Talking Governance: Why Does Inclusivity Matter? Is an Inclusive Society Achievable?
Hajime Akiyama
Assistant Professor in the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tsukuba. His main research areas include constitutional law and international law.
Ann Allen
Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. She researches public education policy.
The common research theme shared by these two professors is governance. The term governance system refers to the structure and mechanisms by which organizations, nations, or companies operate and make decisions. It encompasses the rules and frameworks for how decisions are made and how things are managed and supervised. It also includes systems that prevent decision-making from becoming autocratic.
In this talk session, the discussion begins with a comparison of governance systems in Japan and the U.S. It goes on to explore which system—Japan’s centralized model or America’s decentralized one—is more conducive to creating an inclusive society. The session delves further into the question: Why do we need to think about inclusivity?
In the final session of this series,“What’s inclusivity?” faculty and students from The Ohio State University who were present at the venue also joined the discussion to share their own thoughts on inclusivity. One moving remark came from Prof. Sue:
“In an ideal world, we shouldn’t need the term “Inclusion.”
Talk session with Prof. Ann & Akiyama
- Governing systems in Japan and the US
- Centralized vs. Localized
- What’s inclusivity?
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