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Peter Dobkin Hall 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》1996,7(1):3-16
InScale and Scope, A.D. Chandler explores the role of management in shaping growth and competitiveness in industrialising nations. Chandler
views managers as reacting to technological and economic change rather than initiating it, giving little attention to the
extent to which growth of modern management and corporate capacities were tied to the emergence of parallel structures in
government and society, and the important national differences in the role of public and private sectors in the process. His
failure to offer a broad and encompassing paradigm of organisational growth and change produces a celebration of ‘American
exceptionalism’ and corporate bigness rather than a genuinely comparative analysis. 相似文献
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Lowell Bruce Anderson Helena Dandurova James E. Falk Lana Yeganova 《Social Choice and Welfare》2009,32(3):355-365
There are many situations wherein a group of individuals (e.g., voters, experts, sports writers) must produce an ordered list
of ‘best’ alternatives selected from a given group of alternatives (e.g., candidates, proposals, sports teams). Two long established
mechanisms that have been used for this task are ‘Zermelo’s Ranking Method’ (1929) and ‘Borda’s Voting Scheme’ (1781). The
main purpose of this paper is to point out that they are, under certain common circumstances, identical. We then show that
Zermelo’s Method can be used in situations that Borda’s Method is not designed to handle. 相似文献
3.
Giuliana Urso 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(3):779-790
The article proposes an interview with Mr. M. Baldwin Edwards—director of the Mediterranean migration observatory (MMO) based
in Athens—made in January 2007. Interview object was the analysis of the way Greece faced the Albanian migration flow in the
90s. Critically he points out the actors, the strategies, the historical and sociological reasons of this response. The protection
of human rights and the role of the European Union are also pointed out. The overall picture gives the impression of a Greek
answer that makes a confusion between a ‘border policy’ and a ‘migration policy’ leading to a (more or less conscious) ‘non
immigration policy’. 相似文献
4.
Based on the problems of Global Education Assistance to Africa (GEAA), and combined with China’s rationale and practice of
Education Assistance to Africa, this paper proposes a vision and assumption to improve the GEAA, that is, using the assistance
rationale of ‘Africa-based’, ‘equal-relationship’, and ‘mutual-benefits’, through ‘multi-stakeholders cooperation’, ‘multi-modes
operation’, and ‘multi-goals achievement’ to build one ‘harmonious world’. 相似文献
5.
Bjarne Ibsen 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》1996,7(2):160-176
This article analyses the changes in the voluntary sector in Denmark at the local level, and compares associations in the
‘cultural field’ with those in the ‘social field’. The analyses, which are primarily based on research conducted in 1993,
show that the voluntary sector changed significantly during the 1980s and the 1990s. First, over a third of the associations
were established after 1979, and this has resulted in changes in the overall composition of the sector. Traditional value-oriented
associations and associations that work for others have declined in relative terms, while narrow-interest associations that
work for the members themselves are increasing. Second, the number of associations that are based and operate in a clearly-defined
local area has declined. Third, despite professionalisation in some types of associations, more people than ever before are
engaged in voluntary work in associations. Fourth, while public subsidies to the voluntary associations have increased, this
has not changed the fundamental ‘political autonomy’ of the associations. Fifth, even though there are great differences in
the political context of which the ‘cultural field’ associations and ‘social field’ associations are part, the associations
in the two fields have many common features. 相似文献
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W. E. Williams 《Journal of Labor Research》1997,18(2):191-203
Conclusion Long before the international climate of opinion made South Africa’s system of legalized racial discrimination untenable,
it was under attack from within. A tiny part of that struggle was waged on moral grounds by decent South Africans both white
and nonwhite. The much larger part of the war was waged not on moral grounds but on the economic battlefield where the stakes
were profit and losses. As W. H. Hutt so aptly points out, the major disadvantages of apartheid were borne by South Africa’s
nonwhite population, but the disadvantage was shared by whites as well. As such it produced widespread tensions leading to
resistance, evasion, contravention, and modi-fication of apartheid law. Often evasion and contravention of apartheid law was
led by the very people who shared the ideology of white supremacy. The final abolition of apartheid law may indeed reflect
a change in heart by South African whites but the coup de grace was, as Hutt put it, the liberating forces “released by what is variously called the ‘free market system,’ the ‘capitalist
system,’ or the ‘profit system.’” 相似文献
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Fengshui theory in urban landscape planning 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The spatial configuration of urban landscapes results from cumulative interactions between human activities and the physical
environment. Traditional philosophies and cultural legacies have had important influences on urban development and planning
in East Asia. In Seoul, traditional land use practices based on ‘Fengshui’ have significantly contributed to human-mediated
patterns of landscape changes, in addition to the role of the socio-economic background (development) and other human activities.
The concept of Fengshui was originally founded upon people’s empirical cognition of natural landscape patterns. Recently,
however, advanced economic development, westernization and urbanization have been rapidly altering the old traditions of the
holistic landscape systems through changing urban planning practices. Since the type, scale, frequency, distribution and spreading
pattern of environmental and human disturbances have been changed, a new paradigm for urban landscape planning is necessary
to maintain the ecological and cultural integrity of landscapes in Korea. In this paper, we discuss recent concepts and methods
of landscape ecology and urban planning from the viewpoint of Fengshui, the traditional land use patterns in Seoul, whose
application has so far been restricted only to traditional land evaluation. We conclude that, to maintain the sustainability
of the urban landscape, it is necessary to develop a new urban planning framework for the region that is based on the integration
between landscape ecology principles with the traditional concepts of Fengshui. 相似文献
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Katy Jenkins 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(1):15-34
This paper focuses on recognizing the contribution made to development by grassroots women working on a voluntary basis in
long term development projects. Using the example of healthcare, the paper problematizes the widespread move towards an increased
reliance on voluntary and third sector provision. Drawing on literature around women’s community activism, the research considers
the extent to which women carrying out health promotion work in Peru have taken on this role as more than “just voluntary
work,” highlighting their long term commitment during more than a decade of health promotion activities. The paper develops
debates around the professionalization of voluntary work, particularly considering the issue of economic remuneration for
health promoters, and emphasizing the gendered nature of their voluntarism; concluding by questioning the sustainability of
poor women’s long term, and largely unpaid, involvement as the linchpins of community development projects.
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For decades Durkheim’s theory of suicide has been tested and found wanting. Yet, rather than being consigned to the dust-bin
of history, it lives on and is pointed to as an exemplar of the powers of sociological theory and research. If this rationalizing
and/or dismissal of so many falsifications of the theory were an isolated phenomenon, it might be evidence of some lemming-like
propensity for suicide or a disciplinary death-wish, among a few sociologists. But it appears to be a much more widespread
and common occurrence. In this paper we explore some possible explanations of this ‘falsification denial’—‘The Social Misconstruction
of Reality’ (Hamilton 1996), ‘When Prophecy Fails’ (Festinger et al. 1956), ‘Underdetermination’ (Duhem 1954; Quine Journal of Philosophy 67:178–183, 1970, Erkenntnis 9:313–328, 1975; Lakatos 1970), and ‘Boundary Maintenance’ (Erikson 1966), and we outline some of the more important and pernicious consequences of this falsification denial for the discipline and
future of sociology. 相似文献
10.
Adalbert Evers 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》1995,6(2):159-182
This article presents a conceptional framework which analyses the third sector as a part of a mixed welfare system, otherwise
made up of the market, the state and the informal private household spheres. From this perspective, the third sector appears
as a dimension of the public space in civil societies: an intermediate area rather than a clear-cut sector. Third sector organisations
are understood as polyvalent organisations whose social and political roles can be as important as their economic ones; they
are portrayed as hybrids, intermeshing resources and rationales from different sectors. In present policies of ‘welfare pluralism’
the emphasis is consequently more on ‘synergetic’ mixes of resources and rationales than on mere issues of substitution processes
between different sectors of provision. The last section discusses the potential distinguishing features of such policies
with respect to ‘pluralist’ approaches which try to safeguard the conventional hierarchies in a mixed economy of welfare.
This paper draws in part on the author's introduction to Evers and Svetlik (1993). 相似文献
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This paper re-examines the so-called ‘chairman’s paradox‘ that was first noticed by Farquharson in his path breaking tract
on sophisticated voting, Theory of Voting (1969). The Chairman’s paradox is concerned with the case of a three member committee in which a particular player who has
a regular and a tie-breaking vote – the ‘chairman’ – not only will do worse in specific instances under the plurality procedure
for three alternatives than if he did not have such a vote, but will also do worse overall. That is, the chairman’s a priori probability of success (‘getting what one wants’) for all possible games with linear (strict) preference orders is lower than that of the two regular members. It is demonstrated that this result, which comes
about if voters act strategically rather than sincerely, is not as robust as it has been thought to be. By merely replacing
the standard assumption of linear preference orders with weak preference orders, which allow for indifference, we can escape from the paradox for the canonical case of three players and
three alternatives. With weak preference orders, the a priori success of the chairman is now greater than that of the other two players. We also point to a new paradox of sophisticated voting. 相似文献
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In recent years, there has been increasing awareness of the importance of formal measures of voting power and of the relevance
of such measures to real life political issues. Nevertheless, existing measures have been criticized, especially because of
their dependence on the unrealistic assumption that different coalitions have equal probabilities. In this paper we show that
the classical problem of measuring voting power can be naturally embedded in information theory. This perspective on voting
power allows us to extend measures of voting power to cases in which there are dependencies among voters. In doing so, we
distinguish between two different notions of a given voter’s power—‘control’ and ‘informativeness’—corresponding, respectively,
to the average uncertainty regarding the outcome of a vote that remains when all others have voted and the average uncertainty
that is eliminated when only the given voter has voted. This distinction settles a number of well-known paradoxes and enables
the study of voting power on the basis of actual political behavior at all levels. 相似文献
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Alasdair Marshall Richard Telofski Udechukwu Ojiako Maxwell Chipulu 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2012,23(2):371-391
The purpose of this article is to develop a theory which frames the demands of civil society in such a way as to better enable
corporate subjects to manage and navigate ‘irregular’ engagement from activist organizations. Activist NGOs engage in advocacy
at times by mounting, facilitating or encouraging popular social campaigns and actions against targeted corporations. In many
cases, radical ‘direct action’ tactics are adopted, taking such approaches, NGOs may capitalise on the broader, more ethically
diverse strategic possibilities open to them than are available to their corporate adversaries. We employ institutional theory
to map out this asymmetric distribution of strategic possibility. We theorise NGOs and corporate subjects as effectively ‘competing’
with one another to maximise their own strategic possibilities and to minimise those of their opponents, in the perennial
battle for hearts and minds that plays out between NGOs, corporate subjects, and broader civil society actors who ultimately
determine boundary rules for NGO-corporate conflict. Within this context we explore the normative challenge arising from the
possibility that corporate subjects might seek to tip the competitive balance by learning from how the military has adapted
to successfully engage with ‘irregular’ adversaries through what is often termed ‘asymmetric’ or ‘irregular’ warfare. Should
corporations follow a similar adaptive process, by mirroring the ‘irregular’ strategies of activist groups? Drawing evidence
from the military experience, we suggest—perhaps counter intuitively—that such adaptations can create new opportunities for
conflict resolution and for building sustainable cooperation between former adversaries. 相似文献
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Joanne Lloyd Helen Doll Keith Hawton William H. Dutton John R. Geddes Guy M. Goodwin Robert D. Rogers 《Journal of gambling studies / co-sponsored by the National Council on Problem Gambling and Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming》2010,26(3):387-399
In order to learn about the behaviours and health experiences of people who gamble on the Internet, we conducted an international
online survey with respondents recruited via gambling and gambling-related websites. The mean (SD) age of the 4,125 respondents
completing the survey was 35.5 (11.8) years, with 79.1% being male and 68.8% UK residents. Respondents provided demographic
details and completed validated psychometric screening instruments for problem gambling, mood disturbances, as well as alcohol
and substance misuse, and history of deliberate self harm. We applied latent class analysis to respondents’ patterns of regular
online gambling activities, and identified subgroups of individuals who used the Internet to gamble in different ways (L
2 = 44.27, bootstrap P = 0.07). We termed the characteristic profiles as ‘non-to-minimal gamblers’; ‘sports bettors’; ‘casino & sports gamblers’;
‘lottery players’; and ‘multi-activity gamblers’. Furthermore, these subgroups of respondents differed on other demographic
and psychological dimensions, with significant inter-cluster differences in proportion of individuals scoring above threshold
for problem gambling, mood disorders and substance misuse, and history of deliberate self harm (all Χ
2s > 23.4, all P-values <0.001). The ‘casino & sports’ and ‘multi-activity-gamblers’ clusters had the highest prevalence of mental disorder.
Internet gamblers appear to be heterogeneous but composed of several subgroups, differing markedly on both demographic and
clinical characteristics. 相似文献
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Andreas Ortmann Mark Schlesinger 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》1997,8(2):97-119
This article examines the trust hypothesis: the claim that asymmetric information can explain the existence of non-profit
enterprise in certain markets. We argue that this hypothesis, in order to be viable, has to meet three challenges: ‘reputational
ubiquity’, ‘incentive compatibility’ and ‘adulteration’. Drawing on modern agency theory, we conclude that the trust hypothesis
stands on shaky ground. It can be sustained only under particular conditions that have been neither carefully described in
theory nor subject to empirical assessment. The available evidence, patchy and inadequate as it is, seems to suggests that
there are some ownership-related differences in aspects of organisational performance connected with asymmetric information.
However, there is little evidence that this relates to trustper se or provides a rationale for the existence of non-profit ownership in these industries. We conclude with a plea for substantial
research on consumer expectations and provider motivations.
Visiting Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 相似文献
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Geometric models of consistent judgement aggregation 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Marcus Pivato 《Social Choice and Welfare》2009,33(4):559-574
Given a set of propositions with unknown truth values, a ‘judgement aggregation function’ is a way to aggregate the personal
truth-valuations of a group of voters into some ‘collective’ truth valuation. We introduce the class of ‘quasimajoritarian’
judgement aggregation functions, which includes majority vote, but also includes some functions which use different voting
schemes to decide the truth of different propositions. We show that if the profile of individual beliefs satisfies a condition
called ‘value restriction’, then the output of any quasimajoritarian function is logically consistent; this directly generalizes
the recent work of Dietrich and List (Majority voting on restricted domains. Presented at SCW08; see , 2007b). We then provide two sufficient conditions for value-restriction, defined geometrically in terms of a lattice ordering
or a metric structure on the set of individuals and propositions. Finally, we introduce another sufficient condition for consistent
majoritarian judgement aggregation, called ‘convexity’. We show that convexity is not logically related to value-restriction. 相似文献
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Jeff Borland 《Journal of Labor Research》1986,7(3):293-307
An alternative interpretation of the Ross-Dunlop debate of the 1940s is provided, which reveals little difference in the opinions
of these two theorists on the role of optimizing behavior and of economic factors in explaining trade union behavior. Importantly,
both saw theories of union activity based on simple economic maximands as unable to incorporate some “political” features
of those unions. The recent wave of economic analyses of trade unions however seems to have answered such criticism to a large
extent. A survey of this work is provided to show how many of Ross’s “unanswered questions” can be explained by models where
rational trade unions maximize relatively straightforward objective functions.
This work is based on chapter 1 of the author’s M.A. thesis at the University of Melbourne. Many thanks are due to Ian McDonald
for his generous help, and to Greg Whitwell for his comments on an earlier draft of this paper. The author is presently a
graduate student at Yale University. 相似文献
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Talk and ‘telling’ have assumed prominent roles in preventing HIV and promoting life with the disease at the start of the
twenty-first century. Our concern in this paper is to show how social structures and circumstances shape the narrative productions
of HIV positive patients whose lives are institutionally managed. We consider what ‘telling’ means when young women with few
economic resources are encouraged or mandated to talk about themselves by case managers, researchers, therapists, welfare
workers, and clinic staff. We organize our analysis around three such ‘autobiographical occasions’: disclosures to intimate
partners prompted by agents of the state; employment opportunities in which women are hired to tell others about living with
HIV as peer educators or outreach health workers; and research interviews. We argue that storylines about living with HIV
have been laid down by powerful social actors whose illness experiences do not reflect those of many poor patients. These
formulations constitute an ‘archive’ which organizes institutional practices and discourses. These matter not only because
they provide patients with a language through which to render their actions meaningful, but because they shape the everyday
experience of HIV outside the clinic, the welfare office, and the therapy session.
Lori Leonard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Part of her research focuses on how young women with few resources experience HIV and AIDS in the USA at a time when HIV and AIDS are beginning to be thought of as chronic but manageable conditions. Jonathan M. Ellen is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is a practicing adolescent medicine physician. His research interests are focused on HIV and STD prevention and treatment for adolescents. 相似文献
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Lori Leonard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Part of her research focuses on how young women with few resources experience HIV and AIDS in the USA at a time when HIV and AIDS are beginning to be thought of as chronic but manageable conditions. Jonathan M. Ellen is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is a practicing adolescent medicine physician. His research interests are focused on HIV and STD prevention and treatment for adolescents. 相似文献
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Cecil L. Willis 《The American Sociologist》2010,41(2):190-209
My first semester as a tenure-track faculty member at a mid-size university began ignominiously and suggested that my academic
career might be short-lived. It began with a blistering memo that was stridently critical of the academic dean’s policy which
led to being taken to the proverbial woodshed. Other less serious episodes followed which put me at odds with the “administration.”
Yet I have spent more than a third of my career in administrative positions, including a stint in the provost’s office (as
an assistant vice chancellor), and only recently returned to faculty status. Over the course of my academic career I have
noticed that a large number of academic sociologists have taken administrative positions in academia beyond that of the department
chair. This paper will explore this phenomenon and discuss the reasons members of the ‘debunking’ discipline assume administrative
roles. I will address this issue within the context of my personal odyssey in administration and how the sociological perspective
and imagination has contributed to working in the ‘dark side’ of academia. Finally, I will discuss lessons learned and recommendations
for the aspirant administrators among the ranks of academic sociologists. 相似文献