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Governing For Happiness, Singapore Management University
Governing For Happiness, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
A fair and just society should be the aim for creating maximum societal happiness
Nation Branding, Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp
Nation Branding, Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp
Asian Management Insights
Emerging nations need national champions, and national champions need strong support from the state.
Bob’S Red Mill: For The Employees By The Employees, Singapore Management University
Bob’S Red Mill: For The Employees By The Employees, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Putting people before profits is more important than accumulating ever-increasing amounts of possession
Education As The Weakest Institutional Link In Japan's Nuclear Regulation, Hiro Saito
Education As The Weakest Institutional Link In Japan's Nuclear Regulation, Hiro Saito
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Debates over the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster pointed to a set of institutional and organizational failures in Japan’s nuclear regulation as a primary cause of the disaster. While the Japanese government has implemented reforms to strengthen nuclear regulation, I argue that these reforms have largely left out the education system as a key institution that produces and distributes expertise necessary for nuclear regulation. First, the Japanese education system has traditionally produced only a small number of experts in the fields related to nuclear regulation, aligned top-ranked experts with the pro-nuclear government, and weakened the civil society’s capacity to mobilize counter-experts. …