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AbstractWhile quantitative methods are routinely used to examine historical materials, critics take issue with the use of global regression models that attach a single parameter to each predictor, thereby ignoring the effects of time and space, which together define the context in which historical events unfold. This problem can be addressed by allowing for parameter heterogeneity, as highlighted by the proliferation of work on the use of time-varying parameter models. In this article, I show how this approach can be extended to the case of spatial data using spatially varying coefficient models, with an eye toward the study of electoral politics, where the use of spatial data is especially common in historical settings. Toward this end, I revisit a critical case in the field of quantitative history: the rise of electoral Populism in the American West in the period between 1890 and 1896. Upending popular narratives about the correlates of third-party support in the late nineteenth century, I show that the association between third-party vote share and traditional predictors such as economic hardship and ethnic composition varied considerably from one place to the next, giving rise to distinct varieties of electoral Populism—a finding that is missed by global models, which mistake the mathematically particular for the historically general. These findings have important theoretical and empirical implications for the study of political action in a world where parameter heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a standard feature of modern social science.

Norway has long tried to portray itself as one of the most environmentally responsible states. But it has consistently refused to support the moratorium against commercial whaling. This article offers a cultural explanation for this seeming contradiction, by examining the way the global antiwhaling movement framed the issue and the Norwegian environmental organizations reframed it. It argues that two cultural differences are relevant. First, animal-rights organizations were an important part of the U.S. antiwhaling coalition, whereas such organizations are largely excluded from the Norwegian environmental activist community, where animal rights arguments have found little traction. Secondly, U.S. nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operate in an adversarial pluralistic political culture, whereas the Norwegian environmental movement is embedded in a corporatist system where consensual decision making is the norm and has fostered a close relationship with the state. This has led to different images and strategic considerations being used by NGOs to frame the issue and ultimately to different decisions on the need for a moratorium.

The Indian music industry, though small by comparison to Western nations, is vast in reach and penetration. India is one of the few developing nations to both import and export media products. A survey shows that the most popular music medium among Indian college students is radio followed by cassette tapes. Most prefer Indian popular music derived from Indian film industry to western music. Upper-class youths, however, mostly prefer western music.

Cameroon's composite state of postcoloniality inevitably burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture that changed the eager student into a centripetal mimic of the colonial imagination. Recent events in the country, especially relating to the Anglophone Problem, have spotlighted the need to revisit this space, which has been over-politicised into what Anglophone Cameroonians see as a state of hypnosis. Given the clash between postcolonial consciousness and the globalizing forces of late capitalism, a necessary meeting point had to be negotiated in linguistic and pedagogic contexts, to (re)affirm the identity problematic in Cameroon, and in the interpretation of colonial voices in literary texts. Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture: Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space offers a variegated reflection on these issues, and simultaneously responds to increasing demands to re-negotiate identity beyond mega frames of Empire, based on contextual data that combine indigenous and globalising imperatives

The author attempts to draw out the significance of the "linderaje" (going around the boundaries) in the Andean village Kalarayan, Cuzco department, Peru. She points out that while physically marking the limits to the village's land-holdings, the "recorreo de los linderos" elaborates a set of practices and utterances in which boundaries are reaffirmed and legitimated

This research is a study that analyzes and explains the influence model of organizational culture, managerial competence on performance mediated by the affective commitment and its implications for the food and beverage industry in Jambi Province. The sample of this study used the probability sampling technique. The sample selection criteria were the food and beverage industry players as many as 343 samples were obtained from 2 districts, namely Sarolangun, Kerinci, and Jambi city. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistical analysis. The data obtained were processed using a component-based or variance-based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) causality analysis which is known as Partial Least Square (PLS). The results showed that the direct influence of organizational culture, managerial competence and affective commitment had a positive and significant effect on the performance of food and beverage industry business actors, and the indirect influence of organizational culture and managerial competence on performance mediated by affective commitment also had a positive and significant effect. The results of this study indicate that organizational culture is dominated by the clan type which has the character of kindship and togetherness has an influence on the performance of business actors in the food and beverage industry in Jambi Province.