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Massimiliano Bertollo Omar Appolloni Juana Paola Bustamante Izquierdo Francesco De Angelis Edoardo Lelli Slavko Vesenjak 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):404-420
African countries have a tiny share in the international economy and are not able to play more than a small role in the International
Relations arena. Nevertheless, major players are looking at Africa with a renewed interest and, among them, China seems to
have the most dynamic approach in order to catch-up with other nations and upgrade relations with African countries. However,
the EU is also carrying on its new strategy toward parts of Africa. In these world powers strategies, multiple approaches
related to subregions exist, instead of a single regional approach. The objective of this paper is to have a closer look and
to analyze how the different regions and major nations of Africa Western Africa, Egypt, Eastern Africa and South Africa) are
dealing with their economic and political development path and their interconnection with other areas of the World, with an
important focus on China-Africa relations.
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Slavko VesenjakEmail: |
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Nina L. Hall Ros Taplin 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2007,18(4):317-338
This paper compares climate change campaigns conducted by environmental nongovernment organizations (NGOs) in the United Kingdom
(UK) and Australia. The NGOs represent a diversity of political access, financial resources, and international connections.
Three campaign activities common to both countries undertaken between 2004 and 2006 are analyzed for their effectiveness via
interviews and document review. This examination is embedded within an analysis of the political, economic, policy, and social
contexts of each country. It is shown that in the UK climate change has been used as a pivotal leadership issue, that the
fossil fuel industry’s influence is not predominant, and that NGOs enjoy political legitimacy. Whereas, in Australia climate
change has only recently emerged as a political priority, the fossil fuel industry has had significant political and financial
influence, and NGO advocacy has been marginalized. It is argued that NGOs are embedded in the political and policy contexts
of their country, and the greatest campaign traction and NGO influence can only be achieved when these contexts provide favorable
conditions.
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Nina L. HallEmail: |
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Pamela Price 《Qualitative sociology》2006,29(3):301-316
The article explores political meanings in the context of recent economic and political changes in a village in south India.
Cultural constructions of political relations emerged in conversations between the author and village informants in Andhra
Pradesh. Informants perceived decline in the power and authority of former village lords and talked about the establishment
of authority in the new setting. In processes of democratization which had taken place, showing and receiving honor and respect
continued as political and social preoccupations. However, deserving honor and respect has become less a statement about political
superiority and domination and more about individual moral qualities.
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Pamela PriceEmail: |
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The current crisis of neoliberalism is calling into question the relevance of key international institutions. We analyze the
origins, nature, and possible impacts of the crisis through comparing two such institutions: the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Both originated in the post-World War II U.S.-led hegemonic order and were transformed
as part of the transition to global neoliberalism. We show that while the IMF and the WTO have been part of the same hegemonic
project, their distinct institutional features have put them on significantly different trajectories. Historical differences
in the two institutions’ systems of rules have placed the IMF in a more vulnerable position than the WTO, which provides clues
to the future contours of global economic governance.
Nitsan Chorev is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University. She is the author of Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: from Protectionism to Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2007), and is now working on a book on the global politics of health. Sarah Babb is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is the author of Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (University of Chicago Press, 2009), which explores the impact of American politics on the World Bank and regional development institutions. 相似文献
Nitsan Chorev (Corresponding author)Email: |
Sarah BabbEmail: |
Nitsan Chorev is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University. She is the author of Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: from Protectionism to Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2007), and is now working on a book on the global politics of health. Sarah Babb is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is the author of Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (University of Chicago Press, 2009), which explores the impact of American politics on the World Bank and regional development institutions. 相似文献
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Family Financial Risk Taking When the Wife Earns More 总被引:4,自引:4,他引:0
Nancy Ammon Jianakoplos Alexandra Bernasek 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(2):289-306
This study investigates whether the relative bargaining power of spouses plays a role in explaining household financial risk
taking. Traditional models assume that household decisions are made based on pooled resources and common preferences. In contrast,
bargaining models hypothesize that household decisions depend on the relative bargaining power of spouses. According to bargaining
models, if women are more risk averse, then households should exhibit less financial risk taking as the bargaining power of
the wife increases. Results of an analysis of household financial risk taking in a sample of dual-earner, married households
from the 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances are more consistent with decision making based on pooled resources rather than on the relative bargaining power of spouses.
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Alexandra BernasekEmail: |
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Black Gold and Blue Gold: The Importance of Energy in the New Power Policy of the Russian Federation
Edoardo Lelli 《Transition Studies Review》2009,15(4):746-758
After having been forced to face a decade of economic and political difficulties, the Russian Federation is regaining a position
of prestige on the international stage thanks to an astute utilization of its huge reserves of oil and natural gas. With the
coming to power of Vladimir Putin—and in particular from 2004—the State has changed its policy in the energy field, aiming
to come back to exert a strict control over the main companies and assets. One of the most significant consequences of this
change has been the outbreak of disputes with Ukraine and Belarus about the selling price of gas, which caused fears among
the entire Europe about the reliability of Russia as a supplier of that resource. Moreover, the quarrels forced many Western
analysts to condemn the way Moscow is acting to try and become an “energy superpower”.
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Edoardo LelliEmail: |
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Margaret Sherrard Sherraden John Stringham Simona Costanzo Sow Amanda Moore McBride 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(2):156-173
International voluntary service (IVS) has a significant and growing presence worldwide. IVS is a policy and program tool used for international development aid, humanitarian relief, and promotion of international understanding. In the last century, forms of IVS have proliferated, while research on scope, effectiveness, and impacts has lagged behind. We propose a typology that addresses duration, nature of service, and degree of “internationality.” Further, we identify IVS networks and support organizations that bolster the capacity of IVS sending and hosting organizations, and in this process create large and little recognized international institutions of cooperation. Building on the typology, we suggest program, policy, and research implications to advance knowledge of the role of IVS, its role in global civil society, and impacts it may have on human conditions and cross-cultural understanding.
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Margaret Sherrard SherradenEmail: |
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Margaret S. Sherraden Benjamin Lough Amanda Moore McBride 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(4):395-421
Despite unprecedented recent expansion of international volunteering and service (IVS), there has been relatively little research
on impacts. This paper proposes a conceptual model for impact research based on existing research evidence published in English.
The model suggests that outcomes for host communities, volunteers, and sending communities vary depending on individual and
institutional attributes and capacity. How institutions structure and leverage individual capacity influences who participates
and how they serve, and shapes the impact of volunteer action. The conceptual model provides directions for future research.
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Margaret S. SherradenEmail: |
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Ferenc Miszlivetz 《Transition Studies Review》2009,15(4):623-635
The economic, political and social transition processes of the last two decades, far from being in harmony, clearly have a
detrimental rather than an enriching influence on each other. These processes will never become harmonised just by themselves
in a natural fashion. The worst obstacle of a successful transformation is that the chief actors, such as the government,
the market and the representatives of the society. The Prince, the Merchant and the Citizen do not show the necessary commitment,
competence and determination to create a new, effective type of partnership. This is a challenge which urgently demands answers
on all levels of governance, economic and social life. This must be done in the frames of local communities, and on the regional,
the European and the global levels. Nearly twenty years after the political turnabout, Hungary now needs a new social contract
and must lay down the ethical, political, institutional and intellectual foundations for its twenty-first century democracy.
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Ferenc MiszlivetzEmail: |
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A sample from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study was used to examine the influence of parent-to-child financial transfers and economic resources on child-to-parent financial transfers, caregiving, time-help, and coresidence as multiple, interdependent transfers from middle-aged adult children to their elderly parents. There were strong positive effects of prior parent-to-child financial transfers in the models of caregiving, time help, and coresidence but no effect on child-to-parent financial transfers. Coresidence, caregiving, and time-help are complements but there was no interdependence between child-to-parent financial transfers and caregiving or time-help. The effects of parents’ incomes and net worth are interpreted as evidence about motives for transfers to them.
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Sun-Kang KohEmail: |
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Maria Ludovica Murazzani 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):501-509
The role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the United Nations (UN), as well as in world politics in general, is
increasingly gaining the attention of scholars of international law, political science and social anthropology. Using extensive
earlier research on NGO-UN relations and on the concept of global governance, it is concluded that although NGOs are becoming
increasingly influential actors on the international arena, several problems impede their influence from growing within the
UN. Once the inefficiencies of NGOs participation in United Nations’ bodies and institutions have been described, we propose
some modalities of reform of this Organization, with the purpose of improving the involvement of world civil society in UN
decision-making processes, and increasing its democratic profile. Finally, the study suggests several areas that require future
research and more in-depth study in order to make predictions about how NGO-UN relations will evolve in the coming decades.
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Maria Ludovica MurazzaniEmail: |
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Joel Stillerman 《Qualitative sociology》2006,29(4):507-530
Recent discussions of contentious politics have focused on struggles in and over space and place. This article builds upon
these concerns by using ethnographic, interview, and documentary data to analyze the spatial politics of street market vendors
in Santiago, Chile. Drawing upon Lefebvre’s concepts of perceived, conceived, and lived space as well as ideas drawn from
research on space and protest, I show how street market vendors build upon spatial routines, a sense of place, political alliances,
and scale jumping in their self-defense strategies at the local, national, and international scales. The findings illustrate
Lefebvre’s argument that the advance of abstract space (constructed by dominant economic and political elites) provokes resistance
by groups who defend and seek to reconstruct lived space.
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Joel StillermanEmail: |
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Stefan Toepler 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(2):95-109
This paper reviews some of the underpinnings of the current commercialization debate in the nonprofit sector, based on an analysis of Metropolitan Museum of Art data from 1960 to 2002. The case suggests at least two avenues for additional research: First, while analysts tend to see the origins of the commercialization phenomenon in the fiscal setbacks of the 1980s, the economic crisis of the 1970s and the resulting erosion of endowment funds may also have been an as of yet unexplored driving force behind the commercialization trend. Second, current conceptual frameworks of the phenomenon adequately explain the motivations behind the observable rise of the museum's commercial activities. However, the changing rationales as well as economic fortunes of commercial activities in this case highlight the need for a better understanding of the long-term effects and consequences of commercial activity by nonprofit organizations, particularly in light of the current push for increased entrepreneurialism.
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Stefan ToeplerEmail: |
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Dana R. Fisher 《Sociological Forum》2006,21(3):467-494
This paper analyzes how natural resource interests have been translated into political outcomes in the form of American climate
change policy. Incorporating data about natural resource use and national decision-making, this paper concludes that comprehending
fully political decisions about global climate change in the United States requires us to recognize how land-use interests
in the growth machine are translated into political outcomes. The findings of this paper suggest that, in order to understand
social phenomena more fully, sociologists must recommit to studying the conjoint constitution of natural resources and social
processes.
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Dana R. FisherEmail: |
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Dejan Trifunović Bojan Ristić Marko Ivković Svetozar Tanasković Leo Italiano Stefania Tattoni 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):269-286
The privatization process and foreign direct investments (FDI) are among the most important economic issues in transitional
countries. FDI has enormous influence on transitional countries that need serious structural changes. In this paper we will
study FIAT’s decision to invest in the Serbian automotive industry. We will try to rationalize FIAT’s decision because Serbian
car manufacturer ZASTAVA was not the only alternative for FIAT to invest in the Balkans. In order to justify FIAT’s decision
we will apply the Mullins model of horizontal and vertical FDI, examine the importance of the cooperating history between
two car manufacturers and compare macroeconomic conditions and Global Competitiveness of Serbia and Romania, which was the
main alternative for FIAT. Finally, we will also try to explain why FIAT decided to announce the investment at the end of
political campaign in Serbia when pools gave anti-European parties higher chances for victory, instead of waiting to see the
outcome of the elections.
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Stefania TattoniEmail: |
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In this paper we consider the issue of the intra-household distribution of welfare directly using a survey measure of self-perceived
economic well-being. We develop a theoretical model of satisfaction within the household for couples. In the empirical analysis
we find that husbands and wives often report different levels of financial satisfaction. The most important correlate of relative
satisfaction within the household is found to be relative income. This is a direct confirmation of the previously implicit
findings and is predicted by our theoretical model.
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Martin BrowningEmail: |
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Jiang Ru Leonard Ortolano 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(2):141-168
Social movement theories provide a framework for explaining the post-1990 rise in China’s citizen-organized environmental
nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs), which consisted of at least 128 organizations as of 2004. We use a political process
model, which is based on favorable political opportunities, cognitive liberation, and indigenous organizational strength,
to explain the sharp growth in citizen organized ENGOs. In addition, we employ a world society perspective to help clarify
why the political environment in China became favorable for ENGO growth, and how international ENGO practices were diffused
within China. Our analysis shows that the relatively high status of ENGO founders together with their personal and professional
networks also played important roles in ENGO growth.
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Jiang RuEmail: |
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Matthew Mahler 《Qualitative sociology》2006,29(3):281-300
Drawing data from works of political non-fiction that help to reveal the moral and sensual underpinnings of political practice,
this paper seeks to adumbrate a sensualist understanding of political engagement. After beginning with a brief discussion
of Weber’s seminal essay “Politics as a Vocation,” I then construct an ideal type of political passion with which to highlight
the inherent shortcomings that plague traditional explanations of political action. My argument is that these approaches are
all vitiated by their reliance on Chinese-box epistemology. I go on to suggest that in order to obtain a genuinely sociological
account of political engagement, one must develop methods that are true to the experiential specifics of politics while recognizing
the conditions that shape the possibility of those very experiences.
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Matthew MahlerEmail: |
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Francesco De Angelis 《Transition Studies Review》2008,15(3):588-600
The Russian Federation has come back on the international scene, in the past years, thanks to its economic expansion and its
political stability. The defence sector, a pillar of the Soviet regime, takes advantage of this situation and is receiving
increasing funds, although the fraction of the GDP remains constant. Some experts fear a renewed arms race and a new threat
for the world security. The analysis of the overall figures leads to a more moderate view. The situation of the Armed Forces
suffers from many problems and it is far from being dangerous for the world stability. The core of the Army, the personnel,
is in a terrible situation with a huge gap compared with other developed nations. In addition, Russia endures a demographic
collapse and it will be always more difficult to find capable arms that use the new generation armaments of the proclaimed
modernization plans.
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Francesco De AngelisEmail: |
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Using data collected from surveys conducted in 1990 and 2000, we examine changes in the administrative practices of US-based
national and international unions. We examine the hiring, human resource, financial, strategic planning, and organizational
practices and how they have changed over time. We find that unions are changing their staff hiring practices in ways that
contribute to workforce professionalization and that unions are moving toward more formal human resource policies and more
systematic financial and strategic planning practices. These developments appear to be a reaction to the unions’ changing
operating environment and reflect the pressure on union leaders to make effective use of their declining resources.
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Paul F. ClarkEmail: |