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In 2007, both Moldovan and Ukrainian authorities took firm steps to reduce corruption along the Transdnistrian border. This
paper—aimed mainly at anti-corruption practitioners and scholars in public administration—discusses the background and underlying
principles guiding the anti-corruption work being adopted by both governments in order to facilitate discussion about optimal
anti-corruption programme design. This paper presents a set of tools used during the planning phase of the anti-corruption
programme—outlining the methodology used to assess the extent of corruption on the Transdnistrian border, the problems of
legislative transplants, a “contract test” for defining corruption offenses, a method of risk analysis, and a model of optimal
anti-corruption programme organizational design.
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Mariya PolnerEmail: |
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We study the general class of two-player public-policy contests and specify the asymmetry condition under which a more restrained government intervention that reduces the contestants’ prizes has the “perverse” effect of increasing their aggregate lobbying efforts.
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Shmuel NitzanEmail: |
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Current literature generally highlights the unique differences between sports and traditional unions. In particular, the contrast
between the two types of unions’ approaches to the free market when it comes to wage determination—sports unions fought the
“reserve clause” to obtain free market outcomes while traditional unions fought to circumvent the market for wages—has been
widely cited. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the hitherto neglected comparisons between sports and traditional
unions. With respect to both economic and non-economic issues, professional sports unions share far more in common with their
traditional counterparts than the labor and sports economics literatures would lead one to believe.
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James Richard HillEmail: |
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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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Jackie Gabriel 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(1):68-87
Faced with declining union membership and a growing immigrant workforce, the US labor movement has started to realize the
importance of organizing immigrant workers. Yet the conventional wisdom among many within the movement is that immigrant workers
are “unorganizable.” Based on a case study of a collaborative effort between the United Food and Commercial Workers Union
and Omaha Together, One Community to organize an estimated 4,000 Latino immigrant meatpacking workers, I demonstrate not only
the “organizability” of immigrant workers, but also the fact that they have been organizing themselves, with the help of a
community-based organization, in the absence of union efforts. This case study suggests that in order to facilitate successful
organizing campaigns among immigrant workers, unions need to reach out to community-based organizations and institutions that
have established relationships with immigrant workers.
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Jackie GabrielEmail: |
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Cynthia Estlund 《Journal of Labor Research》2007,28(4):591-608
This article argues that the ineffectuality of American labor law and the shrinking scope of collective representation and
collective bargaining are partly traceable to the law’s “ossification”—to its having been essentially sealed off for several
decades from democratic revision and renewal and from local experimentation and innovation. The elements of this process of
ossification, once assembled, make up an imposing set of barriers to innovation. The basic law has been cut off from legislative
revision at the national level by Congress; from “market”-driven competition by employers; from the entrepreneurial and creative
energies of private litigation; from variation at the state or local level by representative or judicial bodies; from changing
constitutional doctrine; and from emerging transnational legal norms. Moreover, the National Labor Relations Board—the designated
institutional vehicle for adjusting the labor laws to modern conditions—is increasingly hemmed in by the age of the text and
the large body of judicial interpretations that has grown up over the years. The resulting statutory scheme is drastically
out of date and out of sync with the needs of 21st century workers and labor markets.
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Cynthia EstlundEmail: |
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Patrick Bond 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(4):357-369
This paper considers three different conceptualizations – three politico-ideological perspectives within civil society – on global-scale economics and geopolitics. The standpoints can be termed “Global justice movements,” “Third World nationalism,” and the “Post-Washington Consensus.” These three perspectives stand in contrast to the fusion of neoliberal economics and neoconservative politics that dominates the contemporary world. The three approaches sometimes converge, but more often than not they are in conflict; as are the civil society institutions that cohere to the three different political ideologies. From the three different analyses flow different strategies, concrete campaigning tactics, and varying choices of allies. The World Social Forum provides hints of a potentially unifying approach within the global justice movements based upon the practical themes of “decommodification” and “deglobalization” (of capital). It is, however, only by facing up to the ideological divergences that the global justice movement can enhance its presence.
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Patrick Bond (Director)Email: |
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Since the inception of social work social workers have noted the importance of relationship in practice. More recently clinicians
and other social workers have developed the term “use of self” to indicate important aspects of the professional relationship.
How that term is defined rests on how one conceptualizes “self.” The authors suggest that from a relational perspective the
concept of self changes from the notion of self as separate and constant to self as process in interaction. They demonstrate
on a theoretical level as well as through a case example how defining self as process in interaction might affect clinical
social work practice.
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Richard PozzutoEmail: |
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Top-Down Civic Projects Are Not Grassroots Associations: How The Differences Matter in Everyday Life
Nina Eliasoph 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(3):291-308
Research on civic associations blurs an important distinction between the unfunded, informal, ongoing associations that theorists
like de Tocqueville described versus current participatory democracy projects that are funded by the state and large nongovernmental
organizations, are open to all, and are usually short-term. Based on a long-term ethnography of youth programs in the United
States, this paper shows that entities like these, which participants and researchers alike often called “volunteer” or “civic”
groups, operate very differently from traditional civic groups. The ethnography systematically details prevalent tensions
that actors face when they try to cultivate the civic spirit in these increasingly typical organizations.
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Nina EliasophEmail: |
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Giuliana Urso Lina Ognyanova Stoeva Yana Ognyanova Stoeva Federica Migliardi Guo Ankang Shao Yijan 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):352-367
Nowadays we can talk about a “Knowledge Revolution” because managing of information plays a crucial role in our society, both
in public and private sphere. After a brief introduction—aimed at underling the main points we will debate on—the first part
of the article focus on Knowledge Management techniques and knowledge-based government (k-Government) and the great potential
in respect to the public sector transformation. The second part takes into account the social dimension of knowledge managing
and the ethical relevance that social networking is progressively acquiring. After that, we have chosen to focus on global
warming, indeed, the last session is a detailed analysis of a real case study related to China’s energy security. In the end,
a wise use of Knowledge resources, trough the comparison with past experiences, turn out to be the powerful device that will
let us provide some useful suggestion for a significant public action.
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Shao YijanEmail: |
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Catharine MacLaren 《Clinical Social Work Journal》2008,36(3):245-253
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has not traditionally utilized “use of self” to describe the clinician’s role in counseling
but much attention has been given to the importance of the therapeutic relationship and the components necessary and appropriate
for a strong working alliance. The CBT approach is discussed within the framework of previously articulated five uses of selves.
A case example is presented.
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Catharine MacLarenEmail: |
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We explore Halloween as a uniquely constructive space for engaging racial concepts and identities, particularly through ritual
costuming. Data were collected using 663 participant observation journals from college students across the U.S. During Halloween,
many individuals actively engage the racial other in costuming across racial/ethnic lines. Although some recognize the significance
of racial stereotyping in costuming, it is often dismissed as being part of the holiday's social context. We explore the costumes
worn, as well as responses to cross-racial costuming, analyzing how “playing” with racialized concepts and making light of
them in the “safe” context of Halloween allows students to trivialize and reproduce racial stereotypes while supporting the
racial hierarchy. We argue that unlike traditional “rituals of rebellion,” wherein subjugated groups temporarily assume powerful
roles, whites contemporarily engage Halloween as a sort of “ritual of rebellion” in response to the seemingly restrictive
social context of the post-Civil Rights era, and in a way that ultimately reinforces white dominance.
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Leslie Houts PiccaEmail: |
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Jean Proulx Denis Bourque Sébastien Savard 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2007,18(3):293-307
In this paper, the authors analyze different forms of interface between the government and third sector organizations in Québec.
In order to do so, they studied relationships in eight different fields of activity: homeless youth services, housing for
intellectually deficient people, support organizations for natural caregivers, community leisure centers, community housing
for the elderly, daycare centers, social economy organizations for domestic assistance, and services specializing in employment
for handicapped people. Following a review of international literature on the relationship between the government and the
third sector, the paper analyzes these relationships on the basis of the typology developed by Jennifer M. Coston, which is
adapted to the Québécois context. In the eight activity sectors studied, the authors found the presence of four different
types of interface between the government and the third sector: “subcontracting,” “coexistence,” “supplementarity,” and “co-construction”
relationships.
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Denis BourqueEmail: |
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Sarah Stohlman 《Qualitative sociology》2007,30(1):61-80
This paper explores the multiple expressions of Central American immigrant Pentecostalism in the Pico Union district of Los
Angeles. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in three temples and informal conversations with over 30 active Pentecostals,
this paper shows that Central American immigrant Pentecostals tend to congregate on the basis of “congregational homophily,”
or shared social and cultural characteristics, especially in terms of age, marital status, presence of infirmities or ailments,
and national/regional origin. This paper also explores the ways in which Central American immigrant Pentecostals tailor their
religious practices to reflect their “congregational homophily” through the differential inclusion/exclusion of practices
such as healing, “roommating,” and formal and informal discussions of shared histories. By focusing on “congregational homophily”
and the active constructions and reconstructions of Central American immigrant Pentecostalism, we gain more insight into the
ways some Central American immigrants negotiate their lives and experiences in the increasingly fettered social, cultural,
and political topography of contemporary Los Angeles.
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Sarah StohlmanEmail: |
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Laura Burney Nissen 《Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal》2006,23(3):298-315
Juvenile justice—increasingly the service delivery point for adolescents with substance abuse and co-occurring problems lacking resources for other assistance—can be a model for improved and expanded, yet cost-effective, adolescent substance abuse treatment. An emergent standard of care challenges systemic inequities; a new service array facilitates dialogue among justice and treatment professionals, families, and the youth themselves. Such evidence-based practice—and the policy to implement it—have the power to transform disconnected laws, programs and professionals into an effective, efficient and successful community of responders, helping youth reclaim their lives while improving public health and public safety.
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Laura Burney NissenEmail: |
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Richard Lightbody 《Clinical Social Work Journal》2009,37(1):23-31
Historic changes within the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) in the 1980s eventually allowed social workers and
other non-medical professionals to train in clinical psychoanalysis as regular “candidates”. The steps to work through organizational
resistance to this change are traced. The present level of activity of those analysts who began as social workers is discussed,
with numeric data showing expansion of involvement in training and organizational life. Analysts with a background in social
work are beginning to make significant positive contributions to APsaA. There is a more rapid pace of inclusion of analysts
from social work in the governance side of APsaA than the educational. The ultimate impact on the organization is difficult
to anticipate.
Richard Lightbody, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. He is proud of his role in bringing non-analysts into leadership positions in the Center. He has served on numerous committees of the American Psychoanalytic Association since completing his training in 1992. 相似文献
Richard LightbodyEmail: |
Richard Lightbody, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. He is proud of his role in bringing non-analysts into leadership positions in the Center. He has served on numerous committees of the American Psychoanalytic Association since completing his training in 1992. 相似文献
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Natalie Boero 《Qualitative sociology》2007,30(1):41-60
In the last twenty years scientific, medical, and public health interest in obesity has skyrocketed. Increasingly the term
“epidemic” is being used in the media, medical journals, and public health policy literature to describe the current prevalence
of fatness in the U.S. Using social scientific literature on epidemics, social problems, and feminist theories of the body,
this paper traces the historical emergence of the “obesity epidemic” through an analysis of 751 articles on obesity published
in The New York Times between 1990 and 2001. Through the identification and analysis of three discursive pairings I argue that the “obesity epidemic”
is a part of a new breed of what I call “post-modern epidemics,” epidemics in which unevenly medicalized phenomena lacking
a clear pathological basis get cast in the language and moral panic of “traditional” epidemics. I show how this moral panic
together with the location of the problem within the individual precludes a more macro level approach to health and health
care delivery at a time when health care services are being dismantled or severely cut back.
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Natalie BoeroEmail: |
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G. A. Giannopoulos 《Transition Studies Review》2008,15(2):289-301
This paper discusses the situation in Greece as regards the introduction of co-modal transport services. It starts with basic
definitions of “co-modality” and what it means for Greece. It then presents the results of a demand data collection and analysis
exercise which resulted in the first ever estimates of the “potential” for road/rail co-modal transport in Greece today and
in 2015. Based on these forecasts it seems that at least for two thickly populated areas of the country (i.e. Athens and Thessaloniki)
this demand can be as high as 40% of the total freight flows. The paper then goes on to examine the means by which the responsible
authorities can “induce” co-modal services in the country. It does this by examining the policies necessary, the infrastructure
(both hard and “soft”), the necessary actions and incentives for the development of a “co-modal” market, and the necessary
training––education actions for human resource development. The overall conclusion is that unless specific actions are taken
on behalf of the government (such as those mentioned in the paper) the “land” based co-modal transport has no future in Greece.
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G. A. GiannopoulosEmail: |
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The growth strategies of the listed exchanges affect the morphology of the securities industry as they are focused on the
consolidation of trading infrastructures and, on the other hand, on the diversification of the business model. New “conglomeral
exchanges” are characterized by a far-reaching production function. Since they integrate product-service lines which are complementary,
they potentially herald competitive distorsions limiting the investor’s freedom of choice and prejudicing the interest for
the best result from the investment.
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Josanco FloreaniEmail: |
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Interdisciplinary foundations of urban ecology 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Robert F. Young 《Urban Ecosystems》2009,12(3):311-331
Researchers have identified urban ecology as a new field integrating social and ecological science. Critics have portrayed
the field as under-theorized with negative implications for research and urban environmental planning. Unprecedented urbanization
and historical bias against research integrating social and ecological systems are identified as driving this deficit. Researchers
have called for new integrative approaches to address this issue. In response, this paper applies ecology’s analytic framework
of “patch dynamics”, Kuhn’s concept of “normal science” and Mazoyer and Roudart’s “evolutionary series” to demographic data
and historical texts to perform an analysis of interdisciplinary contributions to theory applicable in the field of urban
ecology. The subsequent exploration reveals a rich history of interdisciplinary inquiry along the nature/society divide. The
paper concludes that these “largely ignored” contributions offer urban ecology the opportunity to claim much broader depth
as a field gaining access to precedents and innovations accomplished during the field’s early theoretical development. Drawing
upon this history, a framework for ecological urban development is suggested to inform and assist contemporary research in
urban ecology and planning.
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Robert F. YoungEmail: |