The Reconstitution of Political Life:
... Mannheim's appearance at the 1928 Congress of German Sociologists was a triumph, in part because he was entrusted with a major co-presentation with Leopold von Wiese but also because he won a respectful hearing for a complex thesis, arguing that knowledge in the social and political domain is conne ...
... Mannheim's appearance at the 1928 Congress of German Sociologists was a triumph, in part because he was entrusted with a major co-presentation with Leopold von Wiese but also because he won a respectful hearing for a complex thesis, arguing that knowledge in the social and political domain is conne ...
Land Inheritance Rules: Theory and Cross-Cultural
... both economists and anthropologists, probably because it is relied upon by such a large and diverse collection of societies and cultural groups. A common explanation among economists is that primogeniture prevents land from being fragmented into inefficiently small parcels.2 But if increasing return ...
... both economists and anthropologists, probably because it is relied upon by such a large and diverse collection of societies and cultural groups. A common explanation among economists is that primogeniture prevents land from being fragmented into inefficiently small parcels.2 But if increasing return ...
Institutions and Economic Growth
... from different disciplines such as economics, philosophy, sociology, politics, law and geography. Therefore, the concept means different things to different people. Chang (2005) identifies some of the reasons why it is difficult to come up with a consensus definition of institutions. First, an insti ...
... from different disciplines such as economics, philosophy, sociology, politics, law and geography. Therefore, the concept means different things to different people. Chang (2005) identifies some of the reasons why it is difficult to come up with a consensus definition of institutions. First, an insti ...
Dialectics and difference: against Harvey`s dialectical `post
... First, any ‘thing’ can be decomposed at an epistemological level into a collection of other ‘things’ which are in some relation to each other. There is no ‘basement’ in this line of argument: the contention being that experience has so far shown that ‘all previously proposed undecomposable “basic un ...
... First, any ‘thing’ can be decomposed at an epistemological level into a collection of other ‘things’ which are in some relation to each other. There is no ‘basement’ in this line of argument: the contention being that experience has so far shown that ‘all previously proposed undecomposable “basic un ...
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... both economists and anthropologists, probably because it is relied upon by such a large and diverse collection of societies and cultural groups. A common explanation among economists is that primogeniture prevents land from being fragmented into inefficiently small parcels.2 But if increasing return ...
... both economists and anthropologists, probably because it is relied upon by such a large and diverse collection of societies and cultural groups. A common explanation among economists is that primogeniture prevents land from being fragmented into inefficiently small parcels.2 But if increasing return ...
Technocracy and Economic Decision-Making in Southeast Asia: An
... to insulate them from political interference. Or else popular resentment against “ration al” policies which result in differential socio-economic impacts may erupt into anti-regime protests or must be put down by repressive measures. For that matter, particular (teams of) technocrats may find thems ...
... to insulate them from political interference. Or else popular resentment against “ration al” policies which result in differential socio-economic impacts may erupt into anti-regime protests or must be put down by repressive measures. For that matter, particular (teams of) technocrats may find thems ...
Remembering Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001)
... ministrative Behavior was the first place he had systematically examined the importance of limits to human rationality. For him, the book contained both the foundation and “much of the superstructure of the theory of bounded rationality that has been my lodestar for nearly fifty years” (Simon 1991, ...
... ministrative Behavior was the first place he had systematically examined the importance of limits to human rationality. For him, the book contained both the foundation and “much of the superstructure of the theory of bounded rationality that has been my lodestar for nearly fifty years” (Simon 1991, ...
The Strategic Action Field Framework for Policy Implementation
... as they do shared work, determine their roles and relationships, and craft understanding of their goals and rules of acceptability.2 In our framework, the social system surrounding a given public service intervention both constrains and enables what is possible to change in the course of implementat ...
... as they do shared work, determine their roles and relationships, and craft understanding of their goals and rules of acceptability.2 In our framework, the social system surrounding a given public service intervention both constrains and enables what is possible to change in the course of implementat ...
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... order, the subject must be considered as the force of the truth upon the structure. This exteriority of the subject to structure and its seeming capacity to question and ponder its historical determination gives Badiou reason enough to ascribe to the subject the ethical responsibility to political p ...
... order, the subject must be considered as the force of the truth upon the structure. This exteriority of the subject to structure and its seeming capacity to question and ponder its historical determination gives Badiou reason enough to ascribe to the subject the ethical responsibility to political p ...
TOC Octos Pettit AC v Scarsdale MB
... live with much uncertainty. What is true at the overall or aggregate level may also hold at the individual level. For related considerations may mean that maximizing the individual's own non-interference would require exposing them to a high level of uncertainty. Perhaps the recourse to the law wou ...
... live with much uncertainty. What is true at the overall or aggregate level may also hold at the individual level. For related considerations may mean that maximizing the individual's own non-interference would require exposing them to a high level of uncertainty. Perhaps the recourse to the law wou ...
V_Dem Methodology (31Mar2014) - V-Dem
... this largely procedural account of the democratic process. Of course, many additional factors might be regarded as important for ensuring and enhancing electoral contestation, e.g., civil liberties, an active me ...
... this largely procedural account of the democratic process. Of course, many additional factors might be regarded as important for ensuring and enhancing electoral contestation, e.g., civil liberties, an active me ...
Political Irrelevance, Democracy, and the Limits of Militarized Conflict
... as relevant to one another’s foreign policies as are strong, adjacent states; moreover, even if the former do have a clash of interests, their inability to project military force may prevent them from being able to do anything other than talk about it. In the case of democracies, though informed opi ...
... as relevant to one another’s foreign policies as are strong, adjacent states; moreover, even if the former do have a clash of interests, their inability to project military force may prevent them from being able to do anything other than talk about it. In the case of democracies, though informed opi ...
Behavioral Decision Theory and Implications for the Supreme
... INTRODUCTION Decision theorists have been writing for several decades about the potential for individuals to make sub-optimal choices as a result of particular features of human decision-making. Specifically, people do not behave like the “rational actor” depicted in law-and-economic theory because ...
... INTRODUCTION Decision theorists have been writing for several decades about the potential for individuals to make sub-optimal choices as a result of particular features of human decision-making. Specifically, people do not behave like the “rational actor” depicted in law-and-economic theory because ...
Yannis Stavrakakis How did `populism` become a pejorative concept
... Many thanks are due to Panos Panayotu who has translated most of this text from its initial Greek formulation to English. This paper has been presented at the ‘Populism in Theory: Towards an Anthropological Frame’ workshop, Universidad de Barcelona, 10-12 January 2017, organized by GRECO, Grassroots ...
... Many thanks are due to Panos Panayotu who has translated most of this text from its initial Greek formulation to English. This paper has been presented at the ‘Populism in Theory: Towards an Anthropological Frame’ workshop, Universidad de Barcelona, 10-12 January 2017, organized by GRECO, Grassroots ...
Friend or Foe? Lobbying in British Democracy
... by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust found that while 67 per cent of respondents stated that they felt large corporations had a great deal or a fair amount of influence over government policies, only 27 per cent felt they ought to enjoy such influence a great deal or a fair amount. 5 Individual citiz ...
... by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust found that while 67 per cent of respondents stated that they felt large corporations had a great deal or a fair amount of influence over government policies, only 27 per cent felt they ought to enjoy such influence a great deal or a fair amount. 5 Individual citiz ...
DEMOCARATIC PEACE REVISITED: IT IS VETO PLAYERS
... democratic peace argument concerns interstate disputes, that is interactions between two states in dyad. Consequently the empirical tests exclude a number of different violent interactions— colonial wars where one of the parties is not a state, military coups organized by a democracy (US in Chile), ...
... democratic peace argument concerns interstate disputes, that is interactions between two states in dyad. Consequently the empirical tests exclude a number of different violent interactions— colonial wars where one of the parties is not a state, military coups organized by a democracy (US in Chile), ...
agreeing to disagree: diversity and the social contract
... theory can act as a normative standard by which actual societies can be judged. We can think of a social contract theory as providing a model of what a well-functioning, minimally just society would look like. This model can take any number of forms based on its parameters and specifications, nevert ...
... theory can act as a normative standard by which actual societies can be judged. We can think of a social contract theory as providing a model of what a well-functioning, minimally just society would look like. This model can take any number of forms based on its parameters and specifications, nevert ...
Negative Advertising and Voter Choice
... choice problem; most notably Shiv et al. (1997) suggest that negative information from advertisements has a stronger and positive effect on product choice if the purchase decision is characterized by low involvement levels (Shiv et al. 1997). Recent analytical work on advertising strategy is also re ...
... choice problem; most notably Shiv et al. (1997) suggest that negative information from advertisements has a stronger and positive effect on product choice if the purchase decision is characterized by low involvement levels (Shiv et al. 1997). Recent analytical work on advertising strategy is also re ...
three rawlsian routes towards economic democracy
... The central claim of the Fundamental Liberties argument for economic democracy is that the freedom to take part in decisions about economic production is itself a liberty that passes this test of significance. Now, on Rawls’s view, “[t]he first principle applies at the stage of the constitutional co ...
... The central claim of the Fundamental Liberties argument for economic democracy is that the freedom to take part in decisions about economic production is itself a liberty that passes this test of significance. Now, on Rawls’s view, “[t]he first principle applies at the stage of the constitutional co ...
... matrix. Post-foundationalism consists of a constant critical questioning of theoretical projects aimed at structuring themselves on an ultimate ground, as if such a ground underlay political practices sensu stricto. One example of this is the economic essentialism in the last instance present in the ...
Liberal and Socialist “Democracies”
... production, takes all important decisions about allocation of resources in a scarcity economy whereas, in the latter case, the socialist minority of the vanguard party, which controls (through the planning system) the means of production, takes all corresponding allocation decisions. The separation ...
... production, takes all important decisions about allocation of resources in a scarcity economy whereas, in the latter case, the socialist minority of the vanguard party, which controls (through the planning system) the means of production, takes all corresponding allocation decisions. The separation ...
Political Liberalism, Political Independence, and Moral Authority
... appear to be overruled by any contrary moral considerations. Notice, however, that if we accept the bracketing strategy, the fact that this particular button increases the flourishing of some individual cannot be a political reason to press the button. Political reasons do not treat facts about the ...
... appear to be overruled by any contrary moral considerations. Notice, however, that if we accept the bracketing strategy, the fact that this particular button increases the flourishing of some individual cannot be a political reason to press the button. Political reasons do not treat facts about the ...
HAS MONETARISM FAILED? Karl Brunner I. Introduction; Intellectual Activity in a Political Context
... suffers either from a dynamic instability or under an inherent disposition to settle around states substantially below “frill employment.” This instability of the process, at least with respect to a full employment solution, is combined with a belief about the comparative invariance of the system’s ...
... suffers either from a dynamic instability or under an inherent disposition to settle around states substantially below “frill employment.” This instability of the process, at least with respect to a full employment solution, is combined with a belief about the comparative invariance of the system’s ...
Karl Popper: Unended Quest, An Intellectual Autobiography
... Thus books were part of my life long before I could read them. The first book which made a big and lasting impression on me was read by my mother to my two sisters and to me, shortly before I learned to read. (I was the youngest of three children.) It was a book for children by the great Swedish writ ...
... Thus books were part of my life long before I could read them. The first book which made a big and lasting impression on me was read by my mother to my two sisters and to me, shortly before I learned to read. (I was the youngest of three children.) It was a book for children by the great Swedish writ ...
Anthropological Theory
... The approach is in the style of Murdock’s classic treatise, with two important innovations. First, D’Andrade capitalizes on zero or non-zero table frequencies and interprets these as phenomena requiring explanation in themselves. This approach to tables – which might be phrased, ‘Look first for what ...
... The approach is in the style of Murdock’s classic treatise, with two important innovations. First, D’Andrade capitalizes on zero or non-zero table frequencies and interprets these as phenomena requiring explanation in themselves. This approach to tables – which might be phrased, ‘Look first for what ...