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Artisan Culture and the Organization of Chicago\u27s German Workers in the Gilded Age, 1860 to 1890 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
This essay evaluates the nature of German artisan culture in gilded-age Chicago and its role in the organization of modem working-class institutions. Three examples- the Workingmen\u27s Associations of Chicago\u27s German workers in the 1850s and 1860s ...
Jentz, John
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An Impossible Utopia: People’s Art and the Cultural Revolution

open access: yes, 2014
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution period of the People’s Republic of China (1966-1976) was crucial in the creation of modern-day China. The material culture of that period mirrors the turbulent political activity of students and the directives of
Reynolds, Molly E.
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A World of Apologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A World of Apologies is a music video that was created in order to promote multiculturalism and foreign culture education. Within this video, twelve different languages are showcased to the tune of the world-wide pop music hit “Sorry” by Justin Bieber ...
Hickman, Samantha
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INSTITUTIONAL Change as Cultural Change. An Illustration by Chinese Postsocialist Transformation [PDF]

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Culture of a society reflects its social values. So, through Chinese experience, we want to show that institutional change is not only an economic or a political process but fundamentally a cultural one.
EL KAROUNI, Ilyess
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Our Liberation and the Liberation of Our Images: Friedrich Schiller and the Politics of the Image [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, I will compare the aesthetic philosophies put forward in Friedrich Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man and Plato\u27s Republic. Using Schiller\u27s more robust aesthetic philosophy and its political import, I will argue that the ...
Rosenberger, Peter W.
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Albanian Political-Economics: Albanian Political-Economics: Consequences of a Clan Culture [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the politico-economic interaction in a country in transition from a communist regime to a democratic, free market system, to wit, Albania. It is argued that the politico-economic system there is characterized by the existence of clans.
Arthur Schram, Klarita Gërxhani
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Public sector efficiency and political culture [PDF]

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The capability of a country's public sector to provide high-quality goods and services in a cost-effective way is crucial to fostering long-term growth. In this paper we study the determinants of public service efficiency (PSE) and in particular the role
Pietro Tommasino, Raffaela Giordano
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The future of the welfare state : reflections on Rogernomics [PDF]

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In this paper we recognize that reforms of the welfare state can be necessary from an economic point of view. We stress, however, that these reforms also have important social and political dimensions.
Keizer,Piet, Muysken,Joan
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