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The protracted history of Aboriginal governance policy is ripe with frustrations among First Nations peoples and Canadian governments, the most pronounced aggravation being the federal government. Substantial resistance from Aboriginals often marks each new policy the government introduces. New policies often maintain the paternalistic attitude inherent in government initiatives, which has been very difficult for Aboriginal organizations to eradicate. Although Aboriginal governance policy is currently progressing towards a quasi-cooperative form of policy-making on both sides, this particular policy area continues to encounter significant disparities between policy actors within the Canadian government and Aboriginal organizations. Differences throughout the entire policy process hinder effective policy-making from agenda-setting/problem definition to the outcome/evaluation. (author's abstract)

"With this book, Clarissa Peterson and Emmitt Y. Riley, III dive into how racial attitudes change and inform political decisions. Peterson and Riley use racial resentment, black blame, and racial identity to investigate the extent to which racial attitudes influence vote choice, evaluations of Black Lives Matter, and attitudes toward public policies. Moving the conversation beyond the study of Blacks and Whites, the authors unpack the potency of racial attitudes among Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites. In doing so, they challenge our understanding of how racial attitudes are central to political decision-making in an environment that is inundated with anti-Blackness. The book reframes discussions of racial attitudes to propose that, like white people, some racial minorities in the U.S. harbor negative attitudes toward Black people. The authors suggest that while white political attitudes are significantly explained by racial resentment, the overall influence of racial resentment on political decision-making among some racial groups, may be mitigated by racial identity. At a time when white supremacists walk unhooded in the streets of America, Racial Attitudes in America Today is essential reading for educators wanting to fully engage with and understand racial resentment in America and undergraduate students in the fields of political science, sociology, history, and psychology"--

Siame straipsnyje nagrinejama Lietuvos Vyriausybes istaigu ir istaigu prie ministeriju vadovu kaita ir politizacija 1990-2012 m. Nors de jure ir de facto vadovu politizacija sioje istaigu grupeje nera didele, ji skiriasi - priklauso nuo atitinkamu laikotarpiu ir istaigu tipu. Mazejant strukturinei agenturu vadovu pareigybiu politizacijai, Lietuvoje didejo faktine vadovu politizacija ir atvirksciai. Del ju pareigybiu specifikos Vyriausybes istaigu, kurios institucineje sandaroje veikia arciau Vyriausybes centro, vadovai labiau politizuoti nei istaigu prie ministeriju vadovai. Straipsnyje teigiama, kad siu agenturu vadovu kaita geriausiai paaiskina esminiai valdanciosios daugumos ir Lietuvos Vyriausybiu pokyciai, o politizacija - politiniu partiju valdymo trukme ir ju tinklai, taip pat politinis valdymo sriciu jautrumas This article analyses the change and politicisation of the senior levels of management in the Lithuanian government agencies and agencies under the ministries in the period 1990-2012. This research indicated that de facto politicisation of the Lithuanian agencies is relatively small with only 19.1% of all agency heads engaged in party networks. The turnover of agency managers is best explained by alterations of ruling majorities and governments, taking into account more the intensive turnover of agency managers during the Lithuanian governments controlled by the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. Politicisation of the agency managers could be explained in terms of 'push' factors (politicisation is associated with party entrenchment in power and density of the party networks) and 'pull' factors (party patronage is exercised more frequently over more politically salient areas of public services). Changes in de jure politicisation of the higher civil service depended on structural and civil service reforms. Our analysis also revealed some differences in the pattern of politicisation according to the Lithuanian political parties: if the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party de facto appoints politically affiliated managers to career positions in the Lithuanian higher civil service, the Homeland Union (Lithuanian Christian Democrats) frequently adopts the structural form of politicisation through government-wide organisational or civil service reforms. Adapted from the source document.

Explores how far civil servants feel able to go in challenging either inappropriate ministerial requests for services or policies they believe to be sharply damaging; based on interviews with senior civil servants, 1989-90 and 1993-94; Great Britain.

By presenting three phases of Chinese domestic state-building and region-building from 1988-present, Garcia shows how region-building projects have enabled China to increase state capacity, control, and development in its western frontier. Recommended for scholars of China s international relations and development policy

1 Introduction -- Poland thirty years on: 1989-2019Anna Visvizi, Anna Matysek-Jędrych and Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska 2 Transition and transformation: the case of PolandAnna Visvizi and Katarzyna Żukrowska 3 Trade and financial openness of the Polish economy in the context of economic growth -- the perspective of EU membership Marta Wajda-Lichy, Paweł Kawa, Kamil Fijorek and Sabina Denkowska 4 Poland's competitive position between 2005 and 2017 -- a road to success?Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska and Aleksandra Kania 5 The social effects of Poland's membership of the European Union: emigration in focus Judyta Cabańska and Rafał Kuligowski 6 Poland and the middle-income trapRafal Riedel 7 State Aid in Poland following accession to the EU Adam A. Ambroziak 8 Unemployment in Poland after EU accession: a success story?Piotr Maleszyk9 Poland during the Global Financial Crisis: factors behind the positive growth rateAnna Matysek-Jędrych, Marta Wajda-Lichy, Kamil Fijorek and Sabina Denkowska 10 Euro area reforms and Poland -- the state of the gameMarta Götz 11 Poland and the EU budget: what to make of it?Magdalena Proczek 12 Catching-up: a case for Cohesion Policy and Regional Development in PolandMałgorzata Dziembała 13 INTERREG CBC funds and cross-border markets at the Polish bordersAndrzej J. Żuk 14 The Polish banking sector in the European Union -- commonalities and differencesRenata Karkowska and Anna Matysek-Jędrych 15 The single market and Poland's competitiveness: the case of German-Polish economic collaborationKonrad Popławski 16 From dependence to complementarity? Poland's economic relations with GermanySebastian Płóciennik 17 Brexit and its potential consequences for Poland -- the perspective of the Single Market principlesAnna Matysek-Jędrych and Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska 18 Poland and the energy sector under transition: imperatives, actors, issuesEwa Latoszek, Anna Visvizi, Michał Paszkowski and Anna Wójtowicz 19 Poland thirty years after transition: looking aheadAnna Visvizi, Anna Matysek-Jędrych and Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska

A compassionate care environment : what does this mean for patients and clients? -- A compassionate care environment : what does this mean for practitioners? -- The benefits of effective stress management strategies -- The benefits of resilience -- The benefits of wellbeing -- The benefits of positivity -- The benefits of compassion for patients, clients and practitioners.

Intro; Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; 1 Childhood and Education at Vassar: Old Traditions and New Paths; 2 "J. Lathrop's Here!" Single Womanhood and a New Life at Hull House; 3 Social Research and Progressive Government; 4 Juvenile Justice, Immigrant Aid; 5 "Chief"; 6 Saving Children, Helping Mothers; 7 The Making of the Maternity and Infancy Act, 1921; 8 Retirement and Keeping On; Conclusion; PRIMARY SOURCES; STUDY QUESTIONS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

1. Introduction -- 2. Food, human rights, democracy and beyond -- 3. A historical background of the right to adequate food and the Right to Food Guidelines -- 4. United yet unique : the BRICS -- 5. Reporting on the right to food guidelines : the use and usefulness of CESCR periodic reporting within right to adequate food realisation -- 6. Implementation of guideline 1 of the Right to Food Guidelines by the BRICS : an evaluation -- 7. Assessing the policy-making capabilities of the right to food guidelines : how it upholds and undermines right to adequate food realisation -- 8. Democracy from below.

Muslims and secular education : the beginnings of Osmania University -- Reforming a language : creating textbooks and cultivating Urdu -- Muslim pasts : writing the history of India and the history of Islam -- Locating Urdu : Deccani, Hindustani, and Urdu -- Secular projects and student politics : "Vande mataram" in Hyderabad

This dissertation investigates how Jewish women social scientists relationally established their gendered-racialized subjectivities and theories about race-gender-sexuality-class through their portrayals of black women's sexuality and family structures in the African Diaspora: the U.S., Brazil, South Africa, Swaziland, and the U.K. The central women in this study: Ellen Hellmann, Ruth Landes, Hilda Kuper, and Ruth Glass, were part of the same "political generation," born in 1908-1912, coming of age when Jews of European descent experienced an ambivalent and conditional assimilation into whiteness, a form of internal colonization. I demonstrate how each woman's familial origin point in Europe, parental class and political orientations, were important factors influencing her later personal/professional networks and social science theorizing about women of color. However, other important factors included the national racial context, the political affiliations of her partners, her marital status and her transracial fieldwork experiences. One of the main problems my work addresses is how the internal colonization process in differing nations within the Jewish diaspora differently affected and positioned Jewish social scientists from divergent class and political affiliations. Gendering Aamir Mufti's primarily male-oriented argument, I demonstrate how Jewish internal divergences serve as an example that highlights the lack of uniformity within any "identity" group, and the ways that minority groups, like Jews, use measures of "abnormal" gender and sexuality, to create internal exiled minorities in order to try to assimilate into the majority colonizing culture. My dissertation addresses three problems within previous studies of Jewish social scientists by creating a gendered analysis of the history of Jews in social science, an analysis of Jewish subjectivity within histories of women (who were Jewish) in social science, and a critique of the either-or assumption that Jewishness necessarily equated with a "radical" anti-racist approach or a "colonizing" stance toward black communities. The data collection followed a mixed methods approach, incorporating archival research, ethnographic object analysis, site visits in Brazil and South Africa, consultations with library, archive and museum professionals, and interviews with scholars connected to the core women in the study.

This article aims to contribute to Pablo González Casanova's critical thinking analysis and the most problematic and relevant elements for the understanding of global capitalism and the construction of alternative projects, the empowerment of alternative organizations, and thematerialization of a global democracy. To this end, the first section will deal with the study of the fundamental elements of what the author calls new sciences. In the second one, it will show how these elements help to promote organizational movements, parties, and collectives in the construction of alternatives to the capitalist system. In the third one, the problem of the exploitation and the new forms of domination and colonization of the capitalist system will be developed. Finally, in the fourth section, the relationship between the project of global democracy as resistance and the alternative to the capitalist system is addressed.

"Die Erklärung des Wahlverhaltens gehört zu den meist beschriebenen Feldern in den Sozialwissenschaften. Wahlverhalten ist durch seinen ständigen Wandel und seine Komplexität immer von aktuellem Interesse. Der folgende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit zwei Ansätzen der Wahlforschung, die auf unterschiedliche Weise die Auswirkungen psychologischer Widersprüche, sogenannter cross pressures, auf die Konstanz von Wahlverhalten erklären. Hierbei wird eine Variante des in der Wahlforschung etablierten mikrosoziologischen Ansatzes der Columbia School vorgeschlagen. Mit den Daten des Bayernbarometers 2011 werden die cross pressures des sozialen Umfelds nicht über soziale Stratifikatoren, sondern über die ideologische Verortung des Netzwerkes erfasst. Zudem wird anhand eines eher seltener angewandten Modells, dem Retrospective-Voting-Modell von Morris P. Fiorina, untersucht, inwiefern Inkonsistenzen bei Einstellungen zu politischen Streitfragen (issues) im Verhältnis zur vergangenen Parteiwahl, die Chance zur Wechselwahl beeinflussen. Auf Basis der vorliegenden Analysen werden die Hypothesen Fiorinas bestätigt, wobei kein Einfluss der cross pressures in den politischen Einstellungen des sozialen Netzwerkesfestgestellt werden kann." (Autorenreferat)