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Book Synopsis Defending the Status Quo by : Cecilia Josefsson
Download or read book Defending the Status Quo written by Cecilia Josefsson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending the Status Quo explores political elites' resistance against electoral gender quota reforms, a widespread reform aimed at improving women's political representation. The book introduces The Resistance Stage Framework, a theoretical model rooted in feminist institutionalism, which outlines how politicians try to block or slow down gender-equitable change throughout the policy process. Through a detailed analysis of Uruguay's 30-year struggle to adopt and implement electoral gender quotas, the book reveals the adaptive nature of resistance among powerful status quo defenders. Drawing on interviews and legislative debates, the book shows how resistance strategies vary over the policy process and across political parties in response to changing institutional and ideational constraints.
Book Synopsis Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification by : John T. Jost
Download or read book Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification written by John T. Jost and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-11 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume on Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification brings together several of the most prominent social and political psychologists who are responsible for the resurgence of interest in the study of ideology, broadly defined. Leading scientists and scholars from several related disciplines, including psychology, sociology, political science, law, and organizational behavior present their cutting-edge theorizing and research. Topics include the social, personality, cognitive and motivational antecedents and consequences of adopting liberal versus conservative ideologies, the social and psychological functions served by political and religious ideologies, and the myriad ways in which people defend, bolster, and justify the social systems they inhabit. This book is the first of its kind, bringing together formerly independent lines of research on ideology and system justification.
Book Synopsis A Theory of System Justification by : John T. Jost
Download or read book A Theory of System Justification written by John T. Jost and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us—including many of those who are persecuted and powerless—so often defend the social systems that cause misery and injustice. Why do we so often defend the very social systems that are responsible for injustice and exploitation? In A Theory of System Justification, John Jost argues that we are motivated to defend the status quo because doing so serves fundamental psychological needs for certainty, security, and social acceptance. We want to feel good not only about ourselves and the groups to which we belong, but also about the overarching social structure in which we live, even when it hurts others and ourselves. Jost lays out the wide range of evidence for his groundbreaking theory and examines its implications for our communities and our democracy. Drawing on twenty-five years of research, he provides an accessible account of system justification theory and its insights. System justification helps to explain deep contradictions, including the feeling among some women that they don’t deserve the same salaries as men and the tendency of some poor people to vote for policies that increase economic inequality. The theory illuminates the most pressing social and political issues of our time—why has it been so hard to combat anthropogenic climate change?—as well as some of the most intimate—why do some black children prefer white dolls to black ones and why do some people stay in bad relationships? Jost’s theory has far-reaching implications, and he offers numerous insights that political activists and social justice advocates can use to promote change.
Book Synopsis The Establishment Of Communist Regimes In Eastern Europe, 1944-1949 by : Norman Naimark
Download or read book The Establishment Of Communist Regimes In Eastern Europe, 1944-1949 written by Norman Naimark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collaborative effort of scholars from Russia and the United States, this book reevaluates the history of postwar Eastern Europe from 1944 to 1949, incorporating information gleaned from newly opened archives in Eastern Europe. For nearly five decades, the countries of Yugoslavia, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet zone of Germany were forced to live behind the ?iron curtain.? Though their experiences under communism differed in sometimes fundamental ways and lasted no longer than a single generation, these nations were characterized by systematic assaults on individual rights and social institutions that profoundly shaped the character of Eastern Europe today. The emergence of the former People's Democracies from behind the iron curtain has been a wrenching process, but, as this book demonstrates, the beginning of the communist era was equally as traumatic as its end.With the opening of the archives in Russia and Eastern Europe, the contributors have been able to get a much firmer grasp on Soviet policies in the region and on East European responses and initiatives, which in turn has yielded more satisfying answers to vexing questions about Soviet intentions in the region and the origins of the Cold War. Exploring these events from a new, better-informed perspective, the contributors have made a valuable contribution to the historiography of postwar Europe.
Book Synopsis The Conformist Rebellion by : Elena Louisa Lange
Download or read book The Conformist Rebellion written by Elena Louisa Lange and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of myriad forms of identity politics which corresponds to a new “Trinity Formula” of leftist analysis of capitalism (class, race, and gender), major currents in the contemporary radical left in the past decades have shifted their aim. This book addresses the ideological, theoretical, and practical dilemmas of the contemporary academic and activist left from a Marxist standpoint. Covering contemporary developments in Left thought and ideology and putting them into social and historical context, the chapters provide a theoretical confrontation with the myriad ways it has tended to accommodate itself to neoliberal ideology, rather than fundamentally opposing it. The contrast between the Marxian emancipatory project and what the progressive left has made of it has never been more glaring than now, a time in which capital no longer seems to confront a political barrier. It is this predicament that The Conformist Rebellion evaluates, for a renewed approach to emancipation from capital.
Book Synopsis On Scientific Discovery by : Mirko Drazen Grmek
Download or read book On Scientific Discovery written by Mirko Drazen Grmek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1977 lectures of the International School for the History of Science at Erice in Sicily were devoted to that vexing but inexorable problem, the nature of scientific discovery. With all that has been written, by scientists themselves, by historians and philosophers and social theorists, by psycholo gists and psychiatrists, by logicians and novelists, the problem remains elusive. Happily we are able to bring the penetrating lectures from Erice that summer to a wider audience in this volume of theoretical investigations and detailed case studies. The ancient and lovely town of Erice in Northwest Sicily, 750 m above the sea, was famous throughout the Mediterranean for its temple of the goddess of nature, Venus Erycina, said to have been built by Daedalus. As philosophers and historians of the natural sciences, we hope that the stimulating atmo sphere of Erice will to some extent be transmitted by these pages. We are especially grateful to that generous and humane physician and historian of science, Dr. Vincenzo Cappelletti, himself a creative scientist, for his collaboration in bringing this work to completion. We admire his intelligent devotion to fostering creative interaction between scientists and historians of science as Director of the School of History of Science within the great Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture at Erice, as well as for his imaginative leadership of the Istituto della Encic10pedia Italiana.
Book Synopsis Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers by : Steven Ward
Download or read book Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers written by Steven Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that rising powers challenge international order when their status ambitions seem to be unjustly and permanently blocked.
Book Synopsis International Politics by : Scott P. Handler
Download or read book International Politics written by Scott P. Handler and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do states do what they do? Who are the relevant nonstate actors in international politics and why do they do what they do? What causes conflict and cooperation in the international system? These are some of the most basic questions that the discipline of International Relations (IR) seeks to answer; they are also the questions that drive the objectives, organization and content of this book. International Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Second Edition seeks to help students engage critically with some of the world’s most challenging questions through the use of leading classic and contemporary scholarship in the field of international relations. The first five chapters of the book explore the leading theoretical traditions in international relations, while subsequent chapters explore the themes of international security, international political economy, and contemporary challenges in international relations. This organization makes the book easy to use as standalone text or alongside core text. Class-tested on over 10,000 students in the last decade, this text was built from the ground up to introduce students to the traditions and new foundations of international relations as well to the principles of intellectually rigorous thought.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Organizational Culture Strategies for Effective Knowledge Management and Performance by : Tessier, Dana
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Organizational Culture Strategies for Effective Knowledge Management and Performance written by Tessier, Dana and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations are facing major disruptions in technology, consumer preferences, and in the makeup of their workforce, and as a result, they will need to adapt to these rapidly changing times to stay effective. Organizations that are able to tap into the collective knowledge of their employees and leverage their insights will have an advantage over those that lack this connectivity. Implementing a knowledge management (KM) strategy can help organizations improve operational effectiveness, innovation, and adapt to changes, but the majority of KM implementations fail due to misalignment with the organization's existing culture. Organizational culture can enable effective KM, or it can be a barrier to its implementation. The Handbook of Research on Organizational Culture Strategies for Effective Knowledge Management and Performance defines the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management and how they impact one another. This handbook also identifies critical business practices to assist organizations in transitioning to work from home while maintaining a strong corporate culture that includes beneficial knowledge-sharing behaviors. Covering topics including knowledge management, organizational culture, and change management, this text is essential for managers, executives, practitioners, leaders in business, non-profits, academicians, researchers, and students looking for research on how organizations can thrive and adapt due to emerging global disruptions as well as local or internal disruptions.
Book Synopsis Debating, Applied Rhetorical Theory by : Theodore F. Sheckels
Download or read book Debating, Applied Rhetorical Theory written by Theodore F. Sheckels and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1984 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Animal Spirits Driving Economic Change by : Nicolaus A. Berlin
Download or read book Animal Spirits Driving Economic Change written by Nicolaus A. Berlin and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mit diesem Buch legt der Wissenschaftler Dr. Nicolaus A. Berlin den Grundstein für eine Wirtschaftstheorie, die auf Motivation und Instinkten fußt. Berlin präsentiert ein neues Konzept wirtschaftlichen Denkens und Handelns, das sich die nicht-rationalen Aspekte unseres Handelns zunutze macht: die Animal Spirits. Er beleuchtet die Auswirkung psychologischer Faktoren auf unser wirtschaftliches Handeln und zeigt, was uns und unsere Ökonomie tatsächlich antreibt, beeinflusst und immer wieder maßgeblich verändert.
Book Synopsis The Origins of Revisionist and Status-Quo States by : J. Davidson
Download or read book The Origins of Revisionist and Status-Quo States written by J. Davidson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining why some states seek the status quo and others seek revision in international relations, Davidson argues that governments pursuing revisionist policies are responding to powerful domestic groups, such as nationalists and those in the military, that believe they can defeat their rivals. He draws on examples of France, Italy and Great Britain to enhance understanding of a fundamental source of instability in international affairs.
Book Synopsis Defining Americans by : Mary E. Stuckey
Download or read book Defining Americans written by Mary E. Stuckey and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging broadly from Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Stuckey demonstrates how presidents accomplish the dual enactment of inclusion and exclusion through their rhetorical and political choices. Our early leaders were preoccupied with balancing the growing nation; later presidents were concerned with the nature and definitions of citizenship. By examining the political speeches of presidents exemplifying distinctly different circumstances, she presents a series of snapshots which, when taken together, reveal both the continuity and the changes in our national self-understanding.
Book Synopsis Contesting Revisionism by : Steve Chan
Download or read book Contesting Revisionism written by Steve Chan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is, whether it intends to upset the international order? What motivates states to act the way they do? Contesting Revisionism focuses on a particular kind of motivation inclining a state to challenge the existing norms, rules, and institutions of international order: revisionism. The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investigate the origin and evolution of the foreign policy orientations of revisionist states in the past. Furthermore, they introduce an ensemble of indicators to discern and compare the extent of revisionist tendencies on the part of contemporary China and the United States. Questioning the facile assumption that past episodes will repeat in the future, they argue that "hard" revisionism relying on war and conquest is less viable and likely in today's world. Instead, "soft" revisionism seeking to promote institutional change is more relevant and likely. Focusing on contemporary Sino-American relations, they conclude that much of the current discourse based on power transition theory is problematic. A dominant power is not inevitably committed to the defense of international order, nor does a rising power always have a revisionist agenda to challenge this order. The transformation of international order does not necessarily require a power transition between China and the US., nor does a possible power transition necessarily augur war. After developing the concept of revisionism both theoretically and empirically, they conclude with a series of policy recommendations for enhancing international stability and diminishing tension in Sino-American relations.
Book Synopsis Business Transformation Strategies by : Oswald A J Mascarenhas
Download or read book Business Transformation Strategies written by Oswald A J Mascarenhas and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource for industry professionals and consultants, this book on corporate strategy lays down the theories and models for revitalizing companies in the face of global recession. It discusses cutting-edge concepts, constructs, paradigms, theories, models, and cases of corporate strategic leadership for bringing about transformation and innovation in companies. Each chapter in the book is appended with transformation exercises that further explicate the concepts.
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Book Synopsis Overview of the Administration's Entitlement Policies by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and Indexing
Download or read book Overview of the Administration's Entitlement Policies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and Indexing and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
