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{"title":"Assessment of Taiwan Public Warning Cell Broadcast Service: Insights from an Expert Focus Group and Citizens","authors":"","doi":"10.37808/paq.46.4.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37808/paq.46.4.6","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how Taiwan's central government has implemented since 2013 the Public Warning Cell Broadcast Service (CBS), which was an innovative type of disaster public warning system. The study attempts to shed light on citizens' assessment of CBS as well as gains insights from an expert focus group. Using the 2018 citizen satisfaction survey of the public alert and warning system, this study aims specifically to analyze the influence of information communication, information delivery frequency, quality of service, and age on citizens' assessment of CBS in Taiwan. The results of this study have implications for CBS assessment intended to improve citizens' experience of CBS use. In addition, the study draws upon the discussion among an expert focus group regarding risk knowledge, technical monitoring and warning service, dissemination and communication of warnings, and community response capability of CBS. Based upon the expert focus group discussion, this study identifies the main service advantages and challenges in the implementation process, so that future policy planners may draw lessons from the Taiwan experience.","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75375909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Key Success Factors for the e-Governance Initiatives Through Common Service Centres in India: An Empirical Study with Special Reference to Akshaya e-Kendras in Kerala","authors":"V. Uthaman, R. Vasanthagopal","doi":"10.1177/00195561221123792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221123792","url":null,"abstract":"The National e-Governance Plan formulated by the Government of India lays out the foundation for the long-term growth of e-governance in the country. The Common Service Centre (CSC) scheme is a cornerstone project under National e-Governance Plan, approved in the year 2006, and acts as the delivery point for government, private and social sector services such as G2C, B2C and G2B to the rural citizens of India at their doorsteps. In Kerala, the Kerala State IT Mission is the nodal agency to create and run a CSC network through Akshaya e-kendras. This study aims to provide empirical evidence about the major success factors for e-governance services through Akshaya e-kendras. Infrastructure, accessibility, transparency, system quality, service quality, convenience, trust, e-participation and interoperability were the variables used for the study. SPSS Amos 22 was used for developing confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling for the study. The study found that the key success factors for the success of CSCs are service quality followed by transparency and convenience. Other important factors are accessibility, system quality and interoperability. The least contributing factors are trust and infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"83 1","pages":"87 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83253511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Buying and Selling of Vote in Local Body Elections: A Case Study of Telangana","authors":"Vanishree Joseph, A. K. Bhanja","doi":"10.1177/00195561221122842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221122842","url":null,"abstract":"This research is an in-depth study on the influence of money in local body elections in India, particularly Gram Panchayat, which is the lowest tier of local governance, and consequences thereof. The age of the voters, genders and their education plays a significant factor in stigmatising the vote-buying behaviour. Women, youths and educated have more stigma towards vote buying. Vote buying takes different forms in different places and is more intense in some places than others. The degree to which democracy is afflicted by these ills, and the particular kind of damage inflicted, thus vary. Vote-buying, should also be noted, has consequences that extend beyond the political realm. Certain kinds of vote buying affect the economy by driving up land prices and concentrating landownership which may have long-term political implications. Most of the cases of the incidence of money is found in the places where real estate business is booming with huge population. The competition is more in the Panchayats where there is more income and grants available in these bodies.","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"25 1","pages":"125 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82216342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reservations for Other Backward Classes in Jammu and Kashmir: An Impact Assessment","authors":"Pankaj Dabgotra, B. Gupta","doi":"10.1177/00195561221123738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221123738","url":null,"abstract":"Reservation is a system of affirmative action that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment and politics in India. This research article assesses the impact of reservations on the economic and educational condition of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 1 provided for the reservations in appointments, and admissions in professional institutions to socially and educationally backward classes of the State. The theoretical framework and historical underpinnings of reservations in India have been examined based on secondary data and a survey of OBC beneficiaries (through purposive sampling) in the Jammu district done to assess the impact on the target groups. The authors find that the present approach to reservations has shown dismal improvement in the economic and educational lots of the OBCs in J&K. There is a need for a rational criterion for identifying the beneficiaries and proportionate quantum of reservations. A holistic and integrated approach for addressing lacunas in policy will help bring the required change.","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"1 1","pages":"161 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80315572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Bala Ramulu Chinnala, Marginalized Communities and Decentralized Institutions in India: An Exclusion and Inclusion Perspective","authors":"D. Ravinder","doi":"10.1177/00195561221097836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221097836","url":null,"abstract":"Bala Ramulu Chinnala, Marginalized Communities and Decentralized Institutions in India: An Exclusion and Inclusion Perspective. New York: Routledge (South Asia Edition), 2021, xviii + 141, pp. ₹995.","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"35 1","pages":"736 - 739"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74801931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Ashok Pankaj, Atul Sarma and Antora Borah (Eds.), Social Sector Development in North-East India","authors":"Yuvaraj Gogoi","doi":"10.1177/00195561221097831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221097831","url":null,"abstract":"Ashok Pankaj, Atul Sarma and Antora Borah (Eds.), Social Sector Development in North-East India. New Delhi: SAGE Publishing, 2021, xxiii + 404 pp, ₹1595, ISBN: 978–93–5388–532–8 (HB)","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":" 9","pages":"739 - 741"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72384554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unintended Effects of Policy Interactions in the Health Sector: A Case of Kerala, India","authors":"Maurya Dayashankar, Sibasis Hense","doi":"10.1177/00195561221121035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221121035","url":null,"abstract":"The governments of developing countries, including India, are pursuing policy mixes in collaboration with the private sector to strengthen the public health system. However, little is known about the interaction of public policies with different instrument logics. We conducted a contextual analysis of two health policies with different instrument logics—emergency care and social health insurance programme—for over a decade in Kerala, employing primary and secondary data, government reports, newspaper articles, and published and unpublished literature. Our analysis suggests that the competition between policies has led to policies working at crossroads. The low political salience of emergency care has led to the diversion of resources and attention to government health insurance programmes. Thus, emergency care is increasingly facilitated at private facilities, shifting the government’s role from service delivery to financing. Our findings also highlight that the interaction effects among health policies receive limited attention among researchers and practitioners. These findings are relevant to countries of similar economies undergoing New Public Management reforms leading to the weakening of the public system in dealing with health functions such as emergency care.","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"302 1","pages":"138 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86345325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land and Social Power Relations in Bihar: Tale of Two Villages","authors":"Rapti Mishra","doi":"10.1177/00195561221120943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221120943","url":null,"abstract":"There is a complex relationship between land and the network of social power in Bihar, which cannot be comprehended by a single lens. This article argues that depending upon the historical and local contexts of a place, various patterns of social power configurations evolve, which present an opportunity for theorists to move beyond the established set of narrations and broaden their lenses, thereby challenging the conformity and reposing trust in variations based on day-to-day experiences. To highlight this varied pattern of complex relations between the network of social power and its historical linkages, the article tries to look into the local narratives of land relations of two villages of Samastipur district in Bihar, namely Shri Kameshwar Nagar and Banda. Through critical discourse analysis (CDA), the article attempts to illustrate that the shifting politico-economic status is intrinsically related to complex land relations, which, in turn, reinforces and perpetuates social inequality in various ways, and therefore, there is a need to have greater insight on the local histories of the land-relations.","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"39 1","pages":"176 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81766091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing a Framework for Bidding and Estimating Life Cycle Cost in Indian Defence Sector: A Systematic Approach","authors":"G. Sinha, M. Gupta","doi":"10.1177/00195561221120938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221120938","url":null,"abstract":"Lifecycle Management (LCM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of products or services right from the inception (design, manufacture, supply) stage to the maintenance and disposal oSf products. It integrates the people, data, processes and business systems and provides product information backbone for enterprises and their extended units. LCM in the defence sector is a very critical and complex process. This is specifically mandated in the operational framework defined by the Government of India at the proposal stage itself. The main objective of the current study is to identify the various challenges being experienced by the companies in executing LMC, especially in the defence sector and critically examine various methods and practices of the bidding system. Crafting a strategy for participating companies, in defence projects in India and winning them, is considered a difficult task. This study evaluates the international best management practices and applies the maturity model for contract management as being practised in the Netherlands. This maturity model consists of a model for the identified tactical level and operational level in contract management. These two models can help an organisation to determine their ‘as is’ situation and structured review system, identify key factors those having influence on the optimal level found in this process, and their ‘to be’ situation. The current research also proposes a review gates system to enable organisations to facilitate a systematic approach in analysing any project opportunity in the context of the procurement life cycle as per guidelines and policies defined by Defence Procurement Procedures (DPP), Government of India. Additionally, a detailed framework has been suggested to generate and maintain agreed cost estimates within the wider business context.","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"20 1","pages":"151 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82138609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State–Market Interface and Globalisation","authors":"Rukmini Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.1177/00195561221090771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221090771","url":null,"abstract":"Globalisation has unleashed strong and prominent impact on the State and its sovereign identity. The market evolved starkly in response to the forces of globalisation, and the State incrementally had to make structural adjustments to fit into the altered framework to retain its legitimate identity. The changes within the territorial boundaries of the State instilled subtle and permanent characteristics to the state–market relations across the global economies. India is a classic case study to understand the continuous interactions of the State and the market (Das, 2008). In the contemporary discourse on the State, sovereignty has attained almost universal usage. In the closing decades of the 15th century, Europe comprised more or less 500 independent political units which were in a state of decline. This was accompanied by an emergence of a new set of social and economic conditions which increasingly characterised expanding trade. The emergent manufacturing class gained strength and was supported increasingly by the centralised monarchies. This brought into effect other changes that were in the form of competent civil servants and hired armies, and there was imposition of royal taxes. The obedience of the individual to the overload and allegiance to the village got replaced by political obligation to the monarchical authority. This was consequently marked by a decline in the authority of the Church which paved the way for secular absolutism. It was closely associated by the Westphalian state system with centralised administration and a monopoly over the legitimate use of violence. The new form of political control, relocation of population and reorganisation of territory promoted the expansion and growth of trade. This new form of the State was based on a notion of sovereignty that redefined the idea of private property. The idea of private property came to be recognised as the right to exclude others from the possession of commodity, that is, land, labour or capital. These developments facilitated the growth of absolutist states with absolute sovereignty with a strong spree of extending sovereignty beyond territorial boundary resulting in colonial expansion (Menon, 2008). Note","PeriodicalId":85707,"journal":{"name":"The Indian journal of public administration : quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration","volume":"27 1","pages":"486 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89165461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}