Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik

The impact of people’s participation on public policy satisfaction in Vietnam

Phan Nhan Trung — 2024-09-27

People’s participation in public decision-making not only helps ensure transparency and accountability but also contributes to improving their satisfaction with government policies and operations. This study examines whether transparency in decision-making, trust in public agencies, access to information, and people’s awareness of their rights and responsibilities play an important role in promoting their participation. The study also explores whether this participation directly affects people’s satisfaction with public decisions and policies. This study uses mixedmethod approach through the SEM linear regression model. The analysis of the results shows that transparency, trust, information accessibility and citizen awareness have a positive and significant impact on the level of their participation in public activities. However, increased participation does not necessarily lead to higher levels of satisfaction with public policies, especially when the participation process does not meet people’s expectations or lacks transparency and efficiency. The study concludes that, to improve people’s satisfaction, it is necessary not only to promote participation, but also to improve the quality of this process, ensuring that participation is substantive and has a clear impact on public decisions. As such, specific recommendations are made to improve public policy and enhance people’s participation and satisfaction in the context of modern public governance.

Human rights in education implication schema based on the study of the UN Economic and Social Council’s 2030 agenda

Agung Budi Kurniawan — 2024-10-08

Human rights in education are an essential area that needs to be the highest priority for improving almost the entire world, especially for the 2030 agenda. This research analyzed the human rights in education values inside the UN Economic and Social Council’s declaration goal 4 of the official document entitled “Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The data are analyzed through a critical discourse approach in qualitative design and discourse organization analysis method. There are nine main human rights in education found inside the declaration including ensuring and protecting education equality, education, and learning development acceleration, preparing and providing sufficient education funding, cultural diversity in education, providing a safe environment for physical and mental health, providing safe, modern and convenient infrastructure and teaching-learning facilities, gender equality in education, internet literacy in education, involving every country as to the world’s global meeting and cooperation of education. The focus of improvement on human rights in education is concluded to be dynamic, which is influenced by economic, welfare, politics, IT, and other integral aspects of development and depends on the world’s and a country’s needs and future desire.

Research trends in gambling tax dynamics: A bibliometric analysis

Arya Teges Khithobi — 2024-10-31

Gambling has been around for a long time and continues to evolve as it becomes integrated with video games. In its development, gambling continues to have negative impacts both economically and socially, such as unemployment, tax losses, divorce, and suicide. However, gambling can also have a positive impact, such as an increase in government revenue if taxed appropriately. This study aims to offer a thorough analysis of many publications from the last decade and monitor the progress of scientific research on gambling taxes as found in the Scopus database, utilizing VOSviewer and WordStat. In this study, the method used was bibliometric analysis. Between 2014 and 2023, a total of 132 scientific articles were dedicated to studying gambling taxes. There are a total of seven groups consisting of 111 keywords that are directly connected to gambling taxes. There are three groups of eight authors who are collaborating on a research project about gambling taxes. The study found that the University of Macau has affiliations with the majority of publications that impose gambling taxes. The United States has the biggest number of publications on the topic of gambling taxes. Studies on gambling taxes frequently confront issues of tax evasion and focus on a significant topic, namely the impact on public health and individuals. The study concluded that publications related to gambling taxes are dominated by articles from various multidisciplinary fields. This study recommends a wider range of publications and research from a more varied range of time and sources.

Global cross-sectional survey on higher education institutions: Analysing the assessment of instrument for evaluating academic expertise on teaching, research and community service

Deny Kurniawan — 2024-10-31

Globally, the discussion on expertise assessment in higher education institutions has long been a topic in academic literature. However, there is currently no specific measure of academic expertise based on the roles of academics in carrying out their core functions, such as teaching, research, and community service. A recent literature review proposed twenty-nine academic expertise criteria in assessing the three academic tasks. The present study conducted a validity test of these proposed criteria by employing exploratory factor analysis and principal axis factoring. The study sample comprised three hundred and thirty-one respondents, who were gathered through a worldwide survey. The results indicate that the division of the three academic functions is shown in the final model of the measure. This model consists of three factors, each encompassing various indicators of teaching, research, and community service. The study contributes to the validitation of the academic expertise criteria, which can be further used in developing the expertise scale adjusted to higher education institutions.

A study on the changes of China's parenting labor system from the perspective of legal culture theory (1949-1957)

Yan Zhang — 2024-10-31

In the early years of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Communist Party then referred to as CPC implemented a series of equality policies in favor of women. This type of policy is reflected in the allocation of childcare labor resources, emphasizing the construction of women’s social welfare. However, China’s women’s welfare policies are influenced by overall political decision making and exhibit an unstable state. This study discusses the changes in the CPC’s childcare norms from 1949 to 1957. Using the laws and regulations issued by the CPC government from 1949 to 1957 and the news materials published from 1949 to 1957, this study classifies and discusses these first hand historical materials in different periods using the method of literature analysis. This study uses Friedman’s legal culture theory to analyze the interaction between the internal legal culture of the government representatives of the CPC and the external legal culture of the people’s representatives. This study finds that by exploring the process of the construction of women’s welfare policy of the PRC from 1949 to 1957, it can be clearly seen that under the condition of limited financial capacity, women’s welfare work is easily abolished due to other more important national socio-economic work. From these results, this study finally concludes that women’s liberation become a tool to serve the national construction under the discourse construction of the CPC.

Predictors of organizational citizenship behavior among government personnel: A structural equation modeling approach

Rowell P. Nitafan — 2024-10-31

The study aimed to develop a causal paradigm of organizational citizenship behavior among government personnel in the SOCCSKSARGEN Region. 400 employees were selected through stratified balanced sampling. Data were collected using survey questionnaires and analyzed through the mean, Pearson r, multiple regression, and structural equation modeling. The study determined that quality of work life, employee silence, and political skill statistically correlate with organizational citizenship behavior. The study inferred the predictive capacity of the exogenous latent variables in influencing the organizational citizenship behavior of LGU employees. There were five generated models of organizational citizenship behavior, and model five was determined as the best-fit structural model. The model retained five quality indicators of work life, namely compensation and rewards, training and development, relationships and cooperation, organizational culture and climate, and work environment. Prosocial silence and acquiescent silence remained as indicators of employee silence. Political skill was narrowed to three indicators, comprising social astuteness, interpersonal influence, and networking ability. Finally, altruism and civic virtue emerged as the strongest indicators of organizational citizenship behavior.