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

Building Leadership Effectiveness This program encourages leaders to develop practices that transform values into action, vision into realities, obstacles into innovations, and risks into rewards. Participants will be introduced to the five practices of exemplary leadership: modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart Coaching & Communicating for Performance Coaching & Communicating for Performance is a highly interactive program that will give supervisors and managers the opportunity to build skills that will enable them to share expectations and set objectives for employees, provide constructive feedback, more effectively engage in learning conversations, and coaching opportunities. Skillful Conflict Management for Leaders As a leader, it is important to understand conflict and be effective at conflict management because the way conflict is resolved becomes an integral component of our university’s culture. This series of conflict management sessions help leaders learn and put into practice effective strategies for managing conflict.

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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

The objective of this paper is to survey the social consequences of the 1997 Asian financial crisis with the purpose of drawing policy lessons. The outbreak of the financial crisis and the ensuing increase in unemployment and poverty triggered a worsening of education and health outcomes. The situation stabilized and eventually improved only after governments and international organizations intervened. Employment creation and cash transfers programs played a positive role in maintaining income, while education and health care programs helped meet the population’s vital education and health care needs.La Crise Economique et ses Impacts Sociaux: Des Lecons Tirees de la Crise Economique Asiatique de 1997Le but de cet article est d’examiner les consequences sociales de la crise financiere asiatique de 1997, afin d’en tirer des lecons de politique. L’ouverture de la crise financiere, et l’augmentation du taux de chomage et de pauvrete qui suivit, ont provoque la deterioration des consequences sur l’education e...

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Economic Crisis and its Social Impacts Lessons from the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis

This study assesses the usefulness of conceptions of policy capacity for understanding policy and governance outcomes. In order to shed light on this issue, we revisit the concept of governance, derive a model of governance types and discuss their capacity pre-requisites. A model of capacity is developed combining competences or skills over three levels of activities with analysis of resource capabilities at each level. This analysis is then applied to common modes of governance. While each mode requires all types of capacity if it is to be high functioning and match its theoretical optimal potential, most on-the-ground modes do not always attain their highest potential. Each mode has a critical type of capacity which serves as its “Achilles heel‟. That is, without high levels of this specific capacity it is unlikely to perform as expected. While some hybrid modes can serve to supplement or reinforce each other and cover off gaps in critical capacity sectors other mixed forms may exacerbate single mode issues. Switching between modes or adopting hybrid modes is therefore a non-trivial issue in which considerations of capacity issues in general and Achilles heel capacities in particular should be a central concern.

The Achilles Heel of Governance: Critical Capacity Deficits and Their Role in Governance Failures

This article addresses the rise of design thinking and its problematics in the social policy sphere. In particular, it argues that studies of social policy design, like all design work in policymaking, must differentiate more carefully between technical and political considerations in public policymaking and examine the implications each process has for the content of social policy design, its implementation, and its prospects of success or failure. The article develops a model of social policy formulation spaces based on the extent to which policies are intended to address technical or political problems and a government's capacity to engage in policy analysis and alternative assessment. This model is applied in the articles in this special issue to help understand the patterns of policy content and outcome success and failure found in this sector across multiple jurisdictions and issue areas. Copyright Â© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Introduction to the Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Effective Social Policy Design: Design Spaces and Capacity Challenges”

Although policy capacity is among the most fundamental concepts in studying public policy, there are considerable disagreements on its conceptual definitions and few systematic efforts to operationalize and measure it. This chapter presents a conceptual framework for analyzing and measuring policy capacity under which policy capacity refers to the skills and resources that governments bring to policy-making. In it policy competences are categorized into three general types of skills essential for policy success—analytical, operational and political—and policy capabilities or resources are assessed at the individual, organizational and system levels. Policy failures often result from imbalanced attention to these nine different components of policy capacity. The conceptual framework presented in the chapter provides a diagnostic tool to identify capacity gaps and offer critical insights into strategies to overcome such gaps in professional behaviour, organizational and managerial activities, and the policy systems involved in policy-making.

Policy Capacity: Conceptual Framework and Essential Components

1. Introduction Political-Economic Method: The Study of States and Markets The Subject of Political Economy: Capitalism and Democracy Political-Economic Theory: Old and New Debates Canadian Studies in Political Economy Plan of the Book 2. Liberal Political Economy Fundamental Tenets The Market from Classical to Post-Keynesian Theory The State in Liberal Theory Liberal Political Economy in Canada 3. Socialist Political Economy Fundamental Tenets Historical Foundations Contemporary Debates The State in Socialist Theory Socialist Political Economy in Canada 4. Staples Political Economy Fundamental Tenets Historical Foundations Contemporary Debates The State in Staples Political Economy 5. The Structure and Organization of the Economy The Canadian Economy in Comparative Perspective Income Distribution Sectoral Structure of the Economy Significant Aspects of the Resource-Based Economy Political Implications of the Economic Structure 6. Canada and the International Political Economy The International Economic Order and Canada From the GATT to the World Trade Organization Canada's International Economic Relations Political Implications of National-International Integration 7. The Structure and Organization of the State Canada's Path of Development: From Colony to Modern State Redefining Canada: Globalization and Community Governance: The Organization and Operation of State Institutions The Political-Economic Significance of Canadian State Structures 8. The Structure and Organization of Canadian Labour Introduction Colonial Canada: Staples, Immigration, and Paternalism Modern Canada: Fordism and Industrial Legality Globalization Conclusions 9. The Structure and Organization of Canadian Capital Introduction The Role of Capital in a Capitalist Economy The Development of Capital Globalization The Growth of Business Associations Conclusions: Cohesion, Fragmentation, and Competitiveness 10. The Macro-Political Economy: Monetary and Fiscal Management The Instruments and Ends The History of Fiscal and Monetary Management 11. The Micro-Political Economy: Industrial Development The Instruments and Ends The History of State Intervention in Industrial Development Canadian Industrial Strategies After 1960 Constraints on Formulation of Industrial Strategies 12. Conclusion: The Political Economy of Canadian Capitalism BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Papers

Economic Crisis and its Social Impacts Lessons from the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis

The Achilles Heel of Governance: Critical Capacity Deficits and Their Role in Governance Failures

Introduction to the Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Effective Social Policy Design: Design Spaces and Capacity Challenges”

Policy Capacity: Conceptual Framework and Essential Components

The Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction