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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Crisis and Constitutional Rot [PDF]

, 2017
No one could accuse Donald Trump\u27s presidency of being boring. The first hundred days have careened wildly through scandals, revelations, outrages, and fracturing of political norms.
Balkin, Jack M.
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling.
Nematullah Bizhan, Stephen Howes
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro, Wolfgang Drechsler, Fabienne Maron, Albert Meijer, Hiroko Shimada‐Logie, Michele Tantardini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Resilience of Authoritarian Rule in Syria under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad [PDF]

This paper seeks an explanation for the resilience of the Syrian authoritarian regime under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad. It will be argued that this resilience is to a relevant extent caused by the fact that the regime’s “material” as well as “ideational ...
Annette Büchs
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Imagination in Critical Theory: Utopia, Ideology, Aesthetics

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of imagination in critical theory, addressing its conceptual ambiguity and its synthesis of three distinct but interrelated strands. The first, rooted in Freud's theory, sees imagination as wish‐fulfillment—necessarily unreal yet foundational to utopian thought.
Markus Gante
wiley   +1 more source

Resources for Sale: Corruption, Democracy and the Natural Resource Curse [PDF]

A puzzling piece of empirical evidence suggests that resource-abundant countries tend to grow slower than their resource-poor counterparts. We attempt to explain this phenomenon by developing a lobbying game in which rent seeking firms interact with ...
Erwin Bulte, Richard Damania
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Right-Wing Authoritarianism between Different Religions and Its Negative Effect on Attitudes and Behaviors toward COVID-19 Policies in Brazil

Socius
Some conservative governments denied the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, inducing their supporters to go against sanitary measures. However, could individuals aligned with such political beliefs jeopardize their health due to ideological conviction?
Luciano Rossoni, Clayton Pereira Gonçalves, Mônica Pereira da Silva   +2 more
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Between Deliberation and Interpretation: Social Movements’ Democratic Rationalities in Legal Discourse

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on democratization often reduces social movements’ legal engagement to deliberative rationality, obscuring how transformation operates through distinct yet complementary procedural logics. This article argues that movements democratize law through dual‐track engagement: Political deliberation universalizes moral demands via ...
Diego Alonso Ramírez Pérez
wiley   +1 more source