Seized by the Spirit: The Mystical Foundation of Squatting among Pentecostals in Caracas (Venezuela) Today
In: Public culture, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 267-305
ISSN: 1527-8018
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In: Public culture, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 267-305
ISSN: 1527-8018
"Offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. This volume shows that the state-entrepreneur relationship was much more fluid and constant than previously thought. The author furnishes new insights into the role of military entrepreneurs in debates about warfare and state construction."--
In: Palgrave studies in the history of finance series
Foreword-- Patrick Karl O'Brien 1. Introduction 2. The Habsburg Fiscal and Financial Inheritance 3. Deficit Phobia. From International Public Credit to Domestic Credit 4. Easing the Tax Burden 5. French Inspiration 6. Expansion of State Finance 7. Authority and Control of the King's Money 8. Bourbon Management of the Inherited Public Debt 9. The Spanish System 10. Revenue Control 11. Expenditure Control 12. Arbitrariness and Debt Phobia 13. In the Wake of the English 14. Liberalisation and Mercantilism 15. Domestic Credit. The Creation of National Debt 16. International Public Credit 17. The Efficacy of Spain's Fiscal Military State Conclusion
In: Latin American studies. Social sciences and law
Since its inception in the 1960s to the regional negotiations in the 1990s and onwards, Central American integration has been a process characterized by both dramatic advances and setbacks. This book provides a theoretical explanation of this ebb and flow, examining different stages including the military conflicts of the 1980s, the subsequent Esquipulas peace process, and the relaunch of integration during the 1990s under the System of Central American Integration (SICA).Sánchez Sánchez's analysis focuses on the policies and preferences of the larger states of the region, Costa Rica.
In: War & society, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 9-24
ISSN: 2042-4345
Art has long called for a more fulfilling future by appealing to individual emancipation, organisational emancipation and the ¿coming community¿. In parallel, proposals are emerging that complicate some of the strategic assumptions of such rhetoric, since they are inseparable from a given cultural logic related to the liberal subject. Proposals making the case for a fatigue that is capable of deactivating the ¿neuronal violence¿ that contemporary capitalism unleashes (Han); the political potential of ¿exhaustion¿ (Bifo); and the need to recover sleep after its attack (Crary), would become programmatic restrictions that have endorsed numerous practices and talks speculating on a future that should no longer be thought of from the perspective of forms of action linked to the insurrectional tradition. Indeed, it would not be difficult to link these speculations to a longer philosophical, aesthetic tradition that challenged the so-called vita activa as a preliminary step towards establishing a better future. This article aims to address the implications of these ¿escape channels¿ on the basis of art and literature from the point of view of their close links with an ideological and economic situation that in one way or another overdetermine the proliferation of futures, that ¿after the hard work¿ they will only be viable through resignation therapeutics. ; El arte lleva largo tiempo reivindicando un futuro más pleno apelando a la emancipación individual, la autonomía organizativa o la «comunidad que viene». Paralelamente, emergen propuestas que problematizan algunos de los presupuestos estratégicos de dichas retóricas, en cuanto que resultan indisociables de una determinada lógica cultural afín al sujeto liberal. Las apologías de un cansancio susceptible de desactivar la «violencia neuronal» que despliega el capitalismo contemporáneo (Han), la potencialidad política de la «extenuación» (Bifo) o la necesidad de «recuperar el sueño tras su asalto» (Crary) vendrían a ser coartadas programáticas que han hecho suyas numerosas prácticas y discursos que especulan con un futuro que ya no deberá pensarse desde formas de acción vinculadas a la tradición insurreccional. De hecho, no costaría demasiado vincular esas especulaciones a una larga tradición filosófica y estética que cuestionó determinada vita activa como paso previo para fundar un futuro mejor. El presente artículo pretende abordar las implicaciones de esas «líneas de fuga» a partir del arte y de la literatura desde sus estrechos vínculos con una coyuntura ideológica y económica que de una manera u otra sobredetermina la proliferación de futuros, que «tras los duros trabajos», solo serán viables desde terapéuticas de la renuncia.
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In: Employee relations, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 398-416
ISSN: 1758-7069
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the ability, motivation and opportunity model, and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) as a result variable, using the perceived organisational support (POS) as a moderator of this relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses developed here are tested using data from a sample of Spanish firms belonging to two industries: finance and hotels. These sectors were selected due to the serious impact the recent financial crisis had on them, and because they may benefit from extra-role behaviours.FindingsThe results reveal that ability and motivation significantly influence the level of OCB. POS also has a notable direct effect on OCB, as well as moderating in the relationship between opportunity and OCB.Originality/valueThe study's findings have some important lessons for practitioners and researchers with an interest in OCB, showing how to improve these extra-role behaviours, which can be so necessary in this post-crisis context.
In: Economica, Band 90, Heft 357, S. 111-139
ISSN: 1468-0335
We study the relationship between trade openness and CEO pay dispersion across firms. Using US firm‐level data, we show that trade has an unequal effect on CEO equilibrium pay at firms of different sizes (sales). An increase of 10% in the industry openness degree raises CEO compensation by about 14% in firms at the 99th percentile of the size distribution. However, CEO compensation falls by 5% in firms at the 1st percentile. Analogous results are derived for other points of the distribution. Our results show that trade openness impacts inequality within the very top of the income distribution, where skill differentials are less evident.
In: Journal of business ethics: JBE, Band 116, Heft 4, S. 717-734
ISSN: 1573-0697
[EN] During the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, three-section cantilevered stone stairways supported by vaults of complex warped shapes were built along Spain's Mediterranean coast. Presented here are five case studies. The geometric analyses and the comparative study with the relevant treatise illustrate the existence of a geometric construction method. The process involves handling elevation and plan projections simultaneously to obtain the geometric center of the curves that delimit these vaults. The simplicity of the geometric formula applied relies on the use of dimensional references obtained from the stairwell measurements. ; This article was conducted within the R&D project "Geographies of artistic mobility. Valencia in the Modern Age" (HAR 2017-83070-P), financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain. All images are by the authors unless otherwise noted. ; López González, MC.; Marín-Sánchez, R. (2020). Ashlar Staircases with Warped Vaults in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Spain. Nexus Network Journal (Online). 22(4):959-981. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-020-00519-8 ; S ; 959 ; 981 ; 22 ; 4 ; Almagro Gorbea, Antonio. 2019. Half a century documenting the architectural heritage with photogrametry. EGE Revista de expresión gráfica en la edificación [S.l.] 11: 4-30. https://doi.org/10.4995/ege.2019.12863. ; Benito Domenech, Fernando. 1981. La arquitectura del Colegio del Patriarca y sus artífices. Valencia: Federico Domenech. ; Bérchez Gómez, Joaquín. 1987. Los comienzos de la arquitectura académica en Valencia: Antonio Gilabert. Valencia: Alfons el Magnànim. ; Bérchez Gómez, Joaquín. 1993. Arquitectura Barroca valenciana. Valencia: Bancaja. ; Equizzi, Giulia. 2019. La escalera de patio del palacio de En Bou de Valencia: traza, construcción y estructura. Master's thesis. Universitat Politècnica de València. ; Falomir Faus, Miguel. 1996. Arte en Valencia, 1472-1522. Valencia: Consell Valencià de Cultura. ; Gelabert, Joseph. 2011. Vertaderas traçes del ...
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In: t'Hart , M , Brandon , P & Sánchez , R T 2018 , ' Introduction : Maximising revenues, minimising political costs - Challenges in the history of public finance of the early modern period ' , Financial History Review , vol. 25 , no. Special Issue 1 , pp. 1-18 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S096856501800001X
Taxation is accepted as a fact of modern life, despite recurring political conflict over the nature and direction of fiscal policies. Most financiers regard obligations issued by the state as a safe investment option. Neither taxation nor state obligations were taken for granted during much of the history of public finance, however, at least not before the early 1800s. The 'tax state' developed in fits and starts, driven by the exigencies of warfare, which provided the main rationale for raising state income. Although wartime fiscal innovations eventually facilitated the rise of an efficient military state, the options available for implementing such improvements and preferences for specific fiscal or financial instruments varied greatly across early modern states. Focusing on the 'long' eighteenth century, this introduction presents a framework for assessing these differences and introduces the other articles in this special issue.
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In: Economics of education review, Band 52, S. 225-250
ISSN: 0272-7757
On the last decades, European countries have increased their focus on local production systems as a matter of industrial policy measures. Based on the works related to industrial districts of Becatini (1989), Brusco (1990), Ybarra (1991 and 1996) and Dei Ottati (1994), or the later contributions of Porter (1998a) about productive clusters, Governments have taken measures to stimulate the creation and strengthening of clusters. However, the progressive extension of cluster policies has highlighted the constraints of rationality on which it is based and the criteria used to evaluate their impact and effectiveness. Consequently, the traditional arguments based on the neoclassical concept of efficiency and the advantages of external economies have given way to a new paradigm that gives a central role to organizational learning, collective decision-making and networks as governance structure. The new approach to the analysis of production networks exceeds the territorial or sectorial boundaries to highlight the dynamic and complex nature of the relationships established between actors in the cluster. The approach of governance, as a starting point for the analysis of production networks, opens a new perspective in the assessment of the potential impact of cluster development and the effectiveness of measures aimed to their promotion. Based on the theoretical premises above mentioned, this paper aims to the analysis and valuation of the aid scheme of Innovative Business Partnerships (AEI) sponsored by the Spanish government. This study is based both on traditional analysis of the implementation and impact indicators, as in the analysis of the AEI program's ability to promote the adoption of models of governance and collective action to enhance the competitive capabilities of the cluster.
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