decent services; the government gets fed up with you, you get sent from one place to another.”) caused by poor services (“State support is crucial but is very little and not everybody can get it.”) crosscuts the theme’s conceptual description. In this article, feeling of despair refers to a psychosocial condition caused by people living in poverty and their dissatisfaction with state services. Details of the remaining themes are given. The purpose of this article is to draw the attention of practitioners and policy makers to the participatory results rather than their focusing on the qualitative methodological details. We argue that a participatory understanding of community needs, through cluster theme analysis and conceptual descriptions, can help local municipalities develop more targeted community programs on poverty and vulnerability reduction.

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Currency crisis, in order to solve the problem of the polarization of economic and serious youth unemployment rate, to prepare for the smart new economic era, and like to support and nurture the one-persion creating company of mobile app industry of central and local government people policies are underway. To be able to contribute to the establishment of the success of mobile app One-person creating company, to target the mobile app One-person creating company int the Busan region, we conducted an empirical study of success factors, and thus, support these solutions, more effective and efficient in an attempt to try to seek the support measures, was carried out this research. In this study, results derive a research three hypotheses about the success factors of One-person creating company through literature discussion, were investigated on the basis of empirical data of the mobile app one-persion creative company of Busan region of 51 individual, establishment of company period is longer, the number of organizations employee is large and attract a lot of external funds, and was able to find the tendency of more entrepreneurs receives an education, may increase an outcome of business. In this study, it is possible to obtain the policy implications as follows. First, to attract investment funds and attract government funding to support the funding of One-person creating company, it is necessary to pay attention more. Second, policy founder to an education about the management on an ongoing basis is needed than the education of marketing and technology for human resources development. Future, you will be able to expand across the country study company, we have established a policy of mobile app industry of national dimension, in this foundation, will be expanded to all industries.

Introduction

Croeso (welcome) to the 39th edition of Social Trends, one of the flagship publications from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Social Trends provides an up to date and comprehensive description of society, drawing on statistics from a wide range of government departments and other organisations to show how society is changing, as well as some of the factors which may be driving these trends. Social Trends is aimed at a wide audience: policy makers in the public and private sectors, service providers, people in local government, journalists and other commentators, academics and students, schools, and the general public.

Local Government in Transformation: The Case of Constitutional Reform in Yugoslavia

The previous communal system in Yugoslavia (since 1955) did not prove viable. Owing to its great size (nearly 500 km2 and more than 40,000 inhabitants), municipality in this period didn't affirm itself as a real community. Having many abilities in developmental planning, it was at the same time dependent on the state in the spheres of finance and normative regulations. The difference between the sphere of local government (LG) and state politics was substantially blurred. Given the changing social conditions (introduction of market economy, political pluralism and the forms of parliamentarian democracy), the need for repeated establishment of the system of local government based on the altered position of citizens in the political system becomes evident. In this environment it is necessary to reestimate the experiences of LG in particular Yugoslav regions (republics) before World War II, and simultaneously, take selectively into account the experiences and development in other developed European countries. This article compares the constitutional regulations of LG among particular Yugoslav republics, and between them and the characteristic orientations in other European countries, enlightening it with the aspect of actual processes and demands of centralization and decentralization, regionalism, moving the regulation of communal and other everyday needs closer to the people in LG, all in the sense of post-behavioristic trends of the “bottom-up” approach to the processes of decision-making.

Ethics and social responsibility in local government

In the period leading up to and following local government reorganization there came to light a disturbingly large number of cases of corrupt behaviour by officers and members of local authorities. As a consequence there has been much speculation about the causes of this upsurge and the integrity of the public service generally, but there has been relatively little discussion of some of the wider ethical issues present in public service. This paper does not attempt to establish either the causes or the extent of corrupt practices. It takes attitudes to corruption as a starting point for looking at some of the ethical dilemmas that face people in local government at the present time. It then considers how these dilemmas may have come about and ways in which they might be made more manageable.

The Phoenix Management Intern Program

The Phoenix Management Intern Program will begin its thirtieth year in July 1979. Throughout past years, the Phoenix Intern Program has gained national recognition as a highly professional program which serves to regenerate the public administrative system by attracting, developing, and retaining well-trained young people in local government. The success which the Phoenix program has enjoyed may be attributed in large part to the strong, continuing support of the city's management staff and elected officials. The program represents a sincere dedication to professional public service by providing an opportunity for young people interested in government, and specifically municipal management, to obtain training and experience in the complex, ever-challenging urban setting which Phoenix provides.

A New Partnership for Our Schools: The Taylor Report

The government of schools in England and Wales is a matter of history which has at times been interesting, sometimes acrimonious and at other times merely time-consuming. Until I902 the government of schools was something in which central government took an interest. Governing bodies and managing bodies were those to whom grant was payable and who were in one way or another responsible for the quality and efficiency of education which was provided at the state's expense. In I902, however, after the introduction of local education authorities into the education scene, the power of governors and managers diminished. Local education authorities took over many of the rights which affected the quality of education in terms of, for instance, curriculum and the appointment of teaching staff. From time to time since 1902 attempts were made to enlarge and restore some of the pristine authority of governors. Those efforts were not successful. The 1944 Education Act diminished, still further, what was left. Governors and managers by now have very little say, financial or otherwise, in anything which affects the school. They have (apart from some teaching appointments in Aided schools) little to say about the way in which staff are appointed. They nevertheless do retain a formal role in appointments - and particularly in the appointment of heads of schools. Even then, however, they play a markedly lesser role than those who serve local education authorities directly. In the way that governors and managers have been relegated to a position of less influence, few people find very much to object to. However, the fact that their historical and social position was once something firmly established in the British educational scene accounts for the manner in which some people would like to see action taken to restore the effectiveness of very local bodies of influence in the school system. There were some who hoped that local government reorganisation would restore to governors their one-time distinct advisory power, when national systems of communication and national ideas about democracy were very different from those of the present day. Have those ideas changed so much that it is impossible to restore to governors any of the power with which they were once invested or have the questions about power, responsibility, the involvement of the community, the reality of decentralisation and the nature of educational control changed too much? These questions haunted the members of the Taylor Committee. The problems changed each time attention was diverted. The result is a report that gives the impression of describing the Emperor's clothes. Is there much that is new to be said? Most people in local government who have seriously read Taylor respond by pointing out that many of the recommendations amount only to that which is already done. Alternatively, it is argued that the recommendations of Taylor are a matter of commonsense. But another voice says that some of the recommendations are self-contradictory.

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West Irian: A New Era

Research Article| October 01 1962 West Irian: A New Era Paul W. van der Veur Paul W. van der Veur Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Memorandum (Institute of Pacific Relations, American Council) (1933) 2 (8): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.2307/3023598 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Paul W. van der Veur; West Irian: A New Era. Memorandum (Institute of Pacific Relations, American Council) 27 April 1933; 2 (8): 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3023598 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.