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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
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Performance Evaluation System Using Queueing Network Theory
, 1992 Yoshitaka Okazaki +2 more
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Editorial introduction to the special issue on ‘Strategic Queueing: Game-Theoretic Models in Queueing Theory’—part 2 [PDF]
, 2021 Antonis Economou, Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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When a system breaks: queueing theory model of intensive care bed needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Med J Aust, 2020 Meares HD, Jones MP.
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Automation in public administration is often seen as a recent, purely digital phenomenon that transforms decision‐making and governance. This article challenges that view by elucidating a historical continuum in the automation of administrative decision‐making.
Aleksander Heikkinen +2 more
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Theory and simulation of feedback queues with priority
, 1996 Rajeswari Neelakantan
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizational legitimacy is essential for effective crisis governance. This study analyzes the rapid erosion of legitimacy faced by the German State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGeSo) during the 2015 refugee crisis, triggering cascading failures in public service delivery.
Iris Seidemann +2 more
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