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... Asia to southern Italy. He closely studied the social, economic and political conditions of these countries and then could be able to propound certain principles to Political Science. In modern times James Brice employed this method. He visited the USA, Canada, France, Switzerland, Australia and New ...
... Asia to southern Italy. He closely studied the social, economic and political conditions of these countries and then could be able to propound certain principles to Political Science. In modern times James Brice employed this method. He visited the USA, Canada, France, Switzerland, Australia and New ...
The scholarship of teaching is a concept with multiple ramifications
... ‘developmental’ conceptions informing such policy in the post-apartheid period. Hence any attempt at understanding educational policy and how it is implemented must reckon with what informs the ‘developmental’ perspective of the state, its political and economic ideology and especially its orientati ...
... ‘developmental’ conceptions informing such policy in the post-apartheid period. Hence any attempt at understanding educational policy and how it is implemented must reckon with what informs the ‘developmental’ perspective of the state, its political and economic ideology and especially its orientati ...
Philosophy of Science Underlying Engaged
... of science is understandable if an orthodox view of the scientific method exists and is simply taken for granted by the scientific community. While such consensus may have existed among social scientists in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, the past 30 years have witnessed a major deconstruction and revi ...
... of science is understandable if an orthodox view of the scientific method exists and is simply taken for granted by the scientific community. While such consensus may have existed among social scientists in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, the past 30 years have witnessed a major deconstruction and revi ...
The ensuring council
... organising. They call for local authorities to adopt a more entrepreneurial and commercial ethos; they stress the overarching responsibilities of local authorities to ‘join up’ disparate policy programmes; they posit a renewed customer-focus, devolved engagement or co-production with local communiti ...
... organising. They call for local authorities to adopt a more entrepreneurial and commercial ethos; they stress the overarching responsibilities of local authorities to ‘join up’ disparate policy programmes; they posit a renewed customer-focus, devolved engagement or co-production with local communiti ...
A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David
... After this, it became impossible for officials to continue to practice the backroom setup for policy and planning. In this case it was the combination in one narrative of uncovering relations of power through qualitative analyses and linking power with outcomes through quantitative studies that help ...
... After this, it became impossible for officials to continue to practice the backroom setup for policy and planning. In this case it was the combination in one narrative of uncovering relations of power through qualitative analyses and linking power with outcomes through quantitative studies that help ...
Available from Deakin Research Online
... his ilk, democracy has a clear trajectory that can be traced from ancient experiments with participatory government in Greece and to a lesser extent in Rome, through the development of the British parliament, the American Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution, and then finally onto t ...
... his ilk, democracy has a clear trajectory that can be traced from ancient experiments with participatory government in Greece and to a lesser extent in Rome, through the development of the British parliament, the American Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution, and then finally onto t ...
David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science
... influence on planning outcomes during the backroom deals. After this, it became impossible for officials to continue to practice the backroom setup for policy and ...
... influence on planning outcomes during the backroom deals. After this, it became impossible for officials to continue to practice the backroom setup for policy and ...
Do Democracies Have Different Public
... At first glance, it may appear that formal voting models have nothing to say about policy differences between democracies and nondemocracies, because they often make no explicit reference to dictators. But even with few direct references to nondemocracy, the existing formal voting literature is alre ...
... At first glance, it may appear that formal voting models have nothing to say about policy differences between democracies and nondemocracies, because they often make no explicit reference to dictators. But even with few direct references to nondemocracy, the existing formal voting literature is alre ...
The failure of the Communist experiment
... countries that had not been directly affected by Communism. Yet, some skepticism may be justified by the essentially controversial experience of the post-Communist countries with a number of foreign experts who had been eager to come and advice how to transform the social system and to build capital ...
... countries that had not been directly affected by Communism. Yet, some skepticism may be justified by the essentially controversial experience of the post-Communist countries with a number of foreign experts who had been eager to come and advice how to transform the social system and to build capital ...
6. Words as Moral Badges. A Continuous Flow of Buzzwords in
... International aid organisations, voluntary associations, social science and neo-liberal reform programmes have in the last decade turned out to use more or less the same vocabulary. Buzzwords such as ‘empowerment’, ‘participation’, ‘mobilisation’, ‘civil society’, ‘capacity building’, ‘local knowled ...
... International aid organisations, voluntary associations, social science and neo-liberal reform programmes have in the last decade turned out to use more or less the same vocabulary. Buzzwords such as ‘empowerment’, ‘participation’, ‘mobilisation’, ‘civil society’, ‘capacity building’, ‘local knowled ...
`Producing Communities` as a Theoretical Challenge
... enable us to reopen the discussion of social order by re-analysing and re-interpreting the data presented in these studies. The following discussion is based on such a reanalysis which focused primarily on scientometric findings. The first question concerning social order is what makes a scientific ...
... enable us to reopen the discussion of social order by re-analysing and re-interpreting the data presented in these studies. The following discussion is based on such a reanalysis which focused primarily on scientometric findings. The first question concerning social order is what makes a scientific ...
Communicative Action and Mass Communication via Internet
... through morality and norm boundaries thereby shedding morality, one becomes elite. What occurs, in nihilism, is that instead of a reasonable science aimed at understanding the world of material and ideal, for the purpose of advancing the human species toward freedom, there is a scientific rational a ...
... through morality and norm boundaries thereby shedding morality, one becomes elite. What occurs, in nihilism, is that instead of a reasonable science aimed at understanding the world of material and ideal, for the purpose of advancing the human species toward freedom, there is a scientific rational a ...
What Is the Problem with Experts?
... knowledge as a problem of equality leads in some troubling directions. If we think of knowledge as a quantity, or a good to which some have access and others do not, the solution, admittedly one with practical limitations, is egalitarianization through difference-obliterating education or difference ...
... knowledge as a problem of equality leads in some troubling directions. If we think of knowledge as a quantity, or a good to which some have access and others do not, the solution, admittedly one with practical limitations, is egalitarianization through difference-obliterating education or difference ...
Vote Intent and Beliefs about Democracy in the United States
... and International Studies at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on representation, ideology, culture, and authoritarianism and seeks to increase our understanding of how individual (pre)dispositions and social and political environments interact to influence individual political attitudes ...
... and International Studies at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on representation, ideology, culture, and authoritarianism and seeks to increase our understanding of how individual (pre)dispositions and social and political environments interact to influence individual political attitudes ...
Making Knowledge Work - International Social Science Council
... In general terms, within the field of climate change and global environmental change research, the importance of integrating the natural and social sciences is widely recognised and promoted by many existing research networks and international initiatives. However, while it is well known that the pr ...
... In general terms, within the field of climate change and global environmental change research, the importance of integrating the natural and social sciences is widely recognised and promoted by many existing research networks and international initiatives. However, while it is well known that the pr ...
The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science
... has dramatically accelerated technological evolution and represents a unique system of knowledge not seen in any other species (McCauley, this volume). Advances in our understanding of these two phenomena have been achieved across the social sciences and humanities. Here we explore how the burgeonin ...
... has dramatically accelerated technological evolution and represents a unique system of knowledge not seen in any other species (McCauley, this volume). Advances in our understanding of these two phenomena have been achieved across the social sciences and humanities. Here we explore how the burgeonin ...
Sarantakos~Vol 1~01.indd
... historiographic viewpoint by E. P. Thompson 1978). The effort by Hindess & Hirst (1975) to translate Althusser’s approach into an empiricist-free sociological theory, by the authors’ own admission (Hindess & Hirst 1977), foundered on the historicity of the referents of Marxist theory, specifically, ...
... historiographic viewpoint by E. P. Thompson 1978). The effort by Hindess & Hirst (1975) to translate Althusser’s approach into an empiricist-free sociological theory, by the authors’ own admission (Hindess & Hirst 1977), foundered on the historicity of the referents of Marxist theory, specifically, ...
Marketing, Scientific Progress, and Scientific Method
... is "intersubjective certification." On this view, science is epistemologically unique because different investigators with varying attitudes, opinions, and beliefs can ascertain the truth content of theories, laws, and explanations (Hunt 1976a). Elsewhere, Hunt (1983, p. 249) makes clear that his co ...
... is "intersubjective certification." On this view, science is epistemologically unique because different investigators with varying attitudes, opinions, and beliefs can ascertain the truth content of theories, laws, and explanations (Hunt 1976a). Elsewhere, Hunt (1983, p. 249) makes clear that his co ...
The generative role of narrative in ethnographies of disconcertment
... government prefers ‘closing the gap’), Sullivan insists on the term since he intuits the intention of the reform agenda as ‘that Aboriginal people are [now] required to reflect socially, culturally and individually an idealised profile of the normal citizen established by the remote processes of bur ...
... government prefers ‘closing the gap’), Sullivan insists on the term since he intuits the intention of the reform agenda as ‘that Aboriginal people are [now] required to reflect socially, culturally and individually an idealised profile of the normal citizen established by the remote processes of bur ...
Introduction to the themed issue. Corporate power: Agency
... policy agendas in recent years, at the local, national and at the transnational and global levels. For example the policies of PFI (Private Finance Initiative) and PPP (Public Private Partnership) were both thought up and promoted by particular business alliances. At the international level, global ...
... policy agendas in recent years, at the local, national and at the transnational and global levels. For example the policies of PFI (Private Finance Initiative) and PPP (Public Private Partnership) were both thought up and promoted by particular business alliances. At the international level, global ...
Bushfire Science Strategy - Forest Fire Management Victoria
... The experience of recent years has highlighted the need for DEPI’s approach to bushfire policy development, investment and practice to become more systematic, explicit and risk-based. Though the existing research program has delivered in terms of quality and applicability, it can be improved through ...
... The experience of recent years has highlighted the need for DEPI’s approach to bushfire policy development, investment and practice to become more systematic, explicit and risk-based. Though the existing research program has delivered in terms of quality and applicability, it can be improved through ...
On the Use of Actor-Network Theory for Developing Web Services
... disciplines, preoccupations and interests: they don’t speak the same "language". For them to interact necessitates that they construct together a "common ground". This is achieved through participative activities that mediate participation. Examples of such activities include brainstorming meetings, ...
... disciplines, preoccupations and interests: they don’t speak the same "language". For them to interact necessitates that they construct together a "common ground". This is achieved through participative activities that mediate participation. Examples of such activities include brainstorming meetings, ...
2014 Annual Lord Patten Lecture on Social Renewal
... So, putting all this together, when society becomes our vocation we have a form of social science defined by the emotion and passion that characterises all devotional callings but committed to the practice of objectivity. We get a social science committed to the collection and interrogation of evide ...
... So, putting all this together, when society becomes our vocation we have a form of social science defined by the emotion and passion that characterises all devotional callings but committed to the practice of objectivity. We get a social science committed to the collection and interrogation of evide ...
CO-PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE : Prepositions, Principles and
... The idea of co-producing knowledge ‘with the researched’ emerges from a family of methodologies which attempt to ‘generate knowledge about a social system while at the same time, attempting to change it’ (Lewin, 1945, quoted in Drummond and ThemesslHuber, 2007) ); which claim: ‘it is right and possi ...
... The idea of co-producing knowledge ‘with the researched’ emerges from a family of methodologies which attempt to ‘generate knowledge about a social system while at the same time, attempting to change it’ (Lewin, 1945, quoted in Drummond and ThemesslHuber, 2007) ); which claim: ‘it is right and possi ...
Pedagogisk praktik och demokratiska samtal
... If traditional values grounded in religious and ideological beliefs are loosing their capacity to provide spiritual meaning as well as practical co-ordination in day-to-day activities, the question arises as to functional alternatives, also as a basis of educational ambitions. Of course social integ ...
... If traditional values grounded in religious and ideological beliefs are loosing their capacity to provide spiritual meaning as well as practical co-ordination in day-to-day activities, the question arises as to functional alternatives, also as a basis of educational ambitions. Of course social integ ...