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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON SOURCES AND CITATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: Heroic Individualism -- ONE. The Heroic -- TWO. Individualism -- Part II: The Politics of the Soul -- THREE. The Soul as a Plurality -- FOUR. The Well-Ordered Soul -- Part III: Incarnations and Ideals -- FIVE. The Philosopher -- SIX. The Artist -- SEVEN. The Saint -- EIGHT. The Educator and the Solitary -- NINE. Apotheosis and Laughter: The Overman -- Part IV: The Circle of Return -- TEN. Amor Fati and the Eternal Recurrence -- ELEVEN. Becoming Who You Are -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS OF NIETZSCHE CITED -- INDEX

Building on Fossungu�s earlier works, and essentially providing Africa with original, critical, and multi-level analyses of the trio of globalization, democracy, and national determination, this book theorizes that African states have to unite in order to have any impact in the global economy. Using the failure of the Cameroon Goodwill Association of Montreal (CGAM) as a case study, the book urges Africans to make hard choices and avoid politickerization and midnight politics in favour of fossungupalogy (that is, the science of straightforwardness, necessitating the fearless looking at truth s

From mama's boy to he-man : developmental and cultural paths to precarious manhood -- The Miss Nancy Man in nineteenth-century America : historical roots of anxious male politics -- The wimp factor : performing masculinity in the presidential career of George Herbert Walker Bush -- Vaginas with teeth and castrating first ladies : fantasies of feminine danger from Eve to Hillary Clinton -- Permutations of the presidential phallus : representations of Bill Clinton, from emasculated house husband to envied stud muffin -- Voting like a man : the psychodynamics of the gender gap in political attitudes -- Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity

UIDB/00417/2020 UIDP/00417/2020 ; This article studies the early 1920s Olhão views painted by Eduardo Viana (1881–1967). It analyses Viana's turn to Algarvian-Mediterranean landscapes, while considering the emergence of Olhão as the Portuguese "cubist village" rendered just before its regionalisation by the fascist cultural industry. I contend that Viana's vistas stem from his cosmopolitan profile and earlier avant-garde experiences, suggesting also that Olhão's Mediterranean "cubist"- built environment offered Viana the prospect of a denationalised geography. The relationship between identity, place and politics will therefore be discussed. ; publishersversion ; published

Governments have adopted the rhetoric of promoting transparency, citizen engagement, and accountability through technological innovation. The provision of open government data has been encouraged as a foundational reform in that direction. This study argues that, in Paraguay's education sector, these reforms were never capable of matching said rhetoric. Using a case study design, the research shows that the stated goals of intuitively simplifying information to facilitate citizen monitoring of funds for education infrastructure were never realistically attempted by the government. It will advocate the relevance of considering the relationship between politics, accountability, and technology to uncover transparency façades.

This paper discusses the politics of Brazilian Fernando Collor de Mello's election, his administration & its legislative difficulties, & the movement that resulted in his demise. The core argument is that Collor's modernity, contrary to its meaning at the rhetorical level, involved a great deal of political expediency in the form of clientelistic maneuverings. Along with traditional sources, I use 1992 & 1995 interviews with members of Congress & the administration. A Marxist perspective underpins an analysis of the theoretical milieu best suited to understanding Collor's rise & demise. 3 Tables, 36 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]

This article details the use of policy‐focused transition teams during Florida's most recent gubernatorial transition. In a marked shift from the past, the most recent transition separated the appointments and policy advisory functions. The inseparable nature of politics, budgeting, and policy analysis are demonstrated via: (1) an analysis of the transition budget; (2) a detailed look at team structures and their role in agency performance evaluation; (3) a calculation of the fiscal and policy impacts of team recommendations; (4) post‐session assessments of the governor's first legislative agenda; and (5) post‐transition interviews with key participants.

African-American voters, Westside Jewish liberals, corporate downtown interests, and organized labor have formed the Mayor Tom Bradley coalition in the city of Los Angeles from 1973 through 1989. Although widespread attention has been given the other coalition sectors, little attention has been given to the relationship between Bradley and the city's trade-union movement. A major contention in this article is that discussions and analyses of Bradley and the city's politics from 1973 through 1989 have been incomplete because they have ignored labor as an influential coalition partner and player.

"Multiculturalism is now seen by many of its critics as the source of intercultural and social tensions, fostering communal segregation and social conflicts. While the cultural diversity of contemporary societies has to be acknowledged as an empirical and demographic fact, whether multiculturalism as a policy offers an optimal conduit for intercultural understanding and social harmony has become increasingly a matter of polarised public debate. This book examines the contested philosophical foundations of multiculturalism and its, often controversial, applications in the context of migrant societies. It also explores the current theoretical debates about the extent to which multiculturalism, and related conceptual constructs, can account for the various ethical challenges and policy dilemmas surrounding the management of cultural diversity in our contemporary societies. The authors consider common conceptual and empirical features from a transnational perspective through analysis of the case studies of Australia, Canada, Columbia, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Uruguay. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, comparative politics, international studies, multiculturalism, migration and political sociology"--

Introduction -- PART I: THE HIGH AUTHORITY OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY -- Chapter 1. Establishing a supranational administration: Challenges and constraints -- 1.1 Organisation -- 1.2 Working methods -- 1.3 Recruitment patterns -- Chapter 2. Towards a European administrative elite? The first European civil servants -- 2.1 The officials' biographical background -- 2.2 Living and working in Luxembourg -- 2.3 Biographies of High Authority officials -- PART II: THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY -- Chapter 3. Prudence and Pragmatism: the institutional establishment of the Commission -- 3.1 The institutional set-up of the Commission -- 3.2 The establishment of practices and working methods -- 3.3 Recruitment patterns and personnel policy -- 3.4 Inflexibility, inefficiency and dissatisfaction: reforming the administration -- Chapter 4. Biographical studies: high officials in the Commission -- 4.1 Internal factors of Europeanization: biographical background -- 4.2 Space and time: external factors of Europeanization -- 4.3 Biographies of Commission officials -- 4.4 Identities, images and roles of Commission officials -- Chapter 5. Institutions, administrative cultures and their role in EU policy-making: the Directorates-General for Agriculture and Competition -- 5.1 Step One: The legacy of context and previous experiences -- 5.2 Step Two: The emergence of administrative cultures -- 5.3 Step Three: Socialisation processes in DG Agriculture and DG Competition -- Conclusions.