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Section 1: The Public Sector1.1. What is the ⁰́₈public sector?⁰́₉Section 2: Theoretical Underpinnings of Strategy2.1. Approaches to strategy development in the public sector2.2. Traditional approaches to strategy and value creationSection 3: FactorsthatInfluence Strategic Decision-Making 3.1. Influences on strategy development: Classical Models3.2. Influences on strategy development: Neoinstitutional theory3.3. The psychology of strategic decision-making3.4. The use of cognitive heuristics in strategic decision-makingSection 4: Strategic Tools in Practice4.1. Current debates in Strategy as Practice, NIT and workshops4.2. Revealed Cognitive Causal Mapping: Theoretical underpinning and approaches to analysis4.3. Running a strategy workshop: A practical guide4.4. Case studies and insights from public sector strategy sessionsSection 5: Summary and Conclusions5.1. Summary and Conclusions

"Play fool, to catch wise."-proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception-the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage-what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. Scott describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups-their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater-their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally, he identifies-with "ations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign-the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power. His landmark work will revise our understanding of subordination, resistance, hegemony, folk culture, and the ideas behind revolt

While political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance, and theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts, the interdisciplinary nature of this labor has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and Performance--drawing on experts across the fields of literature, law, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and media and communiction, as well as politics and theatre and performance--to map out and deepen the evolving interdisciplinary engagement. Organized into seven thematic sections, the volume investigates the relationship between politics and performance to show that certain features of political transactions shared by performances are fundamental to both disciplines--and that to a large extent they also share a common communicational base and language.

"This edited text brings together the stories of nine clinical social workers working during COVID-19, exploring the disconnections caused by a forced use of technology as well as the disconnections apparent in a time of social injustice. Employing narrative strategies to capture this transformative moment of our history, these chapters explore the effects of technology and social media on psychotherapy, the delivery of services for the chronically mentally ill and elderly, as well as the consequences of recent cultural shifts on our conceptions of gender, sexuality, race, the immigrant experience, and political activism. While traditional research methodologies tend to address social problems as if they were divorced from the lives and experiences of human beings, these chapters employ phenomenological description of how the existing system functions, to identify theory-to-practice gaps and to recover the experiences of the person within the various institutional structures. Divided into three parts, each chapter begins with pre-reading and close reading questions and ends with writing prompts, allowing for practitioners and students to examine their own thoughts, and put what they have learnt into practice. Suitable for students of clinical social work and practicing mental health professionals, this book is essential for those wanting to make sense of social work practice in our constantly evolving times"--

Foreword / Giovanni Scarafile -- Introduction / Adriano Fabris -- Section 1. Philosophies and controversies: 1. Leibniz beyond Leibniz: Rationality, controversies and the ethics of communication / Giovanni Scarafile -- 2. Locke's and Leibniz's virtual debate over our knowledge of the existence of God / Kuti Shoham -- 3. Locke and Leibniz on matter and solidity / Idan Shimony -- 4. How should we think about a trans-cultural hermeneutics? A controversy between Wilhelm von Humboldt and Georg Friedrich Hegel / Stefania Achella -- 5. Virtues and vices and parts and wholes: A phenomenological analysis / George Heffernan -- 6. Trajectories and challenges of translating traditional Chinese medicine / Gábor Áron Zemplén -- Section 2. Dialogue and controversies: 7. Dialogue in philosophical practices / Luca Bertolino -- 8. The absence of God: The contribution of Levinas' thought to the interreligious dialogue / Silvia Dadà -- 9. Listening to the other: A way to change / Alberta Giani -- 10. Controversies on hypercomplexity and on education in the hypertechnological era / Piero Dominici -- 11. Filibuster: The beleaguered soul of the US senate / Christopher Ketcham -- 12. The ruins of the political: Thoughts about the concept of "border" / Francesco Del Bianco -- 13. Coordination games and disagreement / Oliver Laas -- 14. How to solve controversies in scenarios of legal pluralism / Danny Marrero -- 15. The "water memory affair": The epistemic structure of a scientific controversy / Pascal Ragouet -- About the contributors.

This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameliorating the "problems" associated with aging societies. This volume is uniquely cross-cultural, theory-driven and cross-disciplinary. It fills a gap in the gerontological scholarship of the global south that is predominantly descriptive and empirical. Based on original research, this volume examines in particular the sociological question of inequality and its intersection with age, gender, health, family and social relations. In the process, the studies herein highlight the unique historical, institutional and social systems that govern the subjective experience of aging in diverse contexts globally. Specifically, societies in transition including India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Japan, China, Israel and in Europe are studied while connecting the micro-social experience of aging (loneliness, wellbeing, discrimination, relationships and resilience) with larger temporal and political contexts. This exercise generates intellectual capital that reformulates links between aging research and policy in innovative ways. Overall, the volume echoes the global scientific commitment to understand the socio-cultural process of aging in transitional societies and utilizes rich opportunities for cross-fertilization of ideas, disciplines and methods to advance the gerontological promise of critical inquiry, training and practice

Existing research into nativist populist (NP) rhetoric has shown that elite outgroups can be used by politicians to further anti‐immigration agendas. The social identity functions of elite outgroups outside of cultivating anti‐immigrant prejudice, however, remain poorly understood. In addition, whether populist news media can be considered social identity entrepreneurs in their own right remains an underexplored topic. This study examines the rhetorical use of elite outgroups in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia from a social identity perspective, focusing on political leaders and newspapers op‐eds. Our findings demonstrate shared strategies across the countries and source types: (1) NPs depict elites as working through collusion to undermine trust in information production within society and vie for control of the ingroup informational influence; (2) NPs present themselves as nonelite and more ingroup prototypical on dimensions relevant to the elite collusion (being under attack and equally susceptible); (3) NPs contest ingroup norms through constructions of an anti‐immigrant consensus which is suppressed by elites. We conclude that social identity researchers should pay more attention to the rhetorical functions of elite outgroups in addition to cultivating anti‐immigrant prejudice, and that the media‐as‐identity‐entrepreneur is an important aspect of constructing shared social realities, and mobilizing support, within populism.

This paper explores the permeability of imagined boundaries between Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel who work together as medics in Israel. The medics' shared work environment, based on medical ethics and inclusiveness across staff and patient populations, was effective in providing a safe, equal and satisfactory professional work setting. This contrasted with the external non-working environment where structural asymmetry placed the minority group in a position of perceived inequality and non-recognition. A sense of threat related to the Jewish Israeli narratives, highlighted by the war in Gaza in 2014, led to intergroup tensions that seeped into the work environment. This took the form of a justification of the state to deal with the conflict, juxtaposed with the Palestinian Israelis conflicted loyalties between their Israeli citizenship and their Palestinian heritage. The role of contact research is discussed to argue how intergroup tensions can be played out across different social and political contexts. The theoretical concept of themata, defined as a foundation for developing social representations around dialogical constructed boundaries, was integral to map and explore group positioning through a qualitative methodology This approach was found to be useful in exploring an environment in a natural setting, set within a context of structural asymmetry and ongoing conflict. These findings contribute to existing research on interpretations of contact theory, intergroup boundaries and possibilities of reconciliation.

Two years ago, a UNESCO-affiliated international network of organizations and universities (UNITWIN) was established to collaborate on research, innovative leadership, and education, focusing on concerns related to access to work and working conditions for the most vulnerable groups at a time of increasing economic and political instability and inequality. A year ago, Lesley University became the only university in the country to join this effort, along with 17 other universities and institutes in South America, Africa, and Europe. Through this project, Lesley faculty have attended international conferences and have been engaged in an international research project titled, Perceptions of Decent work and the Future Among Youth in Northern and Southern Countries. In addition, Lesley faculty participated in the drafting of the Manifesto for Inclusion – a document stating the commitments we would make in our respective institutions to ensure increased access and opportunity for those that have been historically excluded from education, good employment, and leadership positions. This panel presentation will briefly update attendees on the UNITWIN initiative and engage in lively discussion about the possibilities this project offers to Lesley University faculty, students, and administrators for research, education, and leadership. Together we will consider what Lesley University's unique contribution might be toward this effort and we will brainstorm ideas – big and small – for future steps.

The article examines ethnopsychological aspects of the origin of culture, education, science in Transcarpathian region in different periods of existence; the role of priesthood, political and social leaders in the development and establishment of culture and education of countrymen is outlines. ; У статті досліджено етнопсихологічні аспекти витоків культури, освіти, науки на Закарпаття у різні періоди існування; окреслено роль духовенства, політичних та громадських діячів у розвитку і становленні культури та освіченості краян.

This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule. By breaking up the causal chain into various steps, it provides a thorough and nuanced understanding of internet's role in different stages of the mobilization process. It argues that the impact of internet use on anti-governmental protesting differs per step in the 'mobilization chain', and also that the effect depends on both the on- and offline repression of the regime, as well as on the type of internet that is available. While staying far away from any technologically deterministic claims about the internet, the book demonstrates that the internet especially plays an important role in the early stages of the mobilization process: By exposing citizens to alternative political information online, internet users are more likely to become sympathetic towards anti-governmental protest movements. Kris Ruijgrok is Lecturer at the PPLE Multi-Disciplinary Institute (Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Austro-Marxism is the collective name for a group of Austrian Marxists, who successfully endeavoured to test traditional Marxist theory, even though it was incomplete and ambiguous in some respects, in an array of new fields in both Austria and beyond. They achieved this feat by constantly analysing developments in philosophy and the social sciences, economics, legal theory and psychology. The group's leading figures — Max Adler, Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, Rudolf Hilferding and Gustav Eckstein — all made highly significant and innovative contribu-tions to the theory of the state and, by extension, political theory which can greatly shape the current debate on the crisis, or rather the future, faced by capitalist democracies and welfare states. These authors stand out because they sought to dismantle the traditional dichotomies of 'reform' and 'revolution' and 'evolution' and 'revolution'.With contributions byAndreas Fisahn, Armin Puller, Eveline List, Folke große Deters, Gerhard Botz, Günther Sandner, Kolja Möller, Lutz Musner, Richard Saage, Ridvan Ciftci, Thilo Scholle, Uli Schöler.

ABSTRACT. Lomasky offers accounts of public choice and of political philosophy, in which these disciplines have complementary theories of motivation, and suggests that each discipline can learn something from the other. This note argues that these two theories of motivation share a common weakness: an a priori, non‐empirical mode of analysis. Political philosophy models human beings as rational moral agents; public choice theory treats individuals as rationally self‐ interested. Neither theory is concerned with the psychology of actual human motivation. This common feature facilitates the transfer of ideas between the two disciplines, but it limits the usefulness of both. There is more to political motivation than can be captured by theories of reason.

3. Support from psychology: Self-Determination Theory (SDT)4. Deep learning: Deep reasoning and active knowledge building; 5. Theory of Dialogic Action Games: The explorative action game; 6. Analysis of selected explorative action games; 7. Discussion; 8. Conclusion; References; 8. Artifacts, gestures, and dispensable speech: Multimodality in teaching and learning of a biology ; 1. Introduction; 2. Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic inquiry into apprenticeship learning; 3. The data analysis; 4. Conclusion; References; Appendix.

The accuracy of U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) demographic and financial forecasts is crucial for the solvency of its Trust Funds, other government programs, industry decision-making, and the evidence base of many scholarly articles. Because SSA makes public insufficient replication information and uses antiquated statistical forecasting methods, no external group has ever been able to produce fully independent forecasts or evaluations of policy proposals to change the system. Yet, no systematic evaluation of SSA forecasts has ever been published by SSA or anyone else—until a companion paper to this one. We show that SSA's forecasting errors were approximately unbiased until about 2000, but then began to grow quickly, with increasingly overconfident uncertainty intervals. Moreover, the errors are largely in the same direction, making the Trust Funds look healthier than they are. We extend and then explain these findings with evidence from a large number of interviews with participants at every level of the forecasting and policy processes. We show that SSA's forecasting procedures meet all the conditions the modern social-psychology and statistical literatures demonstrate make bias likely. When those conditions mixed with potent new political forces trying to change Social Security, SSA's actuaries hunkered down, trying hard to insulate their forecasts from strong political pressures. Unfortunately, this led the actuaries into not incorporating the fact that retirees began living longer lives and drawing benefits longer than predicted. We show that fewer than 10% of their scorings of major policy proposals were statistically different from random noise as estimated from their policy forecasting error. We also show that the solution to this problem involves SSA or Congress implementing in government two of the central projects of political science over the last quarter century: (1) transparency in data and methods and (2) replacing with formal statistical models large numbers of ad hoc qualitative decisions too complex for unaided humans to make optimally.