世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

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기독교 사역과 Leadership

The End of History and the Last Man

This paper presents systematic empirical evidence for the financialization of the US economy in the post-1970s period. While numerous researchers have noted the increasing salience of finance, there have been few systematic attempts to consider what this shift means for the nature of the economy, considered broadly. In large part, this omission reflects the considerable methodological difficulties associated with using national economic data to assess the rise of finance as a macro-level phenomenon shaping patterns of accumulation in the US economy. The paper develops two discrete measures of financialization and applies these measures to postwar US economic data in order to determine if, and to what extent, the US economy is becoming financialized. The paper concludes by considering some of the implications of financialization for two areas of ongoing debate in the social sciences: (1) the question of who controls the modern corporation; and (2) the controversy surrounding the extent to which globalization has eroded the autonomy of the state.

The financialization of the American economy

There is no denying that policy actors matter in driving policy change. Most of the policy process frameworks argued for the centrality of policy actors but have similarly contended that the occurrence of policy change is contingent upon the dynamic interaction of policy actors, organizations and institutions. But the roles played by the actors in the policy process has been typically framed in terms of the technician-politician dichotomy. The burgeoning literature on the increasing complexity of policy work, however, shows a spectrum of roles instead of a binary distinction. Policy work is comprised of functions within and outside the government that transcend the political-analytical distinction. Despite this recognition, very limited attention has been given towards systematically and comprehensively measuring the set of skills and resources necessary for policy actors to perform this various functions. This paper discusses the development of instrument to address this gap in public policy literature. It builds on the framework of policy capacity developed by Wu, Ramesh and Howlett (2015) by integrating three separately assessed dimensions of policy capacity (analytical, managerial and political) into one measurement instrument. In doing so, we hope to measure not only the levels of individual policy capacity but also the dynamic interactions of the policy actors with resources at the levels of the organization and policy system.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2777382_code1292821.pdf?abstractid=2777382&mirid=1

Measuring Individual-Level Analytical, Managerial and Political Policy Capacity: A Survey Instrument

Market-oriented reforms in the health sector continue to dominate health policy agendas in many developing countries despite growing evidence of their negative impacts. This article critically examines eight key arguments that are used to justify market-oriented reforms and that continue to hold widespread appeal among policy makers and analysts. The authors conclude that although the axiom that health care is atypical due to pervasive market failures is widely acknowledged by reformers, the scope and depth of the negative consequences of market competition and private sector involvement are systematically underestimated in policy design and implementation, while the regulatory capacity to overcome them is overestimated. Their analysis suggests that while there is considerable scope for market-oriented reforms, the success of such reforms depends on a tight set of conditions that are often absent in the health care sector, especially but not exclusively in developing countries.

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Health Care Reforms in Developing Asia: Propositions and Realities

1. Introduction Scott A. Fritzen 2. Improving Administrative Performance in Malaysia Hong-Hai Lim 3. India: Getting Governance Right for Inclusive Growth Santosh Mehrotra 4. Is Foreign aid compatible with good governance? Theory and Evidence from the Philippines Eduardo Araral, Jr. 5. Public Sector Transparency and Corporate Accounting Practices in Asia Xun Wu 6. The Hara-factor: Some lessons from innovations in governance in Japan Jorrit de Jong and Arre Zuurmond 7. 'Good Governance' and the Constraints of Local Conditions: Thaksin and the Breakdown of Thailand's Public Integrity System Alex M. Mutebi 8. The Judiciary's Role in Good Governance in Korea Joongi Kim 9. Healthcare Reforms in Thailand: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom M Ramesh 10. Restructuring Government: An Empirical Analysis of Agencification in the Public Health System of Rajasthan Avantika Singh 11. The Structural Transformation of Public Bureaucracy towards Good Governance: The Case of Team-based Management in the Korean Government Chang Kil Lee 12. Technocratic Solutions versus Political Realities: Implementing Governance Reforms in the Balochistan Province of Pakistan Raza Ahmad and Syed A.A. Akif

Transforming Asian governance : rethinking assumptions, challenging practices

The paper examines social protection programmes for the poor, aged and sick in Indonesia and the Philippines with the purpose of assessing their performance in effectively protecting the population. This comparative review indicates that both countries have made major advances in improving health coverage and maintaining income for the chronic poor in recent years, after decades of neglect. However, public sector workers continue to be privileged while those in informal employment continue to remain outside of effective protection. Moreover, the benefit levels for the chronic poor, the programme’s target population, are too low to provide effective protection. Finally, the paper suggests that governments in Indonesia and the Philippines need to not only improve the design of their programmes but also strengthen their policy and administrative capacity if they are to succeed.

Social Protection in Indonesia and the Philippines: Work in Progress

A recent resurgence of interest in policy design has fostered renewed efforts to better understand how specific combinations of policy tools arise and shape policy outcomes. However, to date, these...

M. Ramesh

Papers

Measuring Individual-Level Analytical, Managerial and Political Policy Capacity: A Survey Instrument

Health Care Reforms in Developing Asia: Propositions and Realities

Transforming Asian governance : rethinking assumptions, challenging practices

Social Protection in Indonesia and the Philippines: Work in Progress

Unpacking policy portfolios: primary and secondary aspects of tool use in policy mixes