Buku ini merupakan hasil penelitian yang diterjemahkan dari versi aslinya berbahasa Inggris. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk memetakan (mengkaji) implikasi dinamika ekonomi politik media terhadap hak warga bermedia dilihat dari perspektif warga, terutama kelompok rentan dan dilemahkan. Dengan menyajikan empat studi kasus kelompok rentan, penetian ini bertujuan untuk memetakan gambar yang le…
The government of Indonesias primary development objective is to join the ranks of upper middle-income countries by 2025. If Indonesia could generate an annual real GDP per capita growth rate of 8.5 percent for the next ten years, it would be well on the path to achieving this objective. At current projections, this will not be possible. It will fall short in three fundamental dimensions: grow…
Buku yang anda pegang sekarang memuat laporan dokumentasi yang telah LBH Masyarakat lakukan selama satu tahun sepanjang 2012. Hasil dokumentasi tersebut mangafirmasi cerita - cerita yang sebelumnya pernah kami dengar. Nyaris semua tahanan kasus Narkotika pernah mengalami pelanggaran HAM di tingkat penyidikan, baik upaya paksa yang dilakukan dengan sewenang - wenang oleh pihak kepolisian maupun …
Penelitian yang dilakukan Migrant Care ini melihat seluruh kebijakan yang telah ada mengenai migrasi tenaga kerja sejak masa kolonial hingga tahun 2012, ketika pemerintahan Indonesia telah meratifikasi International Convention on The Protection on The All Rights Migrant Workers and Their Families pada 12 April 2012. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengidentifikasi titik permasalahan dari kebijak…
When planning and evaluating community-level initiatives focused on policy and environment change, it is useful to have estimates of the impact on behavioral outcomes of particular strategies (e.g., building a new walking trail to promote physical activity). We have created a measure of estimated strategy-level impactpopulation dosebased on our work in evaluating obesity prevention initiati…
Evaluators' experiences with being pressured by a key stakeholder to misrepresent findings were investigated in an anonymous survey of a random sample of over 2500 American Evaluation Association members; a response rate of 37% was obtained. Overall, 42% of the respondents had encountered misrepresentation pressure, with 70% of this subgroup having faced it on more than one occasion. Misreprese…
In Canada, in-depth evaluations of federal programs are intended to occur every 5 years. As such, evaluation is a periodic retrospective (lag) indicator examining results achieved versus program objectives. In a Canadian context, stand-alone evaluations have proved challenging to implement, time consuming, and not well adapted to annual management accountability needs. Consequently, there are i…
Although evaluation theorists over the last two decades have argued for the importance of including stakeholders from marginalized groups in program planning and research, little is known about the degree of inclusion in program evaluation practice. In particular, we know little about the type and level of inclusion of people with intellectual, developmental, and psychiatric disabilities in the…
In this article, we critique two recent theoretical developments about collaborative inquiry in evaluationusing logic models as a means to understand theory, and efforts to compartmentalize versions of collaborative inquiry into discrete genresas a basis for considering future direction for the field. We argue that collaborative inquiry in evaluation is about relationships between trained eva…
In late 2011 to early 2012 the four UK Boundary Commissions published their provisional recommendations for new parliamentary constituencies. These were produced according to new rules for redistributions legislated in 2011, which make electoral equality the paramount criterion; organic criteriasuch as continuity of constituency boundaries and fitting those within the maps of communities rep…
What would happen if all parties competing in the electoral game were forced to hold open, binding, concurrent and obligatory primaries constrained by a Sore Loser Law? The answer to this question has not been explored, perhaps because there is only one democracy in the world that has applied such rules more than once: Uruguay. This country offers a fertile ground for testing some of the hypo…
Time for Reflection (TFR) was designed at the inception of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, as an alternative to Westminster Anglican prayers, to provide a weekly opportunity for representatives of religions and belief systems to address the Parliament. Appearances are designed to reflect the diversity of belief in proportion to relative support in the country as evident in the 2001 census. Chr…
This article uses empirical data to establish and analyse the links between pre-parliamentary political experience and career trajectory once elected to the House of Commons. It suggests a move away from the existing occupation focused frameworks towards a broader political experience approach which distinguishes between traditional and non-traditional routes into Parliament. The framework is…
This article analyses the wealth of data released by the Labour Party on its 2010 leadership election. We uncover the way in which the list of candidates was expanded via the initial nomination process in the parliamentary Labour Party and highlight the artificiality of some candidacies. We find little evidence in the voting data to support the belief that the Miliband brothers represented tw…
The publication of a White Paper, Recall of MPs, and a draft Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny, by the UK Government in December 2011 was greeted with almost universal antipathy. In bringing forward the draft Bill Cabinet Office ministers declared their intention to trigger a debate on what would be the best model for a recall mechanism and they expressed a willingness to consider alternativ…
Comparative trends in political participation in the West draw a pessimistic picture: younger generations tend to avoid formal politics, opting instead for radical forms of political engagement or opting out altogether from the political process. This trend poses an obvious threat to the core democratic idea of popular control of government. One remedy for this problem, proposed in recent years…
The departmental select committees of the British House of Commons deal with executive oversight, but not with legislation. This has two important knock-on effects. First, although these committees are permanent, expert, and largely well regarded in Britain, they are often overlooked by omparative scholars. Second, and connectedly, their impact on policy is very difficult to assess. Even in the…
Focusing on case studies of five different petitions systems, but also drawing on the Coalition government's new e-petitions system, this article identifies a number of characteristics of petitions systems. It argues that as a tool for participation they have the potential to act as a significant input to representative forms of democracy by providing a mechanism to enable the public to express…