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Author : Erik Lindqvist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789172587335
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Essays on Privatization, Identity, and Political Polarization written by Erik Lindqvist and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marguerite S. Shaffer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206843
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Public Culture written by Marguerite S. Shaffer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with its diversity and inequalities, can there be a shared public culture? Is there an unbridgeable gap between cultural variety and civic unity, or can public forms of expression provide an opportunity for Americans to come together as a people? In Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States, an interdisciplinary group of scholars addresses these questions while considering the state of American public culture over the past one hundred years. From medicine shows to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip, from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television programming after 9/11, public sights and scenes provide ways to negotiate new forms of belonging in a diverse, postmodern community. By analyzing these cultural phenomena, the essays in this volume reveal how mass media, consumerism, increased privatization of space, and growing political polarization have transformed public culture and the very notion of the American public. Focusing on four central themes—public action, public image, public space, and public identity—and approaching shared culture from a range of disciplines—including mass communication, history, sociology, urban studies, ethnic studies, and cultural studies—Public Culture offers refreshing perspectives on a subject of perennial significance.
Author : Jack Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479857609
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Privatization written by Jack Knight and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783848759231
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Privatization written by Jack Knight and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century has seen a proliferation of privatization across industries in the United States, from security and the military to public transportation and infrastructure. In shifting control from the state to private actors, do we weaken or strengthen structures of governance? Do state-owned enterprises promise to be more equal and fair than their privately-owned rivals? What role can accountability measures play in mediating the effects of privatization; and what role does coercion play in the state governance and control? In this latest publication, an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars in political science, law, and philosophy examine the moral and political consequences of transferring state-provided or state-owned goods and services to the private sector. The essays consider how we should evaluate the decision to privatize, both with respect to the quality of outcomes that might be produced, and in terms of the effects of privatization on the core values underlying democratic decision-making. Privatization also affects the structure of governance in a variety of important ways, and these essays evaluate the consequences of privatization on the state. Privatization sheds new light on these highly salient questions of contemporary political life and institutional design.
Download or read book Essays on Privatization written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling state-owned enterprises to the private sector has become a popular policy for governments all around the world. Chapter 1 provides an historical perspective on privatization, and it describes the objectives and the privatization techniques that have been adopted by many governments since the late 70s. The chapter then focuses on two important issues in the privatization debate, the underpricing of shares and the effect of ownership on performance. It reviews the most significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the analysis of these two issues, and it introduces the questions addressed in the remaining chapters of this dissertation. In Chapter 2 I consider a government that first privatizes a company and then competes for votes against a political opponent. The government's objective is to choose the price of shares and the level of promotional effort to maximize its total net revenues. After the sale of the company to the public there is an election and the two parties announce what expropriation rate they would implement if they win the political competition. I showthat in this context it is optimal for the party in power in the first period to actively promote the sale and to underprice the stock with respect to its true value, in order to increase the size of the shareholders2 interest group that will vote for the party announcing a low expropriation rate.
Author : Lieven Boeve
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056718160X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Edward Schillebeeckx and Contemporary Theology written by Lieven Boeve and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009199242
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Uneasy Hegemony written by Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It departs from the scholarship produced on Sri Lanka, and re-introduces the neo-Marxist approaches through the works of Antonio Gramsci.
Author : Mark E. Courtney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019971889X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Residential Care of Children written by Mark E. Courtney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, societies have relied upon residential care settings to provide homes for children, and for much of that period a debate has raged over whether such settings are appropriate places for children to be raised. In recent years this debate has taken on an international dimension as human rights policies have called into question the legitimacy of residential care of children. Unfortunately, the ideological fervor that usually accompanies such discussions prevents a more nuanced understanding of the reasons that countries continue to make use of residential care. Residential Care of Children: Comparative Perspectives fills major gaps in knowledge about residential care and is intended to inform debates within and between nations about the appropriate use of such institutions. Eleven country-specific chapters, written by child welfare experts from around the world, provide an in-depth understanding of the historical development of residential care, the current state of affairs, and predictions for the future. Chapters describe how residential care is defined in each country, how it has evolved over time, factors that have contributed to the observed pattern of development of residential care, and potential concerns for the future. An integrative chapter presents a critical cross-national perspective, identifying common themes and analyzing underlying factors. Seeking to explain rather than cast judgment, Residential Care of Children: Comparative Perspectives will be fruitful reading for policymakers, program administrators, advocates, practitioners, and scholars interested in creating better services for vulnerable children and youth.
Author : D. Lane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230591027
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of State Socialism written by D. Lane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers aspects of transformation of former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes;and other scenarios. It also looks at alternative types of society that might replace state socialism, particularly state capitalism and market socialism.
Author : Marguerite S. Shaffer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812240818
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Public Culture written by Marguerite S. Shaffer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From medicine shows to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip, from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television programming after 9/11, scholars examine issues of democracy, diversity, identity, community, citizenship, and belonging through the lens of American popular culture.
Author : Stephen Castles
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788112377
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Migration, Citizenship and Identity written by Stephen Castles and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Castles provides a deeper understanding of recent ‘migration crises’ in this fascinating and highly topical work. The book links theory and methodology to real-world migration experiences, with a truly global perspective and in-depth analysis of the links between economics, migration and asylum and refugee issues.
Author : Antoni Verger
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807774723
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Privatization of Education written by Antoni Verger and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform. The authors explore the contexts, key personnel, and policy initiatives that explain the worldwide advance of the private sector in education, and identify six different paths toward education privatization—as a drastic state sector reform (e.g., Chile, the U.K.), as an incremental reform (e.g., the U.S.A.), in social-democratic welfare states, as historical public-private partnerships (e.g., Netherlands, Spain), as de facto privatization in low-income countries, and privatization via disaster. Book Features: The first comprehensive, in-depth investigation of the political economy of education privatization at a global scale.An analysis of the different strategies, discourses, and agents that have contributed to advancing (and resisting) education privatization trends. An examination of the role of private corporations, policy entrepreneurs, philanthropic organizations, think-tanks, and teacher unions. “Rich in examples, careful in its analysis, important in its conclusions and recommendations for further work, this book is a vital, rigorous, up-to-date resource for education policy researchers.” —Stephen J. Ball, University College London “Few issues are as significant as is education privatization across the globe; few treatments of this issue offer both the breadth and nuanced understanding that this book does.” —Christopher Lubienski, Indiana University
Author : Margaret Kohn
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415944632
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Brave New Neighborhoods written by Margaret Kohn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Albo
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679375
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism written by Greg Albo and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far 'centrist' politics can continue to contain them. Original essays examine the multiplication of antagonistic national, racial, generational, and other identities in the context of growing economic inequality, democratic decline, and the shifting parameters of great power rivalry. Where, how, and by what means can the left move forward?
Author : Jacqueline Warwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351556754
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Musicological Identities written by Jacqueline Warwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No music scholar has made as profound an impact on contemporary thought as Susan McClary, a central figure in what has been termed the 'new musicology'. In this volume seventeen distinguished scholars pay tribute to her work, with essays addressing three approaches to music that have characterized her own writings: reassessing music's role in identity formation, particularly regarding gender, sexuality, and race; exploring music's capacity to define and regulate perceptions and experiences of time; and advancing new modes of analysis more appropriate to those aspects and modes of musicking ignored by traditional methods. Contributors include, in overlapping categories, many fellow pioneers, current colleagues, and former students, and their essays, like McClary's own work, address a wide range of repertories ranging from the established canon to a variety of popular genres. The collection represents the generational arrival of the 'new' musicology into full maturity, dividing fairly evenly between pre-eminent scholars of music and a group of younger scholars who have already made their mark in significant ways. But the collection is also, and fundamentally, interdisciplinary in nature, in active conversation with such fields as history, anthropology, philosophy, aesthetics, media studies, film music studies, dramatic criticism, women's studies, and cultural studies.
Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 081573722X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Democracies Divided written by Thomas Carothers and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for anyone concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies.”—Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Why divisions have deepened and what can be done to heal them As one part of the global democratic recession, severe political polarization is increasingly afflicting old and new democracies alike, producing the erosion of democratic norms and rising societal anger. This volume is the first book-length comparative analysis of this troubling global phenomenon, offering in-depth case studies of countries as wide-ranging and important as Brazil, India, Kenya, Poland, Turkey, and the United States. The case study authors are a diverse group of country and regional experts, each with deep local knowledge and experience. Democracies Divided identifies and examines the fissures that are dividing societies and the factors bringing polarization to a boil. In nearly every case under study, political entrepreneurs have exploited and exacerbated long-simmering divisions for their own purposes—in the process undermining the prospects for democratic consensus and productive governance. But this book is not simply a diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Each case study discusses actions that concerned citizens and organizations are taking to counter polarizing forces, whether through reforms to political parties, institutions, or the media. The book’s editors distill from the case studies a range of possible ways for restoring consensus and defeating polarization in the world’s democracies. Timely, rigorous, and accessible, this book is of compelling interest to civic activists, political actors, scholars, and ordinary citizens in societies beset by increasingly rancorous partisanship.
