Understanding Of Good Governance Research Articles

The officials’ efforts to set up a good government

This study investigates the Government of Bogor City’s efforts in disseminating the values of good governance to its bureaucracy. This is based on the fact that the enforcement of good governance is a challenge and an opportunity to be concerned because there are many who do not know the impact of it. Internal impacts would be felt in the employment sector competition while the external impact would be related to the competition in terms of the governance qualities from another region examined by the internal affair officials. With descriptive and qualitative approaches, this study finds that many officials of the local government of Bogor City are still not ready to face the culture of good governance. Such unpreparedness results from the fact that an understanding of good governance is not evenly spread among the officials. It is because that the government itself has not put this good governance issue as a top priority. Finally, there is the absence of a comprehensive evaluation process of good government socialization activities.

Theoretical reflections on governance in health regions.

This article analyzes governance in health regions, through the contributions of two studies: one on a governance model and the other on duties in the management of public policies networks. The former conducted a meta-analysis of 137 case studies in the literature on collaborative governance aimed at preparing an explanatory and analytical model. Authors identified critical variables that will influence the results: a previous history of conflict or cooperation, incentives for participation, power imbalances, leadership and institutional design. They also identified key factors: face-to-face dialogue, trust building and development of commitment and shared vision. The latter study examined networks of public policies in the analytic tradition and the perspective of governance, incorporating concepts from the field of political science, economics and interorganizational relations, in order to support the management of public policies networks. The study identified network management as equivalent to a strategic game involving functions: network activation, framework of relations, intermediation, facilitation and consensus building and mediation and arbitration. The combination of the two reflections provides a conceptual reference for better understanding of governance in health regions.

PENGARUH BUDAYA ETIS ORGANISASI DAN PEMAHAMAN GOOD GOVERNANCEPADA KINERJA AUDITOR KANTOR AKUNTAN PUBLIK DI BALI

This research examines the influence of ethical culture organization and understanding of good governance towards job performance of an auditor of the public accounting firm. Number of respondents taken in this research were 60 respondents. Data was obtained through questionnaire by distributing it to the auditors of the public accounting firm. Multiple linear regression analysis was used within this research.This research indicates that ethical culture organization has positive impacts on their job performance. understanding of good governance has positive impacts on the job performance of an auditor.

Corporate Governance Codes: A Review and Research Agenda

AbstractManuscript TypeReviewResearch Question/IssueThis study reviews previous country‐level and firm‐level studies on corporate governance codes up to 2014 in order to highlight recent trends and indicate future avenues of research.Research Findings/ResultsOur data show that research on codes increases over time consistently with the diffusion and the relevance of the empirical phenomenon. Despite previous studies substantially enriching our knowledge of the antecedents and consequences of governance codes, our study shows there are still several opportunities to make significant contributions in this area.Theoretical ImplicationsAgency theory is the dominant theoretical framework, although other theoretical perspectives (especially the institutional one) are increasingly adopted. Future studies should be aimed at widening and combining various theoretical lenses so as to develop new interpretations and a better understanding of governance codes.Practical ImplicationsLegislators and policymakers should continue to develop and update the recommendations of national governance codes in order to address the potential failures of corporate governance mechanisms in place.

PENGARUH BUDAYA ORGANISASI, ETOS KERJA, INDEPENDENSI AUDITOR, INTEGRITAS AUDITOR DAN PEMAHAMAN GOOD GOVERNANCE TERHADAP KINERJA AUDITOR

This study aims to determine the effect of Organizational Culture, Work Ethics, Auditor Independence, Integrity Auditor and Understanding of Good Governance on Auditor Performance. The sample used in this study consists of 121 auditors, internal auditors and external auditors are included in Jakarta. Samples were randomly distributed using a purposive sampling method. The method used in this study is a multiple linear regression. This Study show that the results of Auditor Independence can affect auditor performance significantly, because of the significant level of the t test was under 0.05. while the other independent variables, such as Cultural Organization, Work Ethics, Integrity Auditor and understanding of Good Governance, together with the auditor independence joinly affect auditor performance, because the level of the F test is significant in under 0.05. For future research, it is advisable to further expand the sample to be used in research, as well as adding variables that need to be researched and also accompany the respondents in the questionnaire in order to obtain a thorough and accurate answer.

Good Governance: A Radical and Normative Approach to Nonprofit Management

This article proposes a radical and normative approach to understanding governance as one of the core issues dealt with in nonprofit management. The radical component traces ideas of good governance through a series of historical transformations, from the governance of Italian city-states in the fourteenth century through the Enlightenment and on to the American Revolution. The normative component challenges the instrumental understanding of good governance as effective organizational behavior and puts the emphasis on the moral values underpinning managerial practices in the public sphere. In concluding, the radical and normative approaches are being integrated into a framework for nonprofit management education. Unlike existing curricula, the proposed model does not focus on preparing students for a particular type of organizations, but for the career of civic professionals engaged as intermediaries in the public sphere. In this respect, the article addresses both, researchers interested in overcoming the division that exists between descriptive and prescriptive approaches to understanding governance and faculty concerned about the relevance of nonprofit management in an increasingly complex organizational environment.

Constrained parliamentarism in the New Zealand regime

In this article the ways in which the original Ackerman framework may be used in the assessment of checks and balances in New Zealand are considered. Does New Zealand conform to the ideals of constrained parliamentarism? In order to tackle this question, the eight institutional specifics of governance identified by Ackerman are looked into. The eight institutional specifics are (1) Parliamentary democracy, (2) Federal structure, (3) Strong upper house, (4) Professional public service, (5) Independent judiciary, (6) Human rights, (7) Integrity of major institutions and (8) Referenda. This framework facilitates a better understanding of governance in New Zealand.

From Good Governance to Development? A Critical Perspective on the Case of Norway’s Oil for Development

Good governance is a key buzzword in development aid discourse. It is a catch‐all term denoting capacity building, poverty reduction and democracy, where the latter two elements function as legitimising factors. This paper discusses the Norwegian aid programme Oil for Development’s understanding of good governance. Good governance discourse rests on a vision of African states as ‘failed’, and explains the lack of development as a product of poor governance. In Oil for Development, good governance simultaneously works as a condition to qualify for aid, a tool to implement aid and a goal for aid. Oil for Development sees good governance as mainly technical capacity‐building, aiming to maximise government revenues from oil and clarifying roles in the state apparatus to contribute to a balance of power between the state and the oil industry. Poverty reduction and democracy building enter as legitimising elements providing the programme’s rationale. This approach to development rests on a hope of a ‘trickle‐down’ effect from increased capacity in the state apparatus to poverty reduction. This expectation is unlikely to materialise, as the formal structures of Oil for Development seeks to strengthen are trumped by informal ones. Further, the programme pretends to build its approach on an international consensus among researchers on governance, which effectively depoliticises aid and sees governance as an issue for experts. What constitutes ‘good’ in governance is however not a straightforward issue of clarity in roles and increased capacity.

A critical understanding of good governance and leadership concepts written in the context of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the challenges to contextual discourse on Africa's development paradigms1

ABSTRACT Good governance is a value-laden concept that is characteristically nebulous; it can mean different things to different people, depending on the context in which it is used. The same applies to leadership. Concepts, as Pauw (1999a, 465) puts it, are ‘tools of thinking’ and contexts are ‘the environments or frameworks in which they [concepts] operate’. Lucidity in the meanings of concepts is fundamentally important for shaping debate and enriching discourses. To maintain their power, concepts must be used in their proper contexts. This necessitates an understanding of the art of contextual discourse. Good governance is used in NEPAD as a principle and emphasised as a sine qua non for sustainable development in Africa. On the other hand, NEPAD premises Africa's re-birth or Renaissance on good governance and leadership, with a vision and commitment to repositioning the continent in global power balances. In this article good governance and leadership are considered as concepts. NEPAD is a textual context within which the two key concepts are used and should, consequently, be engaged. The article attempts a critical review of African scholarship engagement with good governance and leadership within the NEPAD context to determine the extent to which contextual discourse is practised. It further grapples with the immediate historical background to scholarship on Africa's development between the 1960s and early 1990s. The exercise reveals that much of the accumulated body of African scholarship and scholarship on Africa's development reviewed does not suffciently contextualise discourse on good governance and leadership within NEPAD, and its key assessment and monitoring device, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), and offers an alternative framework.

Identity Theft and Systems Theory: The Fraud Act 2006 in Perspective

The Fraud Act 2006 provides us with an instrument through which we can now target emerging online criminal threats posed by identity thieves. This paper argues for a nuanced approach to the debates regarding the amenability of online criminal activity to centralised regulatory oversight. Managing risks in a decentralised and distributed network environment has frequently descended into a question of how liability rules can be harnessed to promote trust and security. We argue that a deeper understanding of the governance implications of managing complex systems is an important prerequisite to coherent policymaking. The analysis advocated in the paper has a number of implications for the way we understand and conceptualise information security governance in the online environment. We identify three. First, law is a necessary but not a sufficient governance instrument in managing the emerging threats on the Internet. Second, identity theft is a social not technologically driven problem. Third, emerging networks for information sharing, the evolution of specialised technological solutions and increased end-user participation suggest an important trend in the way online threats can be conceptualised and managed. The central thesis of the paper is that Luhmann’s ideas of autopoiesis and social systems may provide us with a better understanding of governance in the online environment than what seems to be afforded by current analysis of the Fraud Act 2006.

Decentralisation of Economic Law—An Oxymoron?

Interest in decentralising governance is increasing worldwide. Policies of decentralisation are applied in many different fields. In economic law, notably in both the cases of EC competition and financial services law, new rules are in the process of being introduced. This essay provides a brief overview of these models of regulation. It then examines their regulatory structures and focuses on the question of the impact of the decentralisation process in the context of decentred understandings of regulation. It points to the paradox of law being decentralised where it is a centralised function and thus represents an oxymoron. The article argues that whether decentralisation results in an oxymoron depends on the function of the law considered. The overall purpose of the article is to contribute to a better understanding of governance through decentralisation.

Decentralization of Economic Law - An Oxymoron

The interest in decentralizing governance is increasing worldwide. In Europe too, a policy of decentralization is being applied. In economic law, notably in both the cases of competition and financial services law, new rules are in the process of being introduced. In competition law, the Regulation on the implementation of the rules on competition has lead to a decentralized model of law enforcement. In financial services law, the new Directive on markets in financial instruments has proposed the introduction of a four-level rule-making model, which may represent a participative, decentralized approach, but has resulted in a centralization of that process, while the enforcement remains decentralized. This essay provides a brief overview of these models of regulation. Then, it examines these regulatory structures and focuses on the question of the impact of the decentralization process in the context of decentred understandings of regulation. It points to the paradox of law being decentralized where it is a centralized function and thus representing an oxymoron. The paper argues that decentralization results in an oxymoron depending on the function of law considered. The overall purpose of the paper is to contribute to a better understanding of governance through decentralization.

Decentralized centralism: framework for a better understanding of governance in the field of education

The article focuses on decentralization as a governance strategy in education and the dynamic interaction in the decentralization process. The first part outlines some theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of decentralization, based on research. The following part gives an analysis of the dynamics of decentralization that normally takes place in a decentralized government strategy. In connection with this, the article presents some empirical data from Norway and, to some extent, from the province of British Columbia in Canada. The dynamic interaction in the decentralization process is embedded in the term ‘decentralized centralism’. The article distinguished four dynamics processes in decentralized centralism; the dynamics of initiation, the dynamics of content, the dynamics of levels and the dynamics of simultaneity.

Governance and the Discipline of Development

‘Discipline’ has at least two meanings. First, it can denote a field of activity, and second, something like correction or control. The article argues that governance as presented by the World Bank is best understood in terms of discipline in the second sense. ‘Good governance’ presents a picture of interlocking disciplinary practices whereby the state is disciplined by society, and society by the state. The article argues further that in its attempts to enact this vision the bank relies heavily on certain ‘disciplinary techniques’. It identifies a number of these techniques and shows how they are connected to the recognisably liberal concepts and categories the bank uses in its understanding of good governance. The article suggests the theory and practice of good governance offers insights into liberalism as a ‘working ideology’. Finally, the article draws some conclusions for the discipline of development in the first sense of the term.