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Author : Alex Inkeles
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817938239
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Continuity and change in popular values on the Pacific Rim written by Alex Inkeles and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191583510
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Elections and Democracy in Greater China written by Larry Diamond and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-05-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritarian Chinese regimes governing Taiwan, Mainland China, and Hong Kong allowed limited electoral competition during the last half century. In Taiwan that process evolved over more than three decades before leading to the formation of an opposition party under martial law in late September 1986 and the blossoming of full democracy in March 2000 when that opposition party replaced the ruling party. In Mainland China and Hong Kong, limited electoral competition has only evolved over the last fifteen years or so. This volume examines why and how limited electoral competition developed in Greater China. The editors use a typology and different concepts to analyse how the political centre in these three Chinese societies historically interacted with society and how different regime change took place. Their analysis attributes Taiwan's robust electoral competition under martial law to political breakthroughs in the political, ideological, economic, and organizational marketplaces. Without similar political breakthroughs in Mainland China and Hong Kong, their limited electoral processes are not likely to lead to the election of one or more opposition parties in Mainland China and the direct election of a Hong Kong governor and parliament. These two authoritarian regimes have adopted different institutions, or rules, to limit electoral competition. Moreover, different changes have been taking place in their political, ideological, economic, and organizational marketplaces than occurred in Taiwan. Therefore, whether these two Chinese societies can mimic the Taiwan democratization path remains problematic. Only the passage of time will reveal whether their limited electoral competitive processes can transform into full democracy.
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Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marieke K. de Mooij
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761926690
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Consumer Behavior and Culture written by Marieke K. de Mooij and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Mooij argues that differences in consumer behaviour across countries are not decreasing, but increasing. This book provides empirical evidence that the need to understand culture to explian differences in consumer behaviour is greater than ever.
Author : Marieke de Mooij
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1452236232
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Consumer Behavior and Culture written by Marieke de Mooij and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of this popular text brings up-to-date Marieke de Mooij's important analysis of the impact of culture on consumer behavior worldwide. The author shows how it is increasingly vital for marketing students—tomorrow's marketing professionals—to understand the limits of consistent brand identities and universal advertising campaigns. Consumer behavior is not converging across countries, and therefore it is of even greater importance to understand, and be able to respond to, differences in behavior. This edition offers a new chapter, Chapter 7, on culture, communication, and media behavior that extends the prior edition's discussion on communication theories and advertising styles to cover differences in media usage worldwide, particularly the use of the Internet.
Author : Robin Alexander
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1873927630
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Learning from Comparing: new directions in comparative education research written by Robin Alexander and published by Symposium Books Ltd. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning from Comparing is a major two-volume study which reassesses the contribution of comparative educational research and theory to our understanding of contemporary educational problems and to our capacity to solve them. At a time when educational research is under attack on the grounds of ‘bias’ and ‘irrelevance’, and under pressure to address only those questions which are acceptable politically (as good a definition of bias as any), this is a serious attempt to bridge the worlds of research, policy and practice. The editors have put together a collection – in terms of both perspective and nationality – which ensures contrasting viewpoints on each topic.
Author : Alex Inkeles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000307824
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book One World Emerging? Convergence And Divergence In Industrial Societies written by Alex Inkeles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In One World Emerging? Alex Inkeles clarifies the meaning of convergence in the social organization of modern societies, shows how it can be measured, and illustrates in detail the manner and degree of convergence across national boundaries. Inkeles assesses the extent to which convergence in institutional patterns is reflected in the emergence of more common attitudes, values, and daily behaviors in different national populations as individuals and communities engage with and respond to the standardizing pressures of national development and global modernization. One popular image of the probable condition of humanity in the twenty-first century anticipates a new Armageddon with all the great civilizations at war with each other. This model neglects a less dramatic but deeper-seated process of worldwide change in which national economic and political systems become more alike and populations worldwide come to adopt similar lifestyles and develop similar attitudes and values for daily living. Alex Inkeles penetrating analysis focuses on this process of convergence.In One World Emerging? Inkeles clarifies the meaning of convergence in the social organization of modern societies, shows how it can be measured, and illustrates in detail the manner and degree of convergence across national boundaries. Sensitive to evidence counter to the main trend, he gives close attention to the many instances in which national differences persist and nations and their populations diverge from a common path.At the national level, he compares and contrasts the modernization of the United States, Russia, China, and India. Focusing on particularly important institutions, he reviews the process of convergence in prestige hierarchies, the family, education, and communications. Capping the enterprise, Inkeles assesses the extent to which convergence in institutional patterns is reflected in the emergence of more common attitudes, values, and daily behaviors in different national populations as individuals and communitiesin North America, Europe, and increasingly in Asiaengage with and respond to the standardizing pressures of national development and global modernization.
Author : Christina DeCoursey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443836885
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Language Arts in Asia written by Christina DeCoursey and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first of a series contributing to the academic study of Language Arts, as an English-language teaching paradigm. Language Arts has been widely used in native English-speaking countries including Australia and New Zealand. Its recent adoption into the second-language teaching curriculum in Hong Kong, as well as similar initiatives within secondary and tertiary education in mainland China, enhances its interest to scholars studying second-language teaching and learning in Asian contexts. This book offers many papers and discussions of interest to teachers, language professionals, scholars and administrators. Its chapters explore current topics in Language Arts research including trends in the rapprochment of stylistics and linguistics, teaching approaches and learning outcomes. At the same time, they offer diverse theoretical and methodological aproaches, of interest to the practitioner and policy-maker as well as the researcher. The value of this volume lies particularly in strengthening the theoretical and methodological foundations of Language Arts. The use of literature and the arts in humanist education has a long history within Europe, being traditionally appreciated for its ability to transform leaders, instill finer sensibilities and question social ills. In its postcolonial incarnations, as the traditional subject areas were informed by critical and linguistic theories, language arts subject areas were less often used, as they were understood to offer opportunities to analyse their functions as apology for leaders, coopting the young, and pacifying dissent but less often used to teach second language skills. Language Arts curricula arising since the 1980s have increasingly embraced authentic voices, styles and genres. Contemporary Language Arts curricula use literature to teach reading-based and communication skills, in conjunction with critical and creative thinking. The movement of English-language education beyond native English shores has placed Language Arts into a World Englishes frame, and therefore its curricula have included the teaching ethics, civics and intercultural sensitivity. The explosion of media and digital communications of the 1990s led to the adoption of media literacy as a crucial Language Arts skill. As digital innovations continue to impact the teaching of English, Language Arts has adopted multiliteracies. These developments are represented in the papers included in this volume.
Author : International Journal of Educational Reform
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475816294
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)
Download or read book IJER Vol 11-N3 written by International Journal of Educational Reform and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of the International Journal of Educational Reform (IJER) is to keep readers up-to-date with worldwide developments in education reform by providing scholarly information and practical analysis from recognized international authorities. As the only peer-reviewed scholarly publication that combines authors’ voices without regard for the political affiliations perspectives, or research methodologies, IJER provides readers with a balanced view of all sides of the political and educational mainstream. To this end, IJER includes, but is not limited to, inquiry based and opinion pieces on developments in such areas as policy, administration, curriculum, instruction, law, and research. IJER should thus be of interest to professional educators with decision-making roles and policymakers at all levels turn since it provides a broad-based conversation between and among policymakers, practitioners, and academicians about reform goals, objectives, and methods for success throughout the world. Readers can call on IJER to learn from an international group of reform implementers by discovering what they can do that has actually worked. IJER can also help readers to understand the pitfalls of current reforms in order to avoid making similar mistakes. Finally, it is the mission of IJER to help readers to learn about key issues in school reform from movers and shakers who help to study and shape the power base directing educational reform in the U.S. and the world.
Author : Owen Harries
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351528785
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book China in The National Interest written by Owen Harries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering China's history, political economy, culture, military issues, and the U. S.-China relationship, this book presents a fascinating and multifaceted look at a country which is likely to be a major factor in U. S. foreign policy in the twenty-first century. It includes more than 28 articles on China published in The National Interest since 1995. The first in a series of readers drawn from The National Interest, the volume brings together in one place the analysis and insight of some of the leading scholars and practitioners concerned with the Sino-American relationship.China has been and is a particularly difficult subject for Americans, observes Owen Harries in his introduction. This volume tackles the hard questions. Will successful market reforms lead to the emergence of a prosperous liberal democracy or simply extend the life span of an authoritarian regime? Contributors address (and disagree about) whether Chinese culture and society can adapt to the norms of the free market and the open society. They examine whether growing economic disparities between the developed coastal regions and a backward interior threaten to unleash uncontrollable social unrest. They also consider whether or not ethnic and religious tensions among China's minority groups contain the seeds for China's disintegration. Are the United States and China destined to clash?Conclusions provided by the authors vary greatly. For some, China is a dangerous rival, a rapidly modernizing power with hegemonic ambitions to dominate East Asia. For others, China is a strategic partner and prospective ally. Contributors square off on issues of whether China's military poses a real threat or is a paper tiger; whether the future of Taiwan is to trigger a major war between Beijing and Washington or provide a model for peaceful accommodation of Chinese and American interests in the region; and whether containment or engagement is the sounder strategy for coping with a rising China.The distinguished
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801861567
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Developing Democracy written by Larry Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-05-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book concludes with a hopeful view of the prospects for a fourth wave of global democratization.
Author : Philip Hallinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135489580
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Leading Schools in a Global Era written by Philip Hallinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue looks at the constantly changing face of education in the world today. Topics covered include educational values, cross-cultural studies, leadership, social impacts, and the role of technology in education.
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Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817938338
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Why freedom must be first written by and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817944636
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Making and Remaking America: Immigration into the United States written by and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. Congress responded to growing gaps between immigration policy and immigration reality by making major changes in immigration laws and their administration. In 1986, the United States enacted the world's largest legalization program for unauthorized foreigners and introduced sanctions on employers who knowingly hired illegal foreign workers. Instead of slowing illegal immigration, however, this program allowed more foreigners to arrive legally and illegally, which prompted another round of reforms in 1996 aimed at ensuring that new arrivals would not receive welfare payments." "On September 11, 2001, foreigners in the United States hijacked four commercial planes. Two were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, bringing them down and killing 3,000 people. President George W. Bush declared war on terrorists and the countries that harbor them, and Congress enacted legislation to fight terrorism. This includes new measures for tightening procedures for issuing visas to foreign visitors, tracking foreign students and visitors while they are in the United States, and giving immigration authorities new power to arrest and detain foreigners suspected of ties to terrorism. The Immigration and Naturalization Service was abolished, and its functions of preventing illegal immigration and providing services to foreign visitors and immigrants were separated in the new Department of Homeland Security." "However, anti-terrorism measures have not slowed immigration to the United States. America is poised to remain the world's major destination for immigrants, and as patterns in U.S. history suggest, most of the newcomers will soon become Americans. However, past success in integrating immigrants does not guarantee that integrating newcomers will be easy or automatic. As immigrants continue to make and remake the country, the United States must develop an immigration policy for the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817938734
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Some Thoughts about Writing written by Thomas Sowell and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Sowell gives you his ins and outs about writing. He describes the challenge of dealing with publishers, copy-editors, and book reviewers.
Author : James B. Stockdale
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817936939
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Courage Under Fire written by James B. Stockdale and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor. His writings have been many and varied, but all converge on the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to prevail in the face of adversity.
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Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817938635
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Race, Culture, and Equality written by and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features "Race, Culture, and Equality, " an essay written by Thomas Sowell and presented online by the Hoover Institution based at Stanford University. The essay discusses the economic and social impacts of cultural differences among peoples and nations around the world.
