The “Professional Mortality” Problem in Early City Management: A Study of Organized Denial
ABSTRACT The early city management profession experienced appalling rates of attrition. This problem of “professional mortality” had been clearly recognized by the end of World War I: causes of attrition included threats and violence against managers, intense political interference in managers' work, and interpersonal missteps.
Ben Merriman
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Standing Your Ground on Moral Disagreement
ABSTRACT Moral disagreement is often invoked to support skeptical conclusions about moral judgment, typically by modeling it on the epistemology of peer disagreement. On the dominant picture, disagreement with a peer supplies higher‐order evidence of error and thereby rationally requires suspension of judgment or a substantial reduction in confidence ...
Mario Gensollen +2 more
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An exploration of the structure and understanding of <i>Xin</i> ("") in Chinese culture: the development of a theoretical model and questionnaire instruments. [PDF]
Lin L, Jing D, Sun C.
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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935
ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
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A study on the moral autonomy of adolescents-an empirical analysis based on the third time national moral survey. [PDF]
Chen Y, Wang J.
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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Perceptions, attitudes and behaviors regarding professionalism and their relationships reported by newly enrolled Chinese residents. [PDF]
Song X +6 more
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Enacting Lived Sovereignty Amid Epistemic and Ontological Violence in the Settler‐Colonial Academy
ABSTRACT This paper examines the tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and the structural and institutional logics of the settler‐colonial academy. Critical scholarship suggests that higher education can regulate epistemic boundaries, discipline knowledge production, and shape the subjectivities of colonized students.
Nadera Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, Abeer Otman
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