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Zlotos, David. "INGOs and the concept of good governance: the case of Amnesty International." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-194225.
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In this paper, Jürgen Habermas' account on 'The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere' will be set into relation with the emergence of INGOs as actors in the public sphere. The emergence of NGOs, and later INGOs, can be closely linked to the transformation of the public sphere as described by Habermas. An account from the early beginnings of non-governmental associations to the institutionalized status of INGOs following the establishment of the UN aims to describe the roots and roles of such organizations as actors within the public sphere more precisely. The concept of 'good governance' will be related to the commitments of the INGO Accountability Charter of which Amnesty International (AI) is a signatory. The case of AI will then be used as an example to apply the insights gained from the theoretical perspectives explored before. The question of whether AI is successful in its application of good governance relies on the definition of 'successful'. In this paper, the definition is given by Habermas' definition of the actorness in the transformed public sphere and the fulfilment of the commitments to the INGO Accountability Charter. Identifying AI as an actor in the public sphere provides the ground on which the development and controversies surrounding this INGO will be analyzed. Understanding the role AI aspires to play is an important factor. In this context, the controversies AI has faced in the public eye become a starting point into the inquiry of what role good governance plays in AI's communicative efforts. These, in turn, are a key to the organization's attempts to counterbalance negative perceptions and to maintain its position as a successful communicative actor. The end will be formed by conclusions given on the analysis of AI's employment of good governance in transformed, transnational civil society. Points for future research will be indicated if applicable.
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Попович, В. В. "Концептуальні засади державної муніципальної політики в Україні у контексті європейської інтеграції." Thesis, Івано-Франківський національний технічний університет нафти і газу, 2014. http://elar.nung.edu.ua/handle/123456789/4685.
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У дисертації досліджено теоретико-методологічні засади державної муніципальної політики, інституціональний механізм та політичний цикл її вироблення й реалізації, шляхи формування в Україні державної муніципальної політики європейського зразка. Обґрунтовано правомірність ототожнення інституціонального контенту державної муніципальної політики з державно-управлінською діяльністю, що здійснюється в цілях створення інституціональних умов для ефективного виконання функцій місцевого самоврядування. Показано, що контент державної муніципальної політики реалізується на двох рівнях державної регламентації сфери місцевого самоврядування - законодавчому та адміністративному, які визначають її стратегію і тактику. Доведено, що співвідношення змісту і обсягів законодавчої та адміністративної регламентації діяльності місцевого самоврядування с підставою для виокремлення континентальної та англосаксонської моделей державної муніципальної політики. Висвітлено роль стандартів публічного управління як елементів методології європейської державної муніципальної політики, її концептуально-правові засади та ключові фактори їх впровадження в Україні. Показано, що вони базуються на принципах, положеннях та стандартах місцевого самоврядування, що гармонічно поєднуються у концепції "доброго самоврядування" (Good Governance).В диссертации исследованы теоретико-методологические основы государственной муниципальной политики, институциональный механизм и политический цикл ее разработки и реализации, пути формирования в Украине государственной муниципальной политики европейского образца. Обоснована правомерность отождествления институционального контента государственной муниципальной политики с государственно-управленческой деятельностью, осуществляемой в целях создания институциональных условий для эффективного выполнения функций местного самоуправления. Показано, что контент государственной муниципальной политики реализуется на двух уровнях государственной регламентации сферы местного самоуправления - законодательном и административном, которые определяют ее стратегию и тактику. Доказано, что соотношение содержания и объемов законодательной и административной регламентации деятельности местного самоуправления является основанием для выделения континентальной и англосаксонской моделей государственной муниципальной политики. Освещена роль стандартов публичного управления как элементов методологии европейской государственной муниципальной политики, ее концептуально-правовые основы и ключевые факторы их внедрения в Украине. Показано, что они базируются на принципах, положениях и стандартах местного самоуправления, гармонично сочетаются в концепции "доброго самоуправления" (Good Governance).
The theoretical and methodological foundations of government municipal policy, institutional mechanism and the policy cycle of its development and implementation, ways of formation of the state municipal policy of European type in Ukraine are researched in the dissertation. It is substantiated the legitimacy of identifying institutional content of government municipal policy with state management activities carried out in order to create the institutional conditions for the effective performance of the functions of local government. It is shown that the content of the state municipal policy is implemented at two levels of regulation of the sphere of local government - legislative and administrative, which determine its strategy and tactics. It is proved that the ratio of the content and scope of the legislative and administrative regulation of local government is the basis for the selection of continental and Anglo-Saxon models of state municipal policy. In the continental model, the administrative regulation prevails. The balance of power of the state and local governments is based on the theory of decentralization and the concept of administrative regulation. In the Anglo-Saxon one the legal regulation prevails, the balance of authorities is based on the theory of déconcentration and concept of shared (autonomous) authorities and judicial regulation. The following main types of state municipal policy are marked out: policy of stabilization; modernization policy and development policy. Policy of stabilization is to ensure the support of the major subsystems of local government in order to give them stability, unity and integrity. Modernization policy is designed to upgrade the existing system of local government in accordance with European standards of local government. Development policy aimed at creating a new quality of the whole institutional system of local government, it provides changes, which are determined by the needs of its internal development. It is proved that the state municipal policy of stabilization is a priority for Ukraine today, the results of which will become in future the basis for a coherent policy of modernization in accordance with the requirements of European integration. Constitutional and legal fundamentals of the mechanism in Ukraine are studied; ways of improving the state municipal policy in the context of requirements of the European standards of public administration are indicated. The main problems include the following: lack of effective mechanisms of public authorities’ political responsibility, low level of their political and administrative culture and the culture of law enforcement, presence of conflict between the political forces, subjects of executive authorities and local self-government, opacity of relations between authorities and management in the formation of the state municipal policy. It is proved that the elimination of these problems requires the creation of more favorable conditions for functioning of the entire institutional governance system. In this regard, three key factors that contribute to the implementation of the state municipal policy of the European type in Ukraine are highlighted. The first factor is the elimination of a monocentric, hierarchical model of political power and its excessive centralization, formation of a better mechanism for the development and implementation of state municipal policy in accordance with the norms of "Good governance" on this basis. The second key factor is the organization of a close partnership between government and non-governmental sectors of society based on effectively acting organizational stakeholder platform. It is shown that the main subject representing non-governmental sector, are voluntary associations of local self-governments, which in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "About Local Government Associations" (2009) have the priority right to participate in the development and implementation of the state municipal policy. The third key factor lies in development of methodology and effective methods of implementation through entire political cycle of the state municipal policy. It is proved, that the main element of this methodology should be different forms of goal-oriented activities - "programmed goal-oriented planning", "programmed goal-oriented management", "programming". Proposals of conceptual and legal nature, concerning improvement of the modem government municipal policy in Ukraine, are developed. They suggest realization of human rights standards in part of implementation of the principles of local and regional democracy, standards, and requirements of the European Charter of Local Self-Government and European Charter of Regional Democracy draft. It is shown that the implementation of this approach requires concretization, amendments and additions to the constitutional norms, which should be the basis for a qualitatively new government municipal policy of European type.
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Maserumule, MH, and SBO Gutto. "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." Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2009. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001427.
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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
sufficiently 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.
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Wimerová, Linda. "Etické kodexy ve státní správě: případová studie." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-358939.
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This Diploma thesis deals with the topic of ethical codes in the state administration of the Czech Republic. This issue is very important for good and efficient functioning of the state administration, but it is still neglected and under-discussed. The diploma thesis aims at explaining the importance of ethical codes in the state administration and conducting a research probe of a specific ethical code. The theoretical grounding of the text is based on the concept of good governance and its principles, the principles of ethics, the definition of the principles of an effective ethical code and the approximation of the current state of functioning of ethical codes in the Czech republic´s administration. The practical part - research probe of a specific ethical code, analyses its quality and effectiveness. The Czech Republic is actively committed to the concept of good governance and its governing bodies are very active in adopting specific ethical codes. However, as the diploma thesis explains, the individual ethical code is not always effective, up-to-date and specific.
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Kuon, Dorothee. "Good Governance im europäischen Entwicklungsrecht." Baden-Baden Nomos, 2009. http://d-nb.info/999627945/04.
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Ďurková, Petra. "Nové trendy diplomacie - good governance." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-114253.
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This thesis deals with the presumption that multilateral diplomacy is a possible means to promote good governance. The first part described the origin, definition and criticism of the concept of good governance. Another part deals with transformations of diplomacy and international relations after the Cold War. Contemporary diplomacy must respond to globalization, interdependence, technological development, changing international environment and increase the number of actors in international relations. The last part is devoted to multilateral diplomacy, international organizations and especially their connection with good governance. In my thesis I came to the conclusion that multilateral diplomacy can be a useful tool for promoting the objectives of good governance and management of the state. The best space for the use of multilateral diplomacy as a means of promoting good governance is intergovernmental organization.
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Uwimana, Mia Nicole, and Herman Englund. "GOOD GOVERNANCE UR ETT UTVECKLINGSPERSPEKTIV : En kvalitativ studie om begreppet good governance enligt UNDP och IMF." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-50876.
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Tangsupvattana, Ake, Aser B. Javier, Suharko, and Hirotsune kimura. "Limits of good governance in developing countries." Gadjah Mada University Press, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15868.
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Jäckel, Wolfram. "Durch Globalisierung und Good Governance Armut bekämpfen." Universität Potsdam, 2002. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2472/.
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Holtzhausen, N. "Whistleblowing for good governance: Issues for consideration." Journal of Public Administration, 2007. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001414.
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One of the key obstacles in the fight against corruption is the fact that,
without legal protection, individuals are often too intimidated to speak out
or blow the whistle. The Protected Disclosures Act 2000 (Act 26 of 2000)
provides protection against occupational detriment to those who disclose information
of unlawful or corrupt conduct. This law is therefore an important weapon in the anticorruption
struggle to encourage honest employees to report wrongdoing.
The presumed benefits of whistleblowing for good governance should be seen
against the possible negative consequences of whistleblowing. Whistleblowers
are both citizens and managers, and are therefore exposed to dilemmas in both
roles. As citizens, they want to see the termination of wrongdoing. As managers,
they would prefer whistleblowing incidents to go through internal channels only.
However, if whistleblowing is ineffective, it benefits no one.
There is an increasing focus on good (and bad) corporate governance and
institutions that are transparent and open will benefit from more favourable
investor perceptions. Improved relationships with the public show that a substantial
effort has been made to endow public administration with a legal framework that
encourages the players involved to assume a greater sense of responsibility and
develop practices to promote transparency and to protect whistleblowers.
Government has to overcome numerous difficulties caused largely by the
burden of history, unethical and corruptive constraints and government secrecy.
In the face of these difficulties, efficient administration that serves the needs of all
citizens is one prerequisite for strengthening the rule of law and the credibility of
the state, both internally and externally. Such administration must be transparent,
responsible and accountable, and served by honest officials. In the current context
of the globalisation of the world economy and the fluidity of cultural boundaries.
Administrations in all countries also face a variety of issues, including the ethical
problems concerned with the protection of employees who expose malpractice
or misconduct in the workplace, transparent administration and good governance.
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Wiratraman, R. Herlambang Perdana Sriprapha Petcharamesree. "Good governance and legal reform in Indonesia /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd392/4837954.pdf.
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Van, Zyl Corne. "Good project governance : how corporate governance influences the field of project management." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5683.
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Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the collapse of large multi-national companies such as Enron early in the new millennium, the focus on corporate governance increased due to stakeholders and shareholders alike demanding more protection of their interests. Countries across the world developed codes and acts such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the USA, in order to establish some form of enforceable governance on publicly listed companies. In South Africa likewise the King II report on corporate governance was published in 2002. Corporate governance provides protection to stakeholders, internal and external, by focusing on the accuracy and transparency of the information published by companies, reporting the financial well-being of the company by providing projected cash flows, the responsibility and accountability of executives towards stakeholders, and also on the management of risk. Projects and project management play a major role in most companies and can have a significant effect on its cash flow, risk and reporting, and therefore corporate governance can have a marked impact on how projects could, or should be managed. This can be seen as project governance, a subset of the overall governance strategy of the company. To date not much research has been done on how governance influences projects and what is to be considered 'good project governance'. Apart from some smaller project management consulting firms, the Association for Project Management (APM) in the UK is the only one to have done some work of real importance in this area with the establishment of their 11 principles for effective project governance. In this research report the focus is on how projects are influenced by corporate governance by analysing aspects such as planning, reporting, risk management and project audits. The benefits which good project governance hold for a company, besides the protection of its stakeholder's interests, is also examined. Lastly guidelines are established for effective project governance by studying existing models, such as that created by the APM, as well as the King II report on corporate governance to try and make it more relevant to conditions in South Africa.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Met die ineenstorting van groot multinasionale instellings soos Enron vroeg in die nuwe eeu, is daar toenemend gefokus op korporatiewe beheer, omdat beide belanghebbers en aandeelhouers aangedring het op groter beskerming van hul belange. Lande wereldwyd het kodes en wette ontwikkel. soos die Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002) in die VSA, ten einde een of ander vorm van afdwingbare beheer op openbaargenoteerde maatskappye daar te stel. In Suid-Afrika ingelyks is die King II verslag oor korporatiewe beheer in 2002 gepubliseer. Korporatiewe beheer verleen beskerming aan belanghebbers, intern sowel as ekstern, deur te fokus op akkurate en deursigtige inligting wat maatskappye bekend maak, verslae oor die finansiele welstand van maatskappye deur middel van geprojekteerde kontantvloei, verantwoordelikheid en aanspreeklikheid van uitvoerende beamptes teenoor belanghebbers, asook duidelikheid oor risikobestuur. Projekte en projekbestuur speel 'n belangrike rol in die oorgrote meerderheid maatskappye en kan 'n beduidende uitwerking he op kontantvloei, risiko en verslagdoening. Juis weens hierdie oorwegings kan korporatiewe beheer 'n aanmerklike impak he op die wyse waarop projekte bestuur, of behoort bestuur te word. Dit kan beskou word as projekbeheer, 'n onderafdeling van die oorkoepelende beheerstrategie van 'n maatskappy. Min navorsing is nog gedoen oor die invloed van beheer op projekte, asook wat beskou kan word as 'goeie projekbeheer'. Afgesien van enkele kleiner projekbeheer konsultantmaatskappye, is die Association for Project Management (APM) in Brittanje die enigste wat werklik substantiewe leiding op hierdie terrein gebied het, soos blyk uit hul ontwikkeling van 11 beginsels vir doeltreffende projekbeheer. In hierdie navorsingsverslag word gefokus op hoe projekte beinvloed word deur korporatiewe beheer, deur kwessies soos beplanning, veslagdoening, risikobestuur en projekouditte te analiseer. Voordele wat goeie projekbeheer vir 'n maatskappy inhou, naas beskerming van belanghebbers se belange, word eweneens ondersoek. Enkele riglyne word laastens ontwikkel vir doeltreffende projekbeheer, deur bestaande modelle te bestudeer, soos die van APM en die King II verslag oor korporatiewe beheer, om dit meer relevant te maak vir Suid-Afrikaanse toestande.
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Ufer, André. "Rethinking good governance in developing economies institutions, governance and development in Thailand." Baden-Baden Nomos, 2007. http://d-nb.info/990499588/04.
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Tumuheki, Justine. "Towards good corporate governance: an analysis of corporate governance reforms in Uganda." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4570.
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The recent onslaught of corporate scandals has compelled the world to acknowledge the profound impact of corporate governance practices on the global economy. Corporate governance has become important for the survival of companies and indeed of national economies in the increasingly global economy. Corporate governance is of particular concern in developing economies, where the infusion of international investor capital and foreign aid is essential to economic stability and growth. For transition economies, such as Uganda's, which are faced with the challenge of restructuring for greater efficiency and creating a foreign investment-friendly environment, good corporate governance is crucial for success. This research highlights corporate governance initiatives in Uganda, focusing on the proposed corporate governance reforms. An analysis of the major corporate governance reforms is done including; statutory reforms, development of codes of conduct and best practice and institutional reforms. The evolution of Uganda's corporate structure and the forces driving corporate governance reform is examined. It is noted that corporations in Uganda cannot shield themselves from the global movement that is shaping standard principles governing corporations. Therefore the global principles of corporate governance are examined concerning how they can serve as models for enhancing corporate governance standards in Uganda. The analysis is based on the need to bring Uganda's corporate governance reforms in line with internationally accepted standards but considering the best interests of Uganda and its citizens.
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Bolander, Victor. "Good Goverance and Development : An analysis of Good Governance as tool for development." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86088.
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Good governance and development have been two dominating concepts in the debate by development oriented scholars. However, are the two concepts necessarily compatible with each other? This research will analyze and discuss good governance and its link to development in a critical study of the liberal inspired governance. It will take its basis in modernization theory and use Adrian Leftwich´s five elements as criteria for analyzing the developments in four countries in sub-Sahara Africa more specifically Togo, Ghana, Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire, These five elements will be applied to the developments in each country which all are scrutinized on the basis of data on the characteristic of good governance from UNDP, the World Bank and Freedom House . Not only will x good governance as such be analyzed but in particular the link between good governance and governance. Thus, the definitions of governance will be an important at question to deal with. In all the four countries much still remains for good governance to be implemented in a way that it contributes to development. Ghana does however show some positive signs.
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Hede, Klavs Duus Kinnerup. "Menneskerettigheder, demokratisering og good governance i dansk udviklingspolitik /." København : Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forl, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/524035741.pdf.
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JAVIER, Aser B., and Don Joseph J. MEDRANA. "Trekking the Pathways in Building Good Governance in Cambodia and the Philippines." 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/9069.
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Nilsson, Claes. "Good governance in development-aid : making democracy-reforms sustainable." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Social Sciences, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3841.
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February through March, 2005, I conducted a Minor Field Study (MFS) in Lao PDR together with a fellow-student. We were interested in a project in Laos called GPAR Luang Prabang, in which Sida, UNDP and the Lao Government are trying to improve the governance system in Laos. Luang Prabang is the province in the northern parts of Laos where the good governance-project were being implemented.
The main interest in this study concerns democracy aid in the shape of good governance and local ownership in development aid. Good governance is a highly debated topic in aid-literature, both because of the explosion of good governance projects the last ten or so years and because of the ambiguity that lies in the concept good governance. Different aid-actors give different meanings to good governance. Two definitions stand out: First there is the “narrow” definition that focuses on the economical steering of a country’s resources. The second, or “broad” definition of good governance, focuses on democratic aspects of the concept. Areas like participation, transparency, accountability and rule of law are high-lighted here. Different actors in the aid-society thus have different definitions of the concept.
Whether democracy aid works and becomes sustainable relies, according to the literature, on how well the partners in an aid-project can foster local ownership. Ownership means that the recipient is in control of the policy process, from highlighting a problem to implementing the solutions. The starting point in this thesis is the question whether the ambiguity in good governance- definitions constrains ownership in the policy process. Also, in democracy aid there is an interesting paradox: How can a project that aims at changing political power-structures be driven by those who have the most to gain from these structures? My study shows that when the partners in an aid-project are unable to settle for one definition of good governance, ownership is hard to reach. If the partners can not reach an agreement at an early stage in the process, ownership will suffer and sustainability will be hard to reach.February through March, 2005, I conducted a Minor Field Study (MFS) in Lao PDR together with a fellow-student. We were interested in a project in Laos called GPAR Luang Prabang, in which Sida, UNDP and the Lao Government are trying to improve the governance system in Laos. Luang Prabang is the province in the northern parts of Laos where the good governance-project were being implemented.The main interest in this study concerns democracy aid in the shape of good governance and local ownership in development aid. Good governance is a highly debated topic in aid-literature, both because of the explosion of good governance projects the last ten or so years and because of the ambiguity that lies in the concept good governance. Different aid-actors give different meanings to good governance. Two definitions stand out: First there is the “narrow” definition that focuses on the economical steering of a country’s resources. The second, or “broad” definition of good governance, focuses on democratic aspects of the concept. Areas like participation, transparency, accountability and rule of law are high-lighted here. Different actors in the aid-society thus have different definitions of the concept. Whether democracy aid works and becomes sustainable relies, according to the literature, on how well the partners in an aid-project can foster local ownership. Ownership means that the recipient is in control of the policy process, from highlighting a problem to implementing the solutions. The starting point in this thesis is the question whether the ambiguity in good governance- definitions constrains ownership in the policy process. Also, in democracy aid there is an interesting paradox: How can a project that aims at changing political power-structures be driven by those who have the most to gain from these structures? My study shows that when the partners in an aid-project are unable to settle for one definition of good governance, ownership is hard to reach. If the partners can not reach an agreement at an early stage in the process, ownership will suffer and sustainability will be hard to reach.
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Kimmet, Philip, and n/a. "The Politics of Good Governance in the Asean 4." Griffith University. Griffith Business School, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20060307.141018.
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'Good governance' is an evolving and increasingly influential discursive agenda that introduces new ideas about public policy, specifically targeting managerial behaviour and promoting modern administrative strategies. Most scholars agree that as a notion, good governance combines liberal democratic principles with a 'new public management' (NPM) approach to economic policy-making. What is less clear is who the agenda actually targets. In other words, is the good governance agenda aimed at rulers in particular or the broader population? Implicit in the answer is whether good governance concepts are simply useful tools to help build political credibility, or the agents for better managerial and administrative outcomes. In countries with advanced economies, good governance is invariably used to describe corporate and public administration strategies that invoke ethically grounded 'World's best practice' standards and procedures. However, in developing economies, good governance can take on quite different, and often unintended meanings. This thesis finds that in developing countries good governance is being expressed more as a political tool than as substantive practice and policy reform. This is occurring in an increasingly 'post-Washington consensus' environment that explicitly recognises the importance of the social impact of structural adjustment programs and broader issues of human rights. And importantly as far as this thesis is concerned, during Southeast Asia's current economic recovery, good governance has taken on a whole new relevance. This analysis commences from the assumption that good governance is a discursively created phenomenon that can be understood as a complex notion with both structural and ideational elements. The term is couched in a structure that is both economically technical and socially normative. It has overlapping central tenets driven by regulation and the institutional environment, and should not be viewed as a set of constructs in isolation from the context in which it is being used. And it is based on assumptions about common sense attitudes and shared common good objectives. And as this thesis will demonstrate, good governance functions within an unpredictable and often hostile political environment in which powerful actors are learning to use this new discourse to satisfy political expediencies. Put simply, good governance is nourishing a politics of its own. The thesis uses the ASEAN 4 countries of Southeast Asia: the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, as individual and comparative case studies. The studies examine how the concept is shaping the institutional structure of these countries, and includes commentary on the role of good governance in the 2004 round of election campaigning. A genealogy of good governance will be developed in these local contexts, and more generally. This will assist in mapping the concept's evolution in relation to development trajectories and local politics. The hypothesis under examination is - that the good governance agendas in the ASEAN 4 states primarily focus on improving representative rule rather than encouraging self-regulation. Two questions in particular are asked in each of the case studies dor the purpose of testing this hypothesis. What defining features of good governance discourse have been instrumental in the emergence of the politics that surrounds the agenda, and how is the discourse used to expand or limit the democratic possibilities theoretically inherent in good governance strategies and processes? These questions are important because they're designed to bring clarity to the intent of government and the role that the governed play in states where good governance is an increasingly important political issue. Good governance is more than merely a set of prescribed policies and practices. It is an agenda that reflects a specific set of 'neoliberal' ideas, predicated upon generally unarticulated assumptions about the universality of modern administrative practices supported by normative behavioural change. And it appears to privilege specific interests with potentially unjust implications for wider social formations. This assertion pivots on the finding that in various ways good governance discourages the advancement of open politics beyond nominal democratic procedures because it is theoretically grounded on governance principles that are not easily transferred to developing countries with diverging political, cultural and historical experience. Nevertheless, the attempt is underway. Ostensibly it is taking a form that is schooling targeted populations in what is 'good' and 'bad' in the economic interest of the nation. However, these efforts don't appear to be succeeding, at least not in the way the international architects of good governance intended. This thesis finds that this 'mentality' transformation project is clearly informed by Western experience. And this informs the theoretical approach of the thesis. Specifically, a 'governmentality' framework is used, largely because it has been developed out of analyses of rationalities of government in advanced liberal societies, in which the objectives of good governance are firmly grounded. And as this expanding research program has seldom been used to study government in developing countries, this thesis also puts a case for using governmentality tools beyond the boundaries of its modern Western foundations.
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Scott, Caroline. "The contribution of strategic environmental assessment to good governance." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=17831.
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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has been associated with 'good governance' by bodies at national and international levels including the World Bank, OECD and UK and Scottish Government. Invoking concepts including transparency, accountability, public participation and partnership working, this SEA/good governace nexus has been promoted in Scotland where the government sees SEA as central to its sustainable development aspirations. The research examines the operation of the SEA/good governance nexus in the SEA processes of two Scottish cases: the A96 corridor Masterplan and the Clackmannanshire Alliance Community Planning environment framework, Greening Clackmannanshire. Data-gathering took place between 2007 and 2010 using a mix of qualitative methods. The data were then analysed using a realist governmentality lens to view SEA as a technique of government ostensibly seeking to instil environmentally-focused governance. Employing a framework drawn from Foucault and summ arised by Darier (1996), the analysis is focused around three axes. The first axis, which considers centralisation tendencies in government, is crucial in considering whether SEA can be a useful meeting point between top-down and bottom-up approaches to sustainable development. The second, 'intensification of the effects of power', requires clear conduits for the flow of an environmentally-focused governmentality if Thérivel's (2004) aspiration of having decision makers 'thinking SEA' is to be realised. Finally, the power-knowledge axis opens up for discussion the role of expertise vis-à-vis the admittance to SEA of 'early and effective' public participation and an increasing emphasis on social learning in assessment. Crucially, a governmentality approach also admits a central theme in Foucault's conception of power: resistance. In contrast to providing opportunity to futher the legitimising aims of the SEA/good governance nexus in Scot exposes instances of resistance to both thedemocratising elements of good governance and to SEA itself, as the public and statutory consultation authorites find their efforts to constructively engage with the SEA process thwarted.
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Morgan, Jones Molly. "Governing the constructs of life : what constitutes ‘good’ governance?" Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6972/.
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This thesis explores contrasting perspectives on what constitutes 'good governance' for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. It asks whether there are systematic differences between perspectives of UK and US policy actors and what kinds of patterns are discernible. Biomedical technologies like hESCs generate complex interactions between public values, institutional interests, societal expectations and technological uncertainties. These pose serious governance challenges. Under such conditions, diverse aspects and implications of risk, ambiguity and uncertainty come into focus. We need appraisal processes that address these issues by combining quantitative and qualitative dimensions to 'open up' divergent governance framings. The research framework employed here uses and further develops one such elicitation and analysis process called Multicriteria Mapping (MCM). MCM combines qualitative sensitivity with quantitative precision, while also aiding transparency and reflexivity in documenting and understanding diverse stakeholder perspectives. We therefore address 'good' governance both as an analytical subject and as a rationale for testing a novel form of appraisal. The analysis discerns systematic patterns in perspectives on good governance across national contexts and between stakeholders, identifying several points of convergence and divergence. We examine underlying rationales behind individual perspectives, obtaining empirical support for recent theoretical arguments concerning technology appraisal and democratic deliberation. We find national policy literatures make greater use of moral and ethical language to frame governance challenges, by comparison with stakeholders' emphasis on institutional and socio-political factors. This suggests a more critical and cautious stance is needed towards the legitimatory language of 'bioethics' in policy making. Finally, we explore some of the normative implications for governance of culturally sensitive and scientifically uncertain issues. By providing reflexive explanations of factors influencing perspectives of policy actors, this thesis makes a number of interlinked theoretical, methodological, empirical and normative contributions to understanding of how good governance of biomedical technologies is and should be conducted.
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Geingob, Hage Gottfried. "State formation in Namibia : promoting democracy and good governance." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21090/.
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This dissertation examines significant events in the process of state formation in Namibia and provides an insight into the role played by various actors involved in shaping the evolution of Namibia as a state, such as the Namibians, their liberation movement SWAPO, successive colonizing powers (Germany and South Africa), OAU, the Frontline States, the international community, and particularly the United Nations. It is argued that the international actors' role in the process of state formation in Namibia was driven by their desire to ensure their continued influence in Namibia for their own benefit. Self-interest of the West in Namibia was driven by the geopolitical imperatives of the cold war, and preserving western economic interests. In Namibia, which was a settler colony, self-interest also gained a racial dimension as the West sought to protect the interests of white settlers. The case is made that impetus to resolve the Namibian question had to await a number of streams coming together - the disintegration of the Soviet Union changed the complexion of geopolitics; deeper involvement of the Cubans in Angola threatened South Africa; Constitutional Principles put forward by the Western Five (U.S.A., the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and France) ensured continued protection of the economic interests of the West and the protection of the interests of the settlers; and success of Namibians' struggle at the international fora and on the battlefield catalyzed the coming together of various streams. This constellation of events ensured Namibia's independence in 1990. The study also examines how Namibians sought to build a reconciled society out of ethnically and racially stratified, diverse and often antagonistic groups. This process was begun with the drafting of the constitution by the Constituent Assembly. The first government's initiatives to promote democracy and a policy of reconciliation, to improve the life condition of the previously disadvantaged groups through affirmative action, to encourage good governance, to promote a culture of human rights, and to build state institutions to support these policies have also been examined with a view to determining the nature of the state that evolved in Namibia. Finally, the study carries out a democratic audit of Namibia using Swedish normative tools.
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Okagbue, Bartholomew Okechukwu. "Ethical Leadership and Good Governance in Nigerian Local Governments." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1036.
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Research literature identifies ethical leadership, a leadership grounded in ethical norms and practice, as a critical vehicle for achieving organizational goals and fostering good governance. However, little research on leadership has focused on the public sector, leaving a gap in the literature. Leadership in governance is a concern in local government in Nigeria; in spite of the 1976 reforms, the country still lacks good governance and corresponding socioeconomic development. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore an ethical leadership model, and determine how such a model could inspire and sustain good governance in Nigerian local government administration. Ethical theories of utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics comprised the theoretical frameworks for this study. Research questions focused on the ways in which Nigerian local council officials attempted to foster and sustain good governance via ethical leadership. Face-to-face interviews with open-ended questions were conducted with 25 civil service employees purposefully selected from a local government. Data were analyzed by identifying themes utilizing constant comparison; these themes included honesty, concern for people, citizen participation, accountability, transparency, and rule of law. Results indicated a preference for an ethical leadership style, with the potential to harness resources to develop Nigeria's socioeconomic situation and improve the quality of governance. The implications for positive social change lie in informing public officials of the value and attributes of an ethical leadership style as well as training institutional leaders on this model. As ethical leadership is fostered in public administration, socioeconomic and human development may follow.
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Owens, Jeffrey, Rick McDonell, Riël Franzsen, and Jude Thaddeus Amos. "Inter-agency Cooperation and Good Tax Governance in Africa." Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2017. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6292/1/2018_Inter%2Dagency_Cooperation_and_Good_Tax_Governance_in_Africa.pdf.
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In 2015, the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and the
African Tax Institute at the University of Pretoria launched a project to
identify the links between corruption, money laundering and tax crimes in
Africa. The project promotes the concepts of good tax governance and the
importance to economic development of a tax system that is transparent
and free of corruption. The project explores how law enforcement agencies
and tax authorities can best cooperate to counter corruption and bribery.
The project was initially aimed at three focus countries, namely, Ghana,
Nigeria and South Africa, but soon was extended to other African
countries. This is a joint initiative with the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC) and is also supported by the World Bank.
This book brings together a series of background papers prepared for the
Conference on Inter-Agency Co-operation and Good Tax Governance in
Africa held at the University of Pretoria in July 2016. After a rigorous
double peer-review process, the papers were revised by the authors. We
express our gratitude to and acknowledge the services of the following peer
reviewers: Tom Balco; Carika Fritz; Leon Gerber; Willem Jacobs;
Benjamin Kujinga; Thabo Legwaila; Annet Oguttu; Dirk Scholtz; David
Solomon; and Xeniya Yeroshenko.
Finally, we express our sincere gratitude to all the research and
administrative assistants who contributed to the Good Tax Governance in
Africa Project. This book pays tribute to their efforts.
Jeffrey Owens, Rick McDonell, Riël Franzsen and Jude Amos
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November 2017)
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Francisco, Luís Cláudio de Almeida. "O contributo da auditoria pública para a Good Governance." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18939.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Gestão e Políticas PúblicasEste trabalho visa discutir o papel das ISC enquanto entidades de auditoria pública, e qual o seu contributo para a good governance. Das diversas pesquisas bibliográficas efetuadas, apurou-se que a good governance é tida como uma forma de governação, boa, que assenta em participação pública, em transparência, responsabilização, respeito, cumprimento da lei e satisfação das necessidades das populações, onde se basearia a força do desenvolvimento social. Face aos objetivos de trabalho definidos, foi assim produzido e aplicado um guião de entrevista a vários intervenientes qualificados de auditoria pública, tendo-se recolhido opinião, experiências e visão sobre o modo como a good governance acontece hoje em Portugal, nomeadamente quanto à transparência da governação, quanto acautela os riscos da atividade pública e quanto permite a aplicação da accountability. A utilização e aplicação de auditoria pública, facilitará o processo de criação de valor e confiança pública de toda uma comunidade. De acordo com a literatura de referência e com os entrevistados, a auditoria de contexto público tem um papel determinante na concretização da good governance. De resto, vários organismos internacionais de referência (OCDE, ONU, FMI, Banco Mundial, entre outros) perseguem e fomentam a prática da good governance, não só, mas também, com recurso ao reforço de práticas e procedimentos de auditoria pública, fazendo relevar o papel complementar entre a produção de auditorias de compliance e de auditorias de performance. Das entrevistas aos intervenientes qualificados nestas matérias, foram obtidos importantes contributos, em especial de reforço da prática da good governance através da auditoria pública e dos relatórios produzidos por esta, reforçando assim a cidadania.
This paper aims to discuss the role of SAIs as public audit entities, and is contribution to good governance. From the various bibliographical studies carried out, it was found that good governance is considered as a good form of governance, based on public participation, transparency, accountability, respect, compliance with the law and meeting the needs of the population for social development. In view of the defined work objectives, an interview guide was produced and applied to a number of qualified interviewees which used public audit. Their opinions, experiences and insights were collected on how good governance occurs; how it is transparent and of much to guard against the risks of public activity and how much it allows the application of accountability today in Portugal. The public audit outcome will be to create public value and trust for an entire community. According to the reference literature and the interviewees, the public context audit plays a decisive role in the achievement of good governance. In addition, several international reference organizations (OECD, UN, IMF, World Bank, among others) pursue and foster good governance not only, but also through the reinforcement of public auditing practices and procedures, regarding the complementary role between the production of compliance audits and performance audits. From the interviews with the qualified actors in these matters, important contributions were obtained, in particular to reinforce the practice of good governance through public auditing and the reports produced by it, thus reinforcing citizenship.
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Rokx, Claudia J. M. C. "Governance and malnutrition exploring the contribution of 'good governance' to malnutrition reduction in developing countries /." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 2006. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=7634.
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Abhijeet, Kumar. "Governing water pollution effectively: A comparative study of legal frameworks & their implementation in India & Sweden." Thesis, KTH, Mark- och vattenteknik (flyttat 20130630), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-171822.
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Case studies from India have shown that the legal regime governing water pollution control in India has miserably failed. Sectoral approach to water management is quite evident. On the other hand Sweden has shown a remarkable change with regard to environment management. The poor management of a resource makes the resource further poor. Thus effective management of the resources becomes crucial. Good governance has been vital in conservation of a resource. But the issue is what constitutes good governance with respect to water? Law has always played a steering role in governance aspect. But despite having pollution control laws the effective governance of water pollution has not been attainable in India. Are the pollution control laws fundamentally wrong or some other factors prevail which is beyond the reach of law to control the pollution problem. The thesis which is a comparative study of legal framework and their implementation in India and Sweden attempts to explore how control of water pollution has been effectively governed in Sweden and what needs to been done in India.
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Nugraha, Daniel Setiawan. "Extending the concept of value chain governance." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16198.
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In vielen Entwicklungsländern findet Wertschöpfungskettenansatz (WSK-Ansatz) verbreitete Anwendung zur Wirtschaftsförderung von Kleinst-, Klein-, und Mittelunternehmen sowie ländlichen Produzenten. Viele Studien belegten, dass WSK-Upgrading von der vorherrschenden WSK-Governance stark abhängt. Jedoch beschränkten sich Diskussionen über WSK-Governance bisher auf Themen wie Koordinierung, Regulierung, Technologie, und Macht. Soziokulturelle Aspekte, die auf das individuelles Verhalten starke Einflüsse ausüben, wurde en passant erwähnt bzw. vollständig ignoriert. Aus diesem Grunde erweitert diese Studie das Governancekonzept durch die Einbeziehung institutioneller Perspektive, die regulative, normative, und kulturell-kognitive Elemente beinhaltet. Diese Erweiterung wird in den Fallstudien von Milch-WSK in Indonesien angewendet. Dabei wird die WSK mit erfolgreichen und erfolglosen Upgradingsresultaten verglichen. Mit einer explorativen Vorgehensweise werden Daten durch Beobachtungen, Interviews sowie den eigenen praktischen Erfahrungen in einem WSK-Förderungsprojekt gesammelt. Die Kausalität zwischen WSK-Governance und –Upgrading wird anhand der qualitativen Herangehensweise des Makro-Mikro-Modells erklärt. Dabei werden die Role von WSK-Operatoren, ihre Wahrnemung, und ihr Entscheidungsverhalten in dem Upgradingsprozess akzentuiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen dass Regulierung und ihre effektive Durchsetzung von entscheidender Bedeutung sind. Paralel dazu haben aber gesellschaftliche Beziehungen, Werte, und Normen sowie Orientierung und Gewohnheit besonders starke Einflussnahme auf das individuelle Verhalten und somit die Interdependenz zwischen WSK-Operatoren. Deswegen sollen weitere Studien in ähnlichem Kontext, nämlich im ländlichen Raum wo soziokulturelle Aspekte von größerem Belang sind, das erweiterte Governancekonzept in die WSK-Analyse integrieren, um verbesserte Erklärung, Voraussage, und technische Empfehlung über die Förderung der Upgradingsprozesse zu generieren.Value Chain (VC) approach has been widely applied in developing countries to promote economic growth particularly of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and rural producers. Many cases have shown that VC upgrading is strongly determined by the prevailing governance structure. However, hitherto the discussion on VC governance has been limited mainly on coordination, regulation, technology, and power; whereas socio-cultural aspects, albeit influential in determining individual behaviour, are mentioned en passant or totally neglected. Thus, this study calls for the extension of governance concept by introducing a wider institutional perspective incorporating regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive elements to portray a more realistic picture of the interaction between VC operators. Then, it applies the extended concept in case studies of dairy VCs in Indonesia, comparing the governance of successful and unsuccessful upgrading cases. Using an exploratory procedure, data were collected from observations, interviews, and author’s own experiences involved in a practical VC promotion project. The causalities between VC governance and upgrading are explained using the qualitative approach of Macro-Micro Model to accentuate the role of VC operators, their perception, and selected action in the upgrading processes. The results show that regulations and their effective enforcement are necessary; but also social relations, values, and norms, as well as orientation, common practices, and habit exert strong influences on determining the behaviour of and thus the interdependency between VC operators. Hence, further VC re-searches in similar context, i.e. rural areas where socio-cultural aspects are more influential, are to systematically integrate the extended concept of governance into the analysis in order to generate explanation, prediction, and technical recommendation on the facilitation of upgrading processes.
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Collingwood, Vivien. "Assistance with strings attached : good governance conditionality in international society." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399484.
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Adegbite, Emmanuel Afolabi. "The determinants of good corporate governance : The case of Nigeria." Thesis, City University London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512010.
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Dlalisa, Welcome Thamsanqa Mlungisi. "Strategies for enhancing good governance in South African local government." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1542.
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Thesis (MPA (School of Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.The Republic of South Africa has drawn increasing attention from the international community for its new approaches towards solving a variety of problems and thus enhancing good governance in Africa in general. Such problems include, but are not limited to, poverty and systemic corruption. The constitutional and legislative frameworks that underpin governance in municipalities are identified and explained. These constitutional and legislative frameworks include the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (RSA, Act 108 of 1996) and the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003 (RSA, Act 56 of 2003). The manifestations and consequent dangers of poor governance as well as strategies to instil good governance in municipal functionaries are also identified. The manifestations of poor governance include poor financial management, ill-advised appointments and misguided patriotism in service delivery. The consequences of poor governance in local government include high incidents of violence, decline in municipal service payments and the consequent deterioration in service delivery. It is herein argued that municipal functionaries must be able to identify the manifestations of bad governance for them to serve as effective whistle-blowers. The role of the national integrity system as a strategy for combating the manifestations of bad governance is also identified. The national integrity system refers to the holistic approach (or various strategies) for instilling good governance amongst municipal functionaries. These include an anti-corruption strategy for local government (also known as “a local government integrity system”), constitutional strategies and exemplifying ethical behaviour by municipal functionaries. Constitutional strategies include the Auditor-General and the Public Protector. It is argued that preventing unethical conduct such as corruption assists in raising municipal revenues and thus towards improved service delivery. The study concludes by asserting that big, corrupt actors must be named and punished to convince an already cynical citizenry that the avowed anti-corruption drive is more than just lip service. It is, accordingly, important that one of the “first big fish” should preferably come from the governing party to ensure that the party is not accused of protecting its members against charges of corruption.
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Stemele, Bulumko Mollman. "Assessing good governance in procurement at the Lejweleputswa District Municipality." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1880.
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Thesis (MPA (School of Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.The thesis evaluates the extent to which good governance has influenced the procurement process at the Lejweleputswa District Municipality. Under good governance, the manner in which goods are procured or disposed of, is supposed to be unproblematic and conducted with the highest integrity, taking into account both the costs involved in the process and the benefits of the delivery of the services. Good governance should act as a “decontaminator or antiseptic in a germ infested area” (Cloete 2006:6–19). To extend the analogy further, this process of disinfecting the wound definitely requires some form of expertise and knowledge, as well as the participation of different role players, such as doctors and nurses; in addition, certain utensils to clean and cover the wound would be needed. In the same way, the procurement process needs experts to handle and enforce correct procedure. The values of good governance alone are meaningless unless there are people who are willing and have the capacity to manage the required processes and procedures. In South Africa, a new procurement process was adopted in the public sector in 1994. To date it has been interpreted and implemented in favour of historically disadvantaged individuals, like black people, women and disabled people through a legislative framework, the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, 2000 (RSA, Act 5 of 2000) and the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003 (RSA, Act 53 of 2003). It is crucial to point out, however, that the definitions given by these laws about black people differ or contradict each other. Challenges like this have turned the procurement process upside down. In an effort to attain uniformity in the procurement process in the local sphere of government, both National and Provincial Treasury Departments have instituted legislation and guidelines to steer the process. Despite all these efforts, municipalities are still associated with allegations of corruption and nepotism when awarding tenders to service providers. The Lejweleputswa District Municipality has not been spared from such accusations, as shown by the spate of riots that occurred in the Free State (Mail and Guardian 2007:6–12). This research has therefore been undertaken with the general objective of determining whether the values of good governance have managed to sustain a good procurement process in the municipality or whether the values are being ignored leading to procurement processes which do not fulfil the aims of the legislation and guidelines and remain open to allegations of corruption and maladministration. The specific objectives for the research were to investigate good governance in procurement in the municipality context and to make recommendations, if appropriate, on how to promote good governance in municipal procurement.
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Dietsche, Evelyn. "'Good governance' of the extractive resources sector : a critical analysis." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2014. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/044143c9-8552-490d-a849-207c1df4583c.
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This doctoral thesis presents a critical analysis of the global debate on the ‘good governance’ of the extractive resources sectors. Its starting point is that over the past decade this debate has seen a remarkable elevation, while at the same time the governance concept itself has been subjected to critique. To understand how the sector-focused ‘good governance’ agenda compares against this critique, the thesis uses a conceptual framework that identifies the different uses of this concept. Against this background, it reviews the main scholarly debates on the opportunities and challenges of countries producing extractive resources and identifies four critical questions, which it then sets out to answer. The main argument is that the global debate on the ‘good governance’ of the extractive resources sectors has been built on the widely endorsed conclusion that ‘good institutions’ make for better outcomes and that therefore producer countries need to improve their sector institutions. However, this seemingly obvious conclusion has ignored the complexity and confusion around ‘governance’ and ‘institutions’ that prevails across the broader social science literature. This argument is based on the answers the thesis provides to four critical questions: what are institutions; how do institutions change; how are they enforced; and do existing institutions matter for the design of interventions aimed at improving institutions. The thesis lays open that the policy conclusions of the global debate are premised on the dominance of a particular reference point paired with a particular methodology where the emphasis has been on, first, identifying the types of institutions that have apparently led to desired results, and then to promote these as a means to steer towards these results. It concludes that this focus has premised the global agenda on a false sense of clarity on what producer countries ought to be improving.
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Ye, Peiyu. "Weibo and local governments in China : contributions towards good governance?" Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57746.
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Though some studies have focused on how media is an essential component of good governance, there is very little existing literature on the most recent media platform – social media – and the realization of good governance in China. This thesis tries to fill in the gap and to demonstrate the ways local governments in China have used Weibo – the most popular Chinese social media platform – to improve their governing and to fulfill the criteria of “good governance” proposed by different parties internationally. This thesis uses the case study of a local government Weibo account – the Ma’anshan Release and analyzes the contents of its posts, reposts and private messages. It concludes that through the Ma’anshan Release, the Ma’anshan local government shows a notable level of responsiveness, responsibility, effectiveness and efficiency, and transparency, as well as efforts for preventing the abuse of power and corruption. All these criteria are in parallel with the variables proposed in current studies of good governance. It also proposes that the Ma’anshan Release is not an isolated case; its practices can be found in different jurisdictions in China. Thus, Weibo as a social media tool can help local governments in China contribute to the realization of good governance.Arts, Faculty of
Asian Research, Institute of
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Dolan, Jamie Marie. "'Do Good Things for the Fish': Organizational Innovation in Tribal Governance." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195674.
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This dissertation examines the organizational aspects of fish and wildlife management for Native American nations. Fish and wildlife management is an arena of great importance to many Native nations in subsistence, economic and cultural realms. Additionally, fish and wildlife, being common-pool resources, offer interesting management challenges. My research focuses on what happens when Native American nations exercise self-determination in this arena which requires them for both political and practical reasons to interact with state and federal governments and for economic reasons to deal with markets, all while attempting to meet the needs of their nations. Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and drawing upon survey and case study research with Native American fish and wildlife programs, I examine how tribes manage their fish and wildlife resources and with what results.This research helps identify under what conditions tribes may achieve various management goals. In some important ways, tribes are limited in what they can do, particularly in regards to land base size and degree of jurisdiction over non-Indians. More importantly, however, this research identifies some of the many ways tribes can work to take charge of or support tribal fish and wildlife management without having to appeal to outsiders. While there are some very real limitations to fish and wildlife management external to tribes, within those limits, tribes have opportunities to assume and be effective in resource management.This dissertation also provides evidence to suggest that as tribes are better able to determine their own management and governance paths, elements of clan structures and logics develop where the organizational literature would predict they would not. Studying tribal fish and wildlife programs in particular offers an examination of these clan-like features typically found only on the societal fringes. Perhaps even more importantly, this dissertation research demonstrates that there are different governance structures, or logics, co-existing and operating in hybrid forms. For tribes, these hybrid structures create some challenges and inconsistencies that more pure governance structures would not. Nevertheless, these hybrid structures also allow for flexibility and effectiveness in responding to the diverse stakeholders invested in or influencing tribal fish and wildlife management.
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Sheikh, Kasim N. "The discourse of good governance : with special reference to Islamic states." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.651284.
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This thesis argues that the concept of 'good governance' provides a new and significant conduit, which will facilitate discourse based on equality, reciprocity and respect between Islamic and non-Islamic states aimed at successful state building in the 21 st Century. It does so by examining the discourse of good governance and showing that the concept is not confined in its relevance to developed Western democracies and that it is certainly not incompatible with the precepts of Islam. Of importance to the thesis is an analysis of the historic norms and the constitutions of a number of Muslim countries that strongly suggest an ideological commitment to principles of good governance and which call into question the 'significance of the dislocation of constitutional principle from government practice. The ,thesis suggests that such an analysis . may also not be irrelevant even to Western democracies and that even here dislocation is not insignificant. By considering in depth. the relationship between liberalism and democracy, and the arguments in international law for a developing right to democracy, the thesis is able to show that democracy is merely one method of legitimating good governance, and one not necessarily attractive to Islam. Equally important is the range of attributes found in the recent expression of post-conflict constitutions and from which internationalised norms of good governance in state-building are being derived and applied to Islamic states. The thesis argues that overlaying such historical and modern attributes of good governance provides a potential framework with which to project a new mode of governance for the Islamic World. Such conclusions should help the elimination of the Islamic inferiority complex concerning state governance, and the attitude of superiority frequently inferred from the language of the developed democracies. Moreover, application of a 'principle of good governance' has the potential to lead to a path of consensual and cooperative state-building to the benefit of those for whom constitutions were first written - the peoples themselves.
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Williams, David Gareth. "The emergence and implementation of the World Bank's 'good governance' agenda." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286787.
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Stark, Alexander. "Wirtschaftsförderung und "Good Governance" in Argentinien : Ansätze für eine dynamische Regionalentwicklung /." Tübingen : Geographisches Institut der Universität, 2007. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783881210744.
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Gona, Shingirirayi. "The role of the independent director in maintaining good corporate governance." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4623.
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The role of the independent director is not clearly defined in most legislation around the globe. Hence, a company, through its Articles of Association or Memorandum of Incorporation, may attach any role it wishes the director to carry out. Most companies seem to entrust the independent director with three roles, which are the monitoring of managerial activities, strategy development, and ensuring that the company complies with the various companies' legislation. However, Dixion et al assert that, the independent director has largely emerged, amongst other factors, due to the need to monitor managerial activities.
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Sikazwe, Chanza Kephas. "Is the corporate governance law applicable to Zambian banks and financial institutions adequately promoting good corporate governance?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9156.
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Includes bibliographical references.Good corporate governance has been hailed as an important factor for the growth of sustainable economic development by enhancing the development of companies and increasing their access to outside capital. Furthermore, for emerging markets like Zambia, improving corporate governance can serve a number of important public policy objectives. Good corporate governance reduces emerging markets vulnerability to financial crisis, reinforces property rights, reduces transaction costs and the cost of capital and leads to capital market development. Since Banks are primarily companies, they also fall within the preserve of corporate governance.
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Javier, Aser B., and Joseph M. Medrana Don. "Trekking the Pathways in Building Good Governance in Cambodia and the Philippines." 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/9720.
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Troniak, Shauna. "Good relations: an alternative paradigm for natural resource governance in Eeyou Istchee." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96790.
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The parties to two modern agreements in Eeyou Istchee – the Crees of Eeyou Istchee and the Governments of Canada and Quebec – describe their treaty relationship in terms of a "new relationship" based on principles such as mutual recognition and reciprocity.Current perspectives on a new relationship in Eeyou Istchee are inadequate to understand the parties' complex normative interactions and political claims for recognition. An alternative paradigm is needed to conceptualize a new relationship, which emphasizes the political and legal processes that allow Aboriginal peoples and state actors to engage in reciprocal dialogue, and negotiate compromises to deep-seated normative disagreements. Formal and informal mechanisms for decentralized governance of natural resources – including community consultation processes, and institutions for co-management and community-based management – can provide forums for the parties to negotiate their political and normative interactions within an alternative paradigm.Les parties de deux accords modernes à Eeyou istchee – les cris d'Eeyou istchee et lesGouvernements du Canada et du Québec – expriment leur relation en tant que «nouvelle relation» fondée sur des principes de reconnaissance mutuelle et réciprocité. La perspective actuelle sur la nouvelle relation à Eeyou istchee est insuffisante pour comprendre les interactions complexes engendrées par les demandes politiques et normatives des parties. Un nouveau paradigme est donc nécessaire pour conceptualiser une nouvelle relation, en mettant l'accent sur les processus politiques et juridiques permettant aux Autochtones et à l'état de se livrer au dialogue réciproque et de négocier des compromis lors de désaccords normatifs de grande profondeur. Des mécanismes formels et informels pour la gouvernance décentralisée des ressources naturelles – y compris les consultations des communautés, et les institutions de co-gestion et de gestion communautaire – peuvent permettre un échange politique et normatif dans le cadre d'un nouveau paradigme.
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Mughal, Muhammad Shahid. "Good governance for the sustainable public housing development : case study : Karachi, Pakistan /." Thesis, View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35081156.
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Plänitz, Erik. "EU Development Aid and Good Governance : An analysis with reference to Zimbabwe." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-3825.
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The European Union is the greatest donor of the world. Until 2002, the south African country Zimbabwe was a recipient of European development aid. Due to major disagreements over key issues, such as human rights and democratic principles, theEuropean Union has partially suspended official development cooperation in 2002. Zimbabwe has not longer fulfilled the criterions of Good Governance, which isdemanded by the European Union. In order to restore the respect for human rights and ademocratic way of governance, the EU has posed sanctions and resolutions. This study provides a study of the outcomes of these repressive measures. Have the sanctions led to a better governance performance in Zimbabwe? Before the terms Governance and Good Governance will be explained into detail, the first part of the thesis is spotting out the European Union as a normative actor.
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Zhang, Zhong. "Derivative action and good governance in China : : economic theories and legal rules." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488053.
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Choi, Ina. "How is good governance re-contextualised at the local level in Indonesia?" Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601138.
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Drawing upon a theoretical framework that sees the post.Washington Consensus (PWC) as inclusive neoliberalism, this thesis suggests an alternative way of analysing the impact of neoliberalism in Indonesia, focusing on new patterns of elite capture influenced by the PWc. A considerable body of literature on contemporary Indonesia argues that neoliberalism has had minimal influence due to the failure to build a regulatory state. Yet, what is often missed out in this kind of analysis is recognition that neoliberalism has wider political and social consequences. Against this backdrop, this thesis extends the analysis of neoliberalism in Indonesia to look at how the depoiiticisation of participation, encouraged by the PWC, has unfolded in Indonesia. Through a case study of local governance refonns in three districts, the thesis reveals how the World Bank's inclusive governance agenda - aimed at constraining civil society actors and the poor so they do not interfere with the market economy - has been appropriated by Indonesian elites to suit their interests. It is argued that elites ' adoption of inclusive governance has served to discipline civil society so that increased public participation in the refonnation era does not pose a significant challenge to existing power relations. In addition to providing insights into how the PWC's inclusive neoliberalism is 'localised', generating hybrid outcomes, the analysis developed in the thesis also sheds light on new patterns of elite capture of Indonesia's democratisation processes. While a sizeable body of literature focuses on elites' manipulation of electoral processes in undennining Indonesia's democracy, the thesis highlights that elite's selective embracing of the PWC also plays a part in circumscribing meaningful civil society participation.
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Sekścińska, Agnieszka [Verfasser]. "Good Governance in Polen : Partizipatorische Verfahren nach der EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie / Agnieszka Sekścińska." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1117541797/34.
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Osei, Philip Duku. "Operationalisation, formulation and implementation of good governance policies in Ghana : 1990-1995." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393150.
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Towah, William Deiyan. "The Impact of Good Governance and Stability on Sustainable Development in Ghana." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6284.
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Previous studies have lauded Ghana's commitment to sustainable development, but corruption and violence may affect sustainable development policies and initiatives related to poverty reduction, agricultural practices, environmental protection, and human development. The purpose of this holistic, qualitative case study was to identify and describe good governance practices in Ghana and threats to sustainable development. A Marxist conceptual lens guided the thematic analysis of data collected from artifact documents, field notes, and interviews of 20 key informants from various professions and diverse perspectives who were directly involved in the governance of Ghana or implementation of policies. Three primary themes emerged: (a) the importance of active governance proactively anticipating and responding to citizen's needs through democratic processes, independent judiciary, social inclusion, and influence in Africa; (b) an effective governance formulating and implementing specific policies to advance citizens' standard of living in partnership with the private sector focused on human capital, education, health services, farms-to-market infrastructures, and revamping economic priorities; and (c) fair governance and rule of law accountable to the people. Ghana's good governance practices for sustainable development that were identified integrated some Western practices while maintaining and sustaining its own cultural norms and priorities. This may be a durable recipe for other African nations to use to effect positive social change for citizens, private institutions, and therefore, good governance, which is germane for sustainable development.
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Hendricks, Ebrahiem. "Towards Good Corporate Governance in South Africa: Private Enforcement versus Public Enforcement." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4631.
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For the past six and half years a great deal of attention has been devoted to the reform of South African company law. The reform process commenced in September 2003, when the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) initiated a reform programme that included a review of existing securities regulation and, of corporate structures and practices in the area of corporate governance. Subsequently, in March 2004 (and updated in June 2004) the DTI published a policy document on corporate law reform entitled 'South African Company Law for the 21st Century: Guidelines for Corporate Law Reform'. This policy paper explained that company law in South Africa would be reviewed and modernised. The objectives of the reform process were to align it with international trends and to accommodate the economic and legislative changes that have taken place in South Africa since the advent of democracy in 1994. The policy paper also explained that this reform process would occur in two stages. Firstly, urgent interim changes would be brought by the Corporate Law Amendment Act No 24 of 2006. The Act provided for, amongst others, assistance to acquire shares and greater protection of minority shareholders in respect of takeovers .The Act came into effect on 14 December 2007. Secondly, the new Companies Act will repeal and replace the entire Companies Act No 61 of 1973, when it becomes operational.