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An empirical test of three well-known hypotheses about the political effects of workplace democracy on workers addresses the question of whether membership in worker-controlled agrarian collectives in southern Portugal has had any long-term effects on its participants' political culture. A comparison of baseline data collected in 1980 & 1994 survey data from 240 residents of the same county suggest that the relationship between workers' control & political participation, radicalization, class awareness, & feelings of political efficacy may be explicitly dependent on local environmental conditions. More narrowly, the 1994 results indicate the presence of a substantially different rural political culture from the one described by other scholars of the Portuguese Revolution & its agrarian reform sector. 4 Tables, 3 Figures, 95 References. Adapted from the source document.

The chief executive of Hong Kong has got wide-ranging constitutional powers which are excpected to facilitate executive-led government. Since the handover in 1997 there has been a steady process of hollowing-out of executive power resulting from growing political challenges, policy failure, and international fissures, which has bushed the administrativre state to the brink of a disabled state. (Asian J Polit Sci/NIAS-Han)

The development of information and communication technologies in the context of declining confidence in traditional parties focused on mass membership has led to the emergence of a new model of political parties — digital parties. The article analyzes their essence, distinctive features and methods of activity. The reasons for the failure to create digital parties in Russia are explained by the lack of conditions for their existence, as well as the focus of Russian legislation on the model of mass parties with formal membership, an extensive structure and a large bureaucratic apparatus. The article analyzes the prospects for changes in legislation that will favor the formation of a model of digital political parties in Russia, while noting that in our country this model will have differences from foreign ones.

Noonan reviews 'Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War' by Jeffrey T. Checkel.

THE AUTHOR ARGUES THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY'S EFFORT TO PROMOTE A REVOLUTION, WITH WHICH LOCKE AND THE TWO TREATISES WERE ASSOCIATED, BROUGHT TOGETHER RADICALS WHO, IN THEIR SOCIAL COMPOSITION AND, SOMEWHAT, IN THEIR POLITICAL OBJECTIVES, DIFFERED FROM WHIG MAGNATES WHO "MANAGED" THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION OF 1689. LOCKE'S LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT HAD CLEAR LINKS WITH IDEAS OF THE CIVIL WAR RADICALS.

"Interrogating the intersections of food, journalism, and politics, this book offers a critical examination of food media and journalism, and its political potential against the backdrop of contemporary social challenges. Contributors analyse current and historic examples such as Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, the environment, Brexit, and gender politics, highlighting how food media and journalism reach beyond the commercial imperatives of lifestyle journalism to negotiate nationalism, globalization, and social inequalities. The volume challenges the idea that food media/journalism are trivial and apolitical by drawing attention to the complex ways through which storytelling about food has engaged public discourse in the past, and the innovative ways it is doing so today. Bringing together international scholars from a variety of disciplines, the book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Journalism, Communication, Media Studies, Food Studies, Sociology and Anthropology"--

Following the global triumph of New Public Management (NPM), universities are required to improve their performance in research and teaching by strategic management. The entrepreneurial university striving for monopoly rents in terms of competitive advantages as regards the availability of money and prestige on the outside is coupled with the audit university on the inside, which tries to improve research and teaching by quality management. Both are complemented by the third-party funded university, which targets its research to recruiting third-party funds. This essay focusses on the non-intended effects counterproductive to progress in knowledge that are triggered by this transformation of universities in the context of the German science system's specific backdrop. The evaluation of the statute of a Technical University will serve as an example here concerning its quality management regarding the system of appointments and careers. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).

This cohort-sequential longitudinal study among 1302 Dutch youths examined the dynamics of political identity (e.g., Democrat or Rightist) and issue attitudes between age 12 and 30. Some theories propose that voters form an identity early in life that subsequently determines attitudes. Other theories contrarily argue that attitudes are a cause of identity. However, research on this controversy has never focused on the crucial phase of adolescence. Results revealed that youths formed an identity consistent with prior attitudes more than vice versa. Highly educated youths most often adjusted their attitudes to their identity, which explained an emerging education gap in identity-attitude consistency. Finally, findings suggested that early cultural attitudes establish an identity that may subsequently determine economic attitudes.

New interpretations of state formation processes include gender as a category of historical analysis and tackle notions of royalty and royal power, focusing on regency and women as regents in the process of consolidating and transmitting royal prerogatives. Gendering the process of state formation in Europe entails considering ruling dynasties and families as complex subjects of historical and anthropological research.Wives and widows also exerted formal political roles as ruling consorts and governors during specific phases of their life cycle. The positioning of women in the courts of Europe opens up a complex set of questions connected to the fashioning of their political identities where agnatic and cognatic lines intersect in the long process of state building and legitimation. This WP focuses on a comparative analysis of women's formal political roles and on the specific prerogatives of women's power and rule from the Byzantine Empire to XVIII Europe.