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MODERNIZATION AND PRIVATE INTERESTS

European Journal of Sociology, 2004
VISITORS TO INDIA over the past several decades have often remarked on the shoddy quality of many of its manufactured goods. How could a country with large numbers of talented engineers and business-people keep on reproducing, decade after decade, a more or less unchanged version of the British Morris motorcar from 1955?
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The Private Interests of Labour

1985
In the political culture of the market, the trade unions are above all the brokers of the private interests of labour, the producing class, and not the opponents of the capitalist system. Brokerage is their social and economic function: they could not avoid it even if they chose to; and they do not choose to.
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National Interests and Private Interests in Policy Making

International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1991
ABSTRACT This article takes up Ozga & McNay's (1985, p. 4) challenge to bring together case study analysis and sociological perspectives on policy making. It starts with a theoretical position which seeks to benefit from materialist and pluralist theories and then uses the case study to validate the position.
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The ‘Unconquerable Private Interests’

2002
The types of anti-economics examined in Parts II and III are ‘public’; they are hostile to economics on account of some supposed offence to public life. In this chapter we turn to a species of economics which is the diametric opposite, that is ‘private’.
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Database Research: Public and Private Interests

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2011
It is often argued that a major tension in bioethics is between protecting the private interests of individuals on one hand and contributing to the common good on the other. In this article I ask how fitting this description is as regards the interest at stake in relation to the issue of consent to participation in population data collections.
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Private Interests and Democracy

2010
A paradox exists at the heart of the democratic system: how to ensure that the democratic process expresses the general interests of society as a whole, rather than just the particular interests of an ad hoc (or even long-term) coalition of particular interests, who agree a policy programme on the basis of ‘horse trading’ at the expense of the rest of ...
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Resources and Private Interests

2018
It is not always about money. To achieve the goals set by member-states and those generated within international government organizations, partners often bring far more to the table than cash. While financial pressure is a constant, partnerships often succeed because of partner expertise; physical resources ranging from things as simple as fuel, to as ...
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Private v. Public Interest: the Strategic Use of Competition Law in Ireland by Private Interests

World Competition, 2008
This article considers two major issues. First, what is strategic behaviour by firms and what incentives do firms have for engaging in such behaviour with respect to the Irish Competition Authority (“the Authority”)? Second, since firms are an important source of information about breaches of competition law, how should the Authority encourage such pro–
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Breakdown and Change of Private Interest Governments

2014
Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling conventional market, state, or community-based forms of public order. This book examines how these institutional arrangements have changed since their identification.
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Public Interest: Private Grief

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1976
B M, Barraclough, D M, Shepherd
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