Global Players — Local Actors
In: Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung, S. 139-143
In: Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung, S. 139-143
This study analyzes the factors that motivate the candidates who run for Village Head in Air Hangat District, Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province. In determining the informants, the researcher used the purposive sampling technique, and the data was collected using interviews and documentation studies. Test the validity of the data using source poles. The results showed intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for the Village Head candidates in the 2019 Village Head Election (Pilkades) in Air Hangat District. Intrinsic motivation consists of motivation to gain achievement, power, income, and prestige. Extrinsic motivation consists of developing human resources and providing a sense of security, comfort, and harmony. Based on the study results, it showed that the quality of Village Head candidates in the 2019 Village Head Election (Pilkades) was still at a low level. It can be seen from the low level of education and work experience in government. Community leaders, traditional leaders, and religious leaders are also of the view that village head candidates do not have the readiness to become village heads with a lack of experience in leadership.
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In: The SAIS review of international affairs / the Johns Hopkins University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Band 34, Heft 2, S. 51-61
ISSN: 1945-4724
In: Policy and society, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 105-117
ISSN: 1839-3373
What is the status and role in public action of the knowledge possessed by 'simple' citizens, users and professionals? That is the question broached in both this article and the entire special issue for which it serves as the introduction. To this end, we explore the abundant scientific literature pertaining to the topic and try to situate our own position within the broader setting. After discussing the gradual questioning of the social representations that have made scientific knowledge the ideal and standard by which we measure all knowledge, we argue that many authors with an essentialist approach to knowledge have stressed the differences between scientific knowledge and non-scientific knowledge, often leaving us at an impasse. We argue therefore that it is preferable to advance an approach in which knowledge is as at once relational and in a constant process of hybridization. Having opted for and justified this position, we then focus on the – hybrid – knowledge possessed by citizens, users and professionals, by first probing the reasons for the growing involvement of these actors in the production of knowledge and policies. We then ponder the nature and foundations of the complaints and criticisms frequently levelled at participatory mechanisms as to the actual role played in these areas by the knowledge held by 'local' actors. In the end, we identify proposals defended by certain authors to make the interactions of actors from different social worlds more symmetrical.
In: The SAIS review of international affairs / the Johns Hopkins University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Band 34, Heft 2, S. 51-61
ISSN: 1945-4716
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In: Latin American politics and society, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 169-173
ISSN: 1531-426X
In: Conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Asia
Multidimensional Peacebuilding analyzes the role of local actors in working towards sustainable peace in Mindanao, Philippines. Wendy Kroeker examines the mediatory and solidarity-affirming role of these peacebuilders in the ongoing peace process regarding the conflict in Mindanao.
Metadata only record ; This review samples the rapidly expanding literature on decentralization in Africa. It examines design and implementation issues emerging in decentralization and identifies fruitful areas for policy research and analysis in this critical governance domain. From the review of the literature, it appears that decentralization is not taking the forms necessary to realize the benefits that theory predicts, because it fails to entrust downwardly accountable representative actors with significant domains of autonomous discretionary power. The decentralizations under way differ in terms of the level of legal reform involved; the scale and number of layers of local government; the kinds of local authorities being engaged and developed; the mix of powers and obligations devolved; the sectors involved; the nature of the enabling environment; and the motives of governments for launching the reforms in the first place. These variables are examined with respect to how they shape expected outcomes.
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In: Routledge library editions: politics of the Middle East volume 18
In: Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach; Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, S. 121-142
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
"The Role of Local Actors in Peacekeeping: The Cases of Liberia and Sierra Leone" published on by Oxford University Press.
Based on a sociological perspective, problems in village financial management are not only in administrative problem but structural problem, which is an intervention from the government, so that access to village financial management is only owned by a handful of people. It has implications for the community participation space so the village development is not in accordance with the real hopes and needs of the village community. This study aims to identify local people who control village financial management and measure the influence index of these actors in carrying out their respective roles in Purwabakti Village and Sukadamai Village in Bogor Regency. The research was conducted using mixed methods The results showed that there were six dominant local actors in village financial management. Five of the six actors are village government officials who can be used as village secretary, village treasurer and chairman of the LPM, while one other actor is the head of the TPK Lapang for infrastructure development from the community. Based on the average value of the influence index of each actor, it can be concluded that the economic capital of the actor is the most important capital to be able to influence the community in the village with the rural characteristic, while the capital of moral actors is the most important capital to influence the community in teh village with the semi-urban characteristic. Actors in semi-urban villages also showed that their educational background and interaction with outsiders contribute to carrying out a structural role in the village.
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This paper explains the conspiracy and involvement boss mine (coal) in several provincial elections (regents and governors) in South Kalimantan. As is known, the political landscape of post Soeharto New Order government that gave birth to democracy and radical change in the institutions of power, namely from the centralized power-authoritarian system to a democratic system of government has spawned a democratic transition which was prolonged until today. In the midst of a prolonged transition to democracy at this time, the arena of democracy has been hijacked and the stage of political and economic power has been controlled by entrepreneurs or local and national capitalist power by doing pesekongkolan between candidates authorities or local authorities that one of them through the local election process. The businessmen are involved as a supplier of funds to the local authorities candidate to win as a form of money politics and transactional politics. In some cases the local elections in South Kalimantan, such as the election of the regent and the governor, political practice is utilized with clarity and has already become a political culture that is structured within massive post-New Order government. Therefore, democracy is being woken up in Indonesia after the New Order.
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In: Working paper 2014,4
In: Problems of post-communism, Band 51, Heft 5, S. 3-10
ISSN: 1075-8216
Examines the influence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union (EU) on governments' policy-making autonomy; Russia, Bulgaria, and Czech Republic; 1990s.