illustrate the impact of institutional design on police
and state capacity to provide security. I conclude by
considering the unintended consequences of institutional
design, including the degree of police resistance that
different institutional models will generate. This
opposition, may, in turn, affect the durability of the
participatory institution. - Reproduced.
2060 Jacot-Descombes, Caroline and Niklaus, Julien
Is centralisation the right way to go? the case of
internal security policy reforms in Switzerland in the
light of community policing.
International Review of Administrative Sciences, 82(2),
2016(Jun): p.335-353.
Looking from the angle of the allocation of tasks between
cantons and municipalities in Switzerland, this article
analyses how security reforms tend to concentrate police
institutions at the cantonal level and eliminate local
police in order to improve efficiency. As the shift to
centralisation is being implemented through consensus-
building, cities claim to be special cases and succeed in
conserving their local police. The analysis focuses on
two cantonal reforms through qualitative data. The
results show that institutional changes have led to three
main arrangements after reform: the centralisation of
police (the municipalities buy the services of the
cantonal police); regionalisation (several municipalities
implement their policing activities together); and
decentralisation (the city conserves its local police).
In regard to which arrangement produces the best impact,
an evaluation of the perception of actors (citizens and
police) shows that the police's work and the feeling of
security are better in a decentralised setting. -
Reproduced.
2061 Lim, Seunghoo, Moon, Jieun and Oh, Youngmin
Policing reform in the South Korean maritime police after
the Sewol ferry disaster.
Public Administration and Development, 36(2), 2016(May):
p.144-156.
The disbanding of the Maritime Police was the Korean
President's political attempt to avoid blame after the
Sewol ferry accident. Under the government reorganization
bill, which was drafted by the government and submitted
to the National Assembly, the Maritime Police will be
renamed the Maritime Safety Agency and put under the
control of the newly created ministry of national safety.
Furthermore, the Maritime Police's investigation and
intelligence functions will be transferred to the
National Police Agency, and its roles of rescue
operations and maritime security will be moved to the new
national safety body. The reality of this policing reform
is closer to organization succession than it is to
organization termination. Borrowing the concept of blame
avoidance, we will examine the nature, causes, and
consequences of the blame observed in this process of
policing reform, which is intertwined with the historical
background of the developmental state in South Korea. In
this study, we expect to acquire important lessons about
how the reformation of police organizations was used by
the Korean government as an instrument for responding to
disaster by providing new insights into the study of the
complex forms of political interactions among multiple
stakeholders in times of crisis. In particular, we will
try to understand the causes and effects of this extreme
case, the Sewol ferry accident, and the subsequent
disintegration of the Maritime Police Agency through the
perspective of the Korean police bureaucracy and the
developmental states. - Reproduced.
2062 Lin, Tingjin and Burns, John P.
Protest policing in Hong Kong: maintaining professionals
and solidarity in the face of renewed political
challenges.
Public Administration and Development, 36(2), 2016(May):
p.93-107.
Protest has been a feature of Hong Kong political life
since the mid-1950s. The structure of protest policing in
Hong Kong should be seen from institutional,
organizational, and individual levels. We examine the
norms and values, staffing, professionalism, and
individual motivation of police officers. Based on a
questionnaire and performance data, we seek to understand
police behavior in the context of increasing protest in
Hong Kong. - Reproduced.
2063 Mishra, J.P.
Role of police force in maintaining social order (note).
Indian Journal of Public Administration, 62(2), 2016(Apr-
Jun): p.328-333.
The article not only deals with the functioning of the
police in India and its historical background, it also
explains the challenges and impediments before the police
force. It is further commensurated with the changing
scenario of the society which now faces multidimensional
crime within and outside the national bounadry. The
presence of various human rights activists, in one form
or another and the challenge to bring reforms in the
present police force in India which by, and large, has
become outdated has to be taken seriously. If the
challenges before the police are met, this force in India
responsible for the execution of democratic principle
will not be stared at with critical eyes; the police
force will be treated as a friend in the society instead.
The requirement of the present system is not
sophisticated weapons but well-trained intelligence set-
up and knowledgwe to deal with the economic offences
also. - Reproduced.
2064 Ozer, Murat
Automatic licence plate reader (ALPR) technology: is ALPR
a smart choice in policing?:
Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 89(2),
2016(Jun): p.117-132.
2065 Peacock, Robert and Cordner, Gary
''Shock therapy'' in Ukraine: a radical approach to post-
Soviet police reform.
Public Administration and Development, 36(2), 2016(May):
p.80-92.
Ukraine has pursued an aggressive shock therapy approach
to police reform since early 2015, in the aftermath of
the February 2014 Maidan protests and subsequent change
of government. This approach is described and examined in
light of previous 21st century post-Soviet police reform
efforts in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. Internal and
external pressures to demonstrate real commitment to
corruption control and rule of law seem to have been
responsible for pushing Ukraine in the direction of the
Georgian shock therapy model. Early results are very
promising, but significant challenges remain, including
sustaining the reform political coalition, overcoming
bureaucratic resistance to change, surviving the armed
insurgency in eastern Ukraine, downsizing the old
militsiya, reshaping the culture of corruption that
permeates the entire government and much of society, and
convincing the citizenry that the new police are truly
committed to serving the public, not regime protection. -
Reproduced.
2066 Pinto, Rogerio F. and Carmo, Maria Scarlet Do
The pacifying police units of the state of Rio De Janeiro
(UPPS): incremental innovation or police reform?
Public Administration and Development, 36(2), 2016(May):
p.121-131.
This article considers the experience of Unidades de
Polφcia Pacificadora (UPPs) (Pacifying Police Units) of
the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as an innovative
form of policing designed to deal primarily with high
crime rate in favelas. It also attempts to ascertain the
extent to which the UPPs reflect a strategy for police
reform. It does so by (i) reviewing the security crisis
which engendered the UPPs as well as their predecessors,
describing the socio-economic hardships of the favelas,
further aggravated by high crime rates; (ii) describing
the institutional and political environment giving rise
to the policing policy underpinning the UPPs, and (iii)
by assessing this innovation against a backdrop of
systemic police reform models, singling out missing
elements to constitute a true police system reform. This
review provides a record of police policy of successive
state governments, showing that the adoption of the UPPs
followed a reactive political pattern while falling short
of the requirements for proactively deliberate and
comprehensive reform. Contrary to most of the guiding
reform principles and elements discussed, policing reform
in the State of Rio de Janeiro has indeed been bound by
innovative incrementalism, following a pendular pattern,
with little sustainability and a record of fluctuating
achievements. - Reproduced.
2067 Rantatalo, Oscar
Using police bicycle patrols to manage social order in
bicycle and pedestrian traffic networks: a Swedish case
study.
Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 89(1),
2016(Mar): p.18-30.
2068 Shukla, Niti, Bhardwaj, Gopa and Mishra, Prabhat Kumar
Police force in the Naxalite area of Chhattisgarh - a
psychological perspective.
Man in India, 96(4), 2016(Oct-Dec): p.1029-1036.
2069 Silverstone, Daniel and Whittle, Joe
Forget it, jake. It's Chinatown': the policing of Chinese
organised Crime in the UK.
Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 89(1),
2016(Mar): p70-84.
2070 Skilling, Louise
Community policing in Kenya: the application of
democratic policing principles.
Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 89(1),
2016(Mar): p.3-17.
2071 Thomas, Garry
A case for local neighbourhood policing and community
intelligence in counter terrorism.
Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 89(1),
2016(Mar): p.31-54.
POLICY MAKING
2072 Head, Brian W.
Toward more "evidence-informed" policy making?
Public Administration Review, 76(3), 2016(May-Jun):
p.472-484.
The quality of public decision making depends
significantly on the quality of analysis and advice
provided through public organizations. Champions of
''evidence-informed'' policy making claim that rigorous
evaluation practices can significantly improve attainment
of cost-effective outcomes. After decades of experience,
performance information is more sophisticated, but
evaluation practices and capabilities vary enormously.
Public agencies gather and process vast amounts of
information, but there has been little analysis of how
this information is actually utilized for policy and
program improvement. This article examines how government
agencies use evidence about policy and program
effectiveness, with attention to four themes: (1) the
prospects for improving ''evidence-informed'' policy
making, (2) the diversity of practices concerning
evidence utilization and evaluation across types of
public agencies and policy arenas, (3) recent attempts to
''institutionalize'' evaluation as a core feature of
policy development and budget approval, and (4) the
relationships between public agencies and nongovernmental
sources of expertise.
2073 Mukherjee, Ishani and Howlett, Michael
An Asian perspective on policy instruments: policy styles
governance modes and critical capacity challenges.
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 38(1),
2016(Mar): p.24-42.
Does Asia have a distinct policy style? If so, what does
it look like, and why does it take the shape it does?
This article argues that in the newly reinvigorated
emphasis of policy studies on policy instruments and
their design lies the basis of an analysis of a dominant
policy style in the Asian region, with significant
implications for understanding the roles played by
specific kinds of policy capacities. There is a
distinctly Asian policy style based on a specific pattern
of policy capacities and governance modes. In this style,
a failure to garner initial policy legitimacy in the
articulation of instrument norms often results in later
mismatches between instrument objectives and specific
mechanisms for their achievement. The formulation of
payments for ecosystem services policy is used to
illustrate the capacities required for policy designs and
action to meet policy goals effectively. - Reproduced.
2074 Saurugger, Sabine and Terpan, Fabien
Do crises lead to policy change? the multiple streams
framework and the European Union economic governance
instruments.
Policy Sciences, 49(1), 2016(Mar): p.35-53.
POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
2075 Panda, A.N. and Khosla, R.K.
Political articulation through nonvoting: a study during
2014 general elections in India.
Man and Development, 38(2), 2016(Jun): p.143-158.
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
2076 Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra and Green, Elliott
Pre-colonial political centralization and contemporary
development in Uganda.
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 64(3), 2016(A
pr): p.471-508.
2077 Hirsch, Alexander V.
Experimentation and persuasion in political organisations
American Political Science Review, 110(1), 2016(Feb):
p.68-84.
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
2078 Naik, B.M.
To produce globally competent professionals and political
leaders: a great challenge before Indian universities.
University News, 54(27), 2016(4 Jul): p.3-10.
POLITICAL PARTIES
2079 Novotny, Vilem and Polasek, Martin
Multiple streams approach and political parties:
modernization of Czech social democracy.
Policy Sciences, 49(1), 2016(Mar): p.89-105.
2080 Savage, Lee
Party system institutionalization and government
formation in new democracies.
World Politics, 68(3), 2016(Jul): p.499-537.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
2081 Knoll, Benjamin R.
Learning by doing: mentoring group-based undergraduate
research projects in an upper-level political science
course.
Political Science and Politics, 49(1), 2016(Jan):
p.128-131.
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
2082 Olesen, Thomas
Politicizing cultural sociology: the power of/in global
injustice symbols.
International Sociology, 31(3), 2016(May): p.324-340.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
2083 Barbora, Sanjay
Remember Easter of 1916?: when the Irish declared a
republic.
Economic and Political Weekly, 51(25), 2016(18 Jun):
p.25-28.
2084 Bidwai, Praful
A nightmare materialises in India: Hindutva-capitalism
takes power.
Mainstream, 52(23), 2014(31 May ): p.7-8,30.
2085 Bose, Tapan Kumar
Indo-Naga framework agreement: apprehensions and
expectations.
Mainstream, 54(1), 2015(26 Dec): p.81-88.
2086 Davenport, Lauren D.
Beyond black and white: biracial attitudes in
contemporary US politics.
American Political Science Review, 110(1), 2016(Feb):
p.52-67.
2087 Dayal, John
A Christmas story in the Modi era.
Mainstream, 54(1), 2015(26 Dec): p.39-40,58.
2088 Jamwal, Anuradha Bhasin
Burhan Wani and beyond: India's denial, Kashmir's
defiance.
Economic and Political Weekly, 51(32), 2016(Aug):
p.12-15.
2089 Kanchoochat, Veerayooth and Hewison, Kevin
Understanding Thailand's politics: introduction.
Journal of Contemporary Asia, 46(3), 2016(Aug):
p.371-387.
2090 Navlakha, Gautam
Kashmir: when ignorance begets tragedy and farce.
Economic and Political Weekly, 51(33), 2016(13 Aug):
p.11-14.
2091 Quraishi, Humra
Violence and anger in Kashmir.
Mainstream, 54(31), 2016(23 Jul): p.7-9.
2092 Sharma, L.K.
India: roller-coastering democracy.
Mainstream, 54(1), 2015(26 Dec): p.31-33.
2093 Siegel, Karen M.
Fulfilling promises of more substantive democracy? post
neoliberalism and natural resource governance in South
America.
Development and Change, 47(3), 2016(May): p.495-516.
2094 Srivastava, Arun
Sangh proposes, Modi disposes.
Mainstream, 54(1), 2015(26 Dec): p.28-30.
POLLUTION
2095 Dayal, Raghu
Dirty flows the Ganga: why plans to clean the river have
come a cropper.
Economic and Political Weekly, 51(25), 2016(18 Jun):
p.55-64.
POPULATION CENSUSES
2096 Bajaj, J.K.
Census 2011: the religious imbalance continues to worsen
but Hindus show great resilience.
Dialogue, 17(4), 2016(Apr-Jun): P.118-133.
POPULATION DYNAMICS
2097 Bhagat, R.B. and Jones, Gavin W.
Demographic dynamics of mega-urban regions: the case of
Mumbai.
Demography India, 43(1-2), 2014(Jan-Dec): p.71-94.
POVERTY
2098 Amare, Mulubrhan and Hohfeld, Lena
Poverty transition in rural Vietnam: the Role of
migration and remittances:
Journal of Development Studies, 52(10), 2016(Oct):
p.1463-1478.
This study combines insights of the New Economics of
Labour Migration with the asset-based approach to welfare
dynamics using panel household data from Vietnam. This
method allows us to determine whether poverty transitions
induced by remittances are actually structural, that is,
based on asset growth and therefore long term, or
stochastic, that is, based only on short-term increases
in income, which implies a risk of falling back into
poverty. To control for endogeneity of remittances, we
use household fixed effects and instrumental variables
estimation. The paper shows that remittances have a
positive impact on asset growth and that the impact
differs with welfare status and ethnicity. - Reproduced.
2099 Banks, Nicola
Livelihoods limitations: the political economy of urban
poverty in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Development and Change, 47(2), 2016(Mar): p.266-292.
2100 Dalton, Patricio S., Ghosal, Sayantan and Mani, Anandi
Poverty and aspirations failure.
Economic Journal, 126(590), 2016(Feb): p.165-188.
We study the macroeconomic implications of time-varying
precautionary savings within a general equilibrium model
with borrowing constraints, aggregate shocks and
uninsurable idiosyncratic unemployment risk. Our
framework generates limited cross-sectional household
heterogeneity as an equilibrium outcome, thereby making
it possible to analyse the role of precautionary saving
over the business cycle in an analytically tractable way.
The time-series behaviour of aggregate consumption
generated by our model is closer to the data than that
implied by the hand-to-mouth and representative-agent
models, and it is comparable to that produced by the
Krusell and Smith (1998) model. - Reproduced.
2101 Deaton, Angus
Measuring and understanding behavior, welfare, and
poverty.
American Economic Review, 106(6), 2016(Jun): p.1221-1243.
2102 Dogra, Bharat
Hunger and distress peak towards alarming levels in
bundelkhand.
Mainstream, 54(1), 2015(26 Dec): p.53-58.
2103 Nayyar, Gaurav and Nayyar, Rohini
India's 'poverty of numbers': revisiting measurement
issues.
Economic and Political Weekly, 41(35), 2016(27 Aug):
p.61-71.
The number of "poor" derived by applying price adjustment
to an old consumption basket, which is largely what
official poverty measures have done, are very different
from estimates based on actual consumption baskets that
have changed over time. For instance, the share of
cereals in household expenditure halved between 1993-94
and 2011-12 in rural areas. In the light of this, we ask
if all expenditure would be on food, what percentage of
the population would be unable to meet the prescribed
calorie requirement? Adding a "minimum" level of
expenditure on clothing-bedding-footwear, fuel and light,
and conveyance to the "derived" sum of food expenditure
provides a second counterfactual. Similarly, the
cumulative addition of expenditure on other consumer
goods and services provides further counterfactual
scenarios. – Reproduced.
2104 Singh, Mayanglambam Ojit Kumar
Combining traditional wisdom with modern research.
Kurukshetra, 64(9), 2016(Jul): p.8-11.
2105 Weerdt, Joachim et al
The challenge of measuring hunger through survey.
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 64(4), 2016(J
ul): p.727-758.
POWER INDUSTRY
2106 Naqvi, Ijlal
Pathologies of development practice: higher order
obstacles to governance reform in the Pakistani
electrical power sector.
Journal of Development Studies, 52(7), 2016(Jul):
p.950-964.
2107 Sethi, Surya P.
We simply deserve better: challenges in coal and power
sectors.
Economic and Political Weekly, 51(25), 2016(18 Jun):
p.12-16.
PRADHAN, R.P.
2108 Pattnaik, Jajati K.
Chabahar: in the grand chessboard of India's geo-
strategic calculus.
Mainstream, 54(31), 2016(23 Jul): International relations
India - Foreign policy
PRESCHOOL EDUCATION
2109 Jo Blanden et al
Universal pre-school education: the case of public
funding with private provision.
Economic Journal, 126(592), 2016(May): p.682-723.
PRESIDENTS
2110 Elgie, Robert
Varieties of Presidentialism and of the leadership
outcomes .
Daedalus, 145(3), 2016(Summer): p.57-68.
2111 Posner, Eric A.
Presidential leadership and the separation of powers .
Daedalus, 145(3), 2016(Summer)
The presidents who routinely are judged the greatest
leaders are also the most heavily criticized by legal
scholars. The reason is that the greatest presidents
succeeded by overcoming the barriers erected by Madison's
system of separation of powers, but the legal mind sees
such actions as breaches of constitutional norms that
presidents are supposed to uphold. With the erosion of
Madisonian checks and balances, what stops presidents
from abusing their powers? The answer lies in the complex
nature of presidential leadership. The president is
simultaneously leader of the country, a party, and the
executive branch. The conflicts between these leadership
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