Political Management Research Articles

The relationship between organizational politics, strategic political management, and competitive advantage

Abstract Purpose The article aims to analyze organizational politics (OP) as a construct with four dimensions: planning, improvisational, learning, and entrepreneurial. We also examine the relationship between strategic political management and OP and between OP and the organizational effectiveness of a company, which is understood to be a competitive advantage. Finally, we aim to verify whether there is a mediating role for OP in the association of strategic political management and organizational effectiveness of an enterprise, also understood to be a competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative research was conducted on a sample of 355 medium-sized and large enterprises operating in Poland. Findings OP is a construct with four dimensions: planning, improvisational, learning, and entrepreneurial. Also, the supposition OP is positively related to the organizational effectiveness of a company was confirmed. We did not, however, find enough evidence to support hypotheses about the relationship between strategic political management and OP and the mediating role of OP in the association of strategic political management and organizational effectiveness of an enterprise. Practical implications The article sheds light on the potential use of OP as a strategic management tool. Authors argue enterprises that can use the opportunities of functional politics become strategically stronger than those that do not have this ability. In particular, enterprise management instruments should include OP as an inalienable medium for enterprise growth. Originality/value This paper offers some theoretical considerations and empirical research on OP's meaning for a company operating in a dynamic and hostile environment and OP's influence on organizational effectiveness.

Analyzing the Impact of Causal Factors on Political Management to Determine Sustainability Policy under Environmental Law: Enriching the Covariance-based SEMxi Model

This research aims to develop a causal relationship model on political management for sustainability policy formation under Thai environmental law by applying the best and valid model with a non-spurious property called the Covariance-based on Structural Equation Model with exogenous variables (Covariance-based SEMxi Model). This newly-developed model is in distinction with any past models as it is made effectively applicable to any sectors across areas. The model can also be utilized to design a long-term forecasting model with the ability to determine appropriate future scenarios. When assessing the covariance-based SEMxi model performance, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and the root mean square error (RMSE) are estimated at 1.19% and 1.30%, respectively, in comparison of other models, including Gray-Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model (GM-ARIMA), Gray Model (GM), Back Propagation Neural Network (BP), Artificial Neural Natural Model (ANN), and Multiple Regression Model (MR). As for the results, this research reveals a direct impact of economic factors on environmental and social factors. In the meanwhile, social factors have a direct impact on environmental and economic factors. The research also indicates a direct effect on the environment with a maximal magnitude of 67%. Whereas a direct effect of social factors on the environment is detected at the magnitude of 55%. These effects are perceived to exceed the specified carrying capacity set by Thailand. In addition, a causal relationship is observed between economic and social factors, where the environment is found with the lowest error correction capability of only 5 percent. At the same time, economic and social factors are noticed with greater correction capability of 59% and 31%, respectively. This finding implies that the ecosystem will experience slow recovery whenever it deteriorates. Hence, the government must place a higher concentration on the environment, while different measures on environmental legislation should be closely controlled to contain any future damage. Besides, energy consumption must be managed not to exceed the established carrying capacity by simultaneously implementing both proactive and reactive measures. This process can be strengthened by optimizing the newly-introduced model produced by this work for a scenario design in policy management to attain sustainability.

THE SUBJECT MATTER AND FUNCTIONS OF POLITICAL CONSULTING

Subject and functions of political consulting are analyzed, which plays rather an important productive and procedural role within the frame of scholarly process aimed at preparing and finally taking crucial political decisions as well as their subsequent implementations. In spite of the fact, its practical use as a scholarly instrument for political decision-making have been yet imperfect, fragmentary, thus it cannot meet the real political necessities of today. Such a state of things is determined, on the one hand, by the significant increase of the subjects of the said process, namely, members of business circles, mass media, profile expertize and analysis centers, specializing in preparatory steps for political decision-making. While, on the other hand, the exact procedural role of political consultants in a very complicated process of new policies emerging has, up to now, been studied dramatically inadequate. Inadequate is, first and foremost, studying political consulting as a classical specialized scholarly instrument, designed not only for optimization of electoral process, market relations in society, but also for working out optimum variants of any political decisions. The purpose of this article is to solve the above-descried scholarly problem, i.e. defining of the subject matter and functions of political consulting as a scholarly subject of political and managerial nature as well as defining its role within the sphere of Political Analysis. All told, the author has analyzed various approaches of other scholars to definitions of political consulting’s essence as a socio-political phenomenon and also as a scientific notion. The author has thoroughly studied exact procedural functions of political consulting as a relatively independent scholarly subject and as an inalienable element of Political Analysis, providing for scientific basis for the preparation of modern political decisions. The said analysis of the problem has resulted in the author’s attempt to determine, within the system of Political Analysis, the exact procedural functions of political consulting as a specialized scholarly subject in the framework of political management, its theoretical and methodological fundamentals, including the sphere of practical politics. The article also defines the exact procedural role of political consulting in the scientifically-based process of preparing political decisions, final decision-making and their practical implementations.

Deconstructing citizenship and the growth of Detroit's green renaissance

Detroit is in the midst of a contemporary urban renewal project that is being carried out through green gentrification. The displacement of residents is happening through the discursive and political management of the water system, which produces conditions that leave residents with few options for remaining in the city. In this article, I explore how resource management, particularly water and wastewater infrastructure, has been used to degrade the political efficacy of Black Detroit residents. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis of news articles and government reports, I argue that in recent years the city of Detroit has developed a wasting economy. This political-economic structure relies on the coupling of deconstructive and constructive processes that promote the withering of citizenship in order to make way for radical racial transformation in access to and control over the city. Keywords: Green gentrification, environmental racism, infrastructural violence, embodied metabolism

SEJARAH KERAJAAN TURKI UTSMANI DAN KEMAJUANNYA BAGI DUNIA ISLAM

The purpose of this study is to analyze the history and progress of the Ottoman Turks for the Islamic World. Historically, the founder of this kingdom was a Turkic nation from the Oghuz tribe, whose name was Ertugrul, he was the pioneer of the Ottoman Empire who died in 1289 AD. Later, the leadership was continued by his son, Uthman. Uthman bin Ertugrul is considered the founder of the Ottoman empire. There are nine phases, namely the first and second phases as the pioneering and founding phases of the Ottoman Empire, phases three and four as the glory phase, phases five to 8 as the phase of stagnation, decline and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, while the ninth phase is the phase of the Republican caliphate. Factors that influenced the glory and progress of the Ottoman Turks were political, military, economic factors, the paradigm of rulers/sultans, and socio-political factors. Meanwhile, the territory of the Ottoman Turks in parts of Asia, North Africa to Eastern Europe can be conquered and maintained for approximately 6 centuries. The heyday of Solomon (King Solomon) was known by his people as the noble title "al-Qanuni". The forms of Ottoman progress were the military and government fields, science and culture, architecture, religion and political management.

2015 개정 중․고등학교 역사교과서의 조선후기사 서술 관점과 새로운 서사의 모색

The current middle and high school history textbooks under the Revised Curriculum of 2015 are the first history textbooks developed amid the growing social interest in the importance of authorized history textbooks after the regime''s attempt at replacing old history textbooks with new government-designated ones. Today, authorized history textbooks are oriented toward the development of textbooks to present diverse perspectives reflecting the changing situations of the times and the research achievements of the academic circles instead of textbooks containing only a single perspective under the guidance of the government. The description perspective of a textbook serves as a starting line to establish what and how to look at history for students. In the current history textbooks, the perspective for the description of political history finds the accountability of the ruined nation in the failure of political management from factional politics to power politics. The economic and cultural history is described from the perspective of development with the symbolic elements of Western modernization set as a standard of pursuit. The social history describes the social class system and the rural community society from the perspective of discrimination and conflict. The current history textbooks keep almost the same perspectives and descriptions as the old government-designated textbooks within their larger framework of depicting the aspects of Joseon in its latter part. History textbooks need to have a narrative transition and offer students a chance to understand the times from more diverse perspectives so that they can align with the goals oriented by today''s history education. The descriptions of political history should help students figure out the various patterns of political management and changes during the latter part of Joseon according to historical causal relations. The descriptions of economic and cultural history should focus on development as an objective phenomenon based on proof and comparison and present reasonable historical meanings accordingly. The descriptions of social history should move students closer to the reality of Joseon society during its latter part based on the coexistence of conflict and integration. These proposals will hopefully lead to description changes in history textbooks through collaborations among researchers, teachers, and people concerned.

Garçons ManquésandFemmes Fortes: Two Ambivalent Figures of Butch Lesbianism in Women’s Football in Cameroon

AbstractWith the enactment of anti-homosexuality laws in the 1960s, Cameroon’s government officially endorsed heterosexualist ideologies which legitimize the alienation and criminalization of minority and nonconforming sexual and gender identities. One group, the so-calledgarçons manqués, embodies the stigmatized masculine or “butch” lesbian identity. The political management of lesbianism in Cameroon is ambivalent, however, with respect to sport, and particularly regarding the national pastime, football. Whereas masculine lesbians are routinely branded as “butches” or “sexual predators” who threaten African hetero-patriarchy, “strong women"” (femmes fortes) are celebrated as pivotal to the national ambition. Cameroon’s government strategically amalgamates both heteronationalism and homonationalism in the interest of national pride.

Governing the Metropolis: An International Review of Metropolitanisation, Metropolitan Governance and the Relationship with Sustainable Land Management

Recent research has identified the potential of the metropolitan scale, and indeed metropolitan bodies, in achieving greater coordination and more effective land-use management. In this paper, we have undertaken a systematic scoping review of the English-language literature (2014–2019) on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance, with a view to understanding the potential relationship with more sustainable land management. Our scoping review identified several dominant trends within current research on metropolitanisation and metropolitan governance illustrating the complexity between sustainable land management and issues of territorial politics, resourcing, and power relations. The centrality of collaborative working relationships in supporting sustainable land management is identified, yet collaboration and effective metropolitan scale governance is not always an easy task or readily implemented. The paper identifies a series of challenges and concludes that while there is general consensus that the metropolitan arena may be an appropriate scale through which to support more sustainable land management, there is no agreement on the mechanisms to enable this. Steering and more strongly directing metropolitanisation processes through either formal metropolitan governance structures or other tools could provide a potential approach but will require significant adaptation in power and funding structures.

Political practitioners’ perspectives on political management: the importance of people and power

PurposePolitical management is about getting things done in campaigns, parties and government. Political organizations can use management concepts such as strategic planning, human resources and organizational design to help them achieve their goals. Research into specifically how management is used by political practitioners – political staffers and politicians – in government is limited. This study aims to fill that gap.Design/methodology/approachThe authors review the limited literature on political management, outline interview methodology, results and conclude with overall lessons drawn out using the qualitative data analysis software NVivo.FindingsThis study identifies the aspects of political management that political practitioners saw as the most important, the difference between managing in business and politics, and why.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides suggestions for what future empirical research should focus on, noting a focus on informal behavior that relate to people and power that are not seen from outside the organization.Originality/valueThe perspectives of high-level practitioners help give a view to what political management really is.

Policy capacity: evolving theory and missing links

ABSTRACT We trace the evolution of understandings and applications of policy capacity through a meta-analysis of studies in the policy and administrative sciences that focus on definitions or conceptualizations of capacity, capability or competency, political resources and the functioning of policy systems, and variables or mechanisms leading to outcomes. We critique and disentangle common operationalizations, such as policy success and failure, to enable more complete assessments of whether the state’s policy capacity has diminished in recent times, as often is suggested. Previous research has concentrated on two key properties of the “supply” of policy responses, namely sufficiency and changes over time and across contexts. We argue that there needs to be more consideration of societal demands on governments or governance systems and the (dis)equilibrium between demand and supply generation. Using the analogy of the battery, we propose three interconnected dimensions of policy capacity that better capture the qualities and relationality of supply and demand: administrative capital; contingent political management; and expectations satisfiction.

A conversation about the state in pandemic times

Established ideas about state responsibility and state violence are placed in a new light in times characterized as states of emergency. The following conversation addresses the role of the state in the safeguarding of public health, taking its departure in media debates and political debates about state responsibility in two countries that have been criticized for not taking strong enough measures to protect the very futuriority of the nation in times of a pandemic Sweden and Nicaragua. Both countries have been castigated for avoiding total lockdown and for having taken a passive approach to what Wendy Brown has called “the political management of the virus” (Brown 2020). At the same time, the rhetoric used to describe their respective strategies has differed vastly in dialogue we explore notions about governance, biopolitics and necropolitics as they are articulated and negotiated in national contexts that claim the label social democracies. One of the points of departure is that while the response to Covid-19 is often described in war metaphors, and hence as a state of emergency, the unjust and unequal distribution of life and death is by no means exceptional.

Освещение семейно-демографической политики в СМИ: результаты всероссийского исследования

Introduction. In the Russian Federation, the relevance of research on the demographic indicators and the effectiveness of public administration in their regulation. Demographic problems include a set of tasks that need to be solved to ensure the growth of fertility and life expectancy, reduce mortality, and regulate migration. This study discusses a part of demographic policy, namely the instruments of the state family and demographic policy aimed at “saving the people of Russia and developing human potential”, which, in accordance with the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation, are the priority of the country’s national interest. The purpose of this work is to identify the context of communication between the government and society in the process of covering the demographic situation and public administration in the field of family and demographic policy by the Russian media. Methods and Materials. The research methodology is based on theories that reveal the relationship between political management and political communication (S. Ball-Rokeach and M. DeFleur, G. Lasswell, J. Habermas, G. Esping Andersen, S. Volodenkov, M. Grachev, A. Solovyov, etc.). The research method is content analysis of regional Russian media, the sample consists of 9011 articles. Analysis. In the process of content analysis, the following tools of public administration were evaluated: communication and the construction of a discourse on the implementation and results of family and demographic policy in the Russian media. Family and demographic policy are parts of social policy and can be quite effective (for example, the “One-child policy” of China), but the use of technologies to manipulate public opinion in the process of implementing family and demographic policy carries significant risks. Results. The content analysis revealed how family and demographic policy is covered in the media, which of the three communication purposes of the authorities and society (information, dialogue or manipulation) is the basic one. Content analysis allowed us to answer the question: are technologies of manipulation of public opinion used to increase the birth rate in the Russian Federation? It is revealed that these technologies are not used in the analyzed media, there is no persistent repetition of characteristic phrases. The data obtained in the process of content analysis made it possible to describe the communicative practices used in the studied media, to conclude whether the communicative practices correspond to the goals of political management in the field of family and demographic policy. Authors’ contribution. T. Rostovskaya built a theoretical scheme for the study of the context of communication between the government and society, carried out a guide for collecting material by regions of the Russian Federation. E. Vasilieva developed a research methodology, processed the data obtained. The co-authors jointly analyzed the data and interpreted the results.

The Problems of "Mental Health Trend" in the Ideological and Political Management of College Students Under the Network Environment.

In order to solve the problem that the ideological and political work mechanism in colleges and universities is relatively backward, which has no significant effect on ensuring the healthy and vigorous development of socialist universities with Chinese characteristics and promoting the all-round growth of students, this research focuses on the innovative countermeasures of ideological and political work in colleges and universities under the network environment from the perspective of ideological and political education. Therefore, the current situation and problems of ideological and political education management in colleges and universities are understood through questionnaire survey and interview. It is learned that 24.09% of students believe that the level of ideological and political education activities in colleges and universities is declining, 32.12% of students do not like the traditional way of ideological and political education, 33.94% of students have a general evaluation of the current ideological and political education management, and 58.03% of students believe that the way of ideological and political education is relatively single. Network psychological education for college students is a kind of educational behavior aimed at the psychological change process of college students in the Internet environment, and it conducts psychological education for college students in terms of cognition, emotion, will, ethics, personality shaping, interpersonal communication, and so on. Based on the above problems, combined with the requirements of ideological and political management and the needs of students, this article puts forward countermeasures from three aspects: management mechanism innovation, team improvement, and adaptation ways. Therefore, the management of ideological and political education in the network era is not a thing overnight, and must be adhered to for a long time. Only by constantly exploring, strengthening research, absorbing the strengths of others, innovating and developing, the ideological and political education management in the network era will increasingly show its strong effectiveness and play a more and more important role in practical work. The lack of network morality and network norms not only affects the ideological and political education but also affects the ideological and moral elements of higher vocational students' quality and physical and mental health.

The Optimization Strategy of College Students' Ideological and Political Management under the Internet+ Environment.

In order to better deal with the challenges brought by the changes of the external environment to the ideological and political work of college students and better solve the problems of dogma, lack of operability, and inability to adapt to the changes of the new situation and environment, this topic proposes a student management information system based on the artificial neural network. This method strengthens the construction of the student management system, deeply interprets the connotation and practical needs of ideological and political work in colleges and universities in the new environment under the background of the “Internet+” era, and is committed to further optimizing the strategy of student ideological and political work on the basis of following the principles of innovation, human nature, openness, and ecology of ideological and political work. The results show that the construction of a more scientific student teaching management information system can provide intelligent and digital technical support for the improvement of ideological and political work efficiency and teaching quality and promote the innovative development of ideological and political work in colleges and universities. Therefore, the ideological and political work in colleges and universities should gradually overcome preaching, build new methods to measure students' achievements and ideological and political arms, actively occupy the dominant power of Internet discourse, and avoid the negative impact of the network by spreading positive energy.

Political Will and Purposeful Management Decisions as the Basis for the Technological Development of the North of Russia

Political Will and Purposeful Management Decisions as the Basis for the Technological Development of the North of Russia

Crisis political management at the local level: features and agenda

Crisis political management at the local level: features and agenda

Geographical scattering in Italian inner areas, politics and COVID-19

<abstract> <p>In recent months, the COVID-19 pandemic has been fervently considered from the perspective of various disciplines in the scientific community. Many of the proposed approaches are tied to reflections on the imminent and future effects of the pandemic. This contribution begins with a study of the recent past in Italy, analyzing the hurdles in politics that came to light due to the wave of COVID-19 infections worldwide. Particularly, the research considers the criticality of the geographical scale of reference in Italy's political actions. COVID-19 induced a need for the government to interact with people locally, especially through small municipalities in geographically central, inner areas, is emphasized. The main aim of this research is to attribute to this specific COVID-19 disaster the instrumental role of turning on the lights on the need to intervene in the inner areas of Italy, often very neglected. So the focus of the work is on inner areas and the probable catalysis of the political management dynamics that concern them, as an effect of the COVID's impacts. The pandemic is, therefore, only the contingent phenomenon which, in this case, can perhaps accelerate political interventions in inner areas. To explain the reason for this, we show how the vulnerability of inner areas, already generally risky, has become one of the weak links in the chain of protection from COVID-19 in terms of a geographical scattering phenomenon.</p> </abstract>

Spatial Distribution of Urban Services from the Spatial Justice Perspective: Case Study of Tehran

The realisation of spatial justice, guaranteeing the quality of life for all citizens and the prohibition of citizens’ exclusion are the fundamental principles of optimal urban management. Social seclusion is associated with social policies such as education, health, housing, employment, crime, welfare, poverty alleviation, etc. The spatial problems in Tehran are due to the political organising and political management of space in Iran on a micro and macro scale during the last hundred years. Tehran as the major metropolis of Iran has a special significance in the Iranian urban system; but in terms of spatial justice, the distribution of urban services across its districts is considered heterogeneous. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the status of “Spatial Justice of Tehran” in terms of urban services and examine the level of difference between districts. Mixed method is used in this research. The results show that the distribution of urban services is not just in 22 districts of Tehran. According to the findings, district 1 has the highest level of services and districts 17 and 9 have the lowest levels of services.

Geocultural branding as a tool for solving the crisis state of the socio-economic sphere of a rural settlement

In this article, geocultural branding of territories is considered in the context of the theory of political management, which can be used in solving the problems of the socio-economic sphere of rural settlement. In the scientific literature, insufficient attention is paid to the branding of Russian rural settlements. Individual stories can be found only in the publications of specialists in the field of marketing territories. According to the author's point of view, a progressive solution that allows creating conditions for sustainable socio-economic development in a rural settlement is the development and implementation of a geocultural branding strategy for the settlement. On the example of the village of Bard, a large rural settlement of the Perm Region, measures for the development of a geocultural strategy and brand are proposed. Among the image resources of the village, unique natural places, craft traditions, national ornaments, mythologems of the Tulva district, as well as art objects as an organic part of the public spaces of the settlement are singled out separately. The historical personality of the Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukai (the beginning of the XX century) is proposed as the "genius of the place". The geocultural brand "Barda ‒ mirror of the Perm land" was developed based on the poetic creativity of G. Tukai. Barda can really be considered a mirror of the Permian land. Good-neighborly relations between ethnic communities have historically developed here, religious tolerance has taken place in everyday life, traditional types of economy and life have developed. The concept of geocultural branding of territories was used as a methodological basis (D.N. Zamyatin).

Political management for sustainable development of modern society

Political management for sustainable development of modern society