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ABSTRACT Over the past seven decades, South Korea has developed a distinctive trajectory in its public administration (PA) through balancing the domains of research, education, and engagement with government. Our analysis shows that it embodies a connected yet distinct character, closely linked to Western administrative science and global PA ...
Jinsol Park +4 more
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This article explains about globalization versus national resposiveness matrix, meeting the challenge, cross cultural differences and similiarities, parochialism and simplification, also cultural differences in selected countries and regions.
Suryanto Suryanto
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Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy
ABSTRACT Assigning the preparation of decisions to specialized committees composed of member state representatives is a widespread response to the ‘governor's dilemma’, that is, the tension between competence and control, in international organizations (IOs). We theorize a causal mechanism referring to self‐selection and agenda‐setting effects and show
Michael Giesen +3 more
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Globalisation has received a large amount of attention, especially with reference to political economic issues. The manner in which this development affects literature, has received less attention.
Philip John
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Outgroup hate, in the context of intergroup conflict, can be expressed by harming the outgroup, but also by denying it help.Previous work established that this distinction---whether the externality on the outgroup is negative or positive---has an ...
Ori eWeisel
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ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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The Two Edge Knife of Decentralization
A centralistic government model has become a trend in a number of developing countries, in which the ideosycretic aspect becomes pivotal key in the policy making. The situation constitutes authoritarianism, cronyism, and corruption. To break the impasse,
Ahmad Khoirul Umam
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Ecoso exchange newsletter : ecological, sociological and political discourse 2/52; June 1999 [PDF]
This issue contains major speeches from the gathering to honour the life and work of Ruth Crow, on May 21, 1999(speeches by John Dick and Jack Crow are not reprinted as they are already available in print in the booklet of tributes Tomorrow is a Glorious
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