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The field of public administration has a long history of popular reform movements. Many of these reforms have failed to deliver the improvements promised. The current "reinventing government" reforms, which follow largely from the writings of David Osborne and his coauthors, claim to establish a new governmental paradigm based on liberating employees and citizens to do their best and using new management methods to get the most out of what government does. However, a careful analysis of Osborne's chief works, Reinventing Government and Banishing Bureaucracy, reveals that their advice cannot be applied because it is inconsistent. No new paradigm is established, and, more importantly, because of the ahistorical nature of these texts, Osborne proposes discredited ideas for administrative reform and misleads the reader concerning the significance of his observations.

This paper discusses the issue of small government in Korea by way of reviewing a recent article on the subject published in Spring, 1492 in the Korean Public Administration Review. The article is by four Korean political scientists led by Dong-Suh Bark. The Korea's Fifth Republic of the 80s under Chun Doo-Whan first broached small government. Largely, to redeem his couptarnished Fifth Republic, Chun streamlined the bureaucracy. This resulted in personnel reduction, consolidation, and the adoption of a zero-base budget. The Sixth Republic under Roh Tae-Woo formed a group to study governmental reform. Nothing much came of it, however, as Roh gave way to pressures resisting change. Corning into power in 1993, Kim Young-Sam, the reform-minded president of the Seventh Republic has put forth small government as a part of his overall reform agenda.

Abstract Inmate self‐government is one of the strategies for moving correctional institutions away from the crime control establishment model and toward the community subsystem model Authentic participation in government of these institutions, however, awaits resolution of basic questions. With the prison organization provide the prerequisite conditions?. Will the inmates be prepared for effective participation. since the suicide processes of criminal justice administration heavily from those segments of the American population king expunge and incentives for significant political participation? Penal dorm depends on sociocultural changes in the society of which formations is a creature. Whether or not inmate self‐government is o via reform strategy pivots ultimately on the revision of social attitudes toward deviants generally and the capacity of the prison to reduce significantly its social psychological isolation from the larger community system.

Shipper reviews JAPAN'S SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS by Purnendra Jain.

'The Principles of Representative Government' by Bernard Manin is reviewed.

Gut verwaltet dank guter Vernetzung Wer sich im Spannungsfeld Digitalisierung und Verwaltung bewegt und sich mit Fragen des Datenschutzes und strategischer Steuerung befasst, findet im vorliegenden Handbuch topaktuelle Antworten. Es ist auf dem neuesten Rechtsstand, unter Einschluss neuer europäischer Rechtsakte (Data Governance Act) und deutscher Gesetze (Onlinezugangs- und Registermodernisierungsgesetz.) Insgesamt punktet das Werk mit seinem integrativen und ebenenübergreifenden Ansatz, indem es die EU-, Bundes-, Landes- und Kommunalebene gleichermaßen behandelt und wichtige Themen wie KI in angemessener Tiefe abhandelt. Es eignet sich sowohl als Einstiegslektüre als auch zur Vertiefung. Das Wichtigste auf einen Blick: - konturiert den Rechtsrahmen für zahlreiche Anwendungen digitalisierter Verwaltung - enthält Überlegungen zur strategischen Positionierung - beschränkt sich nicht auf die Analyse der Rechtsfragen, sondern untersucht auch Fragen der Führung und Akzeptanz in der digitalisierten Verwaltung - zeigt Entwicklungsperspektiven (etwa zum Einsatz der Blockchain-Technologie in der öffentlichen Verwaltung) auf Zentrale Fragestellungen: - Wie müssen sich Staat und Verwaltung aufstellen, um den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung gerecht zu werden? - Was unterscheidet die digitalisierte Verwaltung vom "klassischen" Electronic Government? - Welche Rolle spielen Big Data-Anwendungen und eine algorithmenbasierte Regulierung? - Wie vollzieht sich der Sprung zum Smart Government? - Welchen Rechtsrahmen ziehen die Normen der EU, der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der deutschen Bundesländer? - Wie können sich Bund, Länder und Kommunen darin positionieren? - Wie hat künftig Personalplanung und -auswahl auszusehen, um den Anforderungen digitalisierter Verwaltung gerecht zu werden?

This book moves away from the common belief that Japan's international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan's highly centralised political system. Examining examples of subnational governments (SNGs) across Japan the book uncovers a significant and generally unrecognised development in Japanese politics: SNGs are ever more dynamic international actors as national borders 'weaken' across the world. Exploring what Japanese SNGs do, where they do it, and why, the book considers the implications of these factors for Japan's international relations and domestic politics. By bringing to light the scope and consequences of the international actions of Japan's SNGs, this book provides a more accurate and nuanced understanding of the country's foreign policy, at a time when it is pursuing a broader and more active profile in international affairs.

Future tweaks to electoral system should promote deeper political representation, substantive participation

When he was elected in 2008, President Barack Obama promised that his administration would be more open and transparent than any previous administration. His so-called "open government initiative" involved a pledge to develop better data release technology (to facilitate the communication of information), make more information available to the public through federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and create an enabling policy framework for open government.Of course, the Obama open government initiative was not the government's first foray into the realm of openness or transparency. FOIA, enacted in 1966, the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) enacted in 1972, and the Government in the Sunshine Act enacted in 1976, all involved governmental efforts at openness and transparency. Throughout all of these reform efforts, there has been tension between the public' interest in obtaining information regarding the functioning of government, and the government's desire to preserve the secrecy of its operations. Few doubt that the government has a legitimate interest in withholding certain types of information (e.g., state secrets or information vital to foreign relations). Indeed, the United States Constitution explicitly protects certain types of information, and the United States Supreme Court has affirmed the need for secrecy and confidentiality in certain contexts. On the other hand, in a democratic system, in which the people must vote on issues and candidates, openness and transparency help voters obtain the information necessary to make informed decisions. President Obama's initiative was premised on idea that prior statutes had not gone far enough towards openness or transparency, and sought to alter the balance away from secrecy and towards disclosure.

This book moves away from the common belief that Japan's international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan's highly centralised political system. Examining examples of subnational governments (SNGs) across Japan the book uncovers a significant and generally unrecognised development in Japanese politics: SNGs are ever more dynamic international actors as national borders 'weaken' across the world. Exploring what Japanese SNGs do, where they do it, and why, the book considers the implications of these factors for Japan's international relations and domestic politics. By bringing to light the scope and consequences of the international actions of Japan's SNGs, this book provides a more accurate and nuanced understanding of the country's foreign policy, at a time when it is pursuing a broader and more active profile in international affairs.

Traditional hedging using financial derivatives involves the risk inherent in commodity or financial asset prices. This article examines the potential use of derivatives to hedge macroeconomic risk in the public sector. Analyzed is the relationship between state personal income & national aggregate income to explain new futures contracts based on economic indicators that can be used to manage budgetary risk. The authors provide evidence that hedging using macroeconomic derivatives may be feasible; possible risk-management strategies for the public sector are discussed. The analysis also considers a number of practical issues concerning government hedging using financial derivatives & compares the practice with traditional hedging using rainy day funds. Findings indicate that a hedging strategy that adjusts for a state's relation to national economic cycles might be an attractive risk-management tool for at least half of all states. Tables, Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.

Contains: Competition versus cooperation in the steamship business: proposed legislation, by E. R. Johnson; Extent of regulation of ocean and inland water transportation by the federal government, by G. G. Huebner; Historical development of steamship agreements and conferences in the American foreign trade, by Paul Gottheil; Steamship line agreements and affiliations in the American foreign and domestic trade, by S. S. Huebner; The administration and enforcement of steamship conferences and agreements, by W. H. S. Stevens; Pooling agreements, by W. G. Sickel; Rate agreements between carriers in the foreign trade, by P. A. S. Franklin: Deferred rebate systems, by Herbert Barber: Contracts between steamship lines and shippers, by D. J. Donovan; Traffic agreements between steamship lines and American railroads, by Rufus Hardy; Agreements and conferences in their relation to ocean rates, by William Boyd; Rate making in domestic water transportation, by E. O. Merchant; Relation of the contractor or spec