Government of paper Hull, Matthew S
2012., 20120506, 2012, 2012-06-05, 20120101
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In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and ...disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper artifacts among bureaucrats, politicians, property owners, villagers, imams (prayer leaders), businessmen, and builders. What are the implications of such a thorough paper mediation of relationships among people, things, places, and purposes? Government of Paper explores this question in the routine yet unpredictable realm of the Pakistani urban bureaucracy, showing how the material forms of postcolonial bureaucratic documentation produce a distinctive political economy of paper that shapes how the city is constructed, regulated, and inhabited. Files, maps, petitions, and visiting cards constitute the enduring material infrastructure of more ephemeral classifications, laws, and institutional organizations. Matthew S. Hull develops a fresh approach to state governance as a material practice, explaining why writing practices designed during the colonial era to isolate the government from society have become a means of participation in it.
O quinto número da RAP de 2018 reúne um conjunto significativo de artigos dedicados a temas relevantes de administração pública, entre os quais destaco análises profundas e longitudinais da ...burocracia brasileira no período de pós-democratização, nos governos do PSDB e do PT. Especi- ficamente, os artigos de Adriano Codato e Paulo Franc (Ministros-técnicos e ministros-políticos nos governos do PSDB e do PT), de Maria Celina D’Araujo e Julia Petek (Recrutamento e perfil dos diri- gentes públicos brasileiros nas áreas econômicas e sociais entre 1995 e 2012) e de Rodolfo de Camargo Lima e Amâncio Jorge Silva Nunes de Oliveira (Manutenção e mudanças no Ministério das Relações Exteriores: perfis do corpo diplomático e padrões na carreira) escrutinam a natureza de altos escalões da burocracia brasileira nos governos do PSDB e do PT: os níveis ministeriais, os altos dirigentes e carreiras-chaves, como a carreira diplomática.
Partint de la persecució que la burocràcia de Nova Espanya va posar en marxa contra un grup de sodomites a la Ciutat de Mèxic (1657-1658), s’aborden una sèrie de problemàtiques: el tractament de ...«brossarització» que la burocràcia virregnal va donar a aquests homes, el concepte de «burocràcia novel·lada» i la reutilització dels fets registrats per l’acte burocràtic en obres posteriors. Es comenten alguns exemples de reciclatge temàtic del cas esmentat en obres de caràcter acadèmic i literari. Amb més deteniment, es comenta l’obra poètica titulada Sodomía en la Nueva España (2010) de l’autor mexicà Luis Felipe Fabre
Lost Modernities Woodside, Alexander
06/2009, Volume:
2001
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In Lost Modernities, Alexander Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three ...mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations. This book removes modernity from a standard Eurocentric understanding and offers a unique new perspective on the transnational nature of Asian history.
Internet/web‐based forms of communication have increasingly been implemented by welfare agencies. However, there have been few studies of the experiences of welfare service users and the consequences ...of new technology for welfare service users. To what extent is the new technology adopted by the Norwegian Welfare and Labour Organization (NAV) used, and how do the users apply and experience the new possibilities? Do screen‐to‐screen encounters replace face‐to‐face encounters, and is this trend affected by age, gender, education or type of benefit? To answer these questions, we combine survey data, short‐term fieldwork in welfare reception areas and qualitative interviews with people receiving health and work‐related benefits. Our study indicates that screen‐to‐screen interaction in general does not replace face‐to‐face encounters, as many face‐to‐face encounters are related to screen communication. However, digital competence combined with life circumstances appears to be the source of a new divide between welfare service users.
Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along ...technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient Asian bloc centered on Japan and its puppet state of Manchukuo. InPlanning for Empire, Janis Mimura traces the origins and evolution of this new order and the ideas and policies of its chief architects, the reform bureaucrats. The reform bureaucrats pursued a radical, authoritarian vision of modern Japan in which public and private spheres were fused, ownership and control of capital were separated, and society was ruled by technocrats.
Mimura shifts our attention away from reactionary young officers to state planners-reform bureaucrats, total war officers, new zaibatsu leaders, economists, political scientists, engineers, and labor party leaders. She shows how empire building and war mobilization raised the stature and influence of these middle-class professionals by calling forth new government planning agencies, research bureaus, and think tanks to draft Five Year industrial plans, rationalize industry, mobilize the masses, streamline the bureaucracy, and manage big business. Deftly examining the political battles and compromises of Japanese technocrats in their bid for political power and Asian hegemony,Planning for Empireoffers a new perspective on Japanese fascism by revealing its modern roots in the close interaction of technology and right-wing ideology.
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