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Navigating Bureaucratic Changes: A New Public Service Perspective on Tourism and Culture Governance in Malang Regency, Indonesia

Journal of Governance and Public Policy
Bureaucratic reform in Indonesia has been a key agenda since the early 21st century, focusing on enhancing efficiency, transparency, and accountability in government management. This study aims to delve into and analyse the bureaucratic reform process at
Didik Supriyanto, Sigit Wahyudi, Suljatmiko Suljatmiko, Eka Setyowati, Rikha Murliasari, Arif Saefudin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crossing Tuition Borders: Evaluating AB‐91 Through an Equity‐Minded Lens in California Community Colleges

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT California's Assembly Bill 91 (AB‐91), passed in 2023 and effective Fall 2024, authorizes nine community colleges in the San Diego and Imperial Counties region to waive nonresident tuition for low‐income Mexican national students residing within forty‐five miles of the U.S.‐Mexico border.
Jada S. Sims, Antonio Estrella Vega
wiley   +1 more source

From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
wiley   +1 more source

Bureaucratic Reform in Irrigation: A Review of Four Case Studies

Water Alternatives, 2014
Poor performance of government-managed irrigation systems persists globally. This paper argues that addressing performance requires not simply more investment or different policy approaches, but reform of the bureaucracies responsible for irrigation ...
Diana Suhardiman, Mark Giordano, Edwin Rap, Kai Wegerich   +3 more
doaj  

Bureaucratic transformation in realizing responsive and accountable public services

Jurnal Inovasi Ilmu Sosial dan Politik
Indonesia’s bureaucratic reform aims to create a clean, effective, transparent, and accountable government, as outlined in the Bureaucratic Reform Grand Design 2010–2025.
Rizal Zamzani, Hayat, Rini Rahayu Kurniati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Calibrated Autonomy: China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance and the Reconfiguration of Dispute Resolution

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance represents neither progress toward rule of law nor retreat from it. I propose instead that we are witnessing something I call “calibrated autonomy”—the strategic construction of spaces for private ordering that remain tethered to Party‐State oversight through multiple ...
M. Francis Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomous Leadership: How Board Independence Shapes Machine Learning Based Corporate Culture in Thailand

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate culture is a critical driver of corporate social responsibility, shaping how firms internalize sustainability, social and environmental concerns, yet its governance antecedents are less understood. Motivated by the need to understand how governance structures affect organizational values and behavior, we explore the relationship ...
Sirimon Treepongkaruna, Stefano Starita
wiley   +1 more source

Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally, Carmel O. Sullivan, Karin Bacon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orchestration of Climate Action in Municipalities: A Collective Capacity Approach

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Municipalities are increasingly positioned as key actors in enabling local climate action, yet their ability to mobilise societal actors remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how municipal officials in six Finnish municipalities from different local contexts understand and operationalise collective capacity for climate action,
Maija Faehnle, Hanna Nieminen, Jani P. Lukkarinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source